Light Parade

After having Thanksgiving in Manti we drove back to Delta to spend the rest of our Thanksgiving break. Boy did we ever have a busy weekend. We played games with grandma Bringhurst, went to Delta's festival of trees, the light parade, and then we went to see Enchanted (which I loved). I was able to get a few pictures of the light parade. On the weekend after Thanksgiving is over Delta puts on a light parade. It is basically a parade where all the floats are decorated in Christmas with Christmas lights. It is actually quite pretty. Emery really enjoyed it. I was trying to get pictures with her in front of the floats but I kept getting the back of her head because she was watching the lights and the floats. Guess I can't blame her. Hee, hee.

Thanksgiving Day

We had a great Thanksgiving this year! We went to Manti and Tims grandma made a very yummy dinner. They have a tradition of having shrimp cocktail first before the meal. It was a first for me and I quite liked it. It was really neat to see new traditions. Every family has there own special things, I am sure. My family always has a pomegranate salid (It is special to where they live because pomegranates grow all over). I really enjoyed getting to know that side of the family as well. They have the adults eat upstairs, and the kids eat down stairs. I aslo found that Emery fits
in really well on that side of the family. If you notice, the kid table is ALL GIRLS!!! I thought that was pretty funny. Emery sat in the closet during the meal and she seemed to really like that. She did so well through all the traveling and comotion.

Both Grandparents! (Lucky)

Emery is anxiously awaiting the exciting weekend to come!

The time finally arrived. Grandma and Grandpa Johnson got here on Friday morning. We were lucky enough to spend the whole day with them all by ourselves! Tim had to work and we got to stay home, play and get spoiled. Grandma and Grandpa gave Emery her first chocolate and boy did she ever love it (You can tell by the look on her face)! It will be interesting to see how she reacts when the package is open in the future and she can actually taste the chocolate! Tim and I were thrilled to have our first guest spend the night in our new home. I feel so blessed to have such great new parents. The next day we all woke up, drove to St. George and had breakfast with Brett and Jennie. It was great to see them as well. It would have been nice to spend more time with them but we were off to Logandale. I guess we just have to many good things going on!

We had another great time with family in Logandale. And once again Emery was spoiled. Grandma gave her, her first cookie (made by Erin). She love that as well. It was frozen so she just chewed, and chewed on it. Grandma also taught her how to play patty cake. It is now her favorite game and I love playing it with her. Emery also enjoyed sitting on grandpas lap. I noticed before we left that she was leaning against him with her back, resting her head on his shoulder and had her hand wrapped up around his neck. She never cuddles like that with us. Grandpa has always had a great touch with his little girls. I wish I had gotten a picture but I guess it is one of those that will be a picture in my mind.

We had a wonderful time and look forward to the Holidays when we can spend more time with family.

Autumn

Autumn is Tim's favorite time of year. I have to admit that I love it too. The weather is getting cooler but not too cold. We can still enjoy beging outside. There are beautiful colors everywhere and my favorite are the smells of fall, especially in Utah. We are starting to smell the wood stoves and the pumpkin things cooking in the oven. Every time a new season is starting I always tell Tim, "This is my favorite season!" He makes fun of me. I

think I just really love ALL the seasons. That is probably why I love living in Southern Utah so much. We get to experience the best of all the seasons.

I thought I should start writting some new types of things on my blog page because I guess I am doing this as a type of a journal too. Sometimes it is fun to write about things I am thinking about as well as what we are doing. Things are about normal for us right now. Tim is still working hard going to school and providing for us and I just finished another project (pictured above). As you can see Emery is as happy as can be. Tim and I have a lot to be thankful for.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

We had a wonderful Halloween this year (as you can probably tell from all the post I have done on this holiday). We were Hanzel, Gretel and the Witch this year. We always enjoy designing and making all of our costumes. I think we are going to have to start making them earlier next year though. I was sewing almost non stop for about three days before the costume party. I always love to sew, and Tim designed and sewed his own costume too!

Costume Buddies

Emery has a lot of friends already! We didn't get pictures of all of her friends that came to see her on halloween. We missed two others and the picture with Sadie was taken two weeks ago. It was so fun to see all these cute kids dressed up!