November

I realized I didn't blog for the whole month of November. Oops. So here is a recap of the month.

Just some cute pictures of the girls when we were at Pizza Hut getting Mckinley's free pizza for Kindergarten reading.

Tyler continues to fall asleep in all sorts of weird places.

We have the most beautiful view out our back windows and have been enjoying many gorgeous sunsets. We love our house so much and feel so grateful to live in this area.

Mckinley is learning so much in Kindergarten. I love that she dots her i's with hearts. She is reading quite well now.

I have no idea where this is from, probably Brandon's phone. But it's cute!

Mckinley lost her first tooth on November 17th. Her two bottom permanent teeth grew in awhile ago so we were pretty worried about the baby teeth coming out and even took her to the dentist to see if they needed to be pulled but he said they didn't. And they did eventually come out on their own! Woohoo!

Her second one came out 5 days later. One of her top teeth is loose but I am not in a rush to pull it out because the permanent tooth isn't in behind it like these ones were.

Ha ha, this reminds me of Room on the Broom. Our kids love that show!

I think Tyler was napping and I decided to be nice and let Kallie paint. It was probably one of her first times. I hate the mess!

Playing with our friend Kenzey's new kitten. The kids LOVED it.

We had such a fun Thanksgiving this year. We ate at Brandon's parents house and hung out there all afternoon and then I took the kids to my parents house to see my family while Brandon went out Black Friday shopping. The only pictures I took the entire day were these next two.

Mckinley holding her new cousin Isla who was born two days before Thanksgiving.

Brandon's dad took us all to a hotel in Park City the day after Thanksgiving. The kids had so much fun swimming with their cousins. We always love little getaways like this.

We had a room with 2 queens so we slept in one and put the kids sideways in the other one. Pretty soon we won't fit in one hotel room!

Kallie is a hoarder. Like she has a serious problem. All she does all day is gather toys. And I mean lots of toys. And then just puts them in a pile. Or in a bag. Or a wagon. And takes them around and puts them in different places, but always in a big pile. This is what she did when we had all the Christmas boxes out and were trying to decorate the house. I gave up on the bottom shelf of this table. I had everything displayed nicely and it's all in a pile again.

See what I mean?

And this is over at Brandon's parents house. We were there for like 10 minutes and she did this!

Halloween

Our kids are at such fun ages for all the holidays. All three of them were so excited for Halloween. We had a lot of fun cutting out ghosts and bats and spiders to hang around the house.

I went to Mckinley's Halloween parade at school. It was fun to see all the different costumes. She had a lot of ideas of what she wanted to be this year but in the end I convinced her that it would be a great idea to wear the Cinderella dress we already had in her closet. ;)

Brandon's parents put together a super fun Halloween party for the kids with lots of fun games and prizes.

Tyler kills me. So we borrowed a space man suit from Brandon's mom for him and he was wearing it at home for days and then my mom watched the kids while we went to the temple and when we got back he was in this leopard costume that my mom made for my brother FORTY years ago! Seriously, I'm not kidding. He just turned 42 and he wore this probably when he was 2. Anyway, Tyler was in love with it and wouldn't take it off. He wore it every day and even on Halloween, but we accidentally left it at my brother's house after lunch on Halloween so he wore the space costume trick or treating.

Our ward did a trunk or treat this year which was awesome and then we just went to a few houses right near ours and the kids were done. It was very low key and lots of fun.

Mckinley had colored a pumpkin way early in October and the day after Halloween we decided to carve it.

This was exactly how she wanted it. Super easy!

I can't believe how much fun life can be when your kids are old enough to have fun and be excited for holidays. Every year gets better and better. I can't wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas!

Fall Break

I really wanted to go out of town for Fall Break since we basically didn't go on a vacation this entire year, but we ended up staying here and just doing a bunch of fun stuff around here. I didn't take pictures of very much of it and I already can't remember a lot of what we did. I took the kids one day down to Riverwoods and let them ride the carousel and look around at everything.

We went out to lunch with Brandon, took the kids to the park that night to ride scooters, and watched a movie in our theater.

Okay I really can't remember what we did Friday but that night Brandon and I took Mckinley on a date to the BYU football game. The twins had their first sleepover at my mom's house and had a blast.

We saw Inside Out at the dollars with the whole family. Had pizza, watched a lot of movies, went swimming at the Orem Rec Center. It was a good fall break.

Mckinley had crazy hair day at school. I put twisted pipe cleaners in pigtