Turkey day with the TURKEYS!

It isn't very often that we get all of my parents grand kids together all at once, so today when Cole brought his girls over we took advantage and tried to get 9 kids under the age of 6 to hold still and smile at the same time.....Let me tell you before you attempt this.....ITS IMPOSSIBLE! But they had fun and are now full of marshmallows! But it is fun to get have all my brothers together, I just wish we would have gotten a sibling picture, oh well!

All the Packard grandkids (plus grandpa and my sister in-law)
Left to right: Egan, Payden, Aften, Tyrel, Riley, Ali, Blake, Luke, Ryan

The twins would not sit without screaming so we had to get Carrie to sit in....and my dad, well he wouldn't quit screaming unless he was holding the baby, so, well we let him sit in too...lol

All the boys, Will has three with mine

Tyrel, Egan and Luke, These three are T-R-O-U-B-L-E!

Ali, Ty-ty, Egan and Luke. This little girl is so prissy but yet she is always in the middle of wrestling with the boys! She is a Doll!

Anyway, it was a good thanksgiving. Its always fun to get everyone together and have food. We really have a lot to be thankful for, I hope everyone takes a moment and thinks of all the things that they are blessed with. And remember, Our worst day is better than a lot of peoples best day!

I was jinxed!

Less than a month ago my dad was riding in my car with me taking Luke to go get stitches and he told me 'welcome to the life of having boys'. Well I thought about that last night about 10:30 as I was driving to meet our family doctor, Dr. Dewitt. (Awesome guy, we absolutely LOVE him.) In the last 3 years I don't know how many house calls or times we have met him at his house to check on one of my boys (caleb and luke) so we didn't have to go to the ER and sit for hours. So he seemed to not be surprised to get a call from me so late last night and told me he would see me at the clinic in 3 minutes.


Luke was sent to get a pull up on his bum and decided to play in the hall closet instead. He hit my ironing board and it knocked binoculars off the shelf and he now has 3 stitches and a bald spot on top of his head. I'm kind of concerned that this is his second set of stitches in less than a month! I hope that these emergency visits to our favorite doctor slow down!

SNOW!

Wow, it snowed last night! And to make it even more exciting, it is still here at 8:30 this morning! I love it! Its November so I guess its allowed to get winter-ish. And can I just say, I am SO glad October is over? What a horrible month it was for me! I guess it wasn't all bad but it was very stressful but good things did come out of it. Caleb got laid off from his job at the paper mill but he did get a call back so he has a job even though he was out of a job for 2 weeks. It was a lot of fun to have him home. We had no money and he felt bad that we couldn't do anything for my birthday, but he was sweet enough to make me a birthday cake (with the help of our biggest boy) it was so yummy and it was cute to watch them master the kitchen! Now they are ready for Thanksgiving!

Flags should be lowered to half mast

As I sat at my computer tonight, watching John McCain give his concession speech, I couldn't help but think about the future of our country and what a dark, horrible time this country is going to go through in the next 4 years. I want to set the record straight. I am by no means racist, I am a patriot and I would not even support a natural born white citizen of this country if he would not sing the national anthem or stand with respect and pledge allegiance to our flag. I am not looking forward to the horrible things that will happen to our country with this new president. I do not respect him, I never will. I am very ashamed of the people of this country that voted in someone who shows such disrespect to those who have fought and died for the freedoms he will try to take away, when they could have (SHOULD HAVE) voted for someone who fought for our country, was a prisoner of war and came home with HONOR when he could have very well revealed secrets and trashed his country but endured such torment and pain. I am very ashamed, and its so sad that we all have to pay for their mistakes and stupidity. May God have pity on them.

Boys will be boys

Saturday night Luke went head to head with a bowling ball and ended up with 5 stitches! Can you believe it? He isn't even 3 years old and he has had a concussion! He looks pretty rough but the only thing he can think about is showing it to his cousins! He is one tough boy too, I would have been bawling if it was me (I was on the verge already) but he laid on the table while our Dr. sewed him up and he was helping me tell '3 little pigs'. Oh and after wards we were talking about what to look for in a serious concussion and Luke is jumping up and down on the table and saying 'catch me'! I hope this isn't a sign of what is to come! Crazy boy!

Halloween! a little late i know!

Halloween was so much fun this year! Usually Caleb is out hunting so its just me and Luke. This year Caleb decided to head out a day late and stay with us for Halloween! Soooo.....since Caleb was home, he made our costumes! Well we bought most of Lukes and Ryans but Caleb made Luke a 'real' Pirate hat. Then he got going on our costumes, he is so funny, and handy to have around! He really was excited for Halloween this year because he remembers only one time growing up that his family was not hunting and he actually got to go trick or treating, sad huh?

In our neighborhood we have been hit really hard in past years, so I was super prepared this year, I had 15 bags of miniature candy bars, we had 8 kids come! What in the world am I going to do with all this candy!?!?? We only took the boys to a few houses, mostly family....And luke STILL made out like a bandit with candy! Spoiled kid!

What a cute pirate huh?
The inspiration was the veggie tales 'pirates who don't do anything'
(favorite movie of the week)

Ryan was our adorable Bumble Bug.
He had no wings so we can't really call him a bee!

Isn't this awesome! He spray painted a hat and broom for his helmut!

I was cleopatra, Caleb made this one too.