Jake's office party

every year jake's work has a big halloween office party where the kids come dressed up and trick or treat from office to office. it is always so much fun! we had a blast...and this year we also brought our neighbor, the cute bumble bee below!!

Ty is definitely our little spunky monkey...so this costume fits him perfectly!!

and what would a monkey be without his banana?! he carried it ALL night

How many pumpkins an YOU hold?!

the local garden center has this deal every year...for $18.99 you can take as many pumpkins as you can carry! so of course we are up for the challenge. we headed down and loaded up. jake managed to hold 8!!! wahoo....and you were only able to hold the big heavy ones. my neighbor came along too...she carried 6!

good work buff-os!!

Pumpkin patch

What have been up to lately....A LOT!!! so i am going to try and update as much as i can, when i have some free time (which i dont seem to have a lot of right now!) we are loving this fun fall, festive time. my sister Karen and her family came out to visit, which is alway fun when family comes. one of the things we did was go to the pumpkin patch! we never really plan on it, but it seems like we have gone to the pumpkin patch with their family more years then not! i love it!

our anual cow, butt sniffing picture!

having so much fun!!

Ty's first steps!!!

MY BABY HAS STARTED WALKING!!!!! here is a little video of his first real steps! he started walking yesterday and has gotten even better today! he is going to be running soon! Yay Ty

Glass Face

i was working in the backyard today and when i turned around, this is what i saw!!!! Two cute little faces, smooshed up to the glass watching me!

i love these boys!! ...but time to go wash my windows now!!

Fall is upon us!

let the holiday season BEGIN! we kicked off our very busy October weekends, with this last weekend of business. wow did that even make sense. Anyway, we will have so much going on til halloween, but we are loving it already! last weekend started with an impromptu cookie decorating night. one of the neighbor boys helped me make dough while i was babysitting hi

m, but then we decided to invite everyone over to help us decorate and eat the cookies! yumm

then it was off to our LEGO DAY....starting with a new Lego store opening in our local mall. kids could come by and help build a giant SpongeBob!

Blaine got a certificate for helping...and Ty just hung out with me!

Last stop for the day....LEGOLAND! we went down mainly to try and defend our title as Lego Costume contest winner, but unfortunately we did not win this year. the winner was actually a hand crocheted, life size spongebob! the crochet made it all look like little lego pieces. it was crazy! no thank you! we still had fun anyway, and i thought Blaine's costume was great and very cleaver!

he got to build a lego pumpkin for their pumpkin patch. do you see blaine's?!

next, it was off to the costume contest. Blaine dressed up as one of the very popular Ninjago characters Kia, and Blaine was the evil skeleton that he battles Bonez. the cool part about these costumes was actually the spinners we made out of trash can lids. Blaine did such a great job making these with me!

and what would halloween at legoland be with out brick-or-treat! we had a great time!

Build a Fort

Today was a rainy day, so Ty and i decided to build a Fort!

Ty LOVED playing in there!

then we enjoyed some hot chocolate!

but of course the Fort was soooo much more fun once big brother got home from school!

Blaine even said to me, "Wow mom, I'm actually having fun playing with my brother!" nice huh?!!

...and for those of you who noticed....yes, Ty got a hair cut! i thought he needed something more spunky to match his attitude! he is a spunky boy for sure!!

FHE 2.1 & 2.2

we took a little break from FHE firepits....but now we are back at it and having fun! 2 weeks ago we had a special treat...an old missionary who served in our ward came to visit us with his wife! it was so fun to see Elder (but not elder any more) Clifford.

then just yesterday, we had a great time with the Lillenburgs and Jessops! we made a mini coloring book about being a child of God....since all the kids besides Blaine were little!

the Lillenburgs

and the Jessops!

check out Josh's perfect smore....leave it to a fire man to know how to roast a perfect marshmallow! thanks for coming everyone!