Family Pictures

I truly believe that three is no greater torture than trying to get a descent family picture. It gives me migranes every year, but I am dedicated to the cause of documenting our family growing up. I must have made 95 shopping trips to try to figure out what to where. Snow's helpful suggestion was that we match but not be too matchy. Yes, not vague at all. We waited too late in the year to get the job done so we had to cancel once because of a snowstorm and the day we actually took the pics it was FREEZING. Not at all conducive to happy child (or hubby) faces. The end result was that we all look a little tired and haggard, but we did it. You can find our photographer at mo-dream.blogspot.com she was super reasonable and easy to work with.

My Little Turkey

Innocent Aren't They?!

Looking at these pictures almost makes me forget the spilt milk, tantrum throwing, refusal to share, spit up, poopy, hypersensitive behavior that is real life...almost.

Has it Really Been Two Months?

I mean seriously--Can it have been that long since my last post? Like many of you, I have been busy trying to get through the Holidays and make it a memorable and enjoyable time for my family. We did a lot of fun things including: The Festival of Trees, lights at temple square, caroling at the lifecare center, making goodies for neighbors, reading stories, attending concerts...lots of fun stuff. We spent Christmas in AZ with Snow's family. We had a great time.

We introduced a new tradition in our family called The Elf on the Shelf. It is a book and Elf figurine that you can get online or at bookstores. The gist of it is that the elf helps Santa know who is naughty and nice by hiding in a new spot each day to keep an eye on the kids and then reporting to Santa at night. Saylor named our elf Grisby and, I am not going to lie, I got a lot of mileage out of the phrase "Grisby is watching..." It was a huge hit at our house!

Happy Halloween

Wow what a beautiful Halloween we had! I loved that it was a Saturday. We hadn't had time to carve our pumpkins so we did that in the morning--mine is the really good one! Then we had a little neighborhood soup potluck before we went trick-or-treating. Saylor was loving it and Sawyer is not one to complain about a stroller ride, even if he is forced to wear a dog costume. We ended the evening by playing some games with friends. It was a ghoulish good time! Oh, and in an effort to be more like my friend Tara I got my craft on and made both Saylor's "stylish"kitty costume (her name not mine) and my witch hat.

As is tradition we made our way to the Black Island Farms Pumpkin Patch. Sadly it was a REALLY cold day to go, but neither of my kids seemed to mind. Another sad note is that my power went off half-way through drying my hair and didn't come on before time to go so I have some serious hair issues in the pics. I know I shouldn't have mentioned it and now you are all just staring at the pictures and agreeing with me! Anyway, the hayride and pumpkin picking were great, as were the slides, cow train, jumping castle, cornbox, and animals.


This BTW is Saylor's best friend Hyrum.

Halloween Party

Saylor really wanted to throw a Halloween Party, and being a sucker for the scary myself I relented and we had quite the bash with the neighborhood 3 yr olds. We played find the skeleton bones in the backyard, pin the face on the pumpkin, and throw the candy corn in the jack-o-lantern. The kids also made a foamy pumpkin craft and I served monster face pizzas and pumpkin rice crispy treats for lunch. We finished with a photo shoot by Scary Gary our super cute scarecrow and a spooky story time. Sadly I hardly took any pictures because there were 10 3 yr olds and even though a couple of mom friends stayed to help, I was too busy wrangling kiddies to take photos. It was frightfully fun!