The thankfulness and preparing....

The Monday before Thanksgiving we made some turkeys for FHE treat.
Here's Alex with his

and Brigham with his.

We went to my sister's house for Thanksgiving. It was really fun and the cousins had a blast playing. (Thanks nik) Jayden asked Lissie to dance, so here they are.

It was the first time all 3 cousins were together. THey were all born within a month of each other. Payton talked up a storm.

Travis and Taylor talking for a bit. (Hope he didn't catch Taylor's cold btw).

Here are the other cousins playing downstairs. Sorry not lots of pics, but it was fun.

This year we are going to go to my bro's wedding and then just spend Christmas with my inlaws, so we won't be hanging around. We decided not to get a tree. BUT we wanted to do a little something for a tree, so the kids and I surprised Mark while he was at YMs.

Tada......

Lissie putting something on that fell off.

Here is a cute pic of Taylor. I love these jammies. also I wanted to get some opinions. I've been debating about cutting my hair. Mark likes long hair, but will be happy with whatever. so this is the before.

This is my doctored after shot. Which do you like better? Please leave a comment and let me know

I love these guys....

Saturday night I decided to do something I've never done with Lissies hair. In the old day to curl their hair they would use rags and tie them. Since we don't have a small curling iron or curlers we decided to give it a try. I told her she would look like a princess and she sat for about 30 minutes while I did this to her hair. This is quite a challenge for Lissie to sit still for that long, but she did it (maybe cause I told her she'd look like a princess).
when we finished.

This si the final result. This is how it Looked after church. I thought the curls were a bit too tight, but Mark kept saying he thought it was really neat.

Lissie and I making a silly face..(we took this after taking a pic of the boys).
Here are the boys. I had to take picture of all three boys in their matching shirts before Taylor grew out of them. They looked so handsome and matching.

Also, tonight we had the missionaries over. You have to have the meal ready when they get here. (about 5:15). I'm lucky if I have the meal ready by 5:30. Anyways about 3:30 I started on the meal. Mark and I had planned what we were going to make. We are also a little short on main ingredients because it is the end of the week. We usually do shopping friday or saturday. As I started making supper I noticed we ran out of corn starch. Okay, I'll us flour. I don't have enough sugar, maybe I'll just half the recipe. I need to make bread, oops not enough flour because I already made a pie crust. So at about 3:45 I load up all the kids in the car and head off to the store. I emphasized how much of a hurry we were in and the kids needed to be good and stay in the cart. They were amazing. We got home by 4:15 .I asked them to help me when we got home as well. THey did just that. I had the laundry that had been folded, but not put away. So I had them help me hide it on my bed. I made the bread, and the potato soup (we didn't have enough potatoes either, had to get those) and Alex grated cheese, Brigham cut up the banana and set the table and they helped take care of Taylor (as did Lissie) and so forth. Alex stirred the pie filling on the stove, perfectly. We got the banana cream pie, bread and potato soup done by about 5:20 and Mark showed up with the missionaries about 5-7 mins later. Just enough time to hide a few odds and ends and feed Taylor. It was great. We were blessed, and had a good time having the missionaries for supper.

Happy Birthday Mother!

Yesterday was my mother's birthday. We celebrated in true LaPierre fashion (at least my parents) with a pie. THis one was pumpkin. We then put in 3 candles for each of the kids to blow out. We hope that it was a great day for you, and wish we could've shared this pie with you! We love you (note Lissie's eyes are blue and half her face because the boys thought it would be fun to put makeup on her yesterday and they did the whole face! It was rather interesting)

I had to post this pic, too. I went in to check on Taylor before I hopped into bed and this is what I found. Taylor holding his bears hand. How cute, I thought.

Witch's on Broomsticks.....

We had a wonderful Halloween. Nothing too exciting about it, but the norm. Here is Taylor as a pea pod. We had him in thes for the evening.

Lissie is a withc. She chose out all the material, so this is what she liked. Pink, surprised? The boys are bats. The had bat hats and wings and then dressed in dark clothes. They put on seaters, I guess they matched the top. They wanted their faces black. What would halloween be without makeup:?

