Merry Grinchmas

All the little Who's

The bad Who's, okay maybe just one

The Grinch

The Grinch's heart

The beautiful Who's

The Grinch and her husband

Mid-December all the Wheeler's gathered for a Christmas party in St. George, we laughed, ate and mingled.  It was a very lovely Grinchmas.

THE NFR

Wendy invited me to go to the NFR this year, it was awesome!

I love rodeo, Wendy is an actual rodeo'r and barrel races, I just like boots and spurs, dust and mud.  (sorry-couldn't help it)  Another bucket list check mark.

Still Got It

The Wheeler's and the Walker's teamed up to dominate the old man basketball tournament this Thanksgiving.  They still got it.  Just getting better.  Oh and the short guy is Eric, he's brave and sneaky in the land of giants.  Watching Jed play is always a fun time, the competitiveness, the skills, the sheer beauty of such a tall guy being coordinated.  Live on basketball!

Thanksgiving Workout

One of our favorite hikes.  Everyone had a good time.

Sliding down hills, 

Building with dried mud,

and especially throwing and crumbling dried mud.  

My girls build things, my boys chuck it.,

O'Christmas Tree

Last year Renn was little and we traveled for Thanksgiving and there just wasn't a moment for tree hunting.  We had to put up the pathetic, fake tree, I didn't realize how sad it was.  This year the kids had the entire week off of school so Jed took the day off before Thanksgiving and we went in search of the WHEELER FAMILY TREE.

"It's not going in our yard, son, it's going in our living room."

Two trees in one?  "Lots of sap."

Renn wreaked havoc on the tree.  He really loved all the shiny, breakable ornaments.  I thought because they weren't glass they would be safe.  

Elise helped rearrange after Renn's wake of destruction.

Grateful

Thanksgiving shootout

I am grateful for family..

For winterish weather, even though we planned an outdoors Thanksgiving (of course)..

For snuggles...

For pumpkin targets!  

Jack and I have deadly aim with the BB gun.

Scouting

Jed received the On My Honor award for his service in scouting.  

He is a good leader, the boys he was with over a year ago still keep in touch with him.  

He has dedicated a lot of time and energy to young men's/scouting and loves every minute of it.  I'm proud of him and I will try to stop complaining about camp-outs now.