Thanksgiving

Sorry about the lack of Thanksgiving information. I was in charge of the dinner this year at my mom's house and it was great- thanks to the help of my wonderful sister, Megan and her hubby, Todd. I didn't get any pictures because I lost my camera before the event, but here are some of my favorite things:

- We combined two tables together to form one huge long table to seat 18 people.
- We had to use two tablecloths- one fall leaves and one plain red. Then we had red plates, blue bowls and white napkins. We had to change out the blue bowls for white ones so the settings looked more Thanksgiving than Independence Day.
-we had orange leaf-shaped place cards that we set in the glasses. It helped the red and white table look a lot more festive.
- We had two turkeys. Todd was in charge of the turkey, but I defrosted a second one by accident, so I ended up cooking a bird, too. It's a good thing we have three ovens between my mom and Megan's houses.
- Half the yams didn't get done, and the other half were only done halfway through dinner. I gave the whole bowl to Shelly because she was emphasising how much she loves yams.
- Reese would have nothing to do with anything except the jell-o.
- Other than the yams, the dinner was a huge success! Thanks to those who helped and those who brought extras!

And here's a video of Will and Reese playing the cover-my-face game, just because I don't have any more pictures.

Oh, PS: I still can't find my camera. Would you keep a look out for it, Mom?

Cute Things Part Two

While we were at our neighborhood community room doing some activity, Reese decided to sit at the kid table, even though there was no one else sitting there or even around there. I think she just wanted to feel like a big girl by getting in the chair all by herself.

She discovered my clock radio, which will play music at the touch of a button. She danced for about ten minutes.

Cute Things Part One

Reese does cute things. Here are some of them.

She inhaled this banana.

She almost wouldn't let Will have it back.

She helped me make pie dough.

She helped me by swishing around flour and eating the leftover fats before I cleaned them up.

Cutest Baby In The World

I think I've posted pictures in an earlier blog with Reese covering her head with a blanked and running around to play peek-a-boo. Well, it finally got to her when she ran right in to a kitchen chair and got a huge goose egg. Luckily the swelling only lasted one day.

Reese doesn't like dirty hands and picks out her own toe jam.

On a visit to Utah Valley this past weekend, Reese got to play the piano at Grandma and Grandpa Heath's house.

We got rear-ended on the way home. It felt pretty bad at the time, but this is what we saw when we got out to check the damage. We had said a prayer to ask for protection on the way home because the weather was bad, and I think God listened.

This picture is a little blurry, but I like it, so I posted it.

Oh yeah, and we're having another baby, probably in July. I worry because I'm pretty sure I already have the cutest girl in the world, how can another baby stand a chance?

Play Date

Reese had a friend come over to play today. I loved it. They played happily in the living room and I got the dishwasher unloaded and then loaded again with minimal baby interference. Reese's friends name is Kat, and she often goes by "Kit Kat" at home. Her mom likes to joke that "the Heath's are taking Reese's Pieces and Kit Kat to play".

Every once in a while they fought over a toy, but I'm just glad I have two kitchen stools, or there would have been some major pulling, pushing and screaming- Reese loves to sit on the kitchen stool and Kat wouldn't give it up when she found how fun it is.

Thief

Does your one-year-old hold her pen like this? What happened to the entire fist-grip? I don't know where she got it from.

We had tithing settlement with our bishop yesterday. Reese stole the magnetic paperclip holder from his desk. He said it was okay, but I'm not always happy about extra stuff at our home. Paperclips all over the floor.

Lost a paperclip

Talking to the paperclip holder

Halloween

We were WAY lazy and uncreative for Halloween this year.

We didn't go trick-or-treating, and we saved the candy from some parties to pass out to other kids instead of buying our own when we heard our complex get hardly any trick-or-treaters.

We pulled out some old accessories from my mom's attic to make Reese a "rodeo princess" and Will her "cowboy coach"

I recycled last year's costume (click here for a reminder) to be Reese's rodeo steed. I know, she looks way excited about it.

We had a pumpkin painting contest at our church Halloween party. This one won. the plate in front of it is pumpkin guts that apparently have been thrown up by the pumpkin- a nod to the H1N1.

Our entry was another reminder of last year's much more creative costume, the headless horseman.

At our student housing association party. Will isn't really dressed up as anything, he just wanted to keep is robe on and figured people would just assume they didn't understand the costume. I didn't even bother to try (we didn't remember about the party until after it started.)

We were also lazy with Reese. We figured if we drew some stripes on her face, people would figure that she at one point must have had a costume on, but it just didn't last. Hm. I take it back, we're way creative.

Happy Halloween!