Cooking with Mom 11/4/12

Ryker decided he needed to start helping Mom cook! He now pulls the stool over, climbs up and helps every possible was he can! He loves making messes and cleaning up too!

Ryker loves to help vacuum and empty the dishwasher. He will even put all the silverware in the drawer without any complaint! He follows Mom into the laundry room every chance he can to help throw clothes in or clean out the lint drawer!

 

Key Hole Canyon 9/15/2012

Ben and the two older kids finally completed their video from our trip in Sept... Here's a link to check out Emery and Mason's awesome adventure going down Keyhole Canyon in Zion's National Park! They did such and awesome job and had so much fun, we are very proud of them!!!

Keyhole Canyon, Zions National Park, Utah

Halloween 2012

Gotta love pumpkin carving time!! Especially when it's nice weather to do everything outside!

I love this picture! Perfect timing and the face says it all!

School Parade Madness!

This year all 4 of our kids were in the same school parade! Can you believe it?! It was fun to see all of them!

Ryker demonstrating his rare mouth skills! He was Superman, by the way!

Miss Emery rounding the corner in her Crazy witch costume Grandma made! It turned out so cute!

Scary Frankenstein! I loved Hunter's costume!! He wore an old pair of my boots, cut off some DI church pants, found an over sized coat and green paint and there ya go! Cutest thing ever!

Aidan and Mason were in costumes from the other house for the school parade... we couldn't tell who they were cause everyone had the same costume and face painting... it was kinda funny! So they had to yell at us so we knew it was them!

Ta ta!!

Trick or Treat!! 2012

Here's the crew before we headed out for trick or treating this year! We have our Frankenstein, Scarecrow, Mummy, Witch and Super Baby! We headed to Tennants for trick or treating and some yummy dinner, which is always a blast!

After trick or treating it was time to make trades and go through stashes!

 Oh, how I love candy!

Crawdad Fishing 2012

Ben has been dying to go Crawdad fishing, because of schedules and previously planned activities we weren't able to go until later in the season. We packed up the truck early on Saturday and headed to Strawberry Reservoir for the day! Matt and his kids, Oma and Opa, Andrew and Julie and Grandpa and Grandma Cindy all came along for the ride. None of them had every been Crawdad fishing and they all had a blast! We threw out the poles and did some regular fishing... bites were good and we all caught a few... well except for Paul!

 

 Sitting on the windy dock! Rocking back and forth, back and forth!

 

The kids throwing their strings and chicken legs in the water!

 

Ryker is too mobile sometimes... so he has to get caged up every now and then!

 

Hunter pulling Grandpa's fish out of the water for him!

 

Oma putting her fish back into the water!

 

 

Ryker playing with the fish... right after he felt it he stuck it in his mouth and bit it. It was SO gross!

 

 



Oma showing off her proud catch!

 

Thanks everyone for coming and playing with us! We had a great time!

Happy Birthday to my Stinkers!

Aidan and Hunter LOVE October in our house... why?! Because it's there birthday month! There's two dinners, 3 cakes, 3 days of presents a trip down south and somewhere out on the town. Who wouldn't love there birthday month?!

 

This year it was all about Avengers... and the cake did not disappoint!

 

Dad lighting the cake at the cousins party with everyone!

 

That's a lot of candles!

Gift opening time!

 

So confused why Emery and Mason gave them Baby Gift cards! Until it was explained it's about the money on the card not the actual card!

Fishing poles and trio's! Sweet!

 

Last day of gifts... we'd rather play catch!

Happy Birthday to my two 7 year old's!! You guys have gotten so big!