We had a great Christmas break. We spent most of Christmas week at the Wyoming cabin-playing in the snow, hiking, cooking, eating, playing Wii and relaxing. I cooked more then I should have, but we ate well! I made and put together five gingerbread cabins. They turned out really cute and I think eveyone had fun decorating them-we had a ton of candy!
Johanna and cousins Lindsay and Gunnar with their new Snuggies-courtesy of Blake.
Better late then never! I made a Halloween dinner of Ghostly cheese sandwiches, chicken noodle soup and orange smoothies, then we carved pumpkins before going trick-or-treating. Blake did most of the work, as I was desparately searching for the hat to Ed's costume ( I found it!). They all had a great time though. We even toasted the seeds-yummy! Garlic salt was our favorite topping by the way.
Here they are-the pokemon, dinosaur, cavegirl, gypsy and ninja. The cavegirl is Johanna's friend and our neighbor-Hannah
Is this not disturbing? This is the loot the kids ended up with-a VERY LARGE bowl of candy! Blake decided it was time to quit after overhearing comments to Logan and Camden like "Wow-you've got a lot of candy there!" Ed petered out after one block, and then he ate pretty much everything he got while the others were out. So, this is only 3 kids worth of candy! SCARY!
Ahhh...family togetherness... Yes-that's Ed wearing Johanna's glasses. He's facinated with them-though they're not like Mia's-they are breakable, and he's doing his best to help Johanna into contacts
Quintisential fall-leaves, trucks and boys-don't you just want to join in?
Our VERY LAST berry pie-just picked on October 24! Ed "helped" by arranging the berries-I think he was just trying to hide the fact that he'd eaten most of them. Can't you see that guilty look on his face? 
The owl cupcakes I made for my Halloween recital-aren't they cute?
Is this really 2009? At our house you wouldn't know it-in fact, for portions of General Conference-Camden had to hold up our lovely-right out of Star Trek antenna so we could get proper reception!
The poor little kitten! Ed visited a farm with his preschool and there were a whole passel of kittens for the kids to hold. It was very cute and didn't mind Ed holding it too much.
We had a fun time picking grapes last friday. We didn't get there until almost dark, so we had to pick fast. The kids all had fun running around the vineyard in the light of the moon. We picked an 18 gallon container full, plus three buckets. I got 35 quarts of grape juice out if them and I'm going to try and make a batch of grape jelly. They smelled so good!!!! The vineyard really was lovely-you could smell the grapes as you walked around. Ahhh...nature.
I really love this picture of Mom for some reason. 
My kids have never had so much cotton candy as they did at the Hoth reunion in Logan, UT. I got lots of great pictures with their treats-to cute! I can look at them, but not have to wipe cotton candy off myself afterwards.
Eddy started his preschool this week. It was at my house first. On Tuesday we made tye dye shirts for them to wear on fieldtrips. Today they were ready, so I had everyone put them on and we took a picture-so cute!! I think it will be lots of fun for Ed. He gets lonely without his brothers and sister all day.
Every year those kids keep getting bigger! I feel like these first day of school photos come around all the time, but the kids in them keep changing-bittersweet.....Johanna looked so grown-up going off to middle school with her friends. Check out Johanna's friend's 80's outfit-skinny jeans are coming to get us, ladies!
Just the two boys at Hunter Elementary this year. I think they are both liking school. Logan is enjoying his one day a week challenge program. Camden says his teacher is both mean and fun....? Let's hope the fun side wins him over-especially since he's in a "loop" and will have her for 1st and 2nd grades!
Our family (sans Ed) about halfway up Twin Peaks in a field of beautiful wildflowers. Logan, Cam and I turned around shortly after this point, but Blake and Johanna went the whole way up and back-9 hours of hiking!!!!
The whole gang in the back of grandpa's pick-up right before the hike.
This is how big Ed said his fish was
Eddy and the fish he helped catch at the cabin pond
Johanna coming down the zip line over Blake's uncle's pond in Rexburg-so fun!! We celebrated Grandma Call's 80th birthday with a dinner, family pix, and lots of swimming, boating, canoeing, and playing in the pond. The kids had such a great time. We didn't leave until after 8, which got us back to the cabin after 10 with a load of tired kids.
All the boys canoeing in the pond
Blake and I after a session at the Rexburg temple-beautiful!
We had lots of fun in Star Valley, Wyoming recently! Katy and Mia came to visit us at the cabin-which we loved! We enjoyed a short ride in a motorboat over Jenny lake. After disembarking, we hiked to Hidden Falls (pictured here). Katy and I had to "walk" with Mia a good part of the way...whew-what a workout! Aside from the mosquitos, it was fun though.
