Collins Shenanigans

Well, for Thanksgiving we headed to Mtn. View to be with my family. It was really fun but a little bit weird. We had the 5th? annual Turkey Bowl at the high school on a snow covered field! Instead of having Thanksgiving at the church with my mom's whole family, we decided to branch off this year.. that was the weird part, but it was still really fun. We had an amazing Thanksgiving dinner/lunch at my parents house with all of my family in attendance minus Evan and Olivia (They were in Star Valley). Thanksgiving Day was also Porter's firts birthday!!!! So we celebrated with some really cute owl cupcakes with a theme of - Look "who"s turning 1. Jordan put alot of hard work into his cute little party and it turned out great. We just relaxed and spent some time with family it was really nice. Then Friday the fun began. Growing up my dad always had plenty of help running the ranch, I mean he had 7 kids! Well we always joke that my dad plans working cows around holidays because he knows we will be home to help, and this year wasn't any different. We headed out Friday morning to get all of the cows and bull in so we could work them. It actually went surprisingly fast once we got things running I think it took about 4 hours or so. I'm so glad my dad got a new shoot to work cows otherwise I think it would definitely have taken longer! When we got home, they had homemade "chicken" (turkey) noodles ready for us with fresh crescent rolls. We were all pretty frozen to the bone so it was nice to come home to a warm house and a hot meal. On Saturday I played in a volleyball tournament with 2 of my sisters, my cousin Tori, her sister in law, and Holly. We definitely didn't win but we had a fun time anyways :) Although I think we were all wishing it had been over a few hours earlier! Michael was such a good sport he took care of Kyri all day while I played, I have the best husband in the world! Speaking of Kyri, she is such a hoot! She is growing up so fast I can't even believe it, she is learning so much everyday. Her newest thing is that she likes to say "uh-oh". She kept grabbing the program at church today and "dropping" (aka throwing) it on the ground and saying uh-oh it was too cute. It is so fascinating to see how much she learns and grows everyday. We are getting excited for Christmas around here, and we love this time of year. We finished all of our finals this week and are taking advantage of a much needed break! I can't believe we made it through this semester. With both of us physically going to school full time and working it has been a ridiculously insane semester. I am only taking 2 online classes next semester to save our sanity! That way I can work full time and Michael can work and go to school and not have to worry about my class schedule and we won't be running in a 3 ring circus. We are excited to go to Lovell for Christmas, only 10 more days till we get to leave! Other than that we are just working and loving being able to spend more time with Kyri and less time working on homework. We had our annual Christmas party for work last weekend and we actually won a prize!! I have worked at Gem City for 4 Christmases now so I figured I was about due to win a prize ;) Here are some pictures from the last posts (in no particular order) since I have been a slacker!