Thanksgiving . . . . I am a little behind

For Thanksgiving this year we went to my Aunt P.T. and Uncle Steve's home.  (P.T. is what we have always called her.  Her real name is Patricia, she is my mom's youngest sister)  Their daughter, Lacey, was the one in the Olympics earlier this year.  My mom's sister Margie and her family were there as well.



It was a lot of  fun.  The food was yummy and it was fun to just see everyone.  We don't get together nearly often enough.

Growing up we never had a video camera, but the Schnoors did.  Their oldest daughter put together a compilation of Hafen family get togethers.  It was fun to watch, kind of painful to see my clothing and LARGE hair, but it was fun.  It is funny how you forget things, like what you got from your aunt for Christmas in 1991 and what my little brothers looked like when they were 3 and 7.

We took some family photos.



Here is P.T. & Steve and their family



Here is Margie & Mitch and their family



Here is my whole family, everyone was able to make it . YEAH!





Trent turns 9

Trent celebrated his 9th bithday the week of Thanksgiving.  Trent LOVES pumpkin pie and wanted that instead of a cake, I'm glad his birthday is always close to Thanksgiving.  I love pumpkin pie too, so I guess if his birthday was in the summer we would have it then too.   :)

4 boys, 1 little princess (a very dramatic little girl at that!)

So, if you didn't see my sneaky post announcing my pregnancy, I am due April 8th and we found out on Thursday that it is a BOY!  Back when I had Kyle I knew there was one more, and since then I have told myself it would be another boy, I had a small "hope" that Kara would get a sister, but it isn't meant to be.

Boy names are so hard for us to come up with, so any suggestions would help.  I actually think it will work out for the best being a boy.  Kyle gets a little buddy just like Trent has Tyler and Kara gets to keep her room all to herself and be the only little spoiled girl in the family.

Kara is 4

Miss Kara celebrated her fourth birthday this week.  She was super excited.  She got up early and wanted to open presents.  We waited until everyone was awake then she did.  She loved everything she got, so thank you grandmas and grandpas!  She especially loved the lip stick from grandma and lip gloss from her primary teacher.



Mr. SAD because Kara wouldn't let him hold her gum and eat it.



On Saturday we had a little get together with both sides of the family.  My parents came up for that and to watch our kids primary sacrament meeting presentation, and Tennille's kids too. It was super convenient for both of our wards to have them on the same day. 

Randy and Kara share a birthday, so he got a special cup cake that wasn't girly, but he didn't want us to sing to him.  Party Pooper TINY!

We ordered pizza and had "super bowl" type food, well that is what it seemed like to me, veggies and dip, grapes and bean dip, go CARBS!

The kids of course had fun with all the cousins and I think Kara had a great day.

Happy Birthday Kara!  We love you!

Amigo = Portuguese for Friend (and in spanish too)

In January we had some Brazilian friends over.  The husband, Victor, is here going to BYU and the wife, Viviane, was a member of a family that Ray had baptized on his mission, and so we invited them along with their son Cezar to come for dinner.  Victor spoke English very well, but Viviane didn't really.  We spoke most of the night in English and it was fun to get to know them, but I felt bad that Viviane and I could not communicate so well.

Fast forward 10 months later, Viviane had a baby and her parents came from Brazil to be with her for a few months.  We invited them all over for dinner.  The parents spoke very little English, so most of the night was them all speaking in Portuguese and me wishing I could somehow upload Portuguese so I could understand all their stories.  I was very impressed at how well Viviane spoke English, since we last saw her.  We could carry on a normal conversation.  I don't think that if I lived in Brazil for 10 months I would learn Portuguese so well.  We also invited a ward member that is from Brazil to come and him and the father hit it off.  I would of thought he was one of their best friends the way they laughed and talked.  Victor wasn't able to attend but here we all are minus George (neighbor) he is taking the picture.

Even though I couldn't speak their language I enjoyed having them over and meeting them.  They are neat people. 

Trent and scouts

Trent earned his wolf badge in cub scouts. I am proud of him, but with his Bear we (= me -- need to be more on top of working on things earlier so he can get done and work on some arrow points.) Here we are at pack meeting. Ray bought me a "mother's ribbon" that the boy can pin the mother's pin on, so much easier than on my shirt.  These pictures aren't too awesome, we had our old camera with us that night, then I forgot to take one of just Trent.



But this is a cute one of him in his shirt.



If you can't tell by the picture, I am making an announcement, it has been quite obvious for a while.  For those of you who I never see, YES , I am pregnant.  I am due April 8th, but I am hoping that my Doctor does what he has on the last 3, and starts me a week early.  I find out this Friday what it will be.  I have pretty much convinced myself that it is a boy, so we will see.  This will be #5 and that is it for us.  I am just getting to old to be "with child".  I already am hoping I can make it another 4 1/2 months.  If I do to much, which to me isn't to much, like going to Costco and a few craft stores, I get crampy (spelling?) and feel like I am going into labor, this is WAY to soon for this to be happening don't you think?  It happened with Kyle like the last 5 weeks.  This happened the other day so I just came home and rested a bit and prayed that the pain/feeling of a baby falling out would  go away, and well  it did, but it seems pretty pathetic to be happening at 19 weeks.  I am not sure what to do, any suggestions?

Halloween Week

We went to pumpkin land for Kara's preschool field trip.  It was the day that it snowed.  I thought they would cancel it , but they wouldn't let the preschool reschedule so we just bundled up and went.  Kyle had fun, Kara was cold because she wouldn't wear her winter coat or socks.  Silly girl!

Kara on her way to her prescholl Halloween party.

At Ray's work.  Annual trick-or-treat around the office.   Always a big HIT!



Ray in his awesome costume.  Uncle Rico (basketball version)





After the work trick-or-treat thing we hurried over to Tyler's fist piano recital.  He did a good job!



Getting ready to go trick-or-treat.



My handing out candy buddy, KYLE.

He also LOVES candy!



Halloween Get together

We got together with Ray's side of the family on Monday, even though Ray was in Vegas at a conference for work.  We had soups, rolls,& veggies.  I tried to be creative and put a carrot finger hand coming out of the dip.  I made swamp juice (lemon aid with green food coloring and spiders floating on top frozen in ice cubes)  Then we all carved pumpkins.  It was fun but a little rough since my kids just had me to pretty much do it all for them.  Trent did carve his all by himself.  I did Kara's and Tyler's (Tyler drew the pattern on though) and Kyle (poor little 4th child) didn't get his carved.  We took some pictures and Trent wasn't done, and wouldn't come outside for the pictures, so I just photo shopped him in.  It was a fun night!



This one is kind of crazy.  The flash was off and it captured the light weird!



Fall Break

For Fall Break (UEA) the kids didn't have school on Thursday or Friday (Oct. 14th & 15th ) and so we caravaned with Tennille down to Enoch.

While there we had our annual Halloween party.

The kids had fun dressing up,

going on a treasure hunt,

hitting the pinata and

decorating pumpkins.

Tennille was looking for a Halloween costume. My mom has had this wig for YEARS we used to love to wear it. Trent & Brett were the only kids that would try it on. It makes me laugh every time I look at these pictures.



The kids were also excited to see their favorite uncles, Mitch and John.  Should of taken pictures with them.

We all had fun at grandma and grandpa's!

First part of October 2010

The Friday before General Conference we went up the canyon for a  little picnic and hike.

 Even though it was cold the kids wanted to play in the water. 

 Water = Kids get in it and get wet even if it is cold

Mike and Ashlee came to visit and we took some cute pictures with Jensen.  I love that they are all smiling/laughing.