Turkey Shirts

Yeah I made these turkey shirts.  I made one for Amelia too, but she left for school before I got pictures!

Hayden's 5th Birthday!!!

Hayden with her ice cream cake!!! She loved it and it was yummy! She chose cheese stuffed shells for dinner.

From us she got a kids V tech camera. Ethan has had one for years and it is kid proof and kid friendly. She has been asking for one for a while. So she got the pink and purple one! I also got her a little bracelet, and hair clip from the bazaar.

Grandma and Grandpa got her a Dora coloring book and a box with crafty things in it. She calls it her treasure chest. It is sparkly and has a horse on it so of course she loves it!

Emily's Wedding and Vegas

My little sister Emily was getting married the 29th of October and she lives in Las Vegas. So Larry and I bought tickets to go down for the weekend. It was a nice little get away for just the 2 of us. My kids wanted to go but lets get real... NOT a place for kids! Plus who can afford to fly with 5 kids? It was tight just for the 2 of us to go. But so so glad that we went! Luckily I baby sat a bunch this month so we had plenty of spending money. (We don't gamble, don't drink, don't go to dance clubs so it was mostly site seeing and eating which makes it fairly cheep!) Oh but I do have to say I did "WIN" $20. We were walking up a broken escalator and I found a $20 bill! It was out on the street so there was no way to turn it in to a lost and found so it was MINE! Sweet!

These are some cool statues at the Luxor. I was going to take a bunch of pictures of the cool buildings but my batteries were going low and then died while I was taking pictures at the wedding so there are about 8 pictures of our trip! Unfortunately some of what I saw is burned into my brain and I would like to erase those pictures!!!

Here is my beautiful sister Emily on her wedding day. She really is pretty you have to admit that. They got married in the Little Chapel of the West. I hadn't ever been to a weeding like it, it was short, but nice. I didn't get any pictures of her with her husband because again my batteries died. She also has a new step daughter who is so cute! I love her hair. She just turned 11 so she is right between my boys in age. Her and my neice Johnnie hit it off right away! I had lots of fun hanging out with Johnnie and my parents while we were there. There was lots of good food, laughing, and good times. We went on the Roller Coaster at New York New York and had lots of fun walking the streets. My only regret was NOT buying these shoes I saw and TOTALLY LOVED!!! I am very happy for my sister who found some one who makes her so happy! I hope they have a very happy life together!!!

Hopefully I will get some pictures of my crafts for the bazaar and blog about it after wards, but set up starts tomorrow so if I thought I was busy the last few weeks it just gets better from here. But this is the end result and I just pray it is successful! It is always lots of fun though so I am looking forward to it!

Hayden's 5th Birthday

So it isn't actually Hayden's birthday yet... but it is this coming Thursday. Which also happens to be in the middle of the bazaar. So we celebrated with friends Saturday. It was a lot of fun. Hayden planned most of it I hardly did anything. It was  a fairy party. They played Fairy Fairy Troll. (Duck Duck Goose)

This is a couple pictures of a game Hayden made up. It is fairy's get chased by the Alligators. All the girls were fairies, and would fly around and the boys were the alligators and had to chomp them. If you got chomped you were out, last one in was the winner. (I gave the winner of each round a piece of Halloween Candy)

Hayden "wanted" cake pops. (I say "wanted" because I kind of talked her into them. Mostly because I had been wanting to make some and I wanted to make some for the bazaar and I knew I would have enough left over I could sell them at the bazaar... You know just multitasking) They were yummy though and she got to help make them!

Oh she also didn't want ice cream (which shocked me because she LOVES ice cream) But I think the thought of getting to choose what ever you want made her think that this was the chance to get some Dora Popcycles! (Since I always say no to those things they are a total rip off! But that is what she wanted for her birthday party so that is what she got!) She will be having Ice Cream cake on her birthday. (Another thing to make my life easier during bazaar week. Although she LOVES that part too!!!)

Claire got her this play dough set which she spent the rest of her day painting and doing play dough.

