Halloween and Stuff

Halloween was way good times! We went as the Peter Pan crew with John as Smee, Marie as Wendy, Tate as Captain Hook, Jack as Peter Pan and Joslyn as Tinkerbell. We all looked pretty fabulous if I do say so myself. Please be very impressed that I made mine and Joslyn's costumes ALL BY MYSELF!!! This is the first time in my life that I have every sewn anything completely by myself. I'm so proud of myself, and was doubly glad that I could use it for my Young Women in Excellence project that I needed to get done!



Joslyn got her helmet last week. We are glad that this will fix her crooked little head so that she will be PERFECT;-)! It stared out plain white, but her daddy jazzed it up quite nicely with stickers and of course some bling. He wouldn't let me help - I guess I don't have the decorating skills!?




A couple weeks ago Joslyn was supposed to be taking a nap but I heard her in there messing around for quite a while. She was happy for a while and then she started screaming. I went in to check and found this. I guess that's why they say bumper pads are dangerous. So of course I took the bumper pad off. Within a few minutes she had her leg stuck between the slats! So I guess our options are: strangulation by bumper or broken leg from bed slats!?


This is just a cute pic of her bouncing on her horse and her cutely painted bedroom wall in the back ground - we were afraid of using too much color - ha, ha!

A Few Firsts

Tate's first Skateboard lesson. Ramps on the first day was pretty intense! He has a love-hate opinion of the whole idea.


Joslyn's first piggytail. With all her hair I'm sure we could have done it much sooner, I just never thought about it - still not used to the idea of having a girl!

Joslyn's first silly face - she does this a lot lately.

Jack's first fieldtrip. We went to Schnepf farms with his preschool and had a great time.

SanDiego

We waited til the summer was over to take our family vacation so we could beat the heat and the crowds. It was PERFECT!!! We parked our trailer in a lovely trailer park(a first for us - but won't be the last) that was only a couple hundred yards from the beach. We met up with our friends the Mortensens and the Echols and we all had a wonderful time!

Chillin in the trailer park


Our first day we spent at Legoland. It was so fun. The boys were old enough and tall enough for almost all of the rides. They were brave and even went on the scary ones. They have an awesome water area that the kids played in for almost two hours. Mini lego land was so cool and all of the dinos, animals, people, etc built out of legos were amazing!










We spent the second day at Sea World. The kids loved looking at all of the animals, so did I. I love the polar bears and am completely amazed at the whales in the Shamu show. I really want to swim with a killer whale - so cool. The boys liked feeding the sting rays even though they felt slimy. Tate LOVED the Atlantis ride and we went on it at least five times - it was a blast! Joslyn was such a good girl at Legoland and Seaworld and was happy as can be just sitting in the stroller or hitchin a ride in the carrier.










Our last day we bummed on the beach - some of us showed our bum! Jack loved the sand and hated the water. Tate got pretty brave and decided to try boogie boarding. He decided it wasn't for him once he got salt water and sand in his eyes. John made friends with a squirrel and Jos took a nice nap under the umbrella.

All in all a FABULOUS time!

First Day of School and Labor Day Camping

Better late than never. Had to put of the pics of the boys first day of school. Jack is in preschool with Ms Nicole. Jack has a blast with his buddy Brexton. He is learning zoo phonics, so he comes home with awesome animal sounds and some cool art projects too.

Tate is in first grade at Franklin South with Mrs. Kellogg. He still has a love/hate relationship with school, and we are working on the idea of getting his work done at school so he doesn't have to do it at home - so hard to be a kid!

We of course went camping for Labor Day, but wound up with only a few pics - I'm sure they'd just look like all of our other million camping trips anyways!! This was Joslyn's fifth - yes fifth - camping trip and she's only six months old.

Half a Year????

Seriously cannot believe that my little angel is half a year old. I'm pretty sure I haven't accomplished anything in the last six months. Where does time go?
Joslyn is a good girl. She's been sleeping 8 to 9 hours at night for quite a while now. She can sit up by herself, when she wants to. She loves playing in her exersaucer and she really gets a kick out of watching her brothers. They are willing to do just about anything to get a smile out of her. She somehow managed to keep most of her hair and has already had one trim (just the mullet off the back). She is so much fun to have around and we love her to death! While Joslyn is already stunningly gorgeous, my dear friend Ashley keeps finding ways to improve upon her beauty with every photoshoot! ;-)

This and That

Just a bit of this and that and a few fun pics to close out the summer.

I went to girls camp for my 3rd summer in a row and had a blast! The girls in our ward are so incredible! We don't have many, but the ones we do have are amazing. The leaders are fantastic too. I am so lucky to be able to work with such wonderful women and young women!



This pic may not be funny to anyone else, but it was so funny when I took it. For first aid training the YCL's did a mock disaster. The girls were supposed to rush to the disaster victims and use the first aid methods they had already been trained on. The victims were doing a great job acting out their injuries, but the girls did not hurry to help them by any means. This poor victim was suffering of severe frost bite. The girls stood there flipping through their camp manuals trying to decide what they should do for her. It was quite commical.

All decked out for skit night. Our ward did the thriller dance.

Had to show off Joslyn's cute bikini bod. I always said if I ever had a girl and if she was chubby in the summer, I would put her in a bikini - Hooray!

Our most recent camping trip. I know you're thinking we go camping all the time - it's true! Joslyn is only 5 months old and she's already been camping 4 times. (Tate's not in the pics not because we don't love him, but because he was in Oregon)




Jack thinks he needs to take all his clothes off every time he goes potty, so I make him dress himself. Funny now, but could be a problem next week when he starts preschool.

Jos is not too crazy bout rice cereal. We'll keep trying.

Checking out the new desk at meet the teacher. Hooray for 1st grade.

Supermodels

Jos and I got to pretend that we were supermodels to show off some really cute hats (see everydaylovephotography.blogspot for the full story). My fab friend and photographer thinks she had to talk me into this, but secretly I've always wanted to be a supermodel. Tyra aint got nothing on us (ha ha ha). Thanks for making me look young Ashley - gotta love photo editing!!! Oh wait - I shouldn't tell the supermodel secrets! I always look that young and fresh!