Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! The only regret is that we didn't get more pictures. When I got home, I found out that I hadn't captured everything I wanted to. I wanted to get a picture of the feast that Mom W. made, but I didn't want to interrupt dinner. I wish I would have. At any rate, we made some great memories.

This is Lucy's Thanksgiving dinner. Her favorites were the stuffing and the olives.









Grammy let her have a taste of something yummy!









The best part of our trip was spending time with our family. Aunt Kimberlee was great at entertaining Lucy.












Sweet little Ali.









"Superman, Batman, with Utilities" aka Jonas wanted a picture with his candy cane.












Elijah found a great new hair product.












It tastes great too!












Jocelyn joined us. We are so glad she did. It was fun to catch up with her, and she was great with Lucy.








Lucy enjoyed playing with Grammy's Little People Thanksgiving set.

Ruby Red Slippers

Lucy fell in love with a pair of ruby red slippers that a little girl from our ward was wearing at the Halloween party (see the video in the Halloween post. Great Grandma Beri took note of Lucy's affinity for the red shoes (Grandma LOVES shoes too) and bought Lucy her very own pair!












Grandma also remembered the lyrics of an old song. It goes

"Put your shoes on Lucy, don't you know you're in the city

Put your shoes on, Lucy, it;s really such a pity

that Lucy can't go barefoot wherever she goes

"cause she loves to feel the wiggle of her toes"









Thanks Grandma!

Happy Halloween

Halloween brought lots of treats for the Winterton family. Lucy was adorable in her witch costume. She wasn't too keen on keeping her hat on, but we managed to get a few pictures before she ripped it off of her head.

On Friday, we went to our ward Halloween party.

Jay dressed up as a BYU Cougar fan, and Angela dressed up as a Skyline graduate. One of the ward missionaries went to Skyline. He instantly recognized the sky blue gown. It was pretty funny!

At the ward party, Lucy found some friends. Three little girls tried to crawl around on the floor with her, but they kept getting in Lucy's way. Finally, Lucy swatted one of the girls away. It was pretty funny.


On Saturday morning, Angela made pumpkin pancakes. While she was cooking breakfast, Lucy climbed into the cupboard. She is wearing the Halloween jammies Grandpa Todd gave her.

Halloween night! Lucy loved every second of Trick-O-Treating! She smiled, squealed, and kicked her legs with excitement. We hit a few houses in the neighborhood and got just enough candy to satisfy mommy and daddy's sweet tooth. Maybe not Lucy's though.


Check out this video of Lucy Trick-O-Treating.



This is a picture of Lucy in the Halloween dress that Grandma Leisa made for her. She looked adorable in it!

Halloween 2009 was a smashing success!

Mom, Trick or Treat?

This morning, I was busy making Jello for our ward Halloween party. Lucy was in the kitchen with me, playing in the drawers. I purposely filled the bottom two drawers in our kitchen with things that Lucy could safely play with. The other day, I decided to put some chocolate in one of the drawers...BIG MISTAKE! When I turned around to check on her, Lucy had found my Halloween Lindt Truffle, unwrapped it, and was happily devouring it. She was too cute to be mad at.



Photos of the Chocolate Kid


























Lucy tried to escape from the tiled kitchen to the carpet. Mom wouldn't let her, and she was quite upset.

"Love At Home-----"

We think Lucy had a pretty fun weekend at home. We did go to Story Time at Barnes & Noble Saturday morning, but this posting is all about the fun stuff we did at home while it was FREEZING here in Colorado.

First up is a picture of Daddy taking a break from finding a place for the last few items after moving. Lucy LOVED playing the Wii with him. She sat there for quite a while. Daddy even let her play a little bit too. She used her fingers and not her mouth which was pretty monumental.


Lucy had fun drinking out of the cup by herself. Why is it that children often think that the chin goes into the cup??


Daddy got a phone call Sunday morning announcing that church had been canceled for the day because of really icy roads. After reading The Book of Mormon as a family, Lucy, Daddy, and Mommy played together. We watched The Testaments later too -- what a great Sunday.


One very important event that occurred this weekend, one in which we we must not leave out, Lucy had pizza for the first time. She gobbled it up really quickly. It was pretty funny to watch.


So that was our weekend! It was cold outside, warm with love inside, and we were happy to be able to spend so much time together.

Leaves are falling all around

Fall is officially here. The leaves have all turned golden yellow and are falling from the trees. We let Lucy play in the leaves and snapped these great shots of her!

Angela's Birthday

For Angela's birthday, we went to the Denver Aquarium. It was money well spent. We all had so much fun!

Jay


Angela


Lucy


What are you guys thinking? Get me out of this shark's mouth. I don't care if it is dead.





Lucy loved looking at the fish. She kept trying to touch them through the glass. She even talked to some of them.



Here is a Bengal Tiger


Angela touching a sting ray.


Jay touching a sting ray.


After the aquarium. We went to our favorite restaurant, Johnny Carino's. Lucy was such a good girl. She sat in the high chair the whole time. As long as we kept feeding her, she was happy. We couldn't believe how fast she was shoveling the food in, but when we got up to leave, we found a big pile under Lucy's chair. Sorry bus boy!

Labor Day

We went to the Colorado Balloon Classic on Labor Day. It is the longest continuously running hot air balloon festival in the Rocky Mountain Region as well as the State of Colorado. It is similar to the balloon festival in Provo on the 4th of July, but there are more balloons (just not in this picture!).



We chased this balloon to the landing site. This is moments before they deflated it. It is fascinating to be so close to a hot air balloon and see their length when they are deflated.


After lunch, we hiked Section 16/Palmer Trail. It is a 6 mile hike (and the first half is all uphill).




Eventually, Lucy got really tired. "This hiking stuff can really wear ya out!!"


We stopped in the shade by a babblin' brook.


Lucy sure loved daddy's hat. He doesn't wear it that much, but absolutely had to because he was so sun burnt from the Wyoming/Weber State football game.