A little Early for Christmas?

Ok, so it's not quite Thanksgiving and we are all decorated here on our blog. I even have some Christmas music too! I know Ryan is LOVING it! (Actually we just had a conversation w/ some friends and they all agreed that they don't want to hear Christmas Music until well after Thanksgiving!) For some reason this year I am getting all into Christmas early! I keep thinking we can drive to Temple Square to see lights already. I guess time is just flying by so fast that I want to take advantage of all the fun family times you can have this time of year! So give my your opinion... Too early for all this?
If you don't want to hear the music then pause it, sorry!

Here are a few clips from some of our favorite Christmas movies just to get you more in the mood!
Copy and paste the links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jyCfRHumHU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBROp1UmpbQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ApipYOlxkg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMlXCIPJqqs

Here is a movie clip (go to bottom and pause my music) - Kate is the one recording so sorry for the shaky picture! Emily truly thinks the baby will be named Tinkerbell so I wanted to get that on record. You'll notice I had to snag the camera to get Kate to be done! It's exciting to record for the first time!
We only have a few more weeks left for Lindsey Bell to come!!! CRAZY! I am not sure how ready I am!

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Busy as a Bee

Well, not too much excitement going on, but very busy!

I have been all over the place this week with Usborne Parties, First to Alpine, then my Mom's (2 hrs South) then Logan & Roy. Tomorrow I go to Pleasant Grove and Friday to Tooele! This Sat. (1-8pm) and even part of Sunday I'll be at the South Town expo center at the Christmas Gift Show. So come and stop by!

With all this traveling you can imagine my excitement as I was able to fill up for $2.07 the other day! Then the next day I noticed Gas for $2.01!! I can't believe it's half the price it was just a month ago! I hope and pray it stays where it is! :)

Anyway, I don't want to sound like I am un happy with working - I LOVE what I do! I love my job, because every time I work I am putting these AWESOME books into the hands of kids - including mine! :) This is just the busiest time of year for us. But that is a good thing, 'cause we're starting off a rough winter, so the money is a great help!
So with Christmas coming up, make sure you put BOOKS on your list!
Here is a link to a christmas e-show. You can click this link and look at or order what ever you'd like. (plus, you'd be helping out me - someone you know rather than a random store! Books make the BEST gifts!) If you need recommendations let me know.
www.ubah.com/HOS131988

Here is an example of one of the great specials! - you save $40 on this by getting it as a set - and there are tons more like it - just click on "Value Packs"
This set includes the following hardback titles: Stories of Cowboys, Stories of Dogs, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Frog Prince, Hansel & Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in Boots, Rumplestiltskin, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and Unicorns. The price is $49.99

Adios Hermana Morrill

My Niece Brooke will go into the MTC wednesday! She's going to Neuquen Argentina!
She gave a Fabulous farewell talk yesterday! We went to Logan to see her and everyone! It was great! The kids had so much fun playing with cousins!! And we got to have a Thanksgiving Dinner too!
I was mad at myself because I didn't take out my camera until I was leaving and snapped this picture!

Her shirt says: "Live to Surf" and we told her she should cross it out and write "Live to Serve!" Since she'll be serving the Lord for 18 months! She will be a great missionary!
And a bonus is that she already speaks the language pretty good! So she will get to leave the MTC early. Plus, she's visited Argentina before too! (She's our little world traveler!! At 21 she's already visited Africa, Australia, Brazil, New Zeland and she went to BYU Hawaii!!)
Good luck Brooke! We love you tons and will miss you!!!

Puppies

These pictures were just too good to pass up putting on our blog. And since we won't be getting a dog most likely ever - maybe someday but it would be a dog that stays small.

We went to my Mom's house Friday and I had Danielle with me. The neighbor dogs had puppies. Two were black and 3 were brown. They were the highlight of Kate, Danielle and Emily's day! They were having so much fun with them!

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The First Snowfall & Hot Chocolate!

Well it has arrived, the excitement of the first snowfall! (I am not sure Ryan share's the same excitement!) We woke up to Snow yesterday and it just seemed like the perfect morning for Hot Chocolate! (From here on out every morning will start out that way!)



The girls just played and played in the snow until hands were frozen and pants were soaked! But it was so funny to watch them and all the joy of building... playing... throwing and of course eating the snow!

Tinkerbell

What's in a Name?
Ok, so I am finally going to divulge the name we have for little girl # 3. This time around we decided to take the opinions of her two older sisters and they have been calling her Tinkerbell ever since we found out it was a girl. So when ever she moves and I want them to feel her, or any time we talk about her, we call her Tinkerbell!
I think it's a cute nickname and a fun story for her to have growing up. Many people say we should just call her Belle or Bella or Isabelle, which are really cute names - But we already have an Isabelle in the family. (our family alone limits us by about 80-90 names!) So... we found a way to keep the little cute story about her big sisters' name for her.
Her name will be Lindsey Belle Whittaker
Since Lindsey doesn't really have a meaning (other than Lindon tree by the river? What?)
at least her middle name means beauty!
So that's it! Hope you like it - but honestly don't really care if you don't. :) He he!

Below are tickers counting down the days till little Lindsey Bell arrives - I couldn't decide which one I liked better -so I kept both.

Halloween

Well we've come to the end of our favorite holiday! Halloween night was a lot of fun! I took the kids trick or treating with our friends and Ryan stayed home to hand out candy. But as soon as it was dark he was itching to scare some people! Boy he sure did too!! Everyone was talking about "the scary Porcupine guy!" Actually - The Village Monster. - A great scary movie! (I don't personally like scary movies but this one is pretty good)



There was a party at our neighbors with at least 25 youth from our ward and Ryan went over to the basement door and scared them to death! (Thanks to their Mom for setting it all up!!) He had so many kids around him at one point - just following him around that he had to just walk inside the house to get away! (You know that fun teenage way of just poking and jabbing until you are a bit annoyed - but really he wasn't - he loved every minute of it!)


Then we had some scary visitors! Ryan's Parents stopped in and they were dressed up all scary! It was great! Now you know where Ryan get's it!


I realized on Halloween day that we had a great wig that Kate could wear! It just finished off her Jasmine outfit perfectly! She was a bit annoyed by it so she didn't wear it for long, but it was so cute! I LOVED her costume this year, I just think it turned out so cute! And I am happy to say Emily did pretty good with keeping her costume on. We only had one melt down while I was pretty much forcing it on her - and then 10 min later she was fine!

Oh, and Emily also found some Vampire teeth earlier when we went trick or treating at Ryan's office and she was loving them! She was a Vampire Elephant!