Out of Order!

I did 3 posts this morning and I first started on our anniversary and then realized I needed to do Shay's birthday and Thanksgiving so I saved our anniversary as a draft and did the other ones. I was thinking my anniversary one would be on top but it is not. I am kind of sad but not enough to delete it and redo it. So my posts are not in order. Oh well. Have a great day!

Thanksgiving Fun!

Thanksgiving started with a Cowboys vs. Seahawks game in grandma and grandpa Newbold's back yard. Some of the family are Cowboy fans and some are Seahawks fans (I won't name names) so they had a game before the game in the back yard I don't know who won this one but some family members won't let us forget who won the real game (Sean and Austin). It's all good!

Even with a division in the house they are all still friends.

We did have some excitement. As I am saying the blessing on the food I hear Chance kind of gasp and then everyone starts freaking out. The yams that were in the oven caught on fire and the marshmellows were burnt black. :) We got the fire put out with no problems and now we have a funny memory about thanksgiving we will talk about for years.

The yams didn't actually burn at all so it was all good.

The turkey turned out great as usual. Thanks Mom.

Chance and Kaylee going through the ads making their Christmas list.

The day ended with lots of games. Thanks to grandpa for playing clue with the kids. He has a lot of patience.

We had a great day! I just want my family to know how thankful I am for everyone of them. I am very blessed to have wonderful supportive parents who are close by and a sister that I am close with even though she doesn't always remember things correct because that is definitely my PUSH PULL STICK we found:) Anyway I love you all, thanks for a great day.

The big "6" girl party!

I am a little behind on this post Shay had her birthday party 2 weeks ago. She had four friends over and had a lot of fun. There was lots of high pitched screaming! They started out running through Doug's pile of leaves he had raked up in the front yard.

Then they moved into the kitchen for a princess crown craft which the had fun making them.

Then we played "Pin the crown on the Princess".

We then had presents and they frosted their own ice cream cone cupcake. It was simple but they all seemed to have fun. She is growning up so fast. I hope she had a great birthday.

Happy 17th Anniversary!

Today Doug and I have been married for 17 years. It doesn't seem possible. We have had good and bad times but the good times far out weigh the bad in fact we have been very fortunate in our marriage. We get a long great. Have similar interests and rarely fight. We are not perfect and we have our stages of difficult times but we are truly blessed to have a wonderful marriage. I cannot image life without Doug. He is a wonderful person. He is a better dad and husband then I could have ever hoped for. He will help anyone out in a heart beat. I am so proud of him. He has a really giving heart. I thank my Heavenly Father everyday that he is my husband. Thanks Doug for a wonderful 17 years and I look forward to 50 or 60 more:) Here are some wedding photos I thought I would share.

I also want to post about my wonderful father-in-law. He was taken from us 6 years ago Thanksgiving night. I can't believe it has been 6 years already. We miss him so much. He treated me like one of his daughters, I always felt loved by him and I will never forget what a wonderful man he was and what a wonderful man he and Joyce raised to bless my children and my life forever. Thank you Verge. We love and miss you!

Memories

Two years ago just after Thanksgiving Doug and I took off to Hawaii to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary. My sister was watching my kids and I remember saying you will have it easy they will all be in school except Shay. The day we left it started to snow and they ended up out of school for several days I remember she emailed me this picture. Oh how I wish I was in Hawaii now. I am sure Jodi is grateful we are not:) You still owe me though:) Thanks!

Ditto!

For those of you who also read my sister's blog she thanked my dad today for helping her out. Well I need to give it up to dad also for helping me out. I was so sick the other day and Austin was having his end of the year soccer awards and I could not take him and he wanted to go so bad. Doug was working, so I called my mom and dad and dad was able to take him and actually took all three so I could sleep. Anyway THANK YOU DAD! And mom to because she's always there to support him in helping us and she definetly does her fair share so THANK YOU TOO MOM! We love you both very much.

Happy 6th Birthday Shaylyn!

Today is Shaylyn's birthday and she is an absolute delight in our family. I always knew that I had a daughter waiting to come to me and I couldn't have asked for a better one. She is smart, beautiful, funny, loving, and just a really good girl. Not perfect, but who is. I love her so much and I know she was meant for me. I hope that she has a wonderful 6th birthday. I pray that we are as close at 16 as we are at 6:) Wish me luck. I LOVE YOU SHAYLYN RUTH! Here are some pictures of my princess!

Baby Mia got her heart!

How can you look at this sweet mommy and baby girl and not feel their pain? Well today Mia went into surgery and received a "Great Strong Heart". Not an ok heart or a good one but a great one is what the doctors told them. We are so excited for the sweet family. The heart is in and beating. Isn't it amazing! They have a long road ahead of them but they welcome it. Please continue to pray for her recovery. Mia has touched so many lives already and she will continue to do so. Yeah for the McDonald's!

Doug, Shaylyn, Max and Camo

I just thought this was a cute picture I wanted to share. I never thought dogs would be a part of our family but they fit in well and are such great dogs. We love them very much.

Halloween!

Another Halloween has come and gone. The kids had fun as usual. Austin was his usual sports figure Tony Romo. He is always something that has to do with sports. Chance didn't really want to get dressed up to much (I think he is getting too old) but he was some sort of robber with a knife in his head:). And Shaylyn was a cheetah.

And of course our usual pumpkin carving. I didn't get very good pictures though. They had fun!

Bangs, Bangs and more Bangs

OK I don't normally do tags but I am tagging all of you out there that read my blog to post their best bang picture of themselves. I was going through old pictures and I couldn't believe I got those bangs that high. But it was the cool thing and I know all of you out there that are my age have similar pictures so let's see them. Be proud of your bangs.