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So for family home evening one night we talked about temples and decided to make marshmallow temples. It ended up being a blast for the girls and Dez loves to learn about the temples. Peyton was so thrilled to just make a sticky mess, she was cute.


Here was my temple recreated.


Destinee loves the Oquirrh Mountain temple so that was the one she decided to do. She did a great job!


I don't think Peyton could stop laughing. She just made a bunch of sticks with marhmallows on the end. I think she was eating them as much as she was making them. We never got a picture of Steve's temple because he was trying to be so cool and make his the best and he never finished. I guess the girls dominated that one! (HEHE)


Oakley loves to play with babies. She is so sweet with them, its very cute. This picture makes her look so grown up? What happened to my little baby?

Turkey to feed a small army...

Happy turkey day! Well Thanksgiving has come and gone so fast. We ended up staying home this year because Steve was working and had our own little feast. So as sad as this is to admit it, this was my official Thanksgiving dinner all on my own. I had to make everything on my one (literally, Steve was sleeping the whole day). So I decided I would make the best of it and take pictures and make enough food to feed even Steve's family! (HAHA).. Kudos to all those families and mothers who work their buns off to make a great dinner. I have been so lucky to have 2 wonderful families with great recipes and it ended up being delicious. We will be eating turkey for the next month!!! I hope everyone's was wonderful also.


This picture really does not justice, it was fabulous!


Not the best view and nothing looks all that appetizing, but we thought we could get all angles!


Can you see the sweat over my brow from slaving all day? Now that it was complete I can smile!

Anniversary...

Happy anniversary to me! I am about a week and a half behind on this post, but thought I would include it. I can honestly say where does the time go??? It is so fun to look back 4 years ago and see that wonderful man I married and my little sweet Destinee. I was truly blessed to have found a man like Steve to marry and for him to accept not just me (which is plenty), but a very cute daughter too. It has been a crazy little journey for us so far with moving, jobs, kids, school, and so much more. I can't wait to see what the future holds for us and hopefully it will not be in the desert! (ha-ha)... NO I am kiddin, Roosevelt is not that bad, its just hard when your away from family. Anywho, I love you Steven Jay!



Who wouldn't love a little kiss!!!



The beginning of a happy family (and my little nephew Jackson)



Our first 4th of July togehter. I knew then that he was perfect for me! Destinee looks so tiny to me now.

Crazy hair...

Destinee on Friday had crazy hair day, and the kids in her class got to wear their pajamas and bring pillows and blankets to school for having so many good green days. So being the mom that I am, I couldn't help but take pictures of her hair because I thought it actually turned out kind of cute in all the craziness. We sprayed some glitter in it and she was thrilled. Of course, when you takes pictures of Destinee Peyton demands a picture of her... Hence the pajama picture of her!

Witches and vampires and tootsie rolls... oh my

Halloween was great this year. Steve was home, that was a huge plus. Our halloween was loaded with lots of fun activities! We did some pumkin carving first, of course a lightning McQueen for Peyton, and Tinkerbell for Destinee.









On Friday I had the chance to put on the halloween party for her class. The kids had games, treats, music, and hopefully lots of fun. This is a picture of a friend and Destinee in their costumes.





Then we took the girls to a little halloween carnival on Saturday morning where they did games, got cookies and did a little haunted house. It was fun. Then we went trick-or-treating at the local grocery store, and ended the night with a dinner at the church and trunk-or-treating. It was a fun day!

Here are the cute girls all dressed. We painted Destinee's face and of course Peyton had to have hers done just like her sister... Plus little Oakley is finally walking! She still likes to crawl here and there, but her little Frankenstein walk is so dang cute.