Boys are Crazy!

Yesterday Noah, his cousin Jonas, and his friend

Nathaniel had some paintball fun in our back yard.

Mike actually joined in on a few rounds too.

They say it's a lot of fun...

 They say it doesn't hurt that bad!

The battle wounds look pretty painful to me!

(Normally when they play, they layer up their clothes...

I guess it was too hot yesterday for that extra protection!)

Noah asked me if I want to play next time...

I'll have to think about that!!

Thankful

*Etch A Sketch artwork by Grace*

Thanksgiving has come and gone...here is how we spent it.

In the morning, Mike and Noah went paintballing with some other leaders and young men in our ward. 

They had a great time...Noah came home with blue hair and a smile on his face :)

After I finished making 2 batches of rolls, rainbow jell-o and 2 pies, we went over to our friends, the Volk's, house for Thanksgiving. It was a wonderful low key day, filled with delicious food, games, conversation, and laughter.

The kids (and the adults) had a ton of fun with the X box Kinect and the Spirograph. We also played Apples to Apples and the name game.

Boomer and Sasha were very attentive while Duane was picking apart the turkey.

I love this picture of Anna relaxing with Sasha :)

It was also Grace's birthday and though we had already spoken to her and decided to celebrate on another day, we still put some candles in one of the pies and sang to her :)

(Yes, that is more than 10 candles...Grace got a little carried away putting them in!)

Thanks Duane and LeeAnn for opening up your home to us...having great friends to share holidays with makes it a little bit easier to not have family close by. 


We are blessed and thankful for so many things. Family, friends, the gospel, work, health and so much more!


...and I'm thankful for technology, we were able to Skype with some of our family...that was really nice!

Paintball

Several months ago Noah saved up money from mowing lawns and other odd jobs to buy a paintball gun. Mike decided to buy one too so that Noah would have someone to play with...that's just the kind of dad he is!

Here are some pics of their most recent outing. They went to President Volk's house and had a great time with him and some other adults and young men.