Here is what Taylor wore during the day. It was like one nice sleeper. We added a little makeup to get this cute pic.

Another angle fo the kids. Alex wanted to spread his wings, much to the dismay of his sibblings.

AAAAAHHHH!

1)Katy and Betsy surprised us and came and visited. Here is Katy with Taylor. I was lame and didn't take very many pictures. Okay I took 2.

Here's Betsy. We had lots of fun. We went to the park and the girls spoiled the kids. It was fun
2)Alex turned 6.

Here he is with his gifts. And our gumball icecream.

Here is the cake. ITs a worm cake. The kids helped me make it. It was great

Here's a cute picture of Lissie
and 3) I went shopping on Saturday. When I came home Mark told me I had to go see Brigham. So I did. He and Alex were so excited. First this is what I saw...
Then this is what I saw....

and this is what I saw last.....




Yikes!!! Brigham lost his top tooth. I was trying not to freak out and asked what happened. He was climbing the tree and slipped and hit his tooh, obviously, and knocked it out. They then said, Mom we thought you were going to be exciteed. I said, yeah, I'm excited. YIkes Yikes Yikes. I then said oh the tooth fairy will come. WE couldn't find the tooth anywhere. Crazy.

The next morning he woke up and the first thing he did was see if the toothfairy came. We forgot,oops. So as he ate breakfast, I searched the house for change and Mark checked out the situation. Brigham checked again and they were under his scriptures. Maybe the toothfairy wanted to remind you to pay your tithing on it? Or maybe put it in a different place since it was harder to find the tooth? It was crazy. He was excited. He now analyzes how it is to eat everything with it.

So those are our AAAAHS for the last week!

According to Carrie...

Okay I saved this picture and flipped this, but I don't know why it keeps doing this. This is Taylor. I put him down and he stayed asleep like this. How funny. He's getting so big. We took him to his 4 month.

I got tagged, again, and thought it would be fun to do something on Mark since I'm not too exciting. Julie did it for Jon, so I thought great idea I'll copy her. So these are the things that I could remember or attempted to make up.

7 Things Mark wants to do before he dies
1. Sky dive
2. Get his pilots license
3. Hike the Grand Teton
4. Go on a real honeymoon with Carrie
5. Go to France with Carrie
6. Tour Europe with Carrie
7. Go see D.C.

7 Things Mark can do
1. Make a really good dinner
2. Speak French
3. Write really well
4. Fix things
5. Be a great Dad
6. Be an awesome husband
7. Work hard

7 Things Mark can’t do
1. Whistle
2. Roll his tongue
3. Speak German
4. Play football (though he’d like to)
5. Fail
6. Be in RS
7. A cartwheel

7 Things that attracted Mark to Carrie
1. Her character
2. Her determination
3. Her good looks
4. Her eyes
5. Her personality
6. Her athleticism
7. Her height (yea, right)

7 Things Mark says most often
1. Stinks
2. Tough Guy
3. T man
4. Big Guy
5. I love you
6. I expect obedience
7. I’m going to get you

7 Celebrities Mark likes
Okay I can’t think of a single one

7 Favorite foods of Mark
1. Chocolate
2. French pastries
3. Cheese
4. Good bread
5. Meat/sausages
6. Good crunchy pear
7. Squash fried with onions and some spices

7 people Mark think should do this
I think 7 people should just do it.

Makeover???

After many weeks of not posting, I finally have broken the silence. (I actually have some pictures to post). The weather is getting colder and colder :(, and the kids are getting bigger and bigger. Taylor can now fit into some 6-9mo clothing. Maybe its just the fact that I like the clothes to look a little baggier and not fitting.... Pics later, I'm sure. Lissie had a friend over the other day. Lissie came out of her bedroom looking like this. Clara had put some makeup on her. It was cute so I took a picture of them. Also notice Lissies hair...
Sunday we went on a walk. It was a bit cold so I told Lissie she had to get a sweater and some shoes. She also got some socks. Gotta love it! Also notice the hair...

Did you notice? We cut a 2-3inches off her hair. She didn't like it being combed and she wanted it cut. So I cut it just above her shoulders. Its cute, and we can still do lots of fun things to it.