Thanksgiving and Ruth's B-day

Ruth's kitty cupcakes, as requested. They turned out pretty well.

Megan was also born on November 18th! It was a big party at my parents house

 We were so happy to spend tons of time at Meg and Joe's house, we haven't seen them in years. The kids had lots of fun together.

 turkey marshmallow craft

 These are our adobe style graham cracker houses. It was lots of fun to make and the kids loved eating all that candy!

Here is myself and dad at Claim Jumper with the largest "slice" of cake you'll ever see. It was way bigger than my hand and fed all 7 adults.

Multnomah Falls

And here are family pics by my dad:

Fall Activities and Halloween

This year has been the best Halloween by far. The kids were so into it and we all had lots of fun doing Halloween crafts and activities. 

Ruth's Halloween nails: spiderweb, jack-o-lantern, ghost, monster and spider

pumpkin patch had a kid maze and old tractor

Long sleeves and sunsets

We took a weekend trip to Boise to see the temple they are rededicating. We also got to watch the Idaho Vandal marching band on the basque street downtown.

Playing in the vast amount of leaves we have

I just had to dress up for the ward party, so I wore all my jewelry, Brad's belt, stripey socks and got a dollar store hat and sword. It was fun!

 Halloween story time at the library, Ruth wanted to use my pirate stuff, everyone kept calling her a boy!

Little Buzz Lightyear. He won the best homemade costume at the ward party.

                               Ladybug Girl (check out the books if you haven't read them yet)

Out trick-or-treating. 

We went with the Chandler's (Ruth and Alice are besties) and walked around the ritzy part of town. They got so much good candy! We were all exhausted by the end but it was a blast. The best part was that it was strangely warm so no one was cold!

October Activities

Family pictures in the backyard, GO BYU!

Conference weekend brought homemade cinnamon rolls...

 and lounging

FHE brought more baking

 and messy decorating

Claire's Blessing Pics

All photos thanks to my dad, stevelentsphotography

Hey, It's Okay

It's okay that my right bicep has been killing me for two days because I played tennis on the Wii. Good exercise!

It's okay that Will pooped all over the bathroom last night (floor, all over the toilet seat, on the side of his potty, and on the rug), at least it wasn't on my carpet...again.

It's okay that Will is obsessed with sugar, it's a great incentive to get him to eat vegetables...and poop IN the potty.

It's okay I hate our dog, when Armageddon comes I'll have something to eat!

It's okay Ruth loves to blare music and dance around, she's not going to be a party girl, she's going to be an Olympic gymnast, right?

Halloween!!!

Hooray, the holiday season is upon us! Here are some of the crafts the kids and I worked on today to get our house Halloween ready. It was so much fun!!!

 For both of these I used black frames that were already hanging in our livingroom and put Halloweeny things in them. I just used construction paper, scissors and a glue stick. To see my other Halloween decorations click here.

 And here are the kid crafts. The ghost is from "Ghost Gets Dressed"

In other news, Claire is officially ours as of today, HOORAY! Also, Will is potty trained, and it only took 3 solid weeks. YES! Pooping is still 50/50, and I'm sure we'll have digressions like we did with Ruth, but I'm considering him done! Hahaha! Life is good.