November 2011

Some more miscelaneous pictures from the month of November....

 Katy feeding herself with a fork for the first time

 Seriously, her smile and adorable face just melt my heard. I love having a little girl.

 We had our first major snowstorm in early November. I helped the boys suit up to go play outside and they had so much fun. Well, Tyler did at least. Tyler was fearless trekking into the deepest snow banks...Jacob on the other hand felt completely helpless every time he fell. He didn't quite understand that if you fall you just have to get snow on you to get back up. He was pretty upset that I wouldn't go outside and help him up each time. It was pretty funny watching Tyler try to help him up, and end up falling over himself.

 We have absolutely nothing but dirt in the backyard, so this created a muddy mess on their snow boots....they haven't been allowed to play in the backyard in the snow since then....can't wait for spring to arrive so we can landscape back there!

 The kids love to watch my treats bake in the bottom oven!

I made some cute and delicious cupcakes for a friends baby shower in November.

Life rushing by

Life rushes by SO quickly, I feel sometimes I forget to just enjoy the moment. Its funny to think back when cell phones first started getting popular. I used to have the attitude "What is the point to have a camera on your cell phone? Its a PHONE, why do I need to spend the extra money to have a camera on it?!" Well, now I am VERY grateful that cell phone technology has included cameras on my one device that goes everywhere with me. I am able to remember those random moments that come and go so quickly. Here are a few random pictures from my cell phone at the end of 2011, I'll date them since they will be kind of across the board when it comes to dates.


Tyler was the first VIP of the week for K
this was his poster we created together

8/9/11- Back to school haircut

September 2011 

  Fun at the park in September 2011



Katy's first pigtails- in October, at 15mo old



Jacob's first day of Preschool(Nov. 2011), at Buffalo Trail Elementary Preschool
His teacher is Miss Krista, with Miss Alyse and Miss Ahn helping
He goes by Jack at school



   

 A small walk with mommy   And just enjoying some sibling love! (Nov. 2011)

 Tyler showing off at Little Gym and Katy thinking she's a big girl on the airplane to UT

 Me and Jenn-Lee having a little fun with baby Tobin and me and Tobin before I flew home (Nov. '11) 

Halloween 2011

Halloween....yes, it is February....and I'm just now getting around to Halloween from last year.....

I didn't really get pictures this halloween (at least with the big camera)...which I'm a little bummed about, but its the memories that count right? For Halloween 2011 Katy was the cutest Watermelon you've ever seen, Jacob was Darth Vader, and Tyler was Swampfire (from the cartoon Ben 10 Alien). The kids had a few oppurtunties to dress in their costumes. They got to wear them to their Little Gym class, then to our church Halloween Party/Trunk or Treat, to the Southlands (the mall down the street) trick or treat, and then of course for Halloween. On Halloween this year we only hit up a few homes of people we knew, and also stopped by Tyler's Kindergarten teachers house, since she lives down the street. Our section of the neighborhood only had about 6 finished homes, of which only 2 homes had kids (ours and the neighbor) so we knew we had no reason to stay home and hand out candy....that was a nice break.

Tyler requested Pikachu be carved into his mini pumpkin...
that was a bit difficult, but I managed to accomplish it.
I'm really kind of bummed, I carved a BYU pumpkin, but can't seem
find a picture of it....

  As Halloween was getting close I got out our costume bin to try and convince the kids to be something we already had....only worked for Jacob. Katy had so much fun with that costume bin and showed me how girl she really is. When the boys were her age they HATED me putting any kind of costume on them and would scream, fight, and run away. Katy on the other hand kept bringing me costume after costume to try on her. It was great fun!

  



At the church Trunk or Treat she had a steel grip on her candy bucket...
and wouldn't let go for anything, even for us to put her in her car seat to go home.