Day After Thanksgiving

The day after thanksgivng MOST people want to get into fights at the mall or get great deals on toys for the kids.. but not the BULL family! No way... we want to freeze while shooting shot guns, and 4 wheeling, and eat yummy leftovers up at our cabin. I know most people think that this sounds miserable--but its so much fun. The Bull's all went in and bought a cabin. We all have shares of it.. and its so much fun, and we make so many memories up there. The kids absolutly love it up there. It's kind of stressful to make sure you have everything but the kids have just so much fun up there.. you can't help but have a great time with them.


Steven took the little girls out on a ride. They loved it and didn't want to come in.
(front to back: Kelli 2 1/2, Steven, Lyza 3 1/2, and Sami 5)
Danny with last years Christmas present. A 20 gage shot gun. Some of the boys in my family got them last year.. and he loves it! I think its pretty fun, althought I dont hit the clay pigeons, I shoot at still objects!!

Up at "lookout point" at the cabin.. all the men out there. This is one of the many view from our cabin.

Steven and Scott.. ready... aim... FIRE!

The boys and little Rachael

Scott came in for a little break but us girls mainly stayed inside because it was so cold! Plus, someone had to watch the kids!

Uncle Greg with Brooklyn and Kelli. Kelli loves Uncle GREGGY.

When we got to the cabin.. it was FREEZING. Everyone put on their beenies and their jackets and huddled up by the fire. Here are the girls trying to warm up their hands... Kelli thought it was so funny, I don't think she understood what they were doing at the beginning.

Here is our little cabin.... It has a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and a large loft upstairs that has a bunch of bunkbeds. It also has an outhouse for the winter time... eek! :)

Its really fun to go up there and its just perfect.. its a real cabin.. not a second home. (which would be nice too but I like the lil' cabin! It's still homey...)

Thanksgiving

I, just like everyone else... have so much to be Thankful for.. but I don't want to get preachy... So I'm thankful for the obvious... Plumbing, Electricity, Shelter, The Gospel, my family, and my little girls and husband that keep me on my toes.... and that was of coarse in no partiular order :)

Here are a few pics of Thanksgiving day of us basically just lounging around.

Josie talking to my dad Thanksgiving night while we were playing games. She is honestly the happiest baby ever! She has the BIGGEST smile. (below)

Look at those chubby cheeks.. She gets those from her mother.. Lucky her!

During the day... my dad decided that it would be great fun to bust out the old hockey game. So Scott and Kelli were on a team bascially.. She prob did more harm than helping but.... she's so cute you can't get mad! She would drop the puck to begin the game. She thought it was so cool.

My mother made a delicious dinner and then we all added our own things like salads and jellos and desserts... So yummy we had to roll ourselves around because we were so full. Blah! But it was sooo worth it! It was fun to just sit around and be together as a family and not have a huge agenda to live by. Earlier that day we snuck away all of us to see Twilight. It was good but not as good as the book but I think it was pretty good... left out some things but all and all I think they did a good job!

Twinners

Matching Flower pj's. Kelli wants to wear these every night so she can be the same as Josie. She just loves it. Once again.. Kelli found Josie, and had to lay right next to her.

Dressing Herself...

Don't you just love the stage of when they want to dress themselves? Well, Kelli is kind of in that stage where she wants to pick out clothes and put them on... She worked so hard at putting on her pants, I just didn't have the heart to tell her they were on the wrong way! It looks kind of trippy but it was pretty funny.

She didn't know why I needed to take a pic but she's such a good sport, whenever she sees my camera she says..."ok, SMILE!" but its hard to get a good smile out of her.. she gets distracted easy.

Your my Best Friend EVER

I don't know where Kelli heard this.. but she says to it Josie all the time. "Your my Best Friend EVER!" and she'll be holding her face. Anytime I have Josie on the ground laying, or in her Bumbo, Kelli will always go sit right next to her. Josie you can tell wants so badly to be old enough to play with her.

In this pic you can tell that Josie is over it and maybe wants some space... but Kelli says "NO! We're being best friends." I can't argue with that!!

Building a Temple

I'm proud to say that we're not raising an under-achiever. I found her playing with her blocks on my wedding album, and when I asked her what she was doing she said.."I'm just building a temple!" It was such a beautiful temple!! Good Job Kelli.

Breakin' out the Bumbo

Well, I busted out the Bumbo recently. Josie loves it. She just sits and watches TV on it. She's in that awesome stage where she thinks everyone is talking to her... so she just sits and laughs at the tv cause she thinks they are talking to her. It's hilarious. Kelli also loves to sneak in there and hang out til she has to get out.

Josie Blessing

I think I forgot to do a post about Josie's blessing. It was on October 4, 2008 and she was blessed by her dad. He did a wonderful job and I was so happy that Danny's parents were able to come here from Cali for a couple days. I wish they could of stayed longer but life was calling!! It was so awesome to have my family and our friends come and be there for us. After the blessing everyone came over for soup and dessert. Josie looked so beautiful and so did our little Kelli who was so proud of her sister. She kept holding Josie's face saying, "your so cute!"

Danny's mom Nancy made Kelli her blessing dress and a quilt and also made Josie her own blessing dress and quilt. It was such an amazing dress that Nancy made.. she's amazing at what she does and I'm grateful that she is always willing to make special things that will always be remembered. (dress and quilt pictured below)

PS: We missed my brothers Scott, Ryan, and Greg in the circle.... and also Danny's brothers Dave and Eric. We love you guys and you were missed!

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Halloween

We had our family Halloween party at my house this year because my parents were in Hawaii for the last 16 days..(how rude) Josie was a dalmation and Kelli was a witch. It was so much fun and just low key and very relaxing. The older kids played our Wii when everyone was done Trick or Treating.

Above is Josie in her dalmation outfit and Below is Lyza (witch) Kelli (witch) and Sami (dorothy)

Below is the whole gang.... Serge (camper), Amanda, (steve erkle (dont know how to spell that), Rach was a Dancer, Brooklyn was Tinkerbell, and then Sam and Kelli.

Kelli was waiting for Michelle and her family to come. I dont know why her dress looks like it has blue in it.. it was actually purple.

Kelli all decked out in her witch outfit. She started the night with a sucker to quiet her down so I could curl her hair... she had major bed head!

Me and my girls. Josie was so happy about the day and Kelli.. well she had her sucker!

Danny said that Kelli just loved trick or treating. Once she figured out that EVERYONE was handing out candy.. she was exactly what Jerry Seinfeld talks about.. She just wanted to go to every house as fast as she could. Now she has tons of candy and we are hiding it from her so she wont sit and eat it.. and end up sick! Hope everyone had a Happy and Safe Halloween!!!