Halloween 2010

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Halloween. It is the kickoff to the holiday season and I love creating cute costumes for my kids. Granted they will seem like they are high on crack until after the new year, but it is a fun time of year. I love carving pumpkins then roasting the seeds. I love putting the kids costumes together and Wyatt's costume. I love taking them around the neighborhood to trick or treat. AND I love all of the fall and Halloween decorations. I just love it. Sydney is a vampire bride, I made her costume out of an old bedskirt, then Payson wanted to be a witch. I borrowed a black dress from a friend when Payson tried it on she said this is really plain so I made the tu tu and the purple bustier, and I gathered her sleeves. Thank goodness Jon wanted to be a football player so I didn't have to make his costume.

Wyatt's Halloween Party!

So we had a hard time coming up with a costume for Wyatt this year. His work always has a costume party; he has been Warren Jeps in prison clothes, A hula girl w/ a coconut bra, Nacho Libre and last year the Burger king KING. This costume though takes the cake. I had suggested be a fisherman from the TV show deadliest catch. Well if any of you know my Wyatt he takes it one step further. A fisherman from deadliest catch; however he has caught the deadliest itch...crabs. Oh he is one funny guy but I love him with all my heart and he cracks me up. The winner of the best costume from his office wins a flat screen tv.

Baby projects

So I have been trying to get a few things ready for the new baby. I made these wash rags and I think they turned out really good. I sewed flannel fabric onto one side of a plane white wash rag. Then put ribbon over the raw edge. I love how soft the flannel is. I used one to wash my face and I LOVE it. They were so easy, I need to make more to keep on hand for baby gifts.

YA YA SISTERHOOD GIRLS NIGHT OUT

I took the girls and a few friends to Thanksgiving Point for their annual Ya Ya Sisterhood night. We enjoyed cups of soup, shrimp nachos, chocolate fondue and little pumpkin cupcakes. (All free) We danced and cheered, wrote down our woes then burn them, chanted the YA YA chant. It was a great night, I look forward to it again next year, although the girls really want to go all out wearing dresses and feather boas and BIG hats.

more pictures

While at the museum I was able to show the kids the kind of air plane that my Grandpa Smith flew during WWII. It was a B29; he was the tail gunner. I am always in awe at how these old planes were able to fly across the ocean to defend our rights.

UEA WEEKEND Hill AF Base Museum

We had a great time up at the museum on the Base. The kids loved it. We had a older man who was a tour guide walk us around. He tried to take our family picture but he was shaking sooo bad the picture didn't turn out. He offered to take other pictures but we kindly declined.

"new" car seat

So I needed a new carseat for the baby but I didn't want to spend the big bucks on a new one. So I recovered my old one. I had been looking all over for the fabric and I was never able to find the exact color scheme that I wanted. Finally I found it at JoAnns and it was on sale. It was so fun to do this little project. I can't wait to get busy making more things for this little guy, hopefully I can get them done before he gets here. I'd better get busy since I started this carseat project about 2 months ago. :)

FALL IS HERE!!!

I love fall decorating. I love dressing warmer or at least wearing jeans and long sleeve shirts and people don't think you are crazy for wearing that. I love making soups and pumpkin desserts. I just love fall.

Newest member of our family...JOE DIRT!

SO yesterday Bennett decided she was tired of her hair. She was either thinking that Billy Ray Cyrus has awesome hair or David Spade has it going on in Joe Dirt. Whatever, now she just has a horrible do that has to be pulled into a little pony on the top of her head. I guess it will grow back until then we are calling her Joe Dirt. She is crying in the last picture because I told her she wasn't cute anymore with this new haircut,( don't worry she still thinks she is cute) she hopefully will NEVER cut her hair again.

LEHI FOOTBALL

This is what our nights and Saturdays now consist of, FOOTBALL!!!! It is fun a big time commitment but it really is fun. My Jonny boy looks so stinkin' CUTE. He is getting really good too, at todays game he knocked a westlake (team they played) player down. He has been a little apprehensive about knocking people down, so I cheered very loudly when he knocked the kid down. More pictures to come in the next few months.

haircuts

Payson wanted her hair cut short, I was having problems with them cutting off 4-5 inches. It just takes so long to grow out, but she loves it. She says she can't stop smiling, she looks so grown up now. Sydney just wanted 3 inches trimmed off. They both look so cute with their new haircuts. All ready for school.

first day of school 2010

Kids got up early without any problems, very excited for the first day. Jon is sporting his DC shoes and shirt. Syd and Payson are wearing their Justice clothes, all glitzed up. Benni is happy to be home with mom watching dora and just having a mom and benni day. She is in HEAVEN. She loves the kids but loves the attention of mom.

What I am reading these days

I stared reading this book and I am really enjoying it. Jonny just stared football so I have a good 2 hours every night to read while watching him. I loved reading the JoyLuck Club, but that was years ago. So I am excited to have time to read and not be sidetracked into doing something else.

AZ trip

We loved getting to see our family in Arizona, unfortunately our car gave us some problems so it was in the repair shop most of the trip. It started to overheat on the way home from the Diamondbacks game on Tuesday night, luckily Wyatt was able to get out of downtown Phoenix and made it to Tempe. There in Tempe the kids were up close and personal with several homeless people. The kids were VERY scared. Wyatt was with his mom and jonny and 2 of their cousins. There we had to car towed to east Mesa. So Tiff and I drove to Tempe to pick them up. When we got there Jonny was shaking and just held on to me, he was saying how scared he was. We had it towed to a mechanic the next morning. Luckily we were able to use my Brother in laws car while ours was at the shop. All in All we were with out our car from Tuesday night till Friday evening. It was such a pain but luckily we were blessed to have had it happen in the city and NOT in the middle of the desert. We were also blessed that we were able to use a car and we were not without a car for the week. Unfortunately not able to make it down to Safford to see my family. We were very sad and tears were shed but it could have been worse. Luckily we were safe and it was just an inconvenience. On our way back home to Utah the kids were asking when we were going to Safford to see Grandma and Grandpa Smith, they were all very sad and crying when we told them that we couldn't make it because of the car problems. It could have been worse so I am grateful that we were safe and the car was fixed for the long drive back home.

AmAzInG jAkEs!!!!

We went to Amazing Jakes while in Arizona. The kids had a blast. We took full advantage of the all you can eat pizza buffet. We were there from open till close. Ten to ten- so that was breakfast lunch and dinner. By the time we ate pizza for dinner I was a little burnt out. PIZZA OVERLOAD! We had a great time while the kids played on all of the rides the adults just sat and visited. Benni and Ellie would ride the teacups over and over again. It was a ton of fun- thanks Kathie for the fun day!