Halloween 2010

We started our Halloween on Saturday and good thing we did because we all ended up sick on Halloween! I thought I could push through Saturday when in fact I should have heeded the fever and stayed in bed but didn't want to miss Halloween!

So Saturday morning we painted and carved pumpkins. I love to carve pumpkins, but alas my children are two of the only kids in the world that don't like to get messy so they were given paint and brushes.

So Preston and I carved our own.

This year we decided just to blindly carve without drawing it on first, Preston did a great one with hands and all!

I decided mine needed something extra on the sides so I gave her ears and earrings.

Then when it got dark we went to our wards "Trunker Treat"--Without the trunks though, we were on the ball field in a big circle with chairs.

Kya was the cutest butterfly princess!

And Baden was the best looking cowboy!

Press was an ASU fan and I was a Pirate!

The whole dressed up family!

Then we went to my mom & dads ward shindig. It looked like the spooky fair got dropped in someones backyard... I'm not joking! It was amazing!

Swing the eyeball to knock the skulls.

A graveyard to dig in.

Spin to win a prize.

Monster Toss

We had a fun night! Minus the fact that I came home with the chills and felt like I was going to die!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Festivities

We have been keeping busy with lots of treat-filled Halloween festivities!

We got together with some friends and let the kids pig out on candy decorate cookies and cupcakes. All the kids were enjoying themselves and were super entertained... and so were the moms!

The kids carried all of the candy corn around with them everywhere until they were all gone!

Then we had a little party with some cousins.

And last night we went to our ward festival.

I love Halloween time, you get to be outside (and not die), plus you get to dress up and eat candy!

Baden is a Big Boy

A few days ago Baden went to bed without his binkie. When he got up in the morning he found it and put it in his mouth. I told him, "You don't need that, go throw it in the garbage." Surprisingly enough he did! Every once in a while he'll ask for his binkie but I just tell him he's a big boy and he doesn't need it and he smiles and moves on!

He smiles, and makes the funniest faces... and talks a whole lot more!

Such a big boy

My kids are so fun!

Lately

I have a week or two that I need to catch up so here is what we've been up to for the last couple weeks.

Some friend had a big slip-n-slide, our kids didn't go down it much! They just enjoyed the food and friends.

This was a couple of weeks ago, we went swimming at Grandma and Grandpa Greats. It's starting to cool off here now so this was probably our last swim.

Baden is in a big boy bed and he knows he's not supposed to get out... but this is how I found him one day!

One of the nights Preston was gone we went and played at the park with cousins!

Today we made some Halloween decorations and the kids had fun helping.

My Baden Boy!

Oh my Baden boy! He is 21 months which is such a cute age. We recently cut his hair and he looks older and more of a kid than a toddler now. He is kind of a mama's boy but still independent, like when he goes to nursery there is no looking back. He is very caring and gentle but yet can wrestle all the time too. He loves playing with balls and cars. He is at the stage that he can mostly tell you things but not quite with his words. He loves the movie Lion King to make sure we know what movie to put in he'll say, "moobie? ROAR!" For the most part he is a good sharer and has a laid back personality. On the other hand he is loud and crazy when playing with Kya. He is a good brother and copies everything that Kya does. He has no fear and will jump off of anything he can climb. He makes the funniest facial expressions. When he gets tired he falls asleep where ever he is, he usually falls asleep at church either on the pew or on the floor in nursery.

The other day he had found the nut cracker and was doing this!

He is such a funny and sweet kid! I love my Baden Boy!

Kya Girl

Kya is 3 1/2 and is very bright. She is very strong-willed and has a spitfire temper but she is very nurturing as well; she is the second mommy around our house! She is very helpful and loves to be given responsibilities, she likes doing the dishes and taking out the garbage. She loves to talk and make up her own stories. She loves to perform and will make a stage out of any part of the room to have a performance, and when she's done she expects applause. She makes up songs all the time, mostly to the tune of a primary song but with her own words that she puts with it. She loves to dance and is pretty aware of her body poses. She is very girly and likes her nails painted, wear bracelets, and wear dresses; but she is pretty tough and can hold her own in a wrestling war. She loves school and asks everyday if she has it. She pretends constantly that she has two babies and one is named Ali most of the time. She'll come out of her room and say, "My babies are sleeping right now, so you'll have to be quiet." She loves to tell jokes and be silly. She is my sweet girl.

Is it bad that she knows this song? "Tick tock I'm a clock"

Scooter

The scooter is fixed!

And Kya LOVES taking a ride with Daddy!

Wetness!

Last weekend I was home with the kids, when I knelt down to help Baden with something, and my knee got soaked! I immediately thought it was the kids, and that they had to have spilled something. Kya kept telling me that they didn't spill anything and then I realized that the water was ALL over! I franticly started to pull things out of the way, two of which were our memory boxes! I pulled the carpet up and got a fan going to dry out the SOAKED pad and carpet. Then I looked up and saw the wall SOAKED with water running under the paint! Soaked drywall, soaked carpet plus on a holiday weekend, not a good combo!

Paint was moulting off the walls!

If you notice the water had spread all the way down the wall on the right of the picture!

Well we fixed the problem, it was the AC unit right above this wall, that leaked all over. Then we had a guy fix the drywall, re-texture, and then I got to paint it!

Good as new!