Trip to Utah

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Our family went up to Utah and met all of the Green family and some of the Staffieri family. The kids loved the cold weather and the snow! Luckily there was no snow in Provo. We went up to Park City one day and there was some man-made snow that the kids got to play in. They went on the roller-coaster up on the mountain a couple of times also. The kids got to go horseback riding the first day we got there. Matt's good family friends have some horses that we were able to use. Then Saturday was the big football game! It was pretty boring until the end and then it was stressful just like the game last year against the U. Luckily we came out on top! Unfortunately, Markell wasn't able to play much because of his ankle. He could barely even walk on it after the game. It was the last home game for the seniors, so it was pretty sad. Hopefully he can be back for the bowl game. Here are some pictures from our trip (sorry there are so many!).........

The Girls - Ruby, Janey, Ellie and Liza

Cason, Ellie, and Matt

Ellie and Nicolas after riding the horses

After horseback riding they went for a ride in the "Rhino"

Ellie showing off her new cold weather gear

Marie, Cason, and Nicolas

Ellie with her snowball

Nicolas getting ready to throw his snowball

Tony (Ash's husband), Matt, and Will (Whit's husband)

Ashley, Mom, Whitney and Chelsea

Chels and Matt at the stadium an hour early!

Chelsea, Maria (Matt's sister), and Anna (Markell's wife)

Markell and Matt after the game

The family after Kell got his "senior blanket"

Dad, Matt, and Markell

Football, a Broken Nose, and some Bowling

So our weekend consisted of just that.... Saturday morning Matt goes to play football and calls me an hour and a half later with some "bad news." If you look closely at this picture (sorry for the major close up!), you can see that his nose is about three times its normal size and it is crooked. Well that is because he dove to get someones flag and landed on the guys cleats and broke his nose! Leave it to Matt to be the aggressive one in a little pick up game of football! So now he has to go get it re-set next week which I am sure will not feel too good.

Saturday night we went bowling with Matt's sister, her kids, and grandpa. The kids had a blast. After we had been there about an hour it turned into "Extreme Bowling" where they turn down the lights and get the disco ball going and blast the music. At that point Nicolas was done bowling and he was turning on his dance moves. For some reason this kid loves to dance and he has the funniest dance moves and facial expressions. We were all dying!

Nicolas had such a great time bowling that for the past three days, EVERYDAY, he says, "Mom, remember when we went bowling? That was so fun. I want to go bowling again!"

Snow White and Bob the Builder

We have had a fun Halloween week. The kids are a little pooped! Last night we only trick-or-treated to about 10 houses before they were ready to come in. They were more excited to pass out the candy to the other kids. Glad it is all over! Now I have to figure out what to do with all of this candy!! Here are some pictures from this week.....

The ward Trunk-or-Treat

Ellie's school had a Halloween parade

Her Kindergarten class

This is Nicolas with his new dancing facial expressions!