Fall Break

This last weekend was fall break so we decided that we needed to do something "fallish". Instead of hitting the local attractions we thought that it would be less money, work, and chaos to just do something fun with my BFF and her kids. So we found a local pumpkin patch and took the kids to pick out their very own pumpkins to take home and decorate.
This is Ty's pick. Don't ask me about the hat he just brought it maybe he felt pumpkin picken was in need of a cowboy hat. He looks really cute in it so why not?!
Once again obviously I am not a photographer. I didn't even get one of them looking at me.
Reggie has some kind of reaction to pumpkin picking or to hay bells because he was a very mad little man.
So much for a cute photo op. Between my picture taking skills. lighting, and a really ornery baby this is all i could get. Oh well cute enough!

Ruby's pumpkin
Ashton and Ty were the only ones that wanted to carve theirs.
Jordyn double painting
Gavin's artwork
Nick concentrating very intently on his paint job.

After pumpkin decorating I made some sugar cookie dough that they all got to cut out their own cookies. Then after they were done cooking we were going to decorate them but, the cookies didn't really make it to that faze. Most of them got eaten even before we got frosting on them. Oh well:) We had a really fun day!!!!

Jordyn the big #3

My one and only daughter is officially three! I love having a girl. She is a typical toddler terror but at the same time the cutest little princess that we just adore. She makes us laugh all the time. She dresses up in dresses taps us on the shoulder and ask you to dance (it just makes you melt), she has the most adorable laugh, loves to have tea parties, tries to be one of the boys (taking her shirt off like the boys do when they wrestle), and likes to tell you princess stories. An example of a princess story is "Once upon I time there was a princess me and lived happy after after. She also an expert at staying out of bed at bed time all she does is say that she is snuggling with daddy and it gets her an extra half hour/hour of stay up time. She already has daddy rapped around her little finger but, it is ok he doesn't really mind. We love her so much and are so grateful to have her apart of our family. This year was Jordyn's third Birthday and this was the first time I decided to do something "girlie" just for her and it was a lot of fun. She had I very fun and busy day. First thing she did for the day was get a surprise from her dad. He showed up after breakfast with balloons (he tried to make sure that there was a picture of every princess in the bundle) and a really big cupcake for her. Jordyn thought it was so awesome. Then later in the afternoon she had her first party with her little girl friends.
Reggie enjoying the party. He got to be the only boy. I had the party when the boys were at school so they wouldn't over power it. So it could be all about her.
We played a couple of games, hot potato and this is a picture of duck duck goose.
My niece Ella playing duck duck goose. She was the youngest one there so it was a new concept for her, she made me laugh.
All the girls got to decorate their own cupcakes.
Fun times!!
"Happy Birthday toooo Youuuu:)"
Oooo I wonder what's inside
This is all the party goers. We also had some beads and chains and they all got to make their own necklace to take home. I wanted a picture of all of them with their necklaces on but not thinking very well I didn't do a close up for you to see them. My BAD! Oh well they all looked really cute in them.

After the party was over she decided to chill out, watch a movie in one of her birthday presents, and take a much needed nap.
After nap time G-pa and G-ma came over with another present. Her first tea set or in Grandma's words a cocoa set. She loves it and plays with it all the time.
Then in the evening when dad was home. He wanted to take her out to dinner and have everyone that works there sing happy birthday to her. So she got a Olive garden dinner, another present from the family, and ten waiters sing to her which she thought was so fun. At the end of the day lets just say she went to bed without any snuggle time with dad she was done. It was a really really GREAT day!

Reggie' Very First BIRTHDAY

October 1, 2011 was Reggie's first Birthday. It was a very emotional, happy, wonderful day! In the first few weeks of his birth we almost lost him a number of times. At that point we really didn't know if we would see this day. It warmed my heart so much when he woke up on his
Birthday and stood up in his crib with the BIGGEST grin and it didn't go away the whole time that the kids and I sang him "HAPPY BIRTHDAY". He is our miracle baby. He is doing so much better today than the Doctors ever expected. If he didn't have the four scars to show for it no one would ever know. He is doing amazingly wonderful. Reggie is standing, trying to walk (he did take three steps once but is too chicken to try again), says a few words, eats anything you put in front of him, loves to go up and down stairs, always gets excited when he sees his daddy, has two teeth, loves to laugh, and tries so hard to keep up with his brothers and sister already. I thank my Father in Heaven almost every day for letting me keep him. My little man has taught me I feel more in this year of his life than I might be able to teach him. We love him so much and are so grateful to have him apart of our family.


This is the super cute banner my BFF made for Reggie. I don't know why I didn't get a picture of all of it, it had a bunch of pictures from the last year of his life. It was so much cuter than anything that I would have pulled together.

Present number one already interested in just the box (typical). He already thinks he is an expert climber. p.s. I don't always take him to the part naked we stripped him down for the cake.

This is the adorable cake or big cupcake that my mom made for him to dive into. I forgot to get a picture before we took the candle out.

He did enjoy it very much.

So did the dog!

All the other kids did not have the patience to wait for him to open presents so they were good helpers.

Testing out another present. OOOOOO fun:)

Ok this wasn't on him birthday a couple of days after I just thought it was a funny picture so I threw it in. It isn't red boogers he had a good time with a licorice that his sister left too low.

Thanks to everyone that gave him a gift, helped with the party, and shared the day with us. IT WAS A WONDERFUL DAY!!!!!!!!!!!