Monday, October 29

Happy Birthday Summer and Noah!

(38 candles on the cake.  28 for Summer and 10 for Noah)

Just like we have done for the last several years,
we celebrated Summer and Noah's Birthdays with a 
family Halloween Costume party!
This year I thought everyone did a great job with their costumes.
 Summers family
Summer and Scott were cavemen.  Bridger a very smiley Dinosaur!
And Dakota a scary Vampire!!


 Bobby was James Bond, so of course Rachel was a Bond Girl!!


I loved Autumn and Matts.
They were replacement Refs in the NFL.
And if you are at all familiar with the games in the beginning of the season
that were officiated by the replacement refs
you will totally understand why this is so funny!

McKenzie and Josh were Zombies.
McKenzie is actually wearing Noah's costume from last year!


The three boys............
Hunter is a guy called Slender man.  Never heard of him until Hunter decided he wanted to be him.
Apparently he is very scary and steals children who are never seen again!
Noah is a Pumpkin!  His face really creeped me out!
Daniel was walking around in his underwear trying to find his Super Man costume
and decided at the last minute to be Captain Under Pants!
I loved it!!




All of the guys..............


All of the girls...........
We are so out numbered right now!

 This year we decided to do Pumpkin Bread Bowls for soup
and witches finger bread sticks.
Summer came up with the idea that everyone should bring a soup to share
and make it a contest out of which soup was best!
They were all really Tasty.
Summer brought a Tortellini Soup.
Autumn did an Enchillada and Chicken soup. My personal favorite!
Rachel brought a Potato Soup.
McKenzie a Sausage Gumbo,
And I made a Chicken Chilli Soup.
All were very, very good, and I am sure everyone ate way too much trying to sample them all!


Another tradition........
The Cake from Dippidy! Yum!
This year I just told her to do something fun and scary, so she came up with this
spider cake with webbs and spiders all over as well as eyeballs!
So fun!  And so, so delicious........
The below picture shows why it is so good and why I am so fat!


Noah got some fun presents.
His dad got him a bb gun which he loved!
I am pretty sure he will shoot his eye out!
He also got some new Legos.  The Monster fighters Train.
Which is totally fun and appropriate for a Halloween Birthday.
McKenzie and Josh gave him the Jazz shirt!
He got a lot of other fun things and was totally spoiled by his brothers and sisters!


I got Summer a really great watch and James got her some new Running shoes
that had to be ordered but had not come in yet but I know she is very excited about them.

It was a really fun family get together
and a great Birthday for Summer and Noah.
I know that Noah thinks he has the greatest birthdays ever!
Can not believe he is 10!
Summer and Noah have celebrated their birthdays together ever since
Noah was born!  Summer actually celebrated her 18th Birthday
at Timpanogas Hospital 
(the same one that she now works at)
with Noah on the day that he was born!
It has been a tradition ever since...............

 Some fun things of Noahs........
His Haunted House he made.  Halloween Duct Tape of course!
And his Skeleton Pumpkin!

Below is a Princess Pumpkin we made for Aspen and will be taking to the cemetery
for Halloween.


After the party the "Big" boys retired to Daniels game room for some "Band" Practice!
These guys crack me up.  They take it so seriously.
They were seriously down there for a couple of hours!
Great, great day with the family!
Thanks to everyone for making it happen!

Happy Birthday Summer and Noah!



Wednesday, October 24

Summer is 28........

  How is it that I have a daughter who is 28?
Ouch!!
Hard to believe.........
I am so proud of her though for all she has accomplished in her 28 years.
She is a registered nurse working in labor and delivery.
She runs marathons, does triathalons, and did her first 1/2 iron man this year,
and finished in the top of her age group.
She is very driven and hard working.

And I think one of my favorite things is to sit back and observe the wonderful
mother that she is to her little boys.

Happy 28th Birthday Summer!!!


Halloween Fun


 I love that the kids still like to come home and carve pumpkins!
And that they still like to out do each other with their creations!







 Last Saturday night I tended the little boys and we made
Ginger Bread Haunted Houses.
I thought they both turned out really cute!

 

Thursday, October 11

Soon...........

  
Soon, I am going to catch up on my blogging.
Not sure why I have been so lazy lately.
I have so much to blog about,
most importantly McKenzies wedding that happened on September 19th!
I am still waiting on pictures from our photographer.
We have just had really bad luck with our wedding pictures.
All of the pictures I took on my camera did not turn out because the setting got bumped
and I did not realize it until the reception was nearly over..........
My thought was that it was ok because I knew that Dan, our photographer
had taken amazing pictures and all would be well.
That was until I got a message from him saying his hard drive had crashed
with all of our pictures on it.
He has now sent his hard drive away to some place that is trying to recover our pictures...
last I heard they were quite hopeful.............
Well, lets hope so!

It was a beautiful day and McKenzie and Josh are extremely happy!!
I will go into more details when I post............

Heading off to Oregon today to visit family and hopefully once I get back
life will slow down and I can play catch up!
Highly doubtful, but for now I am going to hope for that!!