Thanksgiving Weekend

For Thanksgiving we were with Eric's family. All of Eric's brothers and sisters were there this year and it was a lot of fun, we sure are getting to be a houseful. We ate really good food and played games. The one downfall was Abby running a fever of 103 degrees. No other symptoms and she got better in a couple of days, weird. The Saturday after we got the Christmas trees. We went up in the mountains and chopped down our own (this year we are sharing with his parents since that's where we are staying). Abby absolutely loves snow. Sometimes we had to carry her because she just wanted to play in the snow and not trek all around the mountains to find trees. Jacey and Abby

Grandpa and Abby

Here is the tree we found.

Look how strong Connor is!

Here are all of the cousins and Cheryl and me. Ashley is in the back then Connor, Jacey, Hailey. Then Kyla, Ethan, and Abby in front.

It was a really nice day and we had fun, Eric is still recovering and it wore him out but we still had fun.

Later that day we had a special bon fire for Cheryl. It was to celebrate her finishing up her last chemo treatment a few days before Thanksgiving. I haven't blogged about her before but my sister-in-law Cheryl was diagnosed with bone cancer in January and has been having chemo treatments and had major surgery to remove the tumor and replace the majority of her leg and knee. It has been a hard and long journey for everyone but she made it! We were so happy to celebrate the end of her chemo treatments and to know that she is almost through this whole thing. She is such a strong person. We named Kyla after her (that's her middle name) because we think that she is such an amazing person and has kept her faith and testimony during this trial and hope that Kyla will be like her when she grows up.

Jason, my brother-in-law built this fire with all the clothes that Cheryl had worn to the hospital to receive treatments, he also lit fireworks underneath. It was awesome.

To finish the day off we played more games and ate more food. It was a good weekend.

Just a little bit about the girls. Kyla is rolling all around, she getting ideas of crawling but hasn't quite figured it out. She is happy most of the time and has big smiles. Abby is talking more and better each day. She surprises us all the time. She can count to ten all by herself and sings all the time (real songs and made up songs) she really likes the songs she is learning in nursery. She is becoming even braver for instance, I thought that I could write up this blog without any interference because I put both the girls to bed but thirty minutes later I hear Abby climbing up the stairs in the dark and she is sitting here with me right now. Little stinker! She can open doors and start movies without any help. She is growing up!