The Farm

On Friday we went to lunch with the fam at The Farm. It was a great little restuarant that had tables outside for picnicking. The kids had a blast. We got to see chickens and a little farm. When you are there you would never know that it is in South Phoenix. It's so cute.
Tom and Kellen taking walk.

Katie striking a pose. She said that this pose was her "sassy pose".

Thanksgiving 2009

My poor family has to put up with my many, many antics. This year I told Katie that we should dress up like pilgrims and indians. Katie and I made hats for everyone to wear. They had no choice but to wear them. I am glad that they were all great sports about it.

This year we have witnessed some super miracles. We have a lot to be grateful for!!!

Katie was wearing her hat and indian make-up.

Scott and Shellie. This picture is sure funny!!

I dared my mom to play the part of Sacajuwea. She actually did it! Way to go mom!!! Here she is with my dad enjoying a yummy dinner.

Tom, Uncle Brent, Grandma Higgins, and Grandpa Higgins.

Di, "Chief" Scott, and Shellie.

Chief Scott!!!

Kellen and Katie. I just love to see them hug like this. Katie is wearing indian war paint for dinner.

Tom and I were trying to be super serious for this picture. It didn't work. I am trying not to laugh and Tom is making a face.

Grandpa Higgins and Di preparing dinner.

Shellie, Di, and Uncle Brent finishing the yummy stuffing.

Katie's Second Tooth

This past month Katie lost her second tooth!!!! The tooth fairy came to visit her again, and left her a note. Her top, front tooth is now loose.

Newest craft

As many of you know, I love to do crafts. I did this one for my friend Melissa who just had a cute, cute baby girl, Adeline.

Halloween 2009

This year Katie chose three different costumes. She was an angel for her school parade.

Here we are carving pumpkins. Katie did such a great job carving out her pumpkin. Also, notice her second costume, a cheetah. She went to a birthday/halloween party and she chose to wear a cheetah costume.

Kellen was so proud of his pumpkin. He drew the face and I helped him cut it out.

Here are the finished pumpkins in all their glory!!

Okay, what you ask?? This year Tom has been practicing with a band from our ward. He really enjoys the time out to play music and have fun. Their band was asked to perform at our ward's Fall Festival. Of course, they were in costume and posing for photos.

Katie and Kellen in their costumes for the Fall Festival. Here is Katie's third costume. This time she wanted to be a witch with vampire teeth. Katie couldn't get enough of dressing up whereas Kellen didn't even want to dress up. We had to convince him that dressing up for Halloween is fun. For the longest time he insisted on being Kellen! Finally, at his preschool Halloween party he changed his mind. He is such a strong willed child!!!!!!!

Apparently, all of Tom's friends and family are convinced that Arizona is much better then California. All of the people in this photo are from CA and live here now.

Here is Tom performing and playing bass guitar for the Fall Festival.

Katie and Kellen got to go Trick-or-Treating with their cousins Hailey, Tyler, and Jack.

Katie was invited to an after Halloween party. The costume is the same but she wanted a green face this time. I think she really needs to be in some type of play production so she can dress up all the time!!!

Halloween Party!!!!

For some reason it took me forever to post about our awesome Halloween party! It was so much fun. We had great food (thanks to Cherise, Jayme, and a little bit me). We had super fun people and kareoke!!! Thank you everyone for coming. Thank you Cherise and Jayme for planning and making this party so much fun!

Me being a dork!

Wade and Laura singing a duet. They were singing "Love shack". Laura had a great voice and Wade...well, he did a great job too.

Cherise doing some awesome karoeke.

Popeye and Olive Oil dancing to some beautiful music by Tom.

Here is Tom doing some awesome Karoeke. He sounds marvelous!!

Wade and Sarah Jespersen as "Pirates". They looked great!

John and Jayme Dosdall. Jayme was a fairy and John as a track star??

Brian and Mary McKleskey as "Pam and Jim" from the office. They it this costume nailed, even down to Pam's keds.

Natalie and Andy Whitcher as "witch and ER". (Get it witch-er, their last name!!)

Me and Tom as "Flapper Girl and Gangster". Although Tom would prefer to called a "boot legger". Is it really that much more manly??

Pablo and Amber Hernandez as Ricki and Lucy Ricardo. We even got Pablo to sing a little Labamba for us. He was pretty awesome at it!

Evan and Rachel Rae as "Surfer Dude and H1N1 Swine Flu".

John and Cherise Halliday as "Emmet and Rosalie" from Twilight.

Chris and Melissa Braegger as "Walmart Couple/white trash couple".

Just some of us eating the yummy soup.