THANKSgiving!

Giselle had her first thanksgiving feast and boy can that girl feast. She loved EVERYTHING!

All the sweet kiddos. We had our friend Lori and her 4 fun and great kids join us. My parents came down from Michigan too!

More super cute kids!!

Jacob loved the Vernors grandma brought from Michigan..he couldn't bear the thought of the spilled soda going to waste!

Brett carving his first turkey!! He did a great job. We are so blessed to have so many blessings and privledges in this life. First of all the blessing to choose what where we worship. Without this one freedom all others would fall to the side. With this freedom I was able to marry my true love for all time and eternity and with that union has now come 5 beautiful children. I can't wait to see the amazing blessings that are yet to come..until then I will forever be grateful and THANKFUL for all the ones I have now!

Every time we have a baby that has their first thanksgiving we take a picture of the turkey in front of the baby...hahahaha the turkey was SO big it covered her up..or maybe she is so little!

Now you can see her! chewing on her favorite carrot!

Cafe Fox!

People ask me all the time..How do you do it? I respond with I have some really great friends. It's true I do. I am so blessed to have some great friends in my life. I ask them for help and they are there..armed sometimes with food, sometimes with sponges to clean and sometimes to play with kids. I felt like a thank you note just wasn't going to cut it. I sent an evite and thank goodness they could all come.
We started the meal with Artichoke dip. Then had broccoli and white cheddar cheese soup!
Spinach, apple,craisin, walnut and feta salad with an apple vinaigrette!
Super yummy bread *from wegmans* with make your own sandwich
sunken chocolate cake with ice cream and berries drizzled with hot fudge.
I love my china but I rarely get it out. Too many little hands, but I felt this was a good time as any. Real napkins can make such a difference..and fresh flowers pulls it all together.

I really feel like these ladies brighten my day every time I am with them, so I picked out cute little candles for each of them..thank goodness they all got the kind they liked!

After all of that, they stayed and helped me clean up..not to mention Alex came in the morning and helped me get it all together. How lucky am I...not lucky. Just blessed. Love you Ladies!

A week of Halloween!

Wow, what a fun but crazy busy week. Monday we carved our pumpkins and ms. Giselle decided to stand up and join in on the fun. I got to go to the concert Muse on Wednesday..AWESOME!! so fun. On friday I went on a field trip with Jillian to Cox Farms..super fun but very cold. after the field trip I went back to the school and co hosted a halloween party for Jolie's class. They are such cute kids. Then friday night I went to a witches brew party. 30 + women dressed up as witches..mean super fun! Saturday was fox family halloween carnival and then the ward trunk or treat. Sunday was soup and more soup. and then trick or treating. We had a great time and thank goodness for no school on monday or tuesday because we were all worn out!

Soccer Genna!

Genevieve is in her third season of soccer. She loves it. We have loved going and cheering for her. It is so fun to watch her talent grow. She was just asked to be on an All-Star team. The tournament is in a couple of weeks and then she will be done until the spring. Way to go Genna!

9 months

Giselle had her 9 month check up this past week...I know she'll be 10 months next week!
She is 16lbs. 5 oz. 27 1/2 inches long
She crawls everywhere. Stands and cruises with furniture and can hang tough with her brother.
She LOVES to eat. This picture she had just finished eating brocolli and cheese soup, ravioli, blueberry yogurt and orange jello...all in one sitting.
She sleeps threw the night...bless you child for that one.
The only hiccup recently is she HATES the bath tub. She had one horrible experience in the tub..really she just rolled in the bath, which I was right there and right away scooped her up, but it looks like she is scarred for life. It is the saddest little thing now when she has to take a bath. She shakes so hard and screams and will not sit down in the water. The other day I had Jillian get in with her and try to make her happy. It helped a little bit, at least she stopped screaming. No sitting but she did put her hand down in the water. So hopefully I can keep working with her and get her to like the bath again.
I was telling Brett today that I think she is the wards baby..she is passed around to everyone and is so happy about it. Thankfully everyone in my ward is happy about it too. She really is a sweet, happy go with the flow baby. Now if she can just stop growing!

Super Saturday...super crazy!

Yesterday was my ward's super Saturday. I was SO excited for this. We haven't had one in quite a while and they had tons of super cute stuff to make. I got up early to make a batch of broccoli and cheese soup..which took way longer than necessary since I do NOT have a food processor...**hint hint Brett**. :) Brett had to go to a funeral for a coworkers spouse so he was gone. I load up all the kiddos into the car and nothing. The car wont start. The battery is dead. EEERRRR! Of course, because Brett isn't home..isn't that always when stuff goes wrong. The van is in the garage so I knew it would be very tricky to get a car in there to jump it. I run over to one of my neighbors leaving all the kids in the car. I ask if he has one of those portable car jump things...another ** gift idea for me** but nope. He says he doesn't even have jumper cables...I DOOO. I say. So he comes over and we realize I need to empty everything out of the garage that is on the other side so we can get a car in...so we empty everything out and then he brings this zippy little car in..which the girls all think is the coolest car ever..it looks like bumblebee from Transformers which makes me laugh because they've never seen Transformers. Anyways after much careful maneuvering of the car and climbing out of the car we finally get it. YAY!!!!!!!!!!! I get in the car and now it is after 11am. Yikes. I rush to the church and get started right away. That lovely banner took me forever. I only had time to make the one project, but I'm OK with it. I love it and at least I got to go right. The kids had fun in the nursery and when I picked up the crock pot it was empty...always a good sign it was good. The crazy part that was only ONE part of our Saturday. I will post later about that nights festivities. Side note Genna scored 2 goals in her soccer game that day. Way to go Genna!

Apples and Pumpkins!!

We went to our favorite orchard to go pick apples and get our pumpkins. It was a very warm day much like it has been all summer and fall. Since it has been SO warm for so long it really took a toll on the orchard. SO they didn't have any to pick just already picked ones. It worked out just fine though and I got to really take my time picking good ones and helping the girls learn how to find a good one.

Genna was concerned of some brown spots on her apple. I suggested she look for a new one.

I love this picture. Aren't my boys so handsome. Jacob wants to be just like daddy. I say good choice.

As soon as we got there Jacob grabbed an apple and took a bite, he was in heaven.

Giselle, she wants to be like the big kids so bad. She just had to get her hands on those pumpkins!

The field behind us is where I go strawberry picking..I love fresh food!

I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family. We had a great time and love this family tradition!