Snow and The Sound of Music

So last night we got our first snow. I'm sure to some of you it probably looks like nothing, but to us it was kind of exciting. Of course it is gone now, but it was pretty to look at for the 10 minutes it was on the ground!!

Kamille loves the movie "The Sound of Music" and I caught her singing along. She does pretty good! Instead of saying Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do, she says Go, Ra, Mi, Pa, So, La, Ti, Go. It's very cute! Enjoy the videos! We also put up our Christmas tree. We love this time of year. It's just so peaceful and warm (heart wise, not weather wise!!)

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! We hope everyone had a great one. We went to Portland and stayed with some cousins. April (Juile's Mom) was also here for a week to visit, and that was a lot of fun. The girls loved having her around, and she enjoyed it too. While we were in Portland, we had Thanksgiving, saw downtown Portland, did some shopping and had lots of fun. Thanks a bunch to the Clement's for their kindness in letting us come and putting on a great show! Our cousin Jason Clement works for Nike, so we got to go to the Nike Employee store where everything is 50% off retail prices, all year around. We got some good shoes that will last a long time. Julie saw a Sacramento Kings basketball player there too. The Clement's also gave us a tour of the Nike campus. They have a full size track, olympic size swimming pool, huge work out facilities, and beautiful feilds, trees, and buildings. Jason said that famous and non famous athletes go to the Nike campus to train. Thanks Jason for getting us the hook ups!! We had a lot of fun doing everything!

Marmmie got these dresses for the girls. Doen't they look so cute?! Thanks Marmmie!

Loves and kisses for Marmmie!

Here are the 3 "Dee's" -- Julie Dee, Robyn Dee and CasiDee. We're only missing our name sake Sandra Dee (who is Julie's aunt, Robyn's mother and CasiDee's grandmother)

Where the Clement's live is a beautiful area. Lots of farms, and lots of green!

Here is part of the track at the Nike Campus.

These pictures are in down town Portland where we saw the big Christmas tree lighting, rode the light rail, and walked around. It was a lot of fun, very cold, but fun!

This guy here looked like a statue, but did some really neat moves with 4 glass balls in his hands. He's covered in silver paint from head to toe.

These are pictures of the outskirtes of Portland where the Clements live, it is really pretty and green. Photographer Kody did a great job!

Lots of Fun

Here are some pictures of the girls from radom days doing different things.

Here they are helping with FHE.

Learning together by reading books

Helping rake the leaves (and playing in them of course)

Doing the dishes together

Kamille sitting on the steps reading scriptures to her baby doll Susie.

Playing "Ring Around the Rosies"

Simple Pleasures

It's really neat how something so simple as looking at a tree can bring a smile to your face; the way the sun shines through the leaves, and the way they change colors, and fall off the tree. Some days it looks like it is raining leaves. I use to not look at trees at all or even give a hoot about them until I met Kody. He loves trees, and will point them out to me all the time. He notices things that no one else does, and I've learned to pick up on that. When I drive around or take the girls on a walk, we always find neat looking trees. They are a simply true beauty and pleasure to life. We take them for granted. How dull, boring, and ugly would this world be if we didn't have trees. We are thankful for our tree, and all the trees!

Our little friend likes our tree and our telephone pole and wires. We see a lot of him and his friends around!

Now see the difference in color! It's beautiful!

Kody took most of these pictures. It's nice to have a photographer in our family!