Thanksgiving Weekend:)
My heart is full this day with the incredible weekend that our family had. We were so blessed to have ALL of my mom's side of the family here for Thanksgiving from California and we had such an amazing time together. I feel so grateful to have such an incredible extended family that are so dear to me. I am so grateful that they were able to come and we were able to spend some quality family time together. I put together a slide show that will show all the fun we had.

I also wanted to say how thankful I am for all of my wonderful FRIENDS. I was looking back at scrapbooks that I have put together and it brought back so many memories of all of us. We really have a unique friendship and we really did have the time of our lives! I am excited to see all of you at the Christmas party on the 6th.

Thank you to all my Aunts, Uncles, Cousins,and Grandparents for being in Arizona for Thanksgiving,the wedding and for love the that you show to our family. We love each one of you so much and are thankful for Eternal Families.

My brother was married last night and it was such a beautiful day and I am so happy for them. I will post those pictures later on this week.

This weekend I will cherish FOREVER and didn't want it to end. It was so amazing and such a beautiful weekend.

Enjoy the slide show:)

A DAY ON THE FARM
OUR PLAYGROUP THIS WEEK WAS GOING TO THE FARM AND THE GIRLS HAD TONS OF FUN. WE RODE ON A HAYRIDE, SAW THE COWS, THE GIRLS HELD CHICKENS, WE ATE ICE CREAM AND IT WAS SUCH A NEAT EXPERIENCE FOR ALL OF US.

How would you like to deliver a baby this big. Ya that's right when we went to the farm this calf was only 6 hours old. Cute Huh?

Mariyah checking out the cows while on the hay ride

My friends and our kids on the hay ride

The instructor let the girls touch the food that the cows eat.

Brooklyn's friends Elaya and Ellie. They have been friends since they were born.

Brooklyn loved holding the chicken and giving it loves.

The girls loved the fluffy bunny.

Feeding the horse

Ry feeding the other animals

Brooklyn was so excited to find Donkey because she thought it was Donkey on Shrek:)

Having fun on the tractor

I think Brooklyn is really trying to figure out how to drive the tractor.

The girls and mommy

Friends eating ice cream

Mariyah holding the chicken.

Mariyah's School Picture
So I know many of you have asked about how Mariyah was able to go to kindergarten before she was 5 since her birthday is in October and the cut off date is that by August 31st you must be 5. Well crismon Elementary has this amazing program for those children who turn 5 after August 31st. She goes to pre-kindergarten half day Mon-Fri and she LOVES it.
Her teacher has taught Kindergarten for 30 years and retired and came back to teach pre-kindergarten. She is an incredible teacher and Mariyah is learning sooo much. So she really is in kindergarten but they have to call it pre-kindergarten and next year she will go to ALL DAY kindergarten. What is so neat is that Mariyah's teacher taught my siblings when they were in kindergarten. I think her school pictures turned out very cute. Although Mariyah has her hyper side she is really sweet and a great sister to Brooklyn.

Beautiful Roses/Girls
When Joshua came home from work this past week he walked in the door with a dozen rose. They are so beautiful & what a sweet and thoughtful husband:).

After church Joshua took a picture of the girls and I and then Ry had fun taking pictures with the camera. I was trying to get a picture of me and Mariyah...maybe another time. I wouldn't usually post a picture of myself but Mariyah really wanted a picture of just me. So I said to Ry ok you can take a quick picture of me and she said NO mom you need to tilt your head a little and then I will take the picture. I think she did a pretty good job considering she just took one picture of me. Maybe she wants to be a photographer when she gets older:).

TRICK OR TREATING/CARNIVAL
Our ward had their annual trunk or treat/carnival with games and great food. We had lots of fun and Mariyah even got her face painted. Mariyah was Hannah Montana but since it was so dang hot on halloween night she didn't want to keep her whole costume on. I was able to take some pictures before we left and she looked good! Brooklyn was a lady bug and let me just tell you that she cracked us up. I figured she would be really hot since it was at least 90 degrees out but she wanted it on the whole night. She went around and would say I'm a bug:). It was really cute and the girls had so much fun together and they got lots of candy. Their cousin Carter was tiger and they had fun trick or treating together. The last picture is of my brother Darren and his fiance Tami. They are getting married on November 29th and we are so EXCITED for them.