Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone!!! We will be visiting Justin's grandma out of town. My kids are so excited they absolutely love her!!! I will post more after we get back. I don't think we will have internet access where we're going. :) Funny huh? I still haven't posted the pictures from Twilight so I will do that later too. I'm at work right now and don't have what I need to post them now.

Utes may be going to a BCS Bowl but...

National champions:

BYU 1, Utes 0

Twilight...

I have officially seen Twilight twice now. I went to the midnight showing and then again last night @ 7. I liked it the first time but LOVED it the second!!! There were at least 3 of us in our group last night that had gone to the midnight showing. We all liked it better the second time around. My very good friend (she keeps me sane!) Crystal couldn't go either time and I have really debated going a third time with her. I know I'm such a nerd!!! At the midnight showing there were people paying 10 bucks to get their pic taken with a poster of the movie and them standing on the red carpet, and people arriving in limos. I'm not that big of a nerd. I will post pics from our time at the movies later.

I also wanted to post a quick shout out: Go Cougars!!! (Twilight may be the best highlight of my weekend if BYU loses. Michigan already lost.)

Rise and shout!!!

It's officially rival week! I HATE and LOVE this week at the same time!!! Hopefully, we will be very happy on Saturday!!! Just like Madison would say GOOOO Cougars!!!

3 weeks and 3 days left!!! (counting today)

Three weeks from Tuesday is Justin's last final for nursing school! Hallelujah!!! I can not wait until he is done. After he graduates with his associates in nursing then only 2 more years for his bachelors and 2 years for his masters. But in 3 weeks we'll be over one HUGE milestone. Having had Justin working full time, going to school full time, me working full time (and a part time job for a year), having just had Madison when he started nursing school and Jakson starting school himself has made the last 2 years tiring to say the least. It has, however, been very rewarding at the same time and quite the growing experience. I am so proud of him. I know it's been the hardest for him. While going to school full time and working full time he was also a full time dad while I worked during the day. I don't know how he has managed. I think he'll need to take a week off after finals and sleep for a week straight. He won't catch up on all of the sleep he's missed out on the last 2 years but it'll help.

Thanks to all of the babysitters that have helped us out. Especially those of you that stepped in at the last minute to help. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

I am so proud of Jakson as well. He has been a tremendous help. He has helped out so many times with Madison. I am truly blessed with wonderful kids and most of the time a wonderful husband. (The rest of the time he is more than wonderful!!! Couldn't think of an adequate word.)

Snowy day...

Miss Personality...

Tired...

Halloween is so much work. I'm so grateful it only comes once a year. Our day started out with the Halloween parade at school. It is fun to see some of the creative costumes people come up with. Jakson was an injured bullrider. Madison was Cinderella. After the parade Madison and I helped with Jakson's class party. Madison thought she was so cool! I got to see my 2 cousins as well. One was Hannah Montana and the other a clown. (They are in the pics below.) After school we ran downtown to visit Grandpa Powell. Then, Aunt Jewl had trick-or-treating at work so we met Uncle Shea there. Madison was in heaven! She loved all of the candy! On our way out to the car Madison was running and she lost her shoe. Shea yelled, "Cinderella lost her slipper!" It was so funny I about wet my pants!!! You just had to be there. We ended our night with dinner at my parents' house and trick-or-treating in their neighborhood. Madison had had it by then and she didn't want to go with us so she stayed with Shea and my parents while Jewl, Jakson and I went out in the neighborhood. Jakson was so tired that we only made it to about 20 houses before he was wanting to go home. When I was a kid I never wanted to go home! Halloween is fun but I'm glad it's over! Thanksgiving is my favorite!!!

Halloween pics!