Halloween

Halloween day my kids didn't have school. It was an inservice day. So I thought it would be fun to throw a Halloween party for the kids. I have ALWAYS wanted to do this and never thought we had a good time to do it between school and other activities that fill up the time. So since we had the whole day off I went for it. We played musical "chairs" it was really on papers.

Classic eat donuts from a string game!

We also played pin the face on the jack o lantern, and we had lunch I wish I had taken pictures of it. I made "mummies" (hot dogs wrapped like mummies), Brains, (jello mold), Lips and teeth (apple slices with mini marshmallows between two slices) and bones, (yogurt covered pretzels) I also made Skeleton cupcakes, and pumpkin rice krispy treats. It was all a lot of fun. Just don't ask my kids if mom will ever do this for them again.... I typically like to share the fun stuff we do but let me just say the party was FUN! But getting my kids to get ready or clean up after the party was NOT so I told them I may never do it again. Mostly because I had done all the prep work, went to Vegas and came home the day before, and needed to get a ton of other stuff done for the bazaar... Not my favorite Halloween, but the party part was a lot of fun. I probably will do it again, just not the day after I get home from a trip out of town.

I had a hard time getting excited about Halloween this year because we couldn't decide on costumes I really liked that were going to take little to NO effort on my part, like I said, I went to Vegas and I am getting ready for the bazaar that is literally days away! Finally I needed a last minute idea for Brock the week before for a party and I told him I could wrap him in TP and he could be a mummy or I would cut a sheet and he could be a ghost. All the kids loved his ghost costume so much we all were ghosts. It was super fast and easy for me so away we went! Even Ruth loved it! She didn't want to take it off and wanted to wear it every day after I had cut them up. Some times it was ALL she wanted to wear. It was kind of funny watching a tiny person run around with nothing but a tiny sheet on! So cute!!!

Pumkin Carving

We have a tradition of carving our pumpkins the Family Home Evening before Halloween. (We have our FHE on Sunday because I never know when Larry will be home Monday night and it is more important to me that we are all here then we do it on Monday...) Anyway we carved our pumpkins Sunday the day before Halloween. The kids had a great time. Ruth loved it!!!

Here is Hayden with her pumpkin. She wanted triangle eyes and a BOO mouth!

Ethan's attempt at a Voldimort pumpkin...

Amelia is all about eyelashes. Pretty cute!

Larry and I had just gotten back from Las Vegas. I will post on that later. My little sister got married on the 29th and so we flew out to be there. It was a very quick trip!

Ruth's 2nd Brithday Bash!

Ruth loves to sweep! Every time I get my broom out she wants to sweep with me. I happen to have 2 brooms but she is always hitting me and everything else with the giant broom so I thought getting her a little mop and broom her own size would be perfect. It sure was she didn't want to put it down and she kept running into the kitchen to sweep and we had to coax her into opening any other presents.

Grandpa got Ruth a new baby doll. You can see the OLD one she has been dragging around is getting pretty dirty, plus it is an old one of her sisters (she hasn't ever had one of her own) She has been VERY attached to that doll the other night I couldn't find it and NO other doll would do! We finally found it the next day in the boys room. She now loves to carry both around plus her broom, and if she can manage she will hold all 3 and lay on her new Dora pillow pet that Great Grandma Lucy gave her! (Which made her soon to be 5 year old sister burst into tears the second she saw it! She LOVES Dora and has been begging for a pillow pet but I refuse to buy one because my mom MADE them pillow pets before pillow pets were cool and they are way cooler then some stupid pillow pet!) anyway I told Hayden to let Grandma Lucy know that she loved it and wanted one to and maybe she could get one for her birthday that is just a month away! That helped! Ruth loves hers I think even more because her big sister covets it so!

This is her little toy toaster she got that actually pops the toast up when the timer goes off!

She got this little pie that has 4 different fruits you put inside the pie. She likes it but her big sisters love it more I think. But really the broom, doll and pillow pet are about all she can handle!

