Aunt Cheryl comes, Frontsight, and November.

Aunt Cheryl came! I still can't believe she really came! I mentioned to her a couple weeks before she came that Tyler was going out of town for a weekend and she should come, but really didn't think much of it. Well she put it out into the universe and seriously kept finding money to put a long story short... so she came! She flew in Wednesday night November 5th, and left Sunday the 9th. We had so much fun! Her flight landed at like 10pm, but of course we met up with Jenny and Jaymie at Applebees for a super late dinner!

The girls were SO excited for her to come and were jumping out of their bed Thursday morning! 
Tyler left to Frontsight Thursday night, so Cheryl tagged along with us to Ballet and went to Piano with Lucy while I ran Tyler to the airport!
Lucy was a little sick Friday so she missed the whole first half of school Friday, and begged to make it for the last half of her pajama day!
We just had so much fun relaxing and hanging out with Cher-bear!
Saturday we headed to sweet n flour for lunch and doughnuts! Yum!
I finally finished spray painting the girl's art table and Cheryl helped me drag it upstairs! It's their very favorite thing! Thanks for the hand me down Jaymie!
Saturday we got a babysitter and headed out to dinner with Jenny!
I love these two spooning sisters! ;-)

Cheryl made it to church with us before having to catch her flight! 
After taking Cheryl to the airport these two crashed! We partied hard, and miss her already!
I've been getting all sorts of fabulous artwork lately. One of my favorite's-- Lucy's ladybug!
We had no school Monday or Tuesday because of Veteran's Day, and with Tyler still out of town we had a fun lunch date at Panera, then the girls came with me while I coached gymnastics. They played for 3 straight hours while I coached without bothering me once! They then went to bed at 6:45! Haha!
While we were in Minot, Tyler was in Vegas with his dad and brothers at Frontsight, a handgun training course. He wasn't going to be able to go due to so much time off, but he actually ended up quitting his job the week before, and started a new one the day after he got back! This is his third time going, and I'm pretty sure he had a blast! He left Thursday night and didn't get back home until Tuesday night! I'm glad he got in a well deserved break before getting right back into work!
Stefan, Ben, Jeff, Tyler, and Luke. Just missing Kevin!
While he was in Vegas, my parents were actually in Hawaii. Lame!
We've had lots of fun days swimming! I seriously feel like we live in a hotel. It's pretty awesome though to just leave your apartment barefoot, and in a swimsuit and towel and nothing else! We have LOVED living here!
Swimming with the Jacobs girls, and the Davies kids. We love these kids!
Lucy is a totally independent swimmer, and Clara can swim by herself now too! Just needs to learn how to come up for air!
I love hanging out with this cutie. Her favorite color is red, in case you didn't know! ;-)
and I can't get enough of baby Emma!
Date day with daddy's two favorite girls! They're pretty lucky to have him!
Stake Conference with this precious baby. Laid her down to change her, and she fell sound asleep!
We then had a fun date night out with the Noel's! So glad cute Ivy is able to babysit all of our crazy kids!
The next week we had another fun date night with the Barlow's, Noel's, and McRae's to see Mockingjay. It was SO good! I love these women.
Lucy's first hand written letter to Santa. Oh I how I love her! She thought long and hard about what she wanted! I hope she's a good girl, so all of her wishes will come true!
and it FINALLY snowed! Yay! Keep it up!

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