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Macey's, a grocery store here, does this awesome thing every November. As you purchase your groceries, you earn Turkey bucks which are good only until Thanksgiving to go toward the purchase of a Turkey. Well, this year since our family isn't coming out, we took it very seriously. We pooled together with our friends that we are having Thanksgiving with and we ended up getting a 23.37 lbs Turkey for FREE!!! And that is how you do it folks!! This made me even more excited for Thanksgiving. It will be such a blast! We will certainly miss having our family around, but it will be fun to celebrate with friends. So needless to say, this year I am grateful for many things, and one of those things is our FREE TURKEY!!! Hope you have a Wonderful Thanksgiving!

Here are some of the Wee One's new tricks! Among these he can also: Use his Pincer Grasp Feed himself bottle and snacks Do a silly laugh Pull himself to stand Follow mom and dad Always Make us Smile! (FYI, the first video is long, but the others are only about 20 seconds) Just talking and Playing Cruising around the table Clapping! Crawling Faster

Is it time for these pictures AGAIN!! Fine, I'll stand here but I don't have to smile. Here is one of my new tricks, Lizard Tongue! Here is me telling mom stories, as I show off my "grill" (aka Teeth)! This is my new favorite thing to do, Laps around the coffee table. He really is getting more and more fun each day! This is such a fun stage! He really makes me laugh EVERYDAY!!! He is still very talkative and EXTREMELY mobile these day. He sure knows how to get into every thing. We are kind of worried that he is going to start walking soon. His favorite thing to do is laps around the coffee table which is now turning into laps around the house. Each day he gets more and more courage and transfers from one object to another. I'll put him at the table and next thing I know he is in the Kitchen. YIKES!! I am so not ready for walking, but it is coming soon. Life he great! He is such a blessing and adds so much joy to our home!! Recent news: He just cut ano...

So about a year ago we decided to do a group Halloween costume with a bunch of friends. Jeff and I have never really gotten into the whole Halloween dress up thing. I always had good intentions, but it was like pulling teeth to get Jeff to do something with me. But this year was different, we were so excited, especially Jeff which made me chuckle. He started looking to things at the start of September! And he went ALL OUT as you can see!! I had a hard time finding something, but ended up just borrowing a dress from a friend (thanks Rachel!) As you can see, all in all it turned out great!! Mr. Green - Colonel Mustard - Professor Plum Mrs. Peacock - Miss Scarlet - Mrs. White We went to the ward Halloween party and were a huge hit! We won best group costume which was fun! Jeff and I had to work at our apartment clubhouse Halloween night, so after the ward party we invited some friends over to play games. It was a blast! We of course played CLUE since we were all dressed up. We also p...

We had a hard time deciding what we wanted to dress Parker as for Halloween. We originally were going to have him be part of our group costume (the Clue crew) and dress him as Mr. Body but we hard a hard time finding a skeleton costume for a 8 month old. I also had imagined him dressing up all cute and adorable as most babies do. So we hunted and hunted and never really fell in love with anything in particular but decided that since we call him our little monkey we would just dress him as that. Now that he is crawling it seemed to fit even more! He is crawling around and getting into every thing so a Monkey he was! Unfortunately his huge noggin was too big for the head piece, so it kind of just rested on top. Needless to say, his is the CUTEST little Monkey I have ever seen!! This is his trick of the month, we call it his Lizard tongue, he sticks it out like this all day! Too funny! I love it! He really likes to stand on his own lately, so I stood him up next to some decorati...