Halloween Fun

I know I am a little late with the Halloween pictures, but we have been a little busy this month. Here we are at the park with some friends painting pumpkins. Brooklyn loves Steven.

This year for Halloween we had a goulish doctor....

a courageous knight....

and a fairy princess all running around the house.

It was great!

Funny Story

So recently I have been looking for a good mascara. One that solves my problem of having few, short and skinny lashes. I was talking to my mary kay lady and expressing my frustration. She tells me about this new mascara they have that is supposed to be wonderful.... builds your lashes....separates them so they never clump...on and on. I say sure, lets give it a try. So Sunday morning I get ready for church and decide to try it out. We are sitting in sacrament meeting and my cute little daughter is on my lap. She is being all snuggly and looks up at my face. She looks into my eyes and says to me, pointing at my eyes..."pretty spiders mommy". I laugh and say why thank you Brooklyn, you have pretty eyes too. I guess I need to write to Mary Kay and tell them that their product works really well. Don't you just love little kids and the way they see the world.

(To be fair this was Halloween weekend)

Happy Birthday Tanner!

Tanner, I can't believe you are so big. Eight years have gone by way too fast. I think I might not be able to contain my emotions on Saturday when you are baptized. It is something we have been looking forward to for a long time. I know you are very ready and excited. I love seeing you be so excited about your scriptures and wanting to have them with you and read them all the time. I am so proud of you and the little man you are turning into. You are such a light and joy in our family. We all love you so much. We wanted to share some of our favorite things about you....

Dad: I love that you are so curious about the world.

Mom: I love that you are so funny. You always make us laugh. I think you will forever be the entertainment portion of dinner.

Kaden: He is nice and I like him.

Brooklyn: Snuggles... love him!

We do love you Tanner. We hope you had a great birthday.

Blowing out the candles

We thought you were old enough to light the cake yourself this year... be careful!

You have definitely had an obsession with sharks lately... hopefully this lives up to your expectations. Not quite as good as your drawings though :)

Go Boys! Brooklyn is cheering you on!

Fall Fun

We had a very busy and fun day on Friday. The boys were out on fall break and we decided to take full advantage. First, we drove across town to go to the scout store. Tanner was so excited to pick out his uniform, book and all the other fun things he got to get. He has been looking forward to this day for a long time. We are very happy for him. Yeah Tanner!

Next, we headed out to Waterman's and played at the fall festival. There was so much to do and the kids had a blast. Tanner gave Brooklyn a ride on the go karts...A short ride since they were self propelled. I think that was Kadens favorite thing there. In between everything we did he wanted to run back to the go karts. There were carnival games, a petting zoo, a big pile of hay to climb, spinning rides and of course a hay ride to the pumpkin patch complete with a little pumpkin to take home. The big hit though was the giant dinosaur that ate pumpkins. Every 20 minutes or so they would turn it on and feed it a few pumpkins. It roared quite loudly and moved it's head all around. Brooklyn really liked it from a distance and in the safety of my arms. I asked her if she was going to feed her pumpkin to the dinosaur and I don't think she let go of it the rest of the time we were there. She hasn't stopped talking about the dinosaur that eats "pumpkinins" all weekend.

Vroom!

Chomp...Chomp...

Patiently waiting for his turn to ride. So cute!

She wanted to snuggle all the little goats.

Maybe not that end Brooklyn!

The hayride. Brooklyn wouldn't look at the camera no matter how hard we tried. :)

The hay slide was a hit.

After the festival we rushed back to town because we were signed up for Amazon John at the library. He brought all kinds of critters and creatures. I think the favorites were his HUGE great dane and the owl. Here is Tanner petting the tarantula and getting to make it give silk. I don't have many pictures because at this point in the day Brooklyn decided she was done and I spent most of the time trying to corral her. It was a great, fun, busy and tiring day. Tomorrow we are back to school and counting down the days to the next school break.

I decided to be a little adventurous for Brooklyn's birthday this year. In addition to our little family party I decided to throw her a party with all her little friends. We did a hungry caterpillar theme. It was a lot of fun. Here are some of the pictures. Thanks you my friend Erika and her mad photo skills.... and always having her camera with her. Thanks to all our friends who came to celebrate with us. We had a great time and hope you did too!

Invitations

Decorations

Food

cake (i thought I rotated this-sorry)

Party Favors

Entertainment

Silly Fun

Presents

Play Time

Friends

Bounce House

I can't believe she is two. It goes by way too fast!

My baby girl is two! I can't believe how fast the time has gone by. She is getting so big and turning into her own little person. Right now she is definitely "all girl". She loves anything pink, sparkly, baby related or having anything to do with princesses...especially Tangled. I think she would watch that movie every day if I let her. She even sings along...can two year olds do that?....really? We had a really fun party the other night with our little family. It is so cute how the boys get so excited over her. They had as much fun as if it were their own birthday I think.

One of her favorite gifts was this baby nursery from Grandma and Grandpa. Her babies have always been well loved, but now they are feed, diapered, rocked, sung to and tucked in every 5 minutes.

Another favorite gift was this princess castle. She loves to take in her blankets and books. The boys won't stay out of it either.

We had to have a Tangled cake of course......

Kaden was so excited and did all the decorations and table setting all by himself. Thanks Kade, you did a great job!

Wow, did that last post date really say June 28??? Ooops!! I would like to say that we have been really busy, and we have, but 2 1/2 months... I think I deserve a reprimand for that one.

We have had a great, busy, wonderful, chaotic summer. We were in Utah for almost a month for a wedding and to visit family. It was great to see everyone and we already miss them all so much. Here are a few things we have been up to....

Running a race...the boys did so good and were very excited to get their medals.

Even Brooklyn got one, being in her stroller was hard work!

Our new sister Chealsea's family has horses on their land. Her dad was absolutely so cute with Brooklyn. They were fast friends, especially when he let her feed and ride the ponies.

Fishing with Grandpa is always a favorite activity when we visit Utah. Usually we catch and release, but Kaden was adamant about eating his fish. Thanks to Grandpa for taking care of that one. I can't stand to touch them.

While in Utah I got to visit an old friend. I was her young womens leader when she was a little beehive. Now look at her, all grown up, beautiful and in college. I haven't aged a bit of course. :)

This is just a sampling of all we did. It is impossible to post 2 1/2 months worth. Now we are back into the routine of school and loving it. The boys love their teachers this year and are having a great time.