Christmas

I'm finally updating!!! We had a great Christmas, we were able to go home for 2 weeks and see both our families.

The first week we spent with Tyler's family. His 2 brothers were able to be there with us too. The cousins had lots of fun together!!!

Here are some of the highlights of our fun week.

Since we weren't going to be there Christmas Day we opened up presents early. The kids all got cute Pj's from G&G.

Luckily we got to take some fun pictures with G&G Overall. Here is our family with them on the night we celebrated Christmas!

For our present to Grandma we surprised her with tickets to "The Rockettes" We had a girls afternoon out. It was a fun outing with us girls. It was a neat show. It was fun for both kids and us. I was nervous the girls would get a little bored but they loved it!!! They had to dress fancy for the show and Grandma supplied them with perfume, necklaces, and lip stick. Everything a girl needs to get fancy!!! Thanks to our husbands for watching the other kids so we could go out as girls!!

We made gingerbread houses together one night and the kids LOVED it!! We had each of the them make their own and they spent so much time on them and kept adding more and more candy!!! It was the first year that we didn't make one big one as a family. I think next year we will each make our own little house! It seemed to work perfect for us.

Here is Tay's finished product.

This is before he put any candy on his. His was covered with candy and he was one of the last ones to leave the table. The 2 boys that are 3 and 2 loved this project!!! It was fun to see how long they both sat there and kept adding more and more candy to their house.

We were lucky to get into Boise since it snowed the night we drove there. We hit the storm about an hour before we got into Boise. The next day the kids loved playing out in the snow. Grandpa went out with them and had a snowball fight which was the highlight of their day!!!

We also had a great White elephant gift party, went to McDonalds and played some fun games!! Thanks Overalls for a great time together!

Chocolate Making

Every year the Overalls carry on their tradition of making chocolates. We got to go and help this year. We were lucky to have a couple of days off of school so we went for a couple of days.

We got some great pictures of everyone helping, we were tired from the 2 days of dipping but it was well worth it. It was another great memory of chocolate making.

Tyler cut lots and lots of carmel so we could dip it!!

My two sister in laws are great! They dipped and dipped. It was fun to see them and spend time with them.

The kids at first loved helping then they were done and loved playing outside with each other.

The kids loved dressing up just like us, apron and hankies!

We had to make sure that we got time to play a little.

The kids love sitting on the motorbike and riding the 4-wheelers

It was a fun weekend and we are excited to share our yummy chocolates. It always fun getting together and building another memory! Thanks Overall's for the fun weekend.

Halloween

I'm a little slow getting it up but we had a great Halloween

The girls were fairies. They made their tulle skirts. Little J was batman. Although he said he was just a bat!

We had a great time at our ward trunk or treat. Like always it was a hit and the kids loved it. Its a great way to have a carnival and get candy!!

Happy Birthday!!!

This week was our buddies birthday!!! We had a fun full couple of days. Luckily his wishes weren't to demanding...

Here is the great candle that got sent to him by G&G Kunz. It was a flower that sang Happy Birthday!!! and had lots of candles that made a lot of smoke and made the fire alarms go off. It was a hit the kids loved it and even the adults were dying laughing!!!

He wanted a 4-wheeler cake that was stuck in mud and he just wanted his toy 4-wheeler stuck on the cake. He loves 4-wheelers its his favorite thing to do at both grandparents!

Because we live in the city and can't have a real 4-wheeler we had to get a remote control one to make him happy!! It was the only present he asked for!! Luckily it was a cheap present and we've already had to change the batteries in it. I think I should have bought 2 so I had a back up one when this one breaks!!

When I asked him what he wanted to do on his b-day he brought me money and said,

"Go to the Froggy Playground" Which I had no idea what he was talking about. Then he said he wanted to ride the rides with money. Then I knew he wanted to go the mall and ride on the quarter rides!! So that was our afternoon outing... We went to the mall for an hour.

The morning of his birthday we went to a fun pumpkin patch and they got to play in the hay maze.

Here we are out in the pumpkin patch trying to pick out our fun big pumpkins!!!

Sorry these pictures our out of order. But... his favorite thing we did was....

Ride the tractor at the farm. He LOVES the tractor at Grandpa's house. He could ride in it all day long. So we had to find the closest thing to Grandpas tractor and luckily we have pumpkin patches!!! he was in Heaven....

We had a great couple of days.. I can't believe that he is 3 years old. Happy Birthday Buddy!!

Update!!! Its been forever!

School started and we have both girls going to school. They are loving but their brother is not so much!!!

Our big Kindergartener loved her first day and was so happy to finally go to school just like her sister!!

The girls started on different days so here is Tay's first day of school. We were excited to start school but also sad summer was ending with all the fun we had!

I just had to throw this picture in for me! I love it. Little brother gets babied so much and he loves his sisters and has missed them so much since school has started.

Highlights from our summer fun

We got to go camping this summer and LOVED it!! We only stayed one night and the kids had a great time. We were in a great location and were with great friends. We ate dinner there, let the kids play, and we chatted and learned how to make woofums. If you don't know how buy some biscuit dough and put on a cork and cook it over the fire... So they turn out to be little cups and garnish with berries and cool whip. They are so good!!

Here the girls and Ty had just got back from a little walk.
She was so glad that she got to stay up way past her bedtime!!

We also went to a track meet that our school put on once a week for the community. The kids had a blast. We wish we would have went every week.... next year I guess...

The girls are totally different. T can run fast and short distance. Ad can run long distance and our little man..... he just loved running.

He talked about this track meet all summer. The first race he didn't really know what he was doing. The second race which was a 200 yd race he did awesome!! he got first for his age and ran like crazy.... He was so funny and is our little athlete.

Add lost her 1st tooth. She's not even in Kindergarten yet and lost one. She was eating a rice cake and it popped out!! She was so excited and couldn't wait for the tooth fairy!

We were able to take swimming lessons for 2 weeks. I got to do a mommy n me class and the girls got to take lessons after we were done. It was a great 2 weeks we had good weather most of the 2 weeks!

We are trying to fit everything in possbile this summer! So far its been a great summer.

Last part of Trip

The last part of our trip we went to the Overalls. It was fun to see most of Tylers siblings. We had a great time together. Here are the highlights of our stay.

We got to do lots of swimming and the girls got a little braver. Tay was jumping off the diving board and Add was swimming with a life jacket and so was J. They were little fish by the time we left. We missed having a swimming pool right in the back yard.

They have the best BBQ pit ever. The kids love roasting marshmallows whenever we are there.

We went to a spray park while we were there. It was on a hot hot day so we didn't last very long. We played in the water and then went and got some yummy yogurt.

Here are some of the grand kids at the spray park. The kids all got along so well and loved playing together. We had a great time. We played Just Dance till we were all sore. We ate lots of food and the one of the last nights we pulled out some old stuff of my sister in laws when she was young. My favorite was the old barbies and also all the cow decorations that she use to decorate her room with. I got to come home with two fun cow wind charms!! We had lots of great laughs together and great times!!