Thanksgiving

We had a very cute turkey , pilgrim, and Indian join us for Thanksgiving this year. They each made these costumes at school. Wesley also learned some new weaving skills at school and made this headband. He wore it from the moment he came home from school on Tuesday afternoon until Sunday when it was time to go to church (we did make him take it off to sleep). Needless to say, he had some very bad hair days and he reminded us of an 80’s Aerobic Instructor.

Cameron turned this apple into a turkey for a project at school.

When we showed up to Ken’s parents house on Thanksgiving, Sara was there (home from BYU) and Carter did not leave her side for the first half hour.

Wesley sat down to a big Turkey dinner, but ended up only being able to eat his turkey leg. I wonder why?

Carter didn’t seem to think the Thanksgiving feast was quite as exciting

I guess turkey really does make you tired. We think he fell asleep saying his prayers (just like his daddyJ)

Early in November, we finished up soccer season for Wesley and Cameron by having team parties and getting their trophies.

We just had to put in this picture because it was so cute. It was one of the 50 pictures that Cameron and Wesley took with the camera that actually turned out well.

It's Autumn Time!

My parents came to Austin to help out my sister family while they are still in the hospital with their sweet little Nikolas (just trying to get his dialysis stable). They came up to visit us on the weekend of the BYU/TCU game and we all went. We were lucky enough to be able to go to the one game that BYU has lost this season. It was definitely disappointing, but it was still a fun night out!

My mom and dad and Conner (my sister’s other child) stayed up in Dallas for a few days after the game. We went to the Pumpkin Patch and despite how crowded it was, we had fun riding the train and hayride, jumping in the bounce houses, playing on the haystacks, and looking at the animals.

Of course, we carved pumpkins (although Carter spent most of the time eating popcorn while laying on the kitchen floor) and…

Bobbed for apples (we let the rules slide for Carter).

Our little baby girl was a jack-o-lantern for her first Halloween.

The force was strong at our house for Halloween with Wesley as Darth Vader, Carter as Yoda, and Cameron as Anakin Skywalker (who wouldn’t wear his mask).

It's a...

Girl! After making the sonogram technician verify it for us a few times, we finally came out of our shock and believed it! We are all so excited to be able to soon welcome a baby girl to our family. I went and had lunch with the Wesley and Cameron at school to tell them the news and they were both beaming! Wesley said, "Yes!" over and over again and Cameron just hugged and kissed me several times!

Carter will not call the baby "baby" anymore. The baby is officially "the girl." He had his own special picture of the sonogram and this is a picture of him protecting it from the rain when we came out of the doctor's office. Our little girl better get used to being protected by her three big brothers!

This is Wesley (2nd grade) and Cameron (Kindergarten) after their first day of school! They both really love their teachers and have a lot of fun with their friends in class.

The Beams came up and visited with us - it was a lot of fun. As you can see, Nikolas is growing well - he is becoming a pretty big kid!


When the Beams were here, we found out that an old friend of Steve (Wendy's brother) moved in just a couple of miles away from us, so we went over and had a lot of fun at their house. As you can see, the main form of entertainment was something like "Attack Uncle Kim".

The next day we went to the Dallas zoo, where the boys had a lot of fun looking at animals, and the zoo animals got to look at these strange Crow boys who love to make goofy faces.

When it got really warm, they got in their swim trunks and swam in the wading river at the zoo.

A big highlight for the boys was when we did the "Touch a ray" exhibit - there were stingrays in a pool that you could pet. The boys were convinced that they were better at handling animals than the late Steve Irwin since they left the experience unscathed.

Finally, they loved posing on the bronze Elephants - what fun!


Wheeeeee!

And - Cameron turned 6! He is wearing a t-shirt from Boomerang's - a place like pump-it-up. Although in this picture he looks like he's not having any fun, he and his friends all had a blast!

Finally - this is one of maybe 50 pictures that Cameron and Wesley took when they got hold of the camera without telling us. This particular one struck us as pretty funny for some reason, so we had to post it.