Santa's watching you!!

Here is my darling Sydnee, my anxiety ridden child who stresses about everything. So what is she stressing about now you might ask? Santa. McKenna had the BRILLIANT idea when she was babysitting the other night to tell Syd that Santa is watching her all the time, and when Syd said no he isn't cuz I haven't seen him, Kenna told her he watches through the windows! So, now Sydnee is freaked out about this and has cried for the last 3 nights when it's bed time cuz she doesn't want that "dumb, scary,guy" (her words)to see her. And I have caught her closing all the blinds in my house about 10 times a day. Prozac anyone? For Syd not me. Oh and Kenna is free to baby sit this weekend if anyone needs her. ha

Halloween Fun.

Halloween was fun,we made our annual trip to Lake Shore to the trunk or treat at Grandma Thurza's church, then we had dinner and watched Ghost Hunters. The kids LOVE being together and I'm so glad they have cousins! I didn't think to take pictures of just my kids but here are a few of the ones I did take.

Pumkin Carving!

Saturday we had our annual pumpkin carving at Grandma Thurza's house. It was a lot of fun as usual, I think Josh won the best carving out of everyone, but McKenna would've been a close second. Thanks to Grandma Maxine for helping her! It was so fun to have Grandma Max come up and spend the evening. The funniest was Kaimbri though! She spent the longest time carving her pumpking and none of us could look it because she wanted it to be a suprise, so when she finally turned it around we all looked at each other and tried not to laugh because all it was was a long line! I think we decided it was a snake. Anyways she had fun and did it all herself! McKayla did a skull with cross bones that turned out cool, Colby tried a spider web, and I had to do Sydnee's because she can't hold still for longer than 30 seconds. Thank you Grandma Thurza for the very good soup, and for taking care of the mess!! And Toby, Tryce, and Hayes we missed you, but we're sure you had a lot of fun at Grandma Barbara's! Next year we'll plan better so we can all be there.

Softball fall season is over. We're kinda sad, although no more 6am Saturday mornings will be ok for awhile. McKenna's team did really well in the tournament, Kayla's struggled, but for a first time team playing together I thought they really did well. These pictures are not the greatest but it was too cold to move off the bleachers and out of my blanket!!

I just had to blog tonight and say that a few weeks ago I was feeling a little sad because my baby is 4, and life is going so fast. Well I am now totally fine! I got to tend my friends 1 year old for the last 2 days while she is out of town and holy cow I forgot how hard it is to have little hands everywhere! Also, I am totally out of the grab a diaper before you leave the house phase! I have to say that he is the perfect child and never cries or anything and we loved having him, I just got a really good dose of reality and I must say I am no longer baby hungry,(not that I could do anything about it if I was). Also poor Sydnee's nose was SO out of joint, this afternoon she looked at me, I was holding Kasen, and she flipped her hair back and said, "I am going to Jamie's house, where there aren't any little kids!" I guess she thinks she's thirty or something? But it was cute and I made sure to give her a little extra time tonight after that dang little kid went home!

How cute are these guys? We stayed at Grandma's last weekend and the boys had a sleepover! They think it's way fun to sleep on the couch bed in Jace's room for some reason. Anyways, it was all fun till they woke Jace up at like 7:30 Sunday morning, then they were in trouble! But thanks Kim for letting them stay they had a blast.

So my friend Stephanie and I decided we were going to do a Turbo Kick Boot Camp, it's 3 nights a week for 6 weeks and holy cow it just about kicked my butt the first week! But we just finished up week 2 and I am loving it! I've seriously never sweated so much in my life! My hair is dripping when we are done, gross but true! Anyways, I decided I'm going to be sad when it's over because I'm not great at exercising and if it weren't for Steph I probably wouldn't of made it just for the fact that there are always 50 things I could be doing, but we have alot of fun and some great talks in our cars after. Brandt thinks the class lasts till ten but we really get done at nine and we talk till ten! Nobody tell ok!? Also, football is over! YEA! I am so tired of football 5 days a week, it was fun and all but so glad to be done. Now we start fall league fast pitch softall, McKenna and McKayla have double headers on Saturdays in Brigham City, they both lost today but hopefully next week they'll do better! It's kind of tricky for me cuz they play at the same times on different teams but the fields are close together so I stand between the two fields and yell both ways! I'll take pictures next week and post them. I think that's all that is new in our life, just for the record the new swing has made our house the neighborhood park so everyone who warned me that I would have neighbor kids 24/7 you were right! Even if my kids are inside there's kids playing on my swing set. So now I'm getting a fence! I'll outsmart em if it kills me! haha

Sydnee's 4!!

So here are some more pics from the longest birthday ever! Serious it lasted for 3 days. We had the cousins party Saturday, her actual b-day was Sunday so Matt, Jamie and kids, and Kevin, Steph, and kids came for cake and ice cream, then Monday we had a friends party. Needless to say we are birthday'd out! But it was a way fun time for Syd and that's all that matters! Oh, and thank you Grandma Thurza for making the pink cake on Saturday, that was great!

Sydnee is 4!! Oh man did we have fun, Sydnee took her cousins Laycee, Kaimbri, Becca, Hannah, and Rhielyn to Primrose Retreat in Spanish Fork. They had a blast dressing up, dancing, getting pedi's and mani's, and singing Hannah Montana kareoke! They even had a tea party! It was so much fun to watch them get all dressed up and silly! Luckily Grandma Thurza came and helped out, and Aunt Brittney brought Averi and she even got in on the action. I think Syd will remember this party for a long time!

Are you ready for some football?

These are a couple pictures from Colby's last football game. They haven't won one yet, but darnit they sure do have fun! He is number 85.

So a couple of months ago McKenna started wearing my shoes and shirts and stuff which was so weird cuz she shouldn't be big enough to do that yet! But in a matter of like 2 months her foot went from a size 6 to a 7 1/2! So now we can't even share shoes! And I had to post this picture because this morning when I did her hair for the first time I couldn't see what I was doing and she had to sit on the side of the tub so I could reach! She is as tall as me, but way prettier than I ever was!

Sydnee's first day of preschool! I think I was more excited for this day than Syd was, but it is so weird watching your youngest child reach this milestone! Knowing it's the last time you will ever "start" preschool again is kind of sad, but she had a great time, she talked about Ms. Nicole all afternoon, and told everyone she saw all about what they did in school. It was pretty funny though cuz she was pretty mad when I told her there was no bus for preschool. She had it in her mind she would be riding a bus! But I have to admit I got a tear in my eye when she walked out of preschool and she was just a looking for me and when she saw me waiting she came running, I think she missed me!

Family Time... we are so lucky to have such an amazing family! Thanks to everyone for taking the time to make this campout so fun! These are some random pictures that show just how much fun we had!

The Kids had so much fun riding the 4 wheelers, whether they were moving or not!!

The girls getting "makeovers" from Hannah. Hannah was the makeover queen! Everyone got their nails done, and if you were lucky your make up too. Even Grandma Maxine got in on the action!

Camping in Fairview! We had so much FUN! I am so glad my kids can be friends with their cousins. Here is Sydnee, Becca, Hannah, and Lacey.

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Fourth of July pictures, from the Spanish Fork parade and picnic.

These are some pics from Island Park, we love to go up there and try to at least 2 times a summer. This last time Josh and my cousin Wayne and his wife Leanna came up and visited for the day. We had an awesome time and hope to get back in September.