School Pumpkins

Every year the school lets the kids bring pumpkins to school. I love that my boys get excited about doing creative things. This year it was fun to see them come up with the ideas and find just the right pumpkins to g with there idea. Parker had to get in on the picture taking too. Even though it is not his pumpkin & he did do one. One afternoon while the boys were at school we got out stickers and he decorated his. But like I said in a earlier post I was horrible at taking pictures this Halloween!




Here is Preston with an awesome Haunted House that he also made!!!

Carving Pumpkins

We get together every year and carve pumpkins with my family. The kids always love hanging out with there cousins & it is always a lot more fun to do it as a group. I am the worst Mom I did not even get a picture of the finished project. This year Halloween seemed so crazy and it went by so fast. I swear I missed half the things we did even though I was there. But I did get some pictures while we worked on them. I thought they turned out super cute and they kids did a great job. We still have to fight them to take the guts out, but if they want one they have to do the dirty work too! I let the boys pick put there pumpkins from a house that sales them every year. This year Parker picked out a really bumpy one. It was a cute pumpkin. Well when we went to carve it, it was impossible to cut through the thick crust. I finally gave up & took the thing home were I took out Korey's drill and the biggest bit I could find and I drilled holes in it to make the face:)It turned out really cool. I think I might try that again next year, it was a lot faster!!!

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.