I made her an Elmo cake because she also LOVES Elmo and has for a LONG time. She also carries Elmo just about every where we go and she sleeps with him a lot... he gets a little less love now that she is so into babies but still she loves him, now that she has 2 babies to love though he may be history because her arms aren't long enough to hold all 3!
I wasn't sure if she would even see that it was Elmo on the cake but once she saw it she yelled "Meh Mo (or sounds more like Memo) then she started squealing soooo exciting! I was so glad it made her that happy because seriously I thought it was going to be SOOO easy because I have done 3 dimensional cakes and those are HARD this was just squirting frosting on a formed cake.... it took a long time, mostly because I did so many colors, and I made the frosting.... But it was worth it! She also loved blowing the candle out. Hayden did it one time to show her what to do and then I couldn't get a picture of it because as soon as Larry would light it she would blow. It was so cute! She really liked it. I told Hayden she better watch out next month or Ruth will blow hers out too! We let her do it several times it was so cute!


We love you baby Ruth!!! Happy 2nd birthday!

Look Who's 2!!!

I love this peanut! We have been so blessed to have her in our family! She has brought so much joy to our home and life! She is adored by all her siblings as well. She keeps me on my toes and teaches me so much. Here I think I have raised 4 others passed this point and I think I have "seen it all" but NO she is whole other nut to crack! I love that she is this way and fills our life with ACTIVITY! I will post a few examples of her more recent "activities" that keep me guessing.
I realize this is sideways but if you look she pushed her scooter over so she could open the door. She succeeded in getting it open enough to climb back down and get out the door and bring in a few of the gourds from the front porch. She did this yesterday!
She has learned how to get on and off this horse all by herself! She not only will ride it side saddle like this but she will STAND on it and bounce it!!! I am telling you if I don't have a heart attack before she grows out of this phase it will be a miracle. I don't think a day goes by with out me finding her into or on top of something new.
Saturday (yesterday) I was in my craft room and I had set a foot board from a bed frame up against the wall (it has rungs like a latter) I turn around and she has climbed this (latter) to the top and was working on trying to climb the book shelf!
This is one of her new favorites as well. PLEASE FORGIVE THE MESS!!! It is bazaar season and it is what it is. Saturday I spend doing a major clean up so I could function again... well for a few days anyway! But NOTICE she pushed her scooter (again) over to the chair and climbed up, she will also climb onto the desk as well. Yes I know she has no panties on in the picture. So sorry. This is another thing she likes, to be naked! She doesn't like to get dressed or wear clothes so if she can get them off or get away with out she will. She loves to try to play with the mouse or key board. The librarians hate her I think because she is always trying to get to the computers there too. In fact she even turned one of them off and rebooted it last week.
Here she is at the boys football game! She was so dirty!!!!! She has not been to another one since! IT was either let her be dirty, or let her climb the bleachers... I chose dirt it was safer then falling to her death! OOOOHHHH Baby Ruth I love you and all the cuteness you are. Yes you keep me running but I love how snugly you are, how sweet you are with your baby and Elmo, and how Amazing you personality is!!!
It seems like just yesterday she scared us on her way out! Her birth was quite the event! And I thank my Father in Heaven everyday for getting you hear safely! Now if he can just keep you safe, I try but I really need his help! Everytime I turn around there you are again!

Pumpkin Patch 2011

The girls love getting a ride in the wheelbarrow every year!

Girls choosing the Perfect pumpkin.... They both (the big girls) Wanted a Cinderella pumpkin (a white one)

Ethan ALWAYS tries to get the biggest one he possibly can!!! We have always said if he could carry it he could get it. This year that changed. He can pick up the biggest ones they had this year! Unfortunately the weather was not great for the GIANT ones we LOVE to get every year!

Brock's job was pulling the wagon. ON the way out to the patch he had just Ruth, on the way back... all the girls! He proved how tough he was though he did it all by himself!

The girls loved the ride!