Turkey for me and turkey for you

This year we celebrated Thanksgiving in nice, warm Texas. We invited some friends over to spend the day with us (and share their incredible food!) We spent the day Wednesday preparing for our company. We wanted to make sure we had all of our Turkeys in a row...

In traditional Frost family style, we had a "pie day,"

I had some great helpers,

and we ended up making four FaBuLoUs pies.

We set and decorated the tables,

and were happy to find that this Thanksgiving was relatively stress free!

Colby prepared and carved the turkey, and it did not disappoint.

We are really grateful to have friends that are good cooks.

These three little turkeys thought it was hilarious to climb on the table, they kept us quite entertained!

We hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving!

I am in LOVE....

I had my doubts at first, but in the past six months I have come to LOVE this great state...

I can totally see why everyone is crazy with their "Texas pride,"

I love that the bank down the street from us flies a Texas state flag that is bigger than my house. And speaking of the Texas flag, did you know that school children pledge allegiance to the Texas flag, the state flag? I'm not sure I even remember what any of the other state flags look like.

I love that Walmart carries about a zillion different kinds of fish fry and cornbread muffin mix but not one kind of curry. (this is kind of a love/hate thing, because I really like curry).

I love that my Pilates instructor says things like, "c'mon girls, y'all are gooood," and our old bishop wears overalls to all the ward activities.

I love that tonight when we went to the movies, the boys wore shorts and short sleeves. On the way there we passed a snow cone stand that was open. How can you not love a place where you can buy a snow cone in November?

I LOVE that Colby has a job and that Scott and White gives him things like a turkey for Thanksgiving and a Christmas bonus. Students don't get Christmas bonuses.

I love that our ward playgroup met at different swimming pools all Summer and now that it is "cooler" we meet at different parks.

I love that we have good friends here and that we have people to get together with for big occasions like Thanksgiving and major football games.

Do I want to stay here forever? No. Will I be bummed when we don't have a white Christmas? Probably. But for now, when it is 74 degrees outside at midnight on Nov 25th...

I am in LOVE.

Our Little Monster

Our little monster from Shauni Frost on Vimeo.

This Week in Texas...

Abbi is officially potty trained (finally!) She has the "potty chart" full of stickers, and three days of dry underpants to prove it. Way to go sis!

On a side note: Abbi has decided that the front porch is the official place that we take pictures. Any time I want to take her picture, she wants to go stand on the front porch. Funny girl.

Ammon found a snake in the backyard. Yes, it was a small one. And yes, I screamed like a girl and made Colby cut off it's head with a shovel. Let's hope it was the first and last snake we will find in the backyard.

Ab brushed up on her dental hygiene. Way to make a grandpa/dentist proud.

Carter lost his first tooth! (with a little help from daddy).

I keep telling him to stop growing up but he just won't listen.

We hope y'all had a great week too!

We know how "two" party

Abbi was so excited to turn two. She talked about her "potty" the whole week before her birthday (which caused some confusion because we were also potty training this week). The day finally came and she couldn't have been happier. First, she got a new church dress and got to go to nursery (which she loves.)

After church we decorated the house with streamers, balloons, stars and some Dora the Explorer knick-knacks.

She loved all the attention, and loved when we all sang Happy Birthday. (I have since caught her singing Happy Birthday to herself multiple times). She did not, however, want anything to do with blowing out the candle on her pink cupcake.

We had lots of friends come over (although I didn't get a great picture of the friends) and Abbi opened lots of fun presents.

Isn't it great to be TWO?!?

Look Who's Two!

It's hard to believe that this little peanut is TWO today...

Abbi is such a sweet little girl and we're so happy she's part of our family.

As you can see, she gets her pretty blue eyes and wicked bed head from her daddy-

but those sweet dance moves are all me.

Abbi shaking it from Shauni Frost on Vimeo.

Happy Birthday baby girl!

