Halloween Finale

Friday was Tanner and Ady's school parties. I helped out in Ady's and then popped over to Tanner's to see how things were going. I contributed some candy jars for Tanner's class since I couldn't be there. I was busy in the other room doing BINGO so I didn't get many pictures. I was also running late so I didn't get any pictures of her befoer school.

Then on Saturday we went to the Adam's house for dinner with a bunch of friends and the only cutie dressed was Everly. This is my favorite picture of Everly and Anna....thanks for the smile Joe!!!! On a side note, Ady loves Everly and wants a sister sooooo bad. She even decided we couldn't name a girl Everly so we need to name her Emerly.....LOL!!!

After dinner Anna, Everly, Bennett and I went over to the Sweet's house to hang out and pass out candy. It was quiet and fun. Since it rained I didn't get pictures of my kids and Davis was very kind to carry a huge umbrella around in the cold. I also didn't let Bennett go, which he was fine with. Carrie gave him a full size bag of plain m&m's to eat while he watched Diego's Halloween.....HEAVEN!!!!! So, Bennett never had an opportunity to put his costume on. So this morning I changed his diaper and put his costume on....it was soooo difficult to get a picture.

T'll take it.....that's a wrap. I only shared a few but I tool about 15.

And remembering that I had not taken a picture of Ady...I had her get dressed.

Very cute little witch we have here. Now go get changed....it's almost time for church.

Pumpkin Carving 2010

I do not care for pumpkin carving, I do not really care for Halloween, but I LOVE that my kids are getting older and can do some things on their own.



Here is the crew, Matt didn't want to carve; left to right Matt, Ady, Tanner





Close up of Ady's, she did the whole thing on her own. I love that we have the pumpkin knives so I didn't have to do ANYTHING.



Tanner's looks a bit drunken and wouldn't sit up for me.


And last but not least, Matt's. Bennett snuggled with Daddy and was more than happy to leave his cute little pumpkin alone.

I specifically got a pumpkin for me to paint for Davis. I know his blood runs blue even when they aren't doing so well. Here's to you Babe...GO BYU!!!!!!

Happy Halloween Tanner!

Tanner loves loves loves Halloween. Which is crazy since it's my least favorite holiday. Oh well. He usually comes up with some intersting ideas for Halloween and thankfully my Dad is willing to please him (and fork out the money for the costume.) This year when he told me what he wanted to be and the specifics, I sighed. I thought for the most part it would be easy, but wasn't sure how I would pull off one key piece. It also didn't help that I had JUST had his haircut. Oh well, I think it turned out awesome. THANKS THANKS THANKS Mom for the amazing jacket. He and I LOVE IT!!!!! You are the BEST!

INTRODUCING:


WOLVERINE ORIGINS (not the easy x-men suit....origins!!!)


Love the hair!!!!

I will do Ady later. First I need to get Tanner off to school.....so happy for afternoon kindergarten!! :) Busy weekend ahead...stay tuned.

Snow Snow....

Go away come again after Halloween...or even Thanksgiving.

Don't get me wrong I LOVE snow, especially the first snow of the year, but this came a bit too early for my taste. Luckily it's gone now and will hopefully warm up for Halloween.

These are a bit backwards, but I love Bennett. He was so happy to go out in the snow until he realized how cold it was. LOL

Ady and Matt had to make snow angels on the trampoline first thing!!!!

How many..........

.............mini cupcakes can Bennett eat while Mommy is away for a few minutes?

If you said 4 you would be correct.

This is the "caught" look.....

Thinking about getting the last one.....

Hiding from me...or remorse, but I'm sure he's trying to hide.

Trying to sneak the last one, which really makes me think he's trying to hide. I CAN SEE YOU PUNK!!!!!!

I have to say that this boy is an ADY in the making. Those two are so similar it is scary. Ady was constantly getting into things and such a trouble maker....Bennett is giving her a run for her money. Thank goodness he is super cute!!!!!

