It's Autumn time!

So one day we took the camera outside and took lots and lots of pictures...

I made the boys put on cute clothes and cute faces- though every other picture was a silly face. :)

Hyrum kept laughing- but I kind of like that face!


In turn, the boys told me I better put on some cute clothes too, so they could take pictures of me. I guess that was fair...

Did I mention they are silly?

But, they are also cute!

My favorites I'm hanging on the wall...

Weston took this picture...

Hyrum took this one. :)

I love my boys!

Kitties and Day trips

This week we celebrated Jag's first birthday! PetSmart even sent him a birthday coupon and the boys were so excited to use it... What did he get for his birthday? - I know you are wondering! Some canned cat food, a laser mouse (shoots out a laser for him to chase- he loves it) and a cat leash. Have you ever tried walking a cat? Yeah, doesn't happen. You carry the cat where you want to go and then set it down and let him sniff around while he slinks on his belly... Silly Jaggers.

Weston was a photographer for these Jag pics: #1. His favorite place under the table. The boys fight over who gets to sit closest to Jag. :)

Jag's favorite stuffed animal- he licks it, chases it and bites it. Poor little giraffe!

He loves fresh laundry- every time I pull a load out of the dryer to fold, Jag is there laying on it!

He's a fatty and doesn't mind Hyrum treating him like a baby- silly kitty!

And Weston! Weston and I have had some adventures lately, just me and him.

I love this boy! He has the funniest little humor and he sings all day long!

We took two trips to Salt Lake this last week and spent some time on Temple Square- just me and Weston.

This is my temple picture!
Of course we had to make some other stops at Tai Pan and IKEA but Weston was a fabulous traveller and I love spending time with him!

Homecoming and Halloween!

I forgot to add this in my last post: Our favorite homecoming tradition! Eating blue pancakes before the BYU homecoming parade! We started this with the Morris's and they should be proud to know we carried on the tradition for them. :) Zach actually joined us this time, standing in line for an hour to get blue pancakes and blue milk- yummy! The boys think it's great and they love catching the parade candy, too. :)
Weston stuffing his mouth...


Hyrum polishing off his plate! I don't know if Zach appreciated this tradition as much as we did but anyone who wants to join us next year better wear their blue and come on down!

Now, on to Halloween!

Kobi and Grace threw a lovely party with a beautiful table set with mummy dogs, witch's brew and gummy worms. The kids decorated cookies, made leaf decor and played the mummy game...

Here's the crazy kids in their costumes- What? You can't see Hyrum and Weston? That's because they are ninjas and they blend into the darkness...

Halloween night we went trick or treating- Zach grew a lovely head of hair for the occasion, though I made him cut it afterward. He kept blocking me in all the pictures...


Hyrum's costume evolved into a Karate Kid look after he wore the ninja thing for too many parties. :)

Weston stayed true to his yellow belt and had some great kicks and punches!

I was obviously the ninja/karate kid's mother with my asian robes...

And all together now- everyone pose! Now we have a big bucket of candy on TOP of the fridge (don't tell the boys where it is...) and probably cavities in our mouths. Good thing we have tooth brushes!

The Whole of October!

So I've been busy, okay? But I've got a minute and my pictures are actually downloaded for once so here is October:

First, Zach and I went on a fabulous date to a masquerade ball dressed as ...can you guess? Probably not....

This was our Anne Shirley/ Gilbert Blythe look- yeah?

We went with Kobi and Dave with their fantastic costumes-

Westley and Buttercup of course!

This was the back of my hair that I thought turned out pretty good. :)

Next event was a trip to Salt Lake to Dr. Poff's house... Kobi and I are both good friends with Emily from our singles ward and she did a great job of hosting us AND our crazy kids for dinner and pumpkin carving... the blocks were a big hit!

Here's the kids building 'traps'

Weston, Kobi, and Emily and our lovely pumpkins!

The next thing was a PROJECT... for Young Women's one night, we had every single girl there, and they each made a pair of PJ pants- yes we were there until 9:45 BUT they all finished them! I figured if the girls could do it that fast, I could make some too. So I made some for me and my boys- they were fabulously easy and the boys love theirs!

September and October are also the months of BIRTHDAYs in our family... here are the cutest:

Little Lydia turned 1! Of course she partied at Chuck E. Cheese and had the cutest ducky cake...

Jessica, Liesel and Bella all turned 2! They were all just babies!

Take a good long look at this next picture:

Because this is the last time you'll see our silver Impala... Zach took it for a check up and the man said it was on it's last leg. So what did we do? We bought a van, of course! That night, actually...
I don't have a great picture of it, but to celebrate we took it on a little trip to Park City with our friends, the Turleys. Here's the best I've got:

If it looks familiar, it's just like every other white van driving down the road- in fact, it's exactly like Kristi and DJ's... yep, we're just copiers (and we got a great deal!)

While in Park City, we got some great deals at the Outlets, went to lunch, and hit every art gallery along the old town streets. It was a fun afternoon! This picture is us with the Turleys outside the Kimball art gallery- it had the coolest display of LEGOS I've ever seen!

Okay, next up : Halloween...