Merry Christmas!

Well it was a busy one, but a joyous one. We are ever grateful for our Savior and his amazaing life here on earth. I am especially grateful this year for Mary and what she went through and the feelings she must have felt. We had a cookie night with the Lloyds. Santa came, and let's just say I think he was in A Christmas Story! Awesome singer though. Then on to the Coon's pary, again Santa made a special appearance for the 40+ time. This time Ryker was sure to hold on for dear life to my neck:) Christmas eve and morning with Lloyds. I'm not sure Ryker understood what was going on but he sure loved ripping the wrapping paper! Christmas day with the Coons again. Whew! I need a vacation! Merry Christmas!

Nursery!

Hooray! Today was Ryker's first day going to nursery at church and he loved it! If only I'd known he was going to pick up hand foot and mouth virus we might have waited a few weeks :)

B's Birthday

So Brandon turned... he probably doesn't want me to disclose that info, but he had another birthday this year! We celebrated with his Fam at our house.

Thanksgiving

Well we headed down to good ol St. George for Thanksgiving this year. It was kind of cold, but warmer than it was up North that's for sure. Anyhoo we had lots and lots of good eats and fun times with family. Plus, who doesn't like to golf in November?

One more of Halloween

I never got a good picture of Ryker in his costume, so I had a photo shoot on the front porch. I bet the neighbors had a good time watching me try to make Ryker to look at me!

Halloween!

We all carved pumpkins at Lloyds while Ryker ran around with Cayden eating pumpkins scraps:)

Australia

Here is our home movie of Australia so you can all feel like you were there with us! It was an awesome experience to visit another country. I finally got a stamp in my passport, hooray! We stayed in Brisbane and saw the sites in the city. It is a really big city with this crazy river that snaked through it. We saw the gold coast and it's miles of beaches & got hot chocolate cause it was freezing outside! We visited the Steve Erwin Zoo and got to pet the Kangaroos and Koalas! We had lots of good eats including Morton Bay Bugs(they are a crustacean found only in Morton Bay, yeah the name scared me too!) We drove on the wrong side of the road and car- thought I was gonna loose my life! We saw the Queensland University and much more! One of my favorite things was the Jacaranda trees with their bright purple blossoms!