Trick or Treats

This year Halloween was a little different then our past Halloween celebrations for a couple of reasons: 1. It was 80 something degrees outside and we didn't even need long pants, let alone jackets and 2. We didn't go trick or treating because it happened on Sunday. Even without trick or treating or Fall-like weather, we had a great Halloween. Our ward had a trunk or treat on Saturday and the kids had a great time dressing up and getting TONS of candy.

Originally Abbi was going to be a fairy, but I could never get her to wear these pixie shoes and her wings at the same time. And, if you asked her what she was going to be for Halloween she would tell you a "princer," (princess), so we started calling her costume a "fairy princess." At one point she lost the wings all together and looked more like a ballerina. Whatever you call it, she looked pretty adorable, and she loved her tutu.

The boys both wanted to be Ninjas this year, I think mostly so they could carry weapons (thanks Grandma Stewart for the awesome weapons!). They looked "awesome."

After not dressing up for the fourth year in a row, Colby has earned the title, "The Halloween Grinch." He still looks pretty cute with our little ninja though.

Abbi the fairy/princess/ballerina.

I wouldn't want to meet up with these three in a dark alley.

Ammon, Carter and Caden.

Abbi and daddy went trunk or treating with their buddies Logan and Jason.

Of course the kids had to come home and take inventory of their goods.

We hope you all had a great Halloween with lots of treats (and not so many tricks!)

A Visit from Grandma and Grandma Frost

A couple of weeks ago, Grandma and Grandpa Frost came to Texas for a visit. It was so nice to have them here for the week and we had a blast! Abbi is particularly fond of Grandpa Frost (although she still hasn't quite figured things out and called him "Grandma" the whole time they were here). Here are some of the highlights:

SeaWorld

We had never taken the kids to SeaWorld before, but we knew they would love it. So while Grandma and "Grandma" were here we headed down to San Antonio to visit Shamu and friends.

The kids at the hotel, before heading to the park.

Anxiously awaiting the park to open.

Abbi in "Fantasea," one of the Halloween exhibits.

The kids LOVED feeding the dolphins,

even if they were a little nervous to touch them.

This wasn't planned, but Carter and Grandpa were matcheroos at SeaWorld. Carter thought this was about the coolest thing going. He was Grandpas little buddy all day.

Abbi loved the shows, she even danced and did the actions along with the performers.

Ammon ended the day at SeaWorld with a splash. Literally. He really wanted to sit in the splash zone at the Shamu show, so I moved down closer with him. He kept saying, "we're not close enough Mom, I want to get wet and we're not close enough." So, I let him move a little bit closer. Well, as you can see, we probably were close enough the first time.

The Riverwalk

We went to the Riverwalk at night and it was beautiful, and bustling with people. It was hard to get a good picture of it, but it was definitely worth seeing.

The Natural Bridge Caverns

These were a great find. Just outside San Antonio. Once again, the pictures don't do them justice. Imagine Timpanogos times ten and without the hike up the mountain. We saw giant caves and great formations.

The kids and Grandma in the caverns.

Grandpa took our picture by this giant column.

The whole crew.

Good Eats

Since Colby judges every vacation by how good the food was, we made sure to hit some good restaurants.

Genghis grill. I'm telling you, this is the way to do Mongolian BBQ.

Great BBQ at Rudys.

Shelf Building

This was the highlight of the trip for me. Colby and Ron built shelves in our garage. Not just any shelves but floor to ceiling, heavy duty, no longer do I have to move ten totes to get to the ONE on the bottom kind of shelves. I LOVE them.

The finished product.

Colby also now has a "workbench" for his hammer, and his drill. If anyone has superfluous tools they would like to donate to the cause, I'm sure Colb would love to work on "stuff" out in the garage.

The Dr.Pepper Museum

One day when the boys were in school, we drove up to Waco to the Dr.Pepper museum. We learned all kinds of useful information here.

Did you know that Dr.Pepper is not a cola and it's not a rootbeer either?

If anyone knows the tune to the Dr.Pepper jingle circa about 1950's, we'd love to know how it really goes.

Thanks Ron and Susan for the visit, we had a great time. And for those of you who were wondering, we would LOVE visitors any time- don't we make Texas look fabulous??