Happy Thanksgiving!

Well we had a great Thanksgiving this year. Rod's parents came over and had dinner and desert with us and the kids loved having them be with us. Caden and I made pilgrim hats for him and Lainey (actually I made them and he was excited to use my sissors to cut random pieces of paper). We had a yummy dinner and pumpkin pie for desert. Let's just say I ate way to much.

Rod had to work the next day so I missed out on the after Thanksgiving Day shopping. I did take the kids out at 8:30 to Walmart and got Brodie's Christmas present finished up so I was happy about that. Rod got home at 2:00 and I took Lainey with me and we hit Old Navy and Shopko. Santa is bringing Lainey and Caden a two seater sled this year so I am pretty excited about that...although Lainey probably won't ride until next year:! Friday night we went over to our friends Tim and Jen's and had leftovers and watched the BSU game.

Saturday we did some shopping and then went out to Parma for my father-in-law's birthday party. We had a ham with all the fixings and then played board games. Rod and my brother in law Brad really tied one on. I think they drank all the whiskey in Parma that night! At 2:30 a.m. I heard ROd get the hickups and Brad and Rod thought that it was the funniest things so they continued to laugh hysterical until about 2:30 a.m. They were both in fairly poor shape on Sunday.

Yesterday we got our Christmas decorations in the house put up and some outside lights put up as well. I got to go watch New Moon with my friend Jen last night. Our Thanksgiving Day Weekend was great and I hope that all of yours was just as great!

Some Fun Times!

Hmmm....where to start. Seems like we have had some really fun times lately and I just havne't had time to post pictures and blog about them. A few weeks ago my friend Jen and I took the kids over to Eagle to the Fun Fittables bounce house and the kids had a great time. They had two bounce houses and then there was gymnastic equipment set up everywhere. Caden really showed me how athletic he was, he was hanging from bars, climbing up the rock wall and doing flips on the built in trampoline - he had a great time.



Lainey is 4 months old now and just so much fun - although she thinks she doesn't have to sleep at night anymore. She is becoming such a big girl, she loves sitting in her high chair when we eat dinner so that she can see what is going and she thinks that she is the center of attention. When no one is paying attention to her she will start fussing until you come and talk to her...then she just gives you one big smile. Caden is doing well - he loves to play dishes and cooks things for you. He is a big helper and loves helping me take care of Lainey.





I went up to Cottonwood last weekend to surprise my friend Michelle at her 30th birthday party. She had no idea that I was coming. I showed up at Barley Hoppers around 9:30 or so and they had just got there. I jumped out in front of her and yelled Happy Birthday...it was funny because she had quite a bit to drink so it took her a few seconds to figure out who I was. But...when she did she malled me. We spent the rest of the evening dancing and drinking, it was so much fun. I spent the next 3 days in Cottonwood helping my mom out. We made some Christmas cookies and Caden got to help frost them. Basically, he would stick the knife in the frosting, put some on the cookie and then lick the rest off, then stick it back in the frosting. So...those of you getting cookies from me this year may just get one of Caden's special cookies!!!



We are heading to Hermiston tonight to spend an early Thanksgiving with Rod's Dad and Sandy. Brad, Amy, Lukas and Ella will be joining us so it should be lots of fun. Rod, Brad and Ralph are going steelhead fishing tomorrow while us girls hang out with the kiddos. I can't wait until Caden is old enough to go fishing with Rod -he would really enjoy it. It is just to cold for him to go out on the boat for 4 hours.

Hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Happy Halloween!

This year for Halloween we made the trip to Cottonwood to go trick or treating with my sisters and their kids. Rod and Riley wanted to try one last weekend to find that big elk (again, with no luck) so I got to see my sisters and parents again. We got up to C-town around 8:30 Friday night. It was funny because when we got there Cole came out to greet us and Caden said from his car seat "look, it's my best friend Cole", it was so funny! They boys played for a little bit before I had to lay between them for 30 minutes to get them to go to sleep. They were kicking each other, talking and just plain not wanting to go to bed. Saturday morning Stephanie, my dad and I took Cole and Caden on a bike ride to the park and let them play. They had a really good time doing that and gave the house a little bit of peace and quiet (for an hour anyways) We got back to mom and dads and started carving pumpkins. We brought 3 up from Boise and dad had 4 of them so we had a lot to do. Cole dived right in and started gutting the pumpkins but Caden wanted no part of it. He went off and played until we were done. I made one pumpkin with the initials CW (Cole Wilkins and Caden Werner) I thought that I was pretty clever doing that. We all dressed up this year, Stephanie and I were witches, Kristin was a pirate, Karel a high school graduate, Cole was Bumblebee from The Transformers, Caden a "scary" lion, Finn was a frog, and Brodie and Lainey were both cute little penguins. We all went out for a little bit and of coarse everyone thought the kids were cute. We then dumped off the little ones and took Cole and Caden for a more serious run from door to door getting candy. We picked up Nicole and her son Dallon and went up to Snob Hill in C-town and got more candy. All in all the boys did really well. Hope that everyone had as fun of a Halloween as we did.


Dad & Lainey

Brodie the penguin

Cole & Caden in their pirate patches

Mommy, Lainey the penguin and Caden the "scary" lion