Ornaments

When I was growing up every year my brothers and sister and I would get at least one new ornament. my mom would try to get something that had to do with something that we did that year (like I got a snowman skiing the year I learned to ski) or they would match with my siblings ornament (like Mike got snoopy, I got Woodstock and Stacy got girl snoopy? or something.) Anyway, this is a tradition that I have carried on with Eli. It's so FUN to decorate your Christmas tree with memories! Whenever I pull out my ornaments I remember decorating the "kids" tree with my siblings and having SO much fun with our ornaments.

This is Eli holding his new ornaments. He got a train from Grandma Sorensen and I got him a boy fishing with his dad in honor of Eli's 1st father-son fishing trip. (He also got a Hogle zoo ornament after this picture was taken.) Eli keeps saying "I can't wait to put these on our Christmas tree!" I can't wait either! I think that this year I will make it to the day after Thanksgiving to put up the tree. Last year I only made it to the day before Thanksgiving.

The Truck

With winter fast approaching and motorcycle season ending we decided that we needed a new vehicle. I wanted a small car that gets great gas mileage and Stewart wanted something with 4 wheel drive. Who won you ask? Just look below!
Yes, Stewart got a victory! Of course after driving it around for a few days I declared that I would be the soul possessor of the Pathfinder. It is pretty fun to drive...except off-roading which I am afraid of! Stewart took Eli and I off-roading on Saturday to break in the truck. The whole time I was saying "why are we doing this?" I didn't have fun but Stewart did maybe Eli did a little.

I remember going camping with my dad and the whole time I would be so scared because he NEVER actually looked a the road. He was always looking for deer. I just remember thinking that we would go careening off the cliff with the trailer behind us. I would sit there and watch the road like a hawk and mentally steer us on the road. We probably were never in danger but it really scared me and THIS is why I believe I will never like off-roading.

More Eli Awesomeness

Below is a snippet of my little brother Danny's post: Just remember the swears are from Danny's mouth not mine. To read his post click here.

"Saturday a few friends and I went out to the west side of Utah Lake in order to keep the pumpkin population in check. We shot the living crap out of dozens of pumpkins with shotguns, AR-15's, pistols, and sniper rifles. Yes, we sniped the shit out of the pumpkins! My 4-year-old nephew, Eli Brough, made sure to do his part by continually hitting a pumpkin with a baseball bat for over an hour. When I asked him how it was going he said, "I'm just hitting this pumpkin. There's still a little more to hit." And he kept going. It was funny."

Eli is so funny! It's like everything he says is to make me laugh. Before they went to shoot pumpkins Eli told my grandma that he was going to shoot tigers. When he got back he said that he shot tigers that were like pumpkins.

After doing laundry today there were a lot of little rocks in the bottom of the washer. I admit that my 1st thought was that they were from Stewart because I thought that his army pants were in that load (they weren't.) But then I realized that Eli had put a little rock collection in his pockets.

zoo blog

Jeri's Zoo Blog Link

Here is a link to a day at the zoo. we went with my friend Jeri and her kids. If anyone wants to go to the zoo just call me. I can get one adult and one child in for free with me and kids 2 and under are free anyway. Eli LOVES the zoo and would go 6 times a week if I let him.

Eli says:

We went to dinner tonight at Stewart's parents house. We had a good time and Eli got 3 huge candy bars from Grandpa Brough. When we got home Eli wanted to eat them and I told him that he had to wait until tomorrow. Eli protested and I said "you aren't eating them tonight! Put them in a safe place and you can eat them tomorrow. What safe place do you want to choose?" Eli said, "umm, my tummy." That's what I get for asking!