Thanksgiving Trip To Idaho

My brother-in-law helped me to suprise my sister Kelly and her kids and my parents by driving to Idaho for Thanksgiving. It took us two days to drive there. We first stopped in Provo, stayed the night, then got up early the next morning and headed to Idaho. On our way we stopped at Wendy's in Burley, Idaho. This is where we left Aarron back in August when we stopped to eat. We had to take a picture and Aaaron got to say hi to the Manager who was so nice to him.

 When we finally got to Kelly's, the kids and I hid on the side of her house. Konstantin went to the front door posing to be a representative from modelhomes.com. Kelly recognized him right away, but he tried to deny it. After she drilled him a few times about who he was, I ran around the corner of the house and up the porch to yell "surprise". Kelly came flipping out of the house screaming "NOOOO". We just started screaming and jumping around. It was so awesome. The kids followed right behind me and we all laughed about surprising them. My mom and dad were flying in from Phoenix that night and we were going to surprise them at the airport. We got there a little too late, becuase they were already waiting for us at the baggage claim. They were definitley surprsied but I wanted to jump out and scare them!

Thanksgiving morning the kids ate breakfast while we started cooking the lunch. There were 12 kids altogether.

 Kelly with her amaizing turkey. This was her first time making one. It looks burnt, but that's just the bacon she covered it with. It was so juicy and tender!

All of the kids waiting to eat our Thanksgiving Feast with Grandpa Wellman

After lunch the little kids put on a talent show for us. That seems to be tradition for our family.

Daycee, Kenzie, Aarron, Gunner and Deanna

When it was bath time we found all four of them in Kelly's big bathtub with their swimsuits on. They were having such a good time.

After their baths the girls lined up to do each others hair. This reminds me of when Kelly, Jamie and I would line up to brush hair or scratch backs when we were little girls.

Rylee and Harly making their Christmas list on the computer

Tatum, Clayton, Carson and Konsti watching YouTube videos of the game show Wipeout!

All 12 kids with Grandma and Grandpa Wellman. There are 15 more grandkids back in Arizona.

 

On our way home we stayed in Moab, Utah. We stopped at the "Hole in the Rock" tourist place. The kids always love going there.

 We found this sign for Konstantin. Germany is only 6,946 miles away.

This is called Wilson's Arch. The kids climbed to the top while I stayed back with Adam and took pictures. 

There was also this really big rock that had a cave at the bottom. We've driven by it lots of times but never stopped. So this time I let the boys walk over to it and look inside the cave.

 It wasn't even a cave after all. Just a little cut out. How deceiving!

We headed home for the longest drive in my life. I don't think I yelled so much at my kids than I did on this trip! I hope we haven't scarred Konsti for life!

Tooth Fairy!

Aarron lost his first tooth and got a $1 bill from the tooth fairy. He kept telling me he wanted his tooth back. So I told him he had to give his dollar back if we wanted his tooth back. He stopped asking me about it after that!

Santa Clause and Konsti's Last Football Game

This past weekend we went to the Valley for Konstantin's high school playoff football game. While we were there we went shopping at the mall and we found Santa Clause. Knowing this will be the only opportunity to sit on Santa's lap in a mall I hurried the little kids over to him. Daycee was not with us and Harly was too "big", so she took the pictures for me. I tried to get the big boys to come and sit with Santa but they wanted nothing to do with it. It actually made me really sad that they wouldn't even do it for fun.

Adam wanted cars....Aarron wanted a bb gun with a scope....MacKenzie wanted a Nintendo DS

I love how excited the kids get to tell Santa what they want for Christmas....it's so cute!

After the mall we went to Konstantin's football game. We were so proud of him. He made 2 extra points. They lost 40-14:(   There season is over but not forgotten! Konstantin learned so much from commitment to teamwork. Round Valley High School is a very proud school and is dedicated to their sports. Konsti learned first hand on how important it is.

We took a few pictures of him in his uniform before he had to return to the school.

The Big Deer Hunt

Dayson, Clayton and Carson went hunting the first week of November. This was part of Carson's long birthday celebration! After hunting the first two days they got rained out. So they came home, washed their bedding and clothes and got some good rest. They went back out and took Aarron with them this time. Clayton shot the first deer and Carson shot the second.

Here is Carson holding up Clayton's deer

Aarron, Carson and Clayton

 Aarron, Dayson, Carson and Clayton

Clayton with his buck

Carson with is buck

 Dayson and Carson

Carson, Aarron and Clayton (I love the way Aarron is holding his gun...as if he shot the buck!)

The whole hunting group

Wednesday morning we woke up and got ready to take Konti for his driver's permit test. Adam was so excited to go with us.

Konsti spiked Adam's hair to match his own...they looked really cute together!

Adam and Konsti just before going into the MVD

Konsti passed his test and got his temporary paper permit....the real one will come in the mail.

We had to celebrate with lunch at McDonald's!

It is going to be a lot of fun teaching Konsti how to drive. He actually does a really good job already. He even drove home from St. John's after getting his permit! Way to go Konstantin!!

Treats!

Konstantin and Harly were in charge of "treats" for Family Home Evening Monday night. They wanted to do homemade doughnuts. We had already made homemade pizza, so why not doughnuts! They rolled out the dough and made their doughnuts and holes.

Then the fun part, frosting!

We made so many doughnuts that we delivered some to the Udall's and Stinson's.