Pumpkin Patch

On Monday for FHE we went to the pumpkin patch. (Bennett has been going crazy when he sees the pumpkins at walmart.) We finally got him a pumpkin. He loved picking them all up. He also ran around and fell about 20 times.


He was also thrilled to not be in the wagon.


Ady and Matt's finds....


After finding our pumpkins we played on the tractors.....

This kid LOVED the tractors.

Next came the hayride.

This picture makes me laugh and I put it here just for Aunt Kiersti. There is a picture when Davis was little and the three older are standing together and the younger 4th is to the side crying....it's hilarious and we always laugh because they say, "Yup, that's how it was." This picture totally reminds me of that, except for the fact that Bennett CHOOSES to be over in the corner...I swear sometimes he's saying, "I am sooooo not with these people!!!"

Really could he get any happier....he was so happy on this hayride.

This is the best we got...I offered to take a picture of a cute family and they figured they would be nice and take ours...thanks, but I would so not like my prego belly out in front!!!!

Thanks for the sweet find Carrie and Laura. Can't wait for next year.

KNOCK KNOCK......

The other day I was chillin' on the computer and the doorbell rang. I got up and found this................

My kids were dressed as power rangers and they INSISTED they were not my kids. So we "pretended". Later they changed and asked if anything interesting happened while they were "gone". I had to tell them with lots of excitement that Power Rangers came to our door and they SOOOO missed out!!!!

ps. Ady totally looks like she has to pee. hahahaha

Halloween preview

Okay, just one kid so far, but it's a start!!!! Matthew informed me he wanted to be Ben 10 again this year. I was thrilled, until he told me he didn't want to be "big Ben 10" again, he wanted to be little Ben 10....OKAY!!!!

So I googled and found a picture to go off of.

Let's just say he was thrilled with it and wants to wear it all day.

Mom is super happy it was just a white shirt (1.99 on sale at Micheal's) black paint (1 on sale at Michael's) iron on transfer and pants I had in a size 4 for Tanner, that he agreed were perfect. :) and an omnitrek that we all ready had....I just replaced the wrist band...it had an awful plastic one that wouldn't stay closed, so he got frustrated with it. I bought a watch band and he loves it now. Saved me $20, those things are expensive.

Oh and Miss Sassy Pants, yelled at me until i took a picture of her "cute hair." I am sooooooo ready for her to go back to school! Ady's costume is almost done, just need to finish the hat and I will post pics. Bennett is going to be a monkey, I just need to put it on and take pics...Tanner, well that's another post since it's a bit of a project for me.

Yummy food

This post is mostly to show how crazy it's been. Our friends came to visit for a few days (on their way down to California.) They are friends from when I was a kid in California...eventually we moved to Utah and they moved to Colorado. They always stop by on their way down to Cali...also their daughter lives here in Utah now with her hubby, so they come to see her too, but I tell myself they come to see us. LOL Their daughter had school and work the two days they were here, so they spent lots of time at my house cooking....it's was tiring but heavenly.

Here is Gui teaching me to make tamales.


Berto showing off his tamale mix.


Those were the only two pics I got because we were super busy. We started out making Bertos famous barbeque sauce...okay he made it while I was at Gardner Village with the kids. We then marinated the beef and crock potted it all day...yum. Next we made salsa, guacamole, and fajitas for lunch. I of-course ate too much and paid with heart burn. Next came the tamales we were up until 10 cooking....tired!!!!! I think we made over 50 tamales. Next day I used the rest of the barbeque sauce and did chicken, rice, and lots of enchiladas. My freezer is stocked full of yummy mexican food and I am happy to say it's ready for "baby season".

Thanks Gui and Berto for the cooking lesson and yummy food in my freezer. Gui wants me to teach her lasagna and alfredo sauce next....it's a plan!!!

Gardner Village 2010

Last Thursday we went to Gardner Village with our neighbors. We try to do this every year. Luck had it my Mom was up so she offered to keep Bennett with her. Though I'm thinking he would've been the best one there out of my kids.

I could not get a decent picture of my kids together...either they were crabby, not paying attention or another kid would jump in....oh well...

This is Matt and his friend Cayden.


Matt and Ella, suprisingly these two get along really well. They both LOVE playing house and barbies together....Matt's learning real quick how to make the ladies happy. LOL

Matt, Tanner, Makaylee, Ella and Ady

All of the kids (minus Benno of course)

It was fun, but crazy. The kids have been off track for 3 weeks now, they go back Monday and I can't WAIT!!!!!

Ah Ady, always good for a laugh

So a few minutes ago I was chilling on the computer (reading blogs.) Ady kept bugging me and I finally told her if she didn't go away I would put her to bed....it's not even 7...lame. So, she goes to the family room and turns the t.v. on...for those that don't know we no longer have cable or anything, our tv is streamed through the internet on PlayOn. They can get on all sorts of stuff but rarely venture from the Netflix Que (which is stuff we put on there for them and us.) Well, Ady has been more brave in searching, she found a Hello Kitty today...who knew. So she runs in and I can't quite catch the first part but the rest goes like this, "There's this guy and another guy and another guy with a pillow...come see Mom." My poor mind is thinking "WHAT THE" and rush off to the t.v.

She is on Netflix and has the movies pulled up and the "picture" on one of the movies is 3 guys...not sure about the pillow, but it's for "Old Dogs"...I sighed and told her she couldn't watch it and to find something else.

To make matters worse, while I am part way through posting this blog post, Matt runs in and says, "Bennett spilled root beer!!!" HUH?!?!?! I run into the kitchen to find Bennett standing on the counter at least 1/2 of the 2-liter bottle of root beer empty....on my kitchen floor. Sigh, I did not realize how much liquid is in a two liter!!! :) Sorry no pictures, I hurried to strip him and clean up. Unfortunately, he likes to "help" clean up his messes and threw a huge fit when I wouldn't let him mop. So I wiped it up the best I could and gave him the mop....looks like I get to mop the whole floor when they go to bed....LUCKY MOM!!!! curse you blogger!!! LOL That's what I get when I leave my kids for a few minutes.

Bennett

As some might know, Bennett is almost 2 and doesn't talk. About a month ago we had someone from the school district come and spend 2 hours with him. They pretty much asked a ton of questions and played games with him. Let's just say the first hour went well....the last, well, not so good. We then went to a "special" school yesterday where they asked a bunch of health questions and tested his hearing...passed on both ears. So today a speech therapist came and we wrote up a "plan". She'll come in 2 times a month for about an hour. Not quite sure how this is going to go. She asked what things I wanted him to learn to say....well....for starters MAMA! :) LOL Okay maybe I don't want him to learn that. Our goals are Mama (he says DaDa) Ady, Matt, Tanner and basic things like drink, snack, bye bye. You know things that a one year old says. :) I am seriously hoping she has some good suggestions....I usually say simple words to him over and over...like drink, food, potty...you know the basics. He doesn't care so far. I guess my "homework" until she comes again is to use 2 word phrases....shoes on, door open, go outside. She said to only do it on occasion. that he still needs to be talked to normally, but sometimes full sentances are hard to repeat, but he can understand them. So that is where we are at with Benno. I miss my nephew Jones coming to play...he would always talk for Bennett and it was so cute. He would come and say, "Benno and Jones want drink." or "We want cheez balls!" He'd grab Bennett's hand and say, "Come on Benno!" I loved it...so adorable!!! Now if only Bennett will talk. I will keep you updated on his progress....if there is progress.
I guess I should say he does say "DADA", "vroom"; "woof", and other variations of "da". When he does down the slide he will say, "DA, DA, DA...dooo" or in english "1,2,3 Go" he says "dadin" when Ady plays ring around the rosie....which in english is again. We have learned a little "Benno" but english would be nice.