Do I have cute kids or what?!

My friend, Dallas, took some super cute pictures of my kids a few weeks ago.  I LOVE them!!!  She did such an awesome job!  Of course, when you have such cute little models to work with it's hard not to get cute pictures. =)  Here are some of my favorites: 

(I couldn't get this to flip the right way for some reason)

(This one wouldn't flip either)

~Happy Halloween~

I hope everyone had a good Halloween.  We did =)  I was so glad that the weather decided to stay nice.  It was great being able to take the kids trick-or-treating without bundling them up in 50 layers.  We went around our neighborhood this year and did some actual foot work, no trunk-or-treat this year.  I was bummed at the lack of Halloween activities this year.  Usually there is something for the kids to do everyday for a week before.  Maybe I'm just out of the loop but it seemed like there weren't many going on.  Oh well.  We had fun with our corn maze, pumpkin carving, and a few parades.

We did a little bit of pumpkin carving this year.  Jason wanted to do a mean looking one:

I didn't want the usual face so I did a skeleton face:













 usually get little pumpkins for the kids to decorate and paint but I didn't this year.  I know, I should have.

We had our ward Halloween party Saturday.  It was fun to go see our friends and neighbors.  I did a post earlier about it.  I was excited to win the costume contest.  Then right after the party, Ian had a costume birthday party.  He had a blast!  I need to get some pictures from my friend since my camera broke.  He was dressed as Superman (a pair of his jammies that have a cape =)  )

I had both the kids dress as skeleton's this year.  I don't think I'll get a way with dressing them the same much longer so I'm enjoying it.

Brenna was excited to dress up for school!

While Brenna got to have fun at hew Halloween party at school, me and Ian went trick-or-treating with Jason at his work.

While we were walking in the parking lot, Ian told me "Mommy!  Take a picture!" and he struck a pose =)  What a goober! 

Here are the kids, ready to go =)  We had friends come with us and i forgot to get a picture of all of them together =(

Here's Jason in the white out contacts that he insisted he just HAD to have for Halloween =P

Trick or Treat!!!

Brains......brains.....brains.....

We had our ward Halloween party yesterday and I thought I would share this lovely picture with you.  Of course, they were having a costume contest too.  Don't you love costume contests?  I remember many times feeling jipped because the sparkly princess won instead of me.  There was oneyear brenna was dressed up as a transformer (seriously, how many girls want to be transformers?) and of course the fairy princess won. grr!!!  I rebelled this year at our ward halloween party and dressed as ugly as I could, a zombie, just to show them you don't have to be cutsie....guess who won the contest....yup, me! not those pretty pirates or princesses.  I had fun doing my costume.  Found the dress at Saver's, ripped it and rolled it in dirt, made soem fake blood, and viola!  A zombie is born....or unborn?  There were some people in our ward that didn't recognize me and had to ask other people who I was.  It was great!

Stay tuned for some really cute kiddos pictures after Halloween.

Harvest Moon Festival

In case you couldn't tell, I've been a slacker and now I've been playing catch up on my posts.  At the end of September we went to the Harvest Moon Festival on 25th Street in Ogden.  They had lots of vendors, a farmer's market and kids activities.

We did this last year and the kids loved it.  they got to make their own pumpkin bread bowl.  Brenna loved it so much last year that the next day me and her made our own pumpkin bread bowls and that got me started on my bread bowls, which I love to make with soups.

Some good, clean fun!  They ahd a big pool filled with bubbles!  There was a bubble machine that kept the supply of bubbles going.  The kids would have spent all day playing here if I would have let them.

They were covered head to to....I guess they didn't need a bath that night. =)

There were free pumpkins for the kids to decorate.   They did such a good job.  Too bad that the pumpkins got mushy the next week....and then Sasha got a hold of them.  Come to find out, our dog likes to eat pumpkins.  I won't be surprise if we have a few random pumpkin plants growing around from the mess she made of the seeds.

The kids remembered the train ride from last year so of course they went again this year.  Brenna even ran into Eleanor, her best friend from the townhouses we used to live in (her family actually moved into our townhouse after we moved too).  

Ian and Daddy got to ride the train.  He won't admit it, but I'm sure Jason had fun riding with his little mini-me.

It was fun to go this year.  The kids liked all the activities.  There were a ton!  The best part of all.....it was FREE!!! (remember, I'm cheap and all about free stuff!)

I'm a big boy now!

My cute little guy is almost potty trained!  We have been potty training for about 2 weeks now.  For the longest time he has wanted nothing to do with it.  Then one morning he told me he wanted to wear underwear.  I though the would wear them for 5 minutes and then want them off like he usually does.  But nope, he kept them on.  then I expected him to pee in them right away....which he did.  He still wanted to wear underwear so I put a new pair on and then we got him to go on the potty.  It took a few tries before he figured out how to make himself go, but once he did, he was good to go!  Now he is telling us when he has to go or even going in on his own.  But each time he goes he makes sure to tell us to come and look.  he is staying dry through his naps and even at night!   We are still working on getting him to go #2 in the potty.  He's gone a few times, but it seems like each time he needs to go is when we're somewhere other than at home or near a potty.  I know that one will take a bit longer.  I am so proud of how good he is doing!  I was fully expecting him to not want anything to to do with it until after he was 3.  He's growing up way too fast!  I sure love my little Bubba =)

Discovering new things =)

A few weeks ago I went to the Discovery Gateway with the kids and with my bestest friend Kanani and her boys.  She home schools her boys and with the school program they get to go on field trips and she invited me along.  It was fun. It was like the Treehouse Museum in Ogden.

Playing in the farm section =)  They got to play on a horse that was the size of a real horse.  They loved it!

This was Ian's favorite part.  It was a big thing with water and lots of water toys.  He had so much fun that he soaked himself.  I had to take his clothes off and dry them with the hand dryer.  But at least he had fun, right?

He got to stamp some fun pictures =)

Ian's other favorite part.  These were magnetic sticks.  Now I know what to get him fro Christmas =)

Huge waffle shaped blocks.  The kids had fun building blocks out of them and stacking them

The helicopter!  The kids loved this!  Especially since it was just like the one at Daddy's work.  It even said IHC on it =)

Brenna, Jameson, and Tyson.  They were concentrating so hard to build stuff.

Brenna being a checkout girl and doing some shopping of her own.  Smart girl, went straight to the fruits and veggies first =) 

 

Maybe future news anchors? 

Brenna got to build some block buildings and then you push a button and it shakes the platform.  Its supposed to recreate what happens to buildings during an earthquake.

It was a pretty fun day.  I don't think I would pay the full price of $8 a person to go, but I'm a cheapskate with everything.