Halloween 2009

He loved Halloween!

Brayden is spiderman! He was more than willing to put the mask on to try the costume on but when Halloween came around he didn't want to! He certainly acted the part of spiderman well!

For our ward trunk-or-treat Josh came up with this wonderful idea to go as Noah and build a boat! We built the boat and found the animals to keep with the theme. The costume went together quickly because we had about a half hour before it started!

Kaytlin enjoyed Halloween as well but tired easily and got distracted quickly! The boys were climbing trees and Kaytlin wanted to join in but I wouldn't allow her to. I just couldn't resist this picture though!

The first hour we took Brayden around trick or treating Kaytlin slept in the car! She was exhausted and slept like a baby in the warm car while Brayden and Brenda walked in the cold! After her nap though she was rearing to go!

Happy Halloween!

Our New Front DoorWe had a wonderful contractor from our ward come and help us put in our new front door! He willingly put it in for a soda and candy bar! It looks amazing and I absolutely love the built in blinds which are very easy to use!

I won't miss our old door at all! A few weeks ago we opened it and couldn't get it shut. The whole bottom part of the door had bent in so we had a nice draft coming in! With winter coming on we needed to get this taken care of!

It turned out great! We just have a little bit of work to do to get the trim put back up!

Student of the Day

Today Brayden was the student of the day! As the student of the day everyone in his class got to draw him. I figured I would post them so you could see how well these kids can draw.

I am not sure what the artist was doing with his hair here.

Aren't they all beautiful! They did a great job drawing him... that was only a few from his class!

Now for the best masterpiece of all!

So much fun in Kindergarten!

Winter is Here!

Our first snow fall! I would have liked to not have seen snow for at least another month but what can you do? The kids were excited to get their winter apparel out! We didn't get much snow but there was enough to make a few small snow balls with it! These pictures were taken at 8:30 a.m. when I took Brayden to school and by the time i picked him up from school a few hours later it was gone!These are the kids in their summer clothes the same week as the snow! It went from warm one day to cold with snow the next! It is certainly incredible how fast the weather can change here!
This is a dress I bought last year so Brayden could use the hat for Halloween and I figured with the snow here we can get out the winter clothes... and it fits! I was just hoping and praying she would be able to wear it a year after I bought it and she can!With the cold temperatures outside the kids are keeping themselves busy inside by coloring my kitchen floor beautiful colors! This was Kaytlin being her normal busy self of course! I don't think Brayden would dare try this but Kaytlin is still learning what is good and bad! She definately knew she was in trouble because she took off running into the living room crying. I wasn't really all that mad about it because it wiped right up but I had to let her know I didn't appreciate it!
Here is Brayden being my big helper! For about 6 weeks at the beginning of the school year I offered to babysit for a friend while she taught and her husband finished his student teaching. My kids were so in love with the idea of a baby in the house that I am sure it won't be long before Brayden starts asking when another will come. He adored her and offered several times to help me so I let him and he was in Heaven!
Snow, Snow, Go Away!

Back to School

My little boy started Kindergarten! These pictures were on the first day of school. I got lucky when none of these had people in them... there were several of us kindergarten moms taking pictures that day. The weather was the pits that day so it looks kind of yucky out!

Being in school for a month now he says his favorite thing at school is recess and snacks. Who would have guessed those would be his favorite thing. Right up there with those is PE! Have a great year and I can't wait to have Parent Teacher Conferences to see if he is talking to anyone or not!

Last Summer Outing

Suffice it to say Summer is officially over but we got in a last little outing to finish it off right! We slowly awaited with excitement for Labor Day to come so we could go camping!

Anthony and Mandy met us in Lava Hot Springs for the weekend. We all got there Friday night and set up camp! The start of a wonderful weekend together.

On Saturday we woke up and spent the day at the swimming pool and hot pools! My favorite part being the hot pools but the bad thing about them is you just get to HOT so can't stay in long!

Brayden loved swimming! Kaytlin did too but didn't like being held down or kept in her turtle!

Josh was in awe with the new slides they put in and opened this year! Of course he had to try them out which I didn't get a picture of but the first time he went up he came back down because he chickened out. We knew when he came down because he came down with a huge splash!

The kids enjoyed the kiddy slides!

We all enjoyed the small slides!

Can't you tell that was Anthony! I didn't expect him to come down drowning!

Wow! Awesome! Let's go again... anyone with me? For not wanting to go the first time everyone else went up he sure ended up loving the slides by the end of the day!
I didn't get any pictures of us at the hot pools because i was enjoying it to much! Sorry!

On Sunday we spent the day playing in the river!
Anthony met the same fate as the guy on the blue tube behind him but I didn't get a pic of it... shame I know!

Relaxing on the river!
No one got hurt except me! I tried to cut off my fingers opening a can of chicken for lunch. Josh swore up and down I needed stiches but I didn't think so. We just bandaged them up and went about the play! After that we were walking across the river to a hot pool and a rafter bumped me and down i went cutting my knee on the lava rock!


After a fun filled day we relaxed around the campfire and the kids went to bed early!

Good Bye Summer!