I put Tyler down for a nap and he started singing instead of sleeping.  He went on like this for probably 10 to 15 minutes straight!   The video below is Heidi accompanying her school choir at the Mall.  She did a great job!

Our Perfect Thanksgiving

After Thanksgiving 2011 I was very nervous going into Thanksgiving 2012 but my prayers were answered and we had a wonderful HEALTHY week in Utah!!  Nobody even had the sniffles and Tyler's eczema held up really well due to awesome Utah weather.  We didn't dry out like we normally do.  The sun was shining every day and we tried to get out in it as much as we could.  One of the pictures I regret not getting was the game of soccer we had with most of the adults.  We played with a big bouncy ball which is definitely my kind of soccer!  Here are a few more things that we did. . .

 "Hanging Out" with cousins at the Park.  I know it looks like these are summer pics but no, it was really warm enough in November to be outside playing in Utah even without jackets at times!

 My Amazing Race Team.  My parents set up an Amazing Race for us at a new massive sporting goods store called Scheel's in Salt Lake.  It was really fun and gave us quite the workout going from one end of the store to the other bowling, shooting, dancing, singing, riding the ferris wheel, etc.  It's a good thing we fueled up on burgers and fries before the race!

Our Thanksgiving morning walk/ Turkey Trot.  The kids made feather headbands to wear but they didn't make it out of the car.

 Coloring Contest.  A Winner was never declared but they were all pretty good!

 Nicole is happy in the car as long as she has her own music source.

 This boy is one AMAZING traveler.  Not a complaint from him the whole way!!

 She looks hard core but really all three kids were great travelers and wouldn't even let us stop at all unless we had to fill up the car with gas!

 Cute cousins!  It's a bummer we didn't get a pic of the three boys.  Next time we get together we'll have four boys!! (due to my sister having a baby in Feb)

 My mom hosted the Lyman Family Christmas party while we were there and it was so much fun to see everyone!  Santa even came and brought all the kids a present.  This is what my family did every year growing up so I was happy that my kids could be there this year.

Happy Halloween!

Look at me go!  Getting these pics on Halloween Night!  The pics below tell the story of Halloween at our house.  Cleopatra and the fairy went off with their neighbor friends, I took Cowboy Small to a few houses and Scott stayed home to pass out candy.  The girls got tons of candy and we have tons of what we were passing out left too!  Not sure what we're going to do with it all but hopefully not eat it too fast!  I think Tyler liked Trick-or-Treating but of course his expression never really changed from how he looks here.  He was pretty happy when we came home and started eating the goods!

Singing and Fish

We got a PET!!

 Here we are shopping for our new pets. . .

 Tyler looked at the birds for a really long time.  He's a little obsessed with ducks right now and usually thinks that birds are ducks too, at least in his books.  (Also, he got a hair cut later this same day)

 Heidi and Nicole - the proud fish mamas :)

 Nicole named her fish Rocky

Heidi's is Gilligan

And last but not least, here's Tyler singing the ABC's with his singing duck!

San Juan Islands

Scott and I just spent a few days on the San Juan Islands just off of Washington State.  My sister and her husband ended up joining us at the last minute and it was a really fun time!  Here are some pics of our trip. . .

 We stayed at the Marriott in Burlington but this bed and breakfast is where Kelly and I wanted to pretend that we stayed :)

 Scott had fun using the panoramic view on my phone's camera.  

 This is how laid back they are on the Islands.  How often do you see this amount of park time?

 A Lake on Orcas Island

 A view from the top of Orcas Island

While we were away our kids were in the safe hands of Grandma Williams.  They had such a good time making all kinds of projects with yarn and other supplies provided by Grandma.  Tyler was even saying "Nana" by the time we got back.  I took these right as she was leaving.  That's why the background isn't so pretty.

 Enjoying hot chocolate on our fancy cruise ship, aka Ferry

 I am usually not a fan of scenic pics without people but I am quite proud of this one :)

 Our first exciting wildlife find.  Very cute!  What we really wanted to see were Orcas but we're still not sure if we saw them or not.  It's possible that we did from a distance.

 Kelly and Colin actually celebrated their sixth anniversary while we were there.  

 We also visited Colin's relatives on one of the smaller islands and tracked down his Great Grandpa's headstone.  That was pretty fun.

 This is the view driving into the cemetery where Colin's Grandpa is buried.

 Another beautiful view.  It was so peaceful there, especially being there during the off season.  We saw a bald eagle sitting right in the middle of this field but scared it away when we turned around to get a pic.

The top of Orcas Island.

Here you go mother :)  School Clothes!!  Remember they've only been going for 2 weeks tomorrow.  I'm just a little late!