Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving we spent with Brian's family, everyone was here! It was so fun, we had a girls night, went to the temple, had delicious meals, and went to Harry Potter 7! I love family, but I am terrible, I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked! Not much at all! Here are 2 pictures from the first night we hung out, all the little cousins eating yummy ice cream....and then Silly Uncle Justin, that was what we all heard most from the girls, Silly Uncle Justin, they thought it was hilarious to shout that at him at dinner time! I love family! I love this wonderful time of year!!

Crazy Posting!!!

So I played catch up with a lot of posting. If it kind of looks interesting it is probably because I used picasa to upload the pictures and you can only do so many at a time but it is a lot fast to do than the normal blogger way. I hope you will read and enjoy seeing all that we have been up to since August! I think I am in a good place now where I will try to keep up with my blog, it is my family journal and I love hearing from those we love through it too!

Skyler's Memorial

Every 2-3 months St Lukes does a Memorial Blessing for the babies who have been lost in pregnancy, and birth before 26 weeks. Skyler's was on Nov. 17th at the Dry Creek Cemetery, 5 minutes from where we live. I had mixed feeling leading up to this. I was really emotional, I already get emotional randomly about missing him, but it seemed to happen more as the days got closer to the service. I didn't know what to expect or anything but I am so glad they do this for the families, and for our precious angels. It was nice of them to also have placed a marker where they buried our babies, so we know where he is. They will move it in January for the next angels who need a resting place. I bought 12 white/blue/ivory balloons for ust let fly into the sky, one for each week his tiny little heart beat, it happened that I had enough balloons to hang a letter from his first and last name. So I attatched cute little sail boats with each letter. I brought some flowers and a teddy bear to leave at the memorial stone too. I was so comforted to have some family and my friend there to support us and to recognize my son. The chaplain said a prayer for the babies and the families, there was only one other family who came for their baby who was a boy as well. It was hard to see that the pain I have and continue to feel on their faces too. Everytime hear that someone else has gone through this, which as been more than I ever would have thought, I just feel so terrible for them. I know how hard this has been and still is and my heart goes out to them. I love my son, my little Skyler he has touched my live more than I ever would have dreamed. I love him and know I will see him again one day. I had the honor of carrying him for 16 weeks, and I know my Heavenly Fathe is mindful of me, my family, and my little boy. I have felt so incredibly blessed becasue of this trial in my life, and although I would changed it in a heartbeat, to have him here experience life with us, I know he is where he needs to be right now and I know he is a special Child of God.

My mom and Jesse braving the very cold windy weather! Love you!

Mom, Sarah, Gary, Grandma Sparks, Brian, and Lily.

Grandpa Keeley, Autumn, and Cloey. So glad he came!

Our entire eternal family!

Portraits!

So we decided not to do school pictures, they can be pricey, and we took our own pictures of the girls. Walgreens had offerd 50% of pictures, so I got 3 super family packages and paid less for more picture of each girl than paying for one small package of just Lily at school. I'll take it! My sister Sarah and I took the girls to Merrill Park in Eagle and walked back behind it to the Green Belt and got some great pictures! Of Lily and Cloey anyway. Autumn was so not interested! Cloey loved posing, such a portrait queen! Here are the pictures I loved the most!

Happy 2nd Birthday Autumn!!!

This little sweetie got 3 birthdays!! I made her Dora Backpack cake for the 10th of November, which was her birthday. She loves Dora and loves to shout "backpack", so I thought it turned out pretty neat. We did a party with my side of the family, and we had to teach Autumn how to blow out the candles, she kept trying to touch the flames, the little pyro! She has so much family who love her and care for her, what a lucky little girl! We did a party for her at Brian's parent's house last night. Abbie, her cousin from California, is in town with her family for thanksgiving and so we wanted to get together while they were in town. Uncle Justin gave us a little talk about his 2 year mission to the Marshall Islands, they sat on his woven mats and got to see awesome jewelry and cool conch shells. It was really neat to hear about his mission, even with 5 wiggly little girls under the age of 5!

These next pictures are Autumn's birthday at the Keeley's and Justin's mats from the Marshall Islands!

Happy Halloween!

Since Halloween fell on a Sunday this year we did our Halloween fun on Saturday! It was Lola's first birthday that day so we hit her place for a spooky birthday party! She is such a sweetie and we are so glad she had a fun birthday! Lily beggggggeeeedddd me to make her a Princess Oddette costume (from the Swan Princess movie, very cute show) so I made her costume with the help of my friend Jesse, and a lot of help and instruction from my mother in law, Joyce! It turned out awesome! Cloe was easy, she wanted to be a butterfly! So I made her wings had her wear her ballet leotard, made her a skirt, and bought some face jewels to put near her eyes. Autumn was Alice in Wonderland. I made her's too, they all looked awesome and had fun at our church trunk or treat. Cloey totally took off on her own and had the most candy. Lily was super shy and Brian had to nudge her toward the candy, Autumn was so surprised that people gave her candy when she held out her bag! It was so funny to see her face the first truck we visited!

Halloween Prep!

We loved this Halloween, the girls are getting older and understanding more about Holidays! Here was our family night carving pumpkins! With all our girls you can bet we had a lot of "Ewww, this is slimy!" We thought our pumpkins turned out pretty awesome!