Carving Pumpkins

With our crazy lives it took us several days to get our pumpkins carved. On Wednesday while Ryan was at his Bishopric meeting the kids and I took the insides out of our pumpkins. Hailey just loved it. I thought it was gross but she enjoyed taking the goop out.

Then Thursday night we started carving. Hay drew her own and carved most of it. I helped a little but she did really good.

When I went to my Primary Presidency Meeting Ryan finished carving the boys pumpkins. Jacob picked what he wanted it to look like but Ryan carved it and then he carved Ben's too.


I think he did a pretty good job and they turned out good.

Ryan was worried for our pumpkins, because one year, right after we carved them the next morning we got up and some punk kids had smashed our pumpkins. I told Hailey a little white lie that year when she asked where our pumpkins were I told her someone took them because that was easier to explain to a little girl then somebody smashed them.

Sewing wows

Jacob's super man costume was way to big so I cut the legs off and shortened them. I got it all done and called Jacob over to try it on for me so I could admire my handy work. and realized I put the legs on back words so now the feet of the costume are facing backwards. So now I have to rip it all out and start again. OK you can laugh at me now.

Picking Pumpkins

I like to take the kids every year to a pumpkin patch. I don't like to get them in the store because I like to get pictures of the kids in with all the pumpkins.

Ben really enjoyed it. He loved the little baby pumpkins that he could carry.


I put him in the wagon to keep him with me because he was so excited about all the pumpkins he kept running off.


cute kids


They had to have their pictures taken in the cut out.




My cute family

When I picked Ben up out of the Wagon to put in the car. I freaked out on me. I think he thought we were leaving his pumpkin. And he cried and screamed and fought me every step of the way. Poor baby he thought we were leaving his pumpkin.

Big Boy Bed

Ben has been climbing out of his crib for 3 or 4 months now, and I have been nagging Ryan all that time to convert the crib into a toddler bed. Well after months of nagging he finally did it. So Ben got a big boy bed 6 months before either of the big kids.

3D Glasses

Ryan bought the kids Monsters VS Aliens and it came with a bonus movie I'm not sure what it's called but something about Bob the blob in 3D. I didn't watch it with them but when I came out of the room I found them all sitting there glued to the screen with their glasses on. I'm not sure how he got Benners to wear the glasses, but they sure looked cute.

Disney through the years

We went to Disney Land in October of 2005 Hailey was 3 1/2 and Jacob was 9 months
and we went to Disney world in October of 2006 Hailey was 4 1/2 and Jacob was 21 months. So I created some collages of us in 2005,2006 and 2009

Us with Mickey Mouse



Hailey girl in her Minnie Ears


Jacob in his Mickey ears, I'm a bad mom and didn't take pictures of him with his ears on in 2006


Since Ben wasn't alive for the first two visits there's only the one picture of him


Hailey with Sleeping Beauty


Ryan with Kids on his shoulders. Hay in 2005 Ben in 2009

Goofey Golf

We got packed up and went to lunch and we had a couple of hours to kill so we took the kids goofy golfing. They even had a little plastic club for Benners. He thought he was hot stuff until half way through when he threw it on the ground and I ended up carrying it.

Hailey, Brianna, Nate, Jacob, Ben

Mattie, Ryan, and Big Nate

Jacob and Andrea

Cool pictures of a pond full of Lilly pads. The kids had a good time, they could care less if they win or not they just liked playing.

Beach

On our last day of vacation we went to the beach. It was a long drive but it was worth it because the kids had a great time It was an hour or more drive and Ben sang to us almost the whole way. I got a couple videos sorry I know they are sideways I forgot you can't change the direction of a video. Well may be you can but I just don't know how.

It was an adventures drive. I forgot to give Jacob his Dramine and so half way there he threw up and of course I didn't have another swimming outfit for him with us. So Ryan said he can just wear his underwear. Well Jacob didn't like that idea at all. He told us I can't go on the beach everyone will see my unders. So we had to stop at the towns walmart so I could run in and get him some new swim trunks. But being that it was October they had put all there summer stuff up and had the hats and gloves out which seems silly to me because we were in Florida. I'm not sure it ever gets cold there. Well I found one pair of shorts on the clearance rack and I bought a size smaller because my kids have no waste and no butts to hold up there shorts. and when I got them out to the car they were still to big for him. But at least everyone didn't see his underwear.

Hailey and Jacob My beach babies just love the beach. Jacob wasn't to hip on getting in the water but he enjoyed playing on the beach.

Ryan and Ben and Mattie. He wasn't a huge fan of the water either. when we tried to take him in he would climb up us to stay out of the waves.


What a view

We tried to build a sand castle but we just ended up with a bunch of these. and some how I ended up stuffing all the buckets with sand. I was working and I looked up and I was the only one working on it the big kids had run off downs the beach with Ryan

Two of my favorite men . I have a picture like this of Jacob and Ryan walking down the beach.

Playing on the beach

Ryan and Mattie and Ben

We found this blue floatie bobbing down the waves so we played with it for a while and then sent it on it's way, hopefully back to it's owner

My burrito babies. The kids love when Ryan wraps them up like burritos after bath and they were all cold so he wrapped them all up and I had to take a picture of them all cute and still. But don't be fooled there not always so cute and silent.

Snack time. Me and Benners, Jacob making a funny face, Ryan and Hay bug

I love back shots and Hay and Ben just sat down and were watching the waves come in. They're so cute.