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First we all went out to ice cream, smiled and had a good time. Clearly.

Then we ordered fries.  And they were good. Mid-eating of fries Seth left to ask the front for a drink of water and when he came back, the fries were...(gulp).... gone....What?  They were good. But when Seth returned, we REALLY realized we should have saved him some...  This was his reaction....

I shouldn't laugh.  But it was funny.  He was mad.  And suddenly our happy outing was a bitter disappointment.  With no left over fries. :) Ah the emotional roller coaster of a 6 year old and two greedy fry eating parents. 

November this and that"s"

 Cold Weather Days

Bored Days.

Sleepy Days.

Cordelle and Mike from the Leavitt Group Holiday party.  They were the entertainment.  They were the hosts of their made-up awards show "The Dixies." Super funny!  They both did such a great job.  Its kind of nerve racking when your husband and his department are the entertainment for the entire company he works for.

Hosting The DIXIE awards.

I sent this picture to my mom so she could get some satisfaction out of the 18+ years of yelling at us about Laundry messes she'd find in the laundry room.  Ironically I had sent Seth down to find something out of the clean clothes baskets that had not been folded yet (I guess folded would have made it worse) but anyways later that day I came down to find this and laughed out loud that I too was following in my mothers footsteps and lecturing my children about clean clothes spread out on the floor and not putting them back int the baskets where they belong! 

This was actually at Thanksgiving which I just realized I didn't take any pictures of (except this).  Collin would laugh when Cordelle would lift him up like this.  It was super cute.  He loves his dad!

Seth and MY grandpa Durrant.  Grandpa always tells me he looked like Seth when he was younger.  I love him and am grateful I snuck this picture this thanksgiving of these two.

Jaquelle loves to be helpful and loving to Collin.  Sometimes it actually is helpful and loving.  :)

Mr. Collin at 4 months!

LIttle photo shoot with Collin.  In love with those cheeks!

Halloween 2012

This year was a treat. Or was it a trick?  I kid. I kid.  This year Tallie, Jim and Gaven came down to spend the day with us!  We love Gaven!  He is such a darling little boy.  It was fun to see them and hang out since we don't get to very often. So here we have Darth Vader, a witch and Captain America! (and Yoda! See follow up picture below).
  We seriously went out trick or treating for 2 solid hours and did our entire ward.  These kids SCORED!  There was so much candy I saved two HUGE bags for Christmas and they still had tons left over.  (Matter of fact I'm writing this in retrospect as it is now December and we still have Halloween candy in the cupboard.)

Jaq's loot

Seth's loot.

All them all's loot.

Ahh He's just so CUTE!!

I cant get enough of him!  The laughs and smiles just melt my heart!  Here is Collin at 2.5 months!!

October Randomness!

Cooper and Jaq.  Babysitting this little boy who lives behind us the day after his sister got home from primary childrens after discovering she had a brain tumor!  Miraculously she is totally fine 5 days later.  I think it was good to get out of the house cause he couldn't leave her stitches alone.  Gosh, these two almost look like twins here.

Can't get enough naked baby pictures!  He sure is chunking up. @3 months!

Apparently my children took pictures of their beds one day.  But I wanted to include them because I think one day it will be fun for them to look back and remember their rooms the way they were when they were little. (And at their bed making skills!)

Time to give up the bassinet.  Pretty sure he's almost grown out of it.  Sure is smaller than the pack n play though so it's been nice to have.  Borrowed it from my friend Melissa and it was actually quite nice.

Kid's halloween carnival at a neighbors.  I dont know why I am even including this picture because I can't even find any of my kids in it.

The sweet woman I visit teach (Olga) and her husband at the ward Halloween carnival.

Seth and Madi at the Halloween carnival.  This little Snow White was throwing me for a loop every time I looked at her because she is SOOO blonde normally.  Seth truly does love her, probably his best friend.

Seth continues to ADORE Collin.  He loves to hold him any chance he can get.  Love my boys!

Time OUT for women! 2012

Ahh another year at Time Out.  This year the event was in Richfield, UTah so we organized as many Mason girls as we could get to go (Brittlyn ended up needing to stay home cause her grandma was going through the temple) but everyone else was there.   It was a little crazy with Mr. Collin.  But he really did awesome and the speakers were great and it was a great girls weekend.  I caravanned down with some women in my ward and met up with my sisters and mom (where was she in these pictures?) for the event.  I love every minute I can spend with the awesome women in my life.  So blessed.

This was one of the presenters.  I think her name is Mariam something.  She escaped from war torn Africa to serve a mission here and ended up staying or coming back.  She is FUNNY and totally inspiring.  Afterward it was all over she asked to hold Collin so I gladly agreed.  Isn't that cute?

A great smile from Collin with Tiffany

Lovely ladies from the ward.  I jumped in there picture even though I technically was not part of their Girls weekend group :)

Witches Night Out!

Every year my friend Angela Ames puts together this fantastic Witches night out!  This year was no disappointment. She owns more Halloween decorations than anyone I know.  It was a blast.  Her and her sister seriously make the night, not breaking from character the entire evening.  They have the greatest witches voices and accents, its hilarious.  Such a fun tradition.  Here are the pics from the night.

Drinking my eyeball juice

Jen Racker and Tyann Pangan

Melanie Griffiths and Brazillian foreign exchange student

Kim Jensen and Jenny Losee (who was my date for the evening)

Lisa Boshell and Heidi Mathis

Thats me in there.  I saw this big ugly troll mask in the corner so I decided to put it on and try to scare Tawna.  Fun times!

They taught us how to block out our teeth.  Gross.

Wait.  Who decided to do the pretty picture?  Jenny and I were obviously not on the same page.