The Bird is too Comfortable!

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Angel, our new bird, has fit into the family just fine.  She is no longer shy or afraid of us.  In fact she has become too friendly. We have let her outside to fly around and she flies right back into the house.

She nests in our hair.

She sleeps on us when we sleep.

She has to be with us all of the time. She follows us around the house so she can be in the same room.

Her favorite thing is to land on your head.  Especially if you are a visitor in our home. She coos so cute when she is happy.

She isn't even afraid of the dogs.

Of course there are  little gifts she leaves behind sometimes.  We are training her to go in one place.

Not everyone loves the bird.  Although these two are trying to get to know each other.

Thanksgiving 2010

With Grant gone for another holiday we decided to make it an untraditional Thanksgiving.  We went out to eat at Rodizio's Grill and then to a movie.  There was no cooking, cleaning, or stress.  It was so nice.  We had a blast!  We may make it a tradition every other year.It was fun to have my mom along.

The Girls!

We had some time before the Movie "Tangled" so we went to the Planetarium.  Here we are on Mars.

Mom walking on the moon

What a view of Earth from the moon.

Here we are on the moon trying look weightless. Instead we look crazy!

I am so thankful to my Heavenly Father for all the many blessings that I have.  I have an amazing family with wonderful children. 

Park City

Our favorite place to vacation as a family is our time share Westgate at the Canyons.  We love to eat at Ruby Tuesday's, get chocolate at the Rocky Moutain Chocolate Factory, and shopping at the outlets in Park City.

 

We stopped at the Olympic Park on the way home.  It is so cool to see!

I love my kids!

BYU GAME

Austin and I got BYU tickets from my brother Shane.  We had a blast as mother and son. We even bought matching hats. Look how cute! I am so lucky to be the mother of such an amazing young man.

What? You have a bird?

Anyone who knows me knows I love animals.  Maybe almost to a fault.  I saw this cute dove when I went out to get the mail and I thought it was strange and that it looked out of place.  So I tried to catch it and it kept flying into things.  I lost it in the home that was under construction.  I thought it flew away.  Three days later Austin found it in the dumpster hurt.  We caught it and I took it to the vet who said it had broke its leg.  We bought a cage and are still taking care of it.  It will let me hold it and pet it.  It is a peace dove.  Look how cute it is.  By the way Grant has no idea about this since he has been gone to Guam.  Poor guy....really?...one more animal? That will teach him to leave us. LOL

I found this awesome cage on KSL for $40 and gave it a fresh new coat of black paint.  It's beautiful!

I leave the cage door open and she will fly out and then fly back in.  Her leg is getting better each day.

Here I am with my sweet animals. As you can see....I am even holding my bird who is laying next to my dog and cat!  It is crazy animal house!

Now that she is getting better she is acting ready to go.  I think I will try and let her go later this week.

Check out Misty laying in Bre's tutu.  She is so cute!

Here I caught Misty in the middle of a yawn as she was sleeping on top of the cabinets.

Congrats Bre!

Bre just finished her intership as a pharmacy technician.  She is now studing for the national test. Way to go Bre!  Here she is at her job. We are so proud of her.

Our Neighborhood Trick or Trunk!

So I am the Activities Chairman in our ward and planned an amazing outdoor Tick or Trunk and carnival, but the weather was so unpredictable that I had to decide at the last minute to move it to church.  It was a good thing we did because an hour later it poured rain.  We also only planned on only 200 people and there ended up being 350 to 400 people.  It was our biggest turn out ever.  Everyone said they had a blast so I think it turned out OK. Here we are in our Halloween attire. Unfortunately Grant is still in Guam so he missed out on the fun.

Chili, hot dogs, and homemade rootbeer. Yum!

Marissa with the young women!  The youth ran all of our games for the carnival. They were so cute with the kids! My favorite game was wack a decon.

The youth did a dance number to the Ghostbuster song.  It was really cute!

Here is Austin on the top ready to do some stunts.

This costume was awesome!  I had to have my picture taken with him.

Although the rain spoiled my plans it left a beautiful double rainbow for us to enjoy.  It was an amaxing sight.