Snooze...

Came downstairs and happened upon this. How funny!

Tea party!

What a better time to have a tea party then in December?!? My sis-in-law's sister was getting married so we threw her a smashing tea bridal shower. It was such a fun idea! We served curry chicken tea sandwiches, lemon cookies, almond cookies, baklava, mini quiches, mini cupcakes, petit fours, fresh fruit & dip, cranberry hot tea, & 2 different herbal teas. Of course I was put in charge of making the petiti fours (PF's for short...inside joke) & mini cupcakes. It was a fun to be a little girly and just drink something from a tea cup! As a thank you for throwing the shower, Libby gave us each our own tea cup and saucer. Thanks Libby!

Temple Square

 

While we were down in Salt Lake for Thanksgiving, we were able to go to Temple Square with the whole family and see the lights. It was very cold, but the kids still loved looking at all they had! It's fun to visit the same places that I went to when I was little and share it with your own children.

M&M's birthday celebration!

So back in November (yes, I know it's February!) we were down at Snowbird, UT for the week of Thanksgiving. Lucky for M&M, her birthday falls within that week almost every year and this year it was on Thanksgiving day. So she got to celebrate with a bunch of family. Her cousin E-man also celebrated with her (he was turning 3) so we had a festive day. Since we normally have a birthday meal M&M can pick out,? we decided to make it breakfast since the thanksgiving meal was later in the day. We had crepes filled with fruit & whip cream, broccoli/cheese/sausage muffins, and orange juice. Yum!!
Before her birthday we asked her what she wanted to do on her special day. She wrote out a list.
Great list if you ask me :)
Happy birthday to me sweet 7 year old!
Your loves:
~playing with your Dad
~Reading
~having friends over
~Riding your bike or scooter
~School!
~Being the BIG sister
~Helping your sister to read and reading to CJ

Halloween recap

So isn't it fun to read about Halloween when it's almost Christmas?!? We had a fun halloween and did a lot of festivities up until the day. It's great when your kids get older and actually start getting really excited about holidays which makes all the preparations worth it.
First it started out with pumpkin carving with friends. The girls stuck their hands in once to clean out the pumpkin pulp. They sure get grossed out from it.

Next we went to a fun Halloween party. Thanks Megan for inviting us! We were Princess Peach and Mario if you couldn't tell. :)

With all the Halloween festivities, I think the kiddos had to dress up about 4 times. Good times! On Halloween we went over to Eric & Jamie's house for a 3-person birthday party. We celebrated Ammon, Eric, and Nate's birthday all at once. The kids dressed up as Ursula (M&M), Ariel (Little A), and Flounder (CJ). Tick-or-treating was great with the older kids. They ran from house to house. CJ just wanted to eat the candy as soon as it was given to him. I think next year he'll be running!

Mowing the lawn

I don't know what it is but as soon as CJ hears the lawn mower he goes bonkers. He wants to push it soooo badly. James came up with a way to solve the problem. (patent pending)

Camping

We only got out one time this summer to go camping! We need to do it more often because the kids love it. We went to Shafer Butte above Bogus Basin. It was really pretty up there, but the campground spots are VERY close together so you don't feel like you have much privacy. We met up with Harris & Carson and had a great time. There were small walking paths around the campground that the kids ran around and explored on. One last thing..camping with a 1 year old is dirty and you can't ever sit and relax because they want to jump in the fire :)

Gotta love Little A's attire!

Funny thing about this picture. The kids found a tent stake stuck in the ground. They thought it was the coolest thing and worked on trying to get it out for a good 20 minutes. Of course they had no idea it was a tent stake or even what a tent stake was.