McKay's Photo Shoot

McKay had a project for school & had many different option for this project. He decided to do photography. So I let him use my camera & take some pictures of his family. I do not have a timer on my camera so for the ones he is in I had him set up the shot. He put the other kids were he wanted them & then took the camera and focused it then he jumped in the picture and I pushed the button. Then he got online and made it into a collage of pictures. His title was "Together as a Family we can do anything!" I thought it would be fun to throw the pictures up because most of them turned out really cute! Good Job Son!!!

Grandma's Pumpkins

Every Halloween my MIL makes the boys a really fun decorative pumpkin! They love them and look forward to seeing what fun idea she will come up with next. This year she out did herself once again & bought the fake pumpkins and had each boy pick out a design and she then carved them. The boys were so excited about the way they turned out. She even got us the fake candles. They look so awesome. I love that I can put them away and then next year we can us again. Thanks again Kathy they are so cool!!!

Can you guess which boy picked out which design?

Trafalga

My great Mother-In-Law bought us our Christmas presents early and they are a gift that will keep on giving the whole year long!!! She got us a pass that we can use at Trafalga & 7 Peaks, plus we can go to the Owls games, & the Flash games. The boys have been having so much fun at Trafalga. We have gone a few times to golf and drive slick cars and just to have fun. They love the Laser Tag & the Bumper Boats. I am way excited to go to 7 Peaks in the summer. The boys are big enough that they have a lot of fun there. The last time we went to Trafalga we got there cousins to come with us & I decided to snap of few pictures of the fun!!!

Halloween Cruise

We tried a new thing this year for a fun Halloween treat! We took the boys on a Halloween Cruise. The boys thought it was great. Being outside in the dark was just about as SPOOKY as they could handle so the boat ride it self was just added fun! We as adults thought it was a little cheesy, but hey we would have never known if we had not tried it out!

This is evryone waiting for our turn on the cruise!

Fishing With The Boys

My Uncle Mike came down to hang out and visit for a few weeks and we took full advantage of him bringing his boat along with him and got a few fun little fishing trips in. One afternoon we went down to Utah Lake and hung out & visited with him for a few hours. The boys were happy just fishing off the docks and throwing rocks at the ducks. The next week I checked the boys out early and we meet my parents and Uncle at Strawberry Lake. We went for a really fun ride around parts of the lake and had a great dinner. But the boys favorite part was catching Crawdads off the docks. Last year my Nephew found a cage to catch them in, so we took that along as well. But I think the boys are just as happy using a raw chicken leg on the end of a string. I even go them to hold the creepy things for a few seconds, but that all ended when one of them pinched Ryan on one of his fingers. Poor kid! It was a lot of fun to get visit with My Uncle. By the time I was born my Mom's family had moved so I never got to get to know my cousins as well as my older siblings have. So I always jump at the chance to get to hang out and visit with them!!! Thanks again Uncle Mike the boys loved it. They really think you are awesome & have already asked when you are coming back to visit again!

Utah Lake







Strawberry Lake

Park Time

The Boys love to go to the "Wooden Park" in P.G. They always have so much fun there! No matter how often we go there they always want to go back! We got my nephew to come with us this time and it added to the fun they had.

$2 Tuesday

For a last little hooray. My Brother and SIL and I took the younger kids to the animal farm at Thanksgiving Point. The month of August they always do $2 Tuesdays. It is always super busy and crazy. But we decided to take a chance and do it anyways. The kids had a great time feeding all the animals and petting them. They were a little sad when they did not get to the pony ride, but the line was over an hour and there is no way I am waiting an hour in line. So instead we did the carriage ride. I hope to get a season pass there in the next couple of months my kids love the museums and gardens. It was fun to watch my Niece Alice. We put some animal food on the tray on her stroller and the animals would lick it off. She was not to sure about it, but we got a good laugh from it!

First day of Kindergarten

Today was my little man Ryan's first day of Kindergarten! I love that he was so excited about school. He has always been an early riser and was up and dressed before his brothers. He was a little disappointed when they left this morning and he did not get to go. He is in the afternoon class with all his buddies & then he gets to walk home with all the big kids in our neighborhood! It is so funny to me how different each of my boys are. Preston took almost the whole year of Kindergarten to go without being upset. Today I had to ask Ryan for a hug! Oh well I love them all just the way the are. Parker does not know what to do with me all to himself for 3 hours everyday. But I am sure we will have fun!