It's beginning to look a lot like...

Christmas!!  We've had some amazing weather this past week, wouldn't ya say?  The kids are totally diggin' all the snow, so is Bo. 

We can't wait for Christmas this year, this one will be such a special one since our family is so spread out now and we don't get to see each other as often as we would like. Then it's off to Sin City for Ty & I the day after Christmas, woohoo!!

Have a Wonderful Christmas Everyone and enjoy the special time with your families!!!

Kyla & Alexa playing at the Park across the street from our house, this is how much snow we got from 8pm-6am the next day!  (hey, this is alot for us!)

My beautiful Tree looks like it's a cotton tree!

Bo LOVES the snow, he races back and forth, over and over again!

Truly Amazing!  The beautiful scenery out my back door, I could look at that everyday!

Is this not the most precious thing you've ever seen?  I love that girl!

RIP Stephen Foxhoven

My cousins Husband passed away on Friday December 17th, 2010.  After a motorcycle accident the day before Thanksgiving in 2008, which had him in a coma for the past 2 years, he was called up to the Lord to be free again. May he finally be in Peace and be Jessica's guardian angel.  May Jessica find the strength to get through this difficult time knowing he is in a better place and watching over her now.  He was taken too young at the age of 24 but, he will forever be with you Jessica...

What's a Fathers lesson to his Daughters??

Well, for Ty, it's teaching the girls' all about Firearms.  One of our most precious privelages as Americans is the right to posess firearms, a privelage that Ty has been unable to have for so many years.  Almost 15 years ago Ty got introuble and lost his privelage to ever own a gun, this past year he was finally awarded his civil rights once again. (After a 2 year fight) Needless to say, this is a HUGE accomplishment for Ty one that he will be forever grateful for. 

Ty is so passionate about teaching the kids how to use & respect firearms in a way that is safe.  Paige is our biggest fan of target shooting and can I tell you that girl has good aim...so ya' better watch out!  Ty is taking Paige on her first hunt next fall for Wild Turkey.  Tyler already got to go on a boys trip hunting for squirrell this last October.  What great Father/Child bonding!!!

Thanksgiving Happiness

Thanksgiving this year was a quiet one yet, a fabulous one! My cousin from Tucson came to visit us for the week and we were privileged enough to spend our Thanksgiving in beautiful Sedona. Sedona has become one of my newest favorite places to visit. Regretfully, I didn't get any pictures of the surroundings BUT I did manage to buy myself a new camera on Black Friday, which quite frankly felt like the longest day of my life!

This was the first Thanksgiving I've ever had with snow, talk about magical! It was certainly a white little winter-y wonderland! 

Now, we're all geared up and ready for Christmas! 

My cousin Emma with the girls

Aunt Liz & Lacy on Thanksgiving

Bill & Kris on Thanksgiving

Bo having a blast in the snow, his new favorite thing!

What a beautiful sight!

Halloween 2010

Halloween in the Morgan home this year felt a little bit rushed, un-organized, unplanned & completely chaotic! It felt like we had 1 day to put it all together, including costumes, and it lasted for THREE days!  I'm still recooping. ...the things we do for our kids!

We started Halloween on Friday night at our schools Halloween Fall Carnival, it was a blast!  I'm on the PTO board so we had to organize & run the event for the night...hence, why I'm still tired!  Ahhh, the lovelies of having such a large family..I put them ALL to work!  lol  With everything we have had going on lately with the house, it's pretty amazing we were able to pull it all together in such a short time and make it a great halloween for the kids.

The kids' pumpkins they did by themselves (with a little help)

We made the kids pumpkin shaped pizzas, this was kyla's roasted sweet potato pizza that she loves (weird, right?!  But it's good)

Beautiful Kyla!!

I asked him to be scary, LOL!

Paige and Shelby

THIS is why I was so tired~!  13 items we baked for the cake walk...if I have to smell another cake/cupecake cooking I'm liable to jump infront of a Semi!

This was a funny game, all the kids were playing to win those silly bands..you should have seen the line!

They both won some though..;)

Paige & Kyla at the cake walk (they ran it for me) LOVE these girls!

Ok..so Tyler had been doing the cake walk for 2 hours and had yet to win a cake.  Kyla decides she wants to try it and wins the FIRST time!  My heart would sink everytime Tyler's number wasn't called :(  He finally won a cake at the end of the night, you should have seen him leap out of his chair with an ear to ear grin once his number was called, precious!

Alexa and her Vampire friend

There was my sweet little buggers, all night long!

It was such a great evening! 

My Poor Animals...

The things you find when you share a camera with your kids!  Not sure when they took them, all I know is they are super cute!!!!  Bobo is such a little trooper!! ;)

Yes, that would be bo's BFF!  Literally, they must be married in dog/cat lives and not know they are different species!

Massive Destruction

At 5:15 am yesterday morning we had 2 tornados touch ground in our neighborhood.  One touched down on my street, the other up the street.  I'm still so speechless, I don't even know the words to say to express the fear I had as I walked out my front door and witnessed a massive detruction such as this one. 

By the grace of god my family is unharmed, as well as the rest of my community.  Even though 32 homes need to be rebuilt.  So many of our friends & neighbors are suffering huge losses.  I can't thank those enough who called us continuously to check on us and offer any help needed.

This house was 3 houses down from ours, they lost their entire roof..it collapsed on them in bed but no one was harmed...its a miracle!

This house had the same thing, notice the garage is gone with the roof, they are lying in the forest behind the houses

This was walking up the stairs in our friends' house helping them get their kids' clothing, roof is completly gone

this was their kitchen entry...glass all over the floor

Their cars

This house was 2 houses down from me, total devastation!

This is my house! Someone was watching out for my family...thank you god!

Our backyard, the most of our damage...

I will never forget this day

End of Summer BBQ

As promised, I have some pictures to upload from our bbq.  We had some great people share the day with us, too bad I don't have a picture of Robin & Keith!  They are friends I met on a meetup group, I'm so glad to have met them because our kids are almost all the same ages and they get along so wonderfully.

Paige and her BFF Shelby upstairs being goofy

Kyla the diva...lord help us all!

Alexa and her sweet little friend Aurora playing grown-ups

Luv this girl, so beautiful!

The parents~

This is Shelby & her mom Loraine, they are so awesome!  I'm so glad Paige has made such a great friend!

My favorite friends~The Hoys!  Love these peeps!!