St. Louis, MO

This year for Thanksgiving we went to visit Gibb's brother Scott, his wife Erin, and their 2 boys Cameron and Evan in St. Louis. It's become a tradition for us to get together with them for Thanksgiving since we've been here in Cleveland. We've spent every American Thanksgiving together for the last 4 years! It's been so fun to visit each other and see where we're living and see how their boys have grown up. The first time we went to visit them in Des Moines Cameron was 1 and Erin was pregnant with Evan, so much has changed since then!

Jayna had a lot of fun with her cousins! Cameron wanted to hold her and give her hugs, it was really cute but Jayna's not exactly the cuddly type. Except her and Evan did have a really big smooch!! They're going to be such great big brothers!

Of course right before we left our camera broke so we barely have any pictures of the week. We remembered the day we were leaving to snap a couple pictures of them all together and they turned out pretty cute!

We didn't do a ton that week, but it was super relaxing and so fun to see everyone. We had a big Thanksgiving Feast, as Cameron liked to call it, that was delicious. And Cameron and Evan now think their Uncle Gibb is basically a super hero after all the stories we told them about his "Deep Ocean Adventures"! We had so much with them and we miss them already!

Tagged

It has been so long since I've posted! We've been SO busy the last couple weeks. With just a lot of random stuff going on, and then my sister was here for a few days, and brought 2 of her kids, Samantha and Nathan. We basically shopped 60% of the time she was here, slept maybe 25% (if we were lucky) and hung out/ate/drove to malls/outlets/took care of kids the other 15%. It was so much fun, I miss them already! Then on Saturday it was Gibb's birthday, he turned 29. We went out to dinner and a movie that night, we saw Bee Movie, it was really cute! And tomorrow we leave to go to St. Louis to visit Gibb's brother Scott, and his family for Thanksgiving. I'm excited to see them, but not so excited about the 9-10 hour drive. So I thought I should post something before we leave. I guess I got tagged by Rebecca Jones a while ago so I think I'm supposed to answer these questions.

4 or more places I have lived:
1) Taber, Alberta, Canada
2) Riyad, Saudi Arabia
3) London, Ontario, Canada
4) Kuwait, Kuwait
5) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
6) Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA

4 or more places I have went on vacation:
1) London, England
2) Cairo, Egypt
3) Barnwell, Alberta, Canada
4) Amman, Jordan
5) Orlando, Florida
6) HAWAII!! (Oahu and Kauai)
7) Paris, France
8) Vancouver/Whistler/Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
9) Niagara Falls, Ontario
10) New York City, NY
11) Echo Lake, Montana
12) Carribean Cruise
13) Dubai, UAE

4 or more jobs I have had:
1) Babysitting
2) Playworld
3) McDonald's
4) A&B Party Rental
5) Wal-mart Portrait Studio
6) PCA at ICE
7) Apartment Managers
8) Occupational Therapist

4 or more foods I like:
1) Candy/Licorice
2) Turkey Dinner for Christmas or Thanksgiving
3) Italian Food
4) Thai Food

4 or more hobbies I have:
1) Reading
2) Scrapbooking/card making
3) Working out, we have an on again/off again relationship
4) I never realized it before, but I guess I talk on the phone a lot, because Jayna has started pretending everything is a phone and putting it up to her face and saying "Hi"

4 or more things people don't know about me:
1) I was painfully shy as a kid, and still get a little bit panicked in some new situations
2) I was a Cheerleader AND President of the Math Club in High School, we won Provincials for Cheerleading and won the Math Triathlon City Championship, GO SABRES!!!
3) I was obsessed with N'SYNC and Backstreet Boys in High School, and my favourite was Howie D., what was I thinking?!?
4) I am a pack rat, I hate throwing anything out has the littlest bit of sentimental value

4 or more things I would do if I were a billionaire:
1) TRAVEL!!!
2) Still make my kids get part time jobs
3) I have no idea, I can't imagine it right now

Family Photos

We haven't taken any family pictures for a while, so we decided, or actually I decided, it was time. We went with the Walker's and got some great pictures. Here are some of our favourites.

As a reward for being so good Jayna and Dean got to play in the leaves when we were done. They loved it!

Fall

Fall is one of our favourite times of year. Jayna especially loves playing outside in all the leaves, she likes the crunchy sounds they make. She likes playing in the front yard because then she can also watch all the cars drive by, one of her favourite past times. Hopefully it doesn't get too cold very soon, so we can still enjoy Fall.