Thanksgiving

We were all looking forward to a big traditional Leishman Thanksgiving since Ricks Mom and Dad are home from their mission this year. Thanksgiving has never been that big of a Holiday in my family, so Rick prefers to spend it with his family and since his birthday fell on Thanksgiving, it was fine with me. Happy birthday to Rick, Mike, and Adrie who all share their birthday, and this year on such a fun day!

Pat and Jear busy making rolls
We played some fun games after we ate



Kris and Kecia were down for the weekend, so we decided to take the kids to their favorite place Tepanyaki. It's always fun and the food is the best around town.

Color Me Mine

We had so much fun last night! We took the kids to a place called color me mine, and what you do is paint your own pottery, they have all kinds of stuff to choose from like plates, mugs, platters, bowls, they even have some little figurines. We all decided to paint our own hot chocolate mug since this time of year the kids love to drink it. It takes them 2 days to put it in the kiln and fire it but then you get to go pick it up. The kids had a blast, it was so much fun to do something different with them.

Jim the Barber

I think this is so funny! Andrew always looks forward to a visit with his barber Jim. He always asks him how he wants it cut, the only thing Andrew will say to him the whole visit is "like a missionary" Jim always gives him Smarties or a sucker when they're done. It's so cute, I love to watch him get his hair cut like a big boy.

Gardner village

We love to go to Gardner Village every year to see the witches and Halloween decorations. Tysen, Chris and Ava, Shaley, Grandma and Grandpa and Madi's friend Grace all came with us this year.The witches were all so cute, we had a great time!

Happy Halloween!

My dad grows giant pumpkins every year, we had a pumpkin carving party last Monday night, I think they had to use power tools just to carve them.

Here are all the kids, don't the boys look so cute! This year madi was a sports fan, Mazie a witch, Ellie a cheerleader and Andrew was a pirate. Kyra was Dorothy, Adrie was a cute witch also and baby Bree was a caterpillar. Ava was an octopus and the boy looked very scary in their skeleton bones.

I took the kids to Ricks office They always love to go because everyone dresses up, even dad did this year!

Ava loved her first Halloween out with the kids

Saturday Morning Breakfast

Many of you know that we go to Rick's mom and dad's house every Saturday morning we can for Breakfast, This tradition has been going on for about 10 years I think, well they were out of town last Saturday so Rick thought he would make us pancakes at home. The girls put in their orders, Ellie wanted a person, Andrew wanted Mickey Mouse, someone said an ice cream cone. then Ellie said how about a balloon with a string, sounds fine until you look at the final product. Rick and I were laughing so hard the kids were a little confused, I don't think we'll try a balloon again but hey they loved the pancakes!

Sleep Over

My kids didn't have school last Friday so we took our turn with night duty. We set up camp in the basement of Tysen's house for my kids and the two of us stayed up with the boys. Oh how you forget what it's like to be up all night with a new born, they are doing great and Tysen and Chris are great parents and so cute with their new Little family of 5!

Tysen was trying to feed Ava a bottle and get her to sleep and both boys needed to eat, It's funny I find that sometines when I'm with Tysen we just start laughing because there are so many babies around, and one of us will say "I still can't believe there are two of them"
Mazie was the first one in our family to hold the both the boys at once
Of course at 10:00 uncle Chris says "lets make cookies" everyone including Ava had to stay up to help
Then everyone had to watch as the boys got a bath in the sink