Fun News!!

Ok I know I'm only a monthly poster but we have had some exciting things going on. 1st off We are going to have a GIRL!!!! We are so excited. I have been thinking of names for a while now boy or girl. well now we can focus on just girl names. I have liked McKenna for a long time with a lot more names also but the other day Jodi and I with the boys were in Costco and on our way out I told Jodi that I liked the name Morgan also. We only mentioned it a couple of times. and when we got in the Car and Jodi asked Seth which name he liked better McKenna or Morgan and he was all I like Morgan better. so ok we laughed and left it at that. If you ask Seth what he wants to name is baby sister is will say Morgan and is very defensive about it. On our way home from Snowflake, Jodi text me and asked me if he was still on the Morgan kick and so we asked him once again, and of course he said Morgan and we said why, and he answered because thats a Beautiful name. It was so cute. (we are not stuck on that name though).

Seth got to go up to Snowflake a couple of weeks ago and spend the week with Grandma Kristi and Grandpa Mike and of course Gavin and Bo. He loved it. One incident that Kristi told me that happened was Mike was coming home to fix a part of their porch and so she told Seth to go out and start pulling it apart and wait for Grandpa to come home. well he sat on the porch for a little bit and then came marching in the house, walked past grandma and straight down to the laundry room, grabbed a screwdriver and marched right back out to the front porch and continued to take apart the porch until grandpa got there. that is so typical of him. he loves to work with tools. He is a smart little boy and knows what things are for. He had so much fun with you all.

This past weekend we went to Snowflake for Thanksgiving and we had so much fun. we got there on Wednesday and we just hang out. on Thursday we went to the church and the Roger family played basketball and Volleyball they had fun. then about 2 pm we ate lunch and stuffed our self with delicious food. thanks everyone it was awesome. then we visited with everyone and watched the "Aunts" exchange their ordiments they were really cute. after that we cleaned up then went and listened to Uncle Karl and Megan play the Piano. They did AWESOME!!! they are amazing at the piano. we left and went home for a couple of hours then went to Aunt Bets and Uncle Shea's house to watch a "Get Smart" it was a funny movies. It got over at about 8 or so and the Russell Clan left because we wanted to get to bed so we could get up at 3:30 am to go to Winslow to hit the shopping. we were there about 5 min before the doors opened. Jay, Brittany, Mom and I went and Aunt Kim and Allee went in their truck. We made a plan of who would go where and get what so we could get everything we wanted. well I was after a Trampoline if I got that and only that I would be happy (of course I had other things to get to but) well I went fighting the crowd and finally found them. there was one left and there was people standing around it so I asked them if it was available and they said no they were putting it in a cart right now. I couldn't have been more bummed I was really sad. Well in the mean time My mom, Jodi, and Ciminy where in the valley looking for them also and they called and said they were all out at the walmart they were at. so I was really bummed. I went on my way to find other things I wanted. Well I get a call from Kristi and said "go stand by the trampolines and just wait Aunt Kim just called her and said she heard a associate say they were going to bring out more trampolines. so I went over there and stood there waiting. I was about to just give up and I saw these 2 guys in Navy shirts with no name tags with 3 trampolines on this cart coming down an isle by where the trampolines where. So I asked them if those were for sale and they said yes they are the last 3 and I said awesome I know I want 2 and maybe all 3 so I called my mom to see if she wanted one also. while I was on the phone another associate came up to them and said they needed one of those in this cart. and the guy said she might want all 3 and the other associate said "oh they have to be physically here" I thought am I not physical or what. well mom said no so that made it easier cuz I would have had to put up a fight but luckily I didn't. well I told those guys that I wanted the other 2 (one for me and one for Cim)and lets go check out right now so they are in my name. so I did that and had to just sit there on them so no one would take them and I couldn't finish my shopping. luckily I had most everything in Jay's cart. It was fun. I'm glad it worked out the way it did. we were home by 7:45 so we made good timing. we just hung out around the house most of the day and put up Kristi's Christmas decorations. its looks so good. I wish I had half of the stuff she does. We love you Russells and thanks for such a wonderful weekend. Well we will keep truckin along. Chauncy only has 3 more days of being in class. he will be done next Tuesday for the semester. YIPPEE!!!!! all is well with us and I hope all is well with you.

~Shar