Thanksgiving Week

For Thanksgiving we went to Albuquerque, NM to spend it with Devin’s family.  We got there kind of late Wednesday night and woke up on Thursday to snow!  All of the kids were so excited!  They couldn’t wait to go play in it, so they all went out in their pajamas. 

                                     Indy, Londyn, and Boston.                                    Caught her just as she was yawning.

                                                                                                                                   It was pretty early in the morning!

Yup, Jake & Noel are barefoot!  They are so crazy!  It was freezing outside but the kids didn’t care.

On Saturday we went to the Albq LDS Temple (where Devin & I were married) to take a few photos.  Indiana was NOT cooperating.  Oh well.

 

On Saturday we also went to the Albq Zoo.  All I have to say is WOW!  That zoo may not be as big as the Phoenix zoo, but it is so much better!  I haven’t been to the Albq Zoo since I was in junior high.  We saw bald eagles, lions, tigers, polar bears, huge crocodiles, baby monkeys, cheetahs, hyenas, hippos, jaguars, mountain lions, koala bears, the most venomous snakes in the world, and so much more!  Unfortunately my camera battery died not even halfway through our visit at the zoo.  So, here are the pictures we did get!

                

Look at the turtle’s head in the picture below.  How weird and scary is that?!

   

 

This zoo was seriously amazing.  If you are ever in Albuquerque make sure to stop by and see it!  Only $7 a person, can’t beat that!

New Hair-do

 

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After:

Sorry if this annoys you, but I don’t care!!!

Also, sorry for the rude title of this post!  I know some of you are probably tired of hearing about my savings whether I tell you in person, on the phone or announce it on Facebook.  I just got back from grocery shopping and am just too excited about how much money I saved tonight that I can’t not share it with you!  I spent $30.49 out of my pocket and saved $112.47!!!  Don’t believe me?  It’s true!  I am LOVING couponing and am slowly getting the hang of it.  Here is a list of things I got for this price, and remember it is all brand-name stuff, not generic brand!

5 Red Baron Pizzas, 4 Campbell’s Turkey Gravy, 20 Campbell’s Cream of Chicken Soup, 2 Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup, 10 Swanson Chicken Broth, 2 Kraft Stove-Top Turkey Stuffing, 1 Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce, 8 Green Giant Valley Fresh Vegetable Steamers Bags, 2 Sara Lee Pumpkin Pies, 1 Cool-Whip, 1 can of Similac Formula

(sorry the picture is blurry, it was taken with the camera on my phone)

Halloween 2010

We went to our ward’s Trunk-or-Treat Saturday night.  It was fun!  Indiana had a blast dancing around and playing with the other kids.  She did not want to play any of the games that they had set up, but she loved Trunk-or-Treating!  She thought it was the neatest thing that she just had to walk up to someone sitting by their car and say, “Trick-or-Treat” and then they handed over candy!  Each time she was just in awe by the candy she received!  Porter was not in too good of a mood since that morning I had stopped nursing him.

 

  

I just have to say that I think this picture makes me look so fat!  Ahhhh!!!  Oh well.

Cold Turkey

So, today I quit nursing Porter… cold turkey.  I am a horrible mother, right?   I feel so bad and he crawls to me crying and has a look on his face that asks, “Mom, why are you doing this to me?”  I wanted to nurse him till he was one, but he has 4 teeth and nursing lately has been really painful!  I cried while nursing this morning because of the pain I was in.  I have been unsuccessful the past couple of months in getting Porter to take a bottle.  However, today he drank from a hard-top sippy cup!  He still won’t have anything to do with a bottle or a sippy cup that has a soft top.  Even though he is drinking from a sippy cup he still cries quite a bit and wants me to nurse him.  I cry with him sometimes.  Hopefully we will both get through this together!

Visit from an old friend

My friend Christin came to visit me for two whole weeks from Germany!  She was a foreign exchange student my senior year at my high school in Deming, NM.  She lived with the Knoop’s, which is a family I have known since I was a baby.  We have remained great friends even though she lives on the other side of the world!  She was a bridesmaid in my wedding and I have flown to Germany once to visit her. 

While she was here we did a lot of shopping, eating out, talking, laughing, and of course we made a trip over to Deming so she could see everyone there.  We were also able to drive to Las Cruces for a day to visit my mom, little Sister McKree and brother Cleary.   Below are a few pictures from her visit.