Chef Liam

For Cub's today Liam's troop had an Iron Chef competition. Liam chose to make a Christmas Cake. He did it all by himself, with some instruction from me. We video taped the whole thing. I think it turned out nice, and he said all the boys loved it and it even tasted good! Way to go Chef Liam!

Saje's Baby Shower

Crystal had her beautiful baby Saje's shower in Calgary so Mom, Grandma and I took a road trip up for it.

Saje is beautiful and wonderful. Crystal did a great job don't you think. So fun to have a little girl among us!

Hyrum was sick. He's still cute though.

Christmas Already? YES!

When we lived in the States we set up for Christmas on Thanksgiving. This year, in Canada, Thanksgiving is in October, setting up for Christmas on Thanksgiving here is, aparently, unforgivable, so I had to wait, but I couldn't wait very long, so I set it up on the 12th. I would have set it up on Hyrum's birthday, I've been told that Rememberance day is the first day you are aloud to do such things, BUT, I was to busy with a birthday party. So here it is now!

And the cats discovered it the very next day! ARGH!


2 cats! Oh no!

Happy 1st Birthday Hyrum!!!

Hyrum Madison turned 1 year old today! On 11/11/11! How cool is that? And did you see what time I posted this at? Yeah, I'm cool like that.

Cheyanne was our official cake decorator, and I think she did a fine job, don't you?

Hyrum wasn't to sure what to do with his cake at first...

...but he talked to his good friend Papa...

...and he figured it out...

...yup, he gets it...

...all over his face...

...yummy...

Happy Birthday Hyrum! We sure love you!

Alternate School

The homeschool program here has a special building class at the beginning of every month for kids age 7 and up. They let Ezra join a year early and they are super happy to have him, he does really well, as does Liam. They both love to go spend a couple hours out of their regular homeschool routine and get their hands dirty!

This month they "built" insects out of old food containers and learned about insects as well as doing their usual building project. Ezra's bug was old popcorn boxes and pudding containers for legs and eyes.

Happy Halloween

The Ward Halloween Party

Obi and Georgia, the other Princess Leia.

Han Solo and Obi Won Kanobi

Princess Leia's.



Me teaching the boys to stretch. Their noses are touching their toes. I can not do that!

Cheyanne and Mo

Yummy pumpkin guts for Daddy and Oba.






Sillyness

Looking at pumpkins.

Snow on them the next morning.

Happy Halloween Pancakes.

Halloween was amazing. We went out to Leavitt and did my old route. Beth Cahoon made her amazing popcorn balls, which I cannot stop eating. It was good to see everyone and I wish we could have been out there longer. We came into Cardston and did some of our ward boundaries. The boys had a blast and so did Bill and I.

Edmonton

We went up for our monthly Edmonton trip just after Crystal had her darling baby Saje. We left Friday morning and got to their house late Friday night. She is such a darling baby and Crystal just loves her!



We stayed with Neil, Arlene and Mattea and the kids were loud and rambuncsious in their 2 bedroom house, not a lot of sleep was had by all! On Saturday Bill had a confrence and Cheyanne, Mattea, the boys and I all went to the mall. We visited the Marine Life exhibit and watched all the seal shows. Each one was different, and so fun. This pictue is of Ezra and the fat African Toad. He's saying "Fat Frog".

This is Obi and some random little girl. They are waiting for the sting rays to come so they can pet them. The sting rays were super cute and soooo friendly. I could totally keep one as a pet!

Mattea watched Hyrum while the rest of as had a go on the bumper boats. Cheyanne and I got SOAKED by Liam, but it was super fun.

Cheyanne and Mattea on Ropes Quest.

Neil and his awesome bike that he got for Fathers Day.

On the second day in Edmonton we stuck around Arlene's house and went to the park with them, Bill was in his conference and then we had a delicious dinner. The third day we went to the waterpark. The Waterpark was fun, but the kid park was closed and only 3 slides were open, so we didn't stay all day. Cheyanne ended up getting picked up by Mom and staying the rest of the week with her at Crystal's house, so she really got to bond with Saje and play with Tristan.




This is right in front of where they do the Sea Lion show. We had lunch here on both days.
Bill, Liam, Obi and Mo at the Sea Lion show.

Ezra, Liam and Mommy at the Sea Lion show.

Liam got chosen on the last day of our trip at the last show to throw a frisbee to Pablo the Sea Lion. It was really fun (and scary) for him.

The bridge.

We also played mini golf, went do Galaxy land and had Olive Garden for dinner. We didn't get home until 3 in the morning!