Trip to Pick Up a Puppy

After celebrating Christmas and a Boxing Day rodeo, we headed south.

First stop, Idaho Falls.  Our first choice of activities was to sled and snowmobile but there was not enough snow. So we went into the hills to shoot instead. Julie's family joined the adventure.

I would never have guessed that my dad would own guns and that my mom would be shooting them.

Hanna on a very cool bench in Idaho Falls.

On our way through Montana, we stopped at Costco so Jill could buy her new camera, a Canon Rebel T5i. She took pictures of temples all along the way.

Idaho Falls Temple

Logan Temple

Brigham City Temple

Second stop: Logan. (no pictures to share)
We went out to eat with Doug and Emily. On Sunday, we went to our old ward, Hyrum 7th Ward, where they got a new bishopric. The cool part was that Austin was called as the first counselor with the bishopric that just got released. It was fun to be there and hear their testimonies, along with a few comments about Austin's blond hair.
We also had dinner with the Summers family and then an ice cream cone with Steve and Karma Albiston.


Third stop: Cedar Hills.
We spent a fun afternoon hanging out at Jeanette's house with Rachelle & Nathan and also Diana.
Then we headed to Salt Lake with a few other million people. We ate dinner at the food court in City Creek and then walked around Temple Square.

Lucy and Carly went into the Conference Center auditorium before us and when we walked in this man was singing O'Canada for us. They told him we were from Canada. George is in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He was really fun to visit with.

A visit to Grandpa Reeve (age (91). He is a funny man.  Diana has taken such good care of him for the last 5 years.

Grandpa has always waved good-bye when we used to leave his house. Now he waves from his balcony at the Charleston Senior home where he lives now.

Fourth stop: Pitchfords in Montpelier, Idaho
Hanna found the puppy she wanted on the internet in Pocatello, Idaho. We asked the Pitchfords to pick up the puppy and keep it until we came down for Christmas break. Cinch is a super cute puppy. She sat on our laps all the way back to Canada.

Fifth stop: Back to Idaho Falls
We celebrated New Year's Eve with Grandpa Randy and Grandma Carol with some delicious food. Then we went to see the new movie, Frozen.

We had a fun and fast visit. We didn't escape Christmas break without two kids with the flu, but we had fun anyway and got stocked up on our cheese supply.

Christmas in Canada

The last day of school before Christmas break was ugly sweater day and pajama day. Plus Austin is sporting some new fancy blond hair because his students brought in 1,000 pairs of new socks to donate to charity.  If they would have brought 2,000 pairs his hair would have been blue so we are happy with the blond.

Sleeping under the tree on Christmas Eve Eve

We had a fantastic Christmas Eve at Rod & Sarah's house in Taber. We had delicious food, a white elephant gift exchange, and a nativity from the kids. We saw Rudolph's red nose in the backyard. Austin went outside to try and catch Rudolph, but instead he got stepped on by the reindeer.  But Rudolph did leave gifts for all of the kids - flavored chapsticks and lip gloss.

My favorite part of this year's nativity is the gold, frankincense and myrrh (aka bowling pins).

Christmas morning in our new house was very exciting. Grandpa & Grandma Nunn came to be with us on Christmas morning.
Santa brought Lucy and Carly 3-feet princess dolls, Hanna a dog collar for the new dog she is going to get, and Jill got a money donation to the new camera she wants to buy.

My favorite part of Christmas this year was watching our girls give gifts to each other. We draw names but then this year each of them decided to give a gift to everyone.  Carly was so fun to watch shop as she had $20 to get something for everyone. Her most successful shopping stop was Canadian Tire. 

Jill bought Hanna this bow and arrow set, exactly what Hanna wanted this year.

We enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner at Grandma Nunn's house!

Kaylynn's Birthday

Although I had a fantastic birthday, I don't really have any pictures to show besides this whiteboard list of Hanna's to "make a big deal out of Mom's birthday."

First, my friends had a lunch for my birthday a couple days early. Tammy Sommerfeldt hosted and fed us delicious chicken and rice. Dixie Bevans, Barb Salmon, Marilee Cahoon, Karen Bevans, and Shauna Smith came. We had fun eating and talking!

My husband made me breakfast and my family made me the most delicious dinner of steak, mashed potatoes and salad. They gave me scriptures and a sweater.

The day after my birthday Martha made us a delicious roast and potato dinner with the best part of all - cheesecake!

I was grateful for lots of friend and family and visiting teacher birthday wishes, and a 8:30 am delivery of birthday cookies from my 92-year-old neighbor, Phyllis Leavitt.

Nunns in November

Jill Nunn Photography took some awesome sunset pictures of Austin. They actually used Jill's barrel horse, PJ, because he was the easiest horse to catch. Jill is developing a love/obsession with photography, and she is really pretty good at it. I love her pictures.

Austin turned 40!
We had an over the hill party with a few friends and Dairy Queen ice cream cake.

The girls and I gave Austin a sweater and an end table for his birthday. (Of course he was thrilled with the end table. He told me he is going go give me a horse bit for my birthday:).  Carly wrapped up a little lamp to give him.  Hanna gave Austin an Essentials Kit complete with candy, gum, toilet paper, deodorant, soap, toothpaste, twine, and duct tape. (Hanna quotes the comedian, Brian Regan, everyday which is where she got the Essentials Kit idea).

Jill is playing on the grade 9 girls basketball team.  There are only 3 teams in our school division in their age group, so they haven't played many games so far. They did play in a tournament in Magrath which they won.

Hanna is on the grade 7 girls basketball team. She gets lots of steals and is super fast but then is still working on a light touch on her lay-ups. She is fun to watch.

My Mom and Dad came up for a quick trip to help us with some house projects. My Dad patched and trimmed around our new kitchen window and trimmed two bedroom windows.  He also brought floating shelves and whiteboards that he made for each of our girls for their bedrooms.  We let him have the afternoon off and we went on a drive to Waterton.  As you can tell, it was a hot day - or not.

This is Lucy, the Champs basketball player. Go Lucy!

Halloween

Hanna dressed up like Mr. Nunn and won the Super Hero costume award.

Carly was a witch and Lucy was a baby.

Jill outgrew Halloween this year.

I took Lucy and Carly trick-or-treating in Leavitt.  Country trick-or-treating didn't disappoint again this year. The kids get treat bags, pop, popcorn, full-size candy bars, coloring books, etc. 

Leavitt Young Women

I was really loving my calling as the 1st counselor in Relief Society. I love the women I work with, I wasn't the president or in charge of the activities. I really enjoyed teaching every 3 months. I thought I was safe for another year, since we only had been in for 2 years.

Then the last Sunday in August I got called into the Bishop's office and got called to be the 1st counselor in Young Women's. I said yes and went back to Relief Society and cried through the whole meeting.

Hanna said, "You are in Young Women now? That is going to be weird."

I am over 10 great Miamaids, including Jill. I have really liked it more than I thought I would. Teenagers scare me. But it is an exciting time in the church to prepare youth for life and missions.

Our first class activity, we did a photo shoot at my house. I had been worried for a couple days because it had been super windy. The wind did die down but it was a cold evening, but I love how the pictures turned out. 

Another fun activity was carving pumpkins we grew in our garden.

I was in charge of a joint activity Halloween party. It was fun for a few minutes, but after 45 minutes everyone had done all of the games. Luckily the other kids came through for me and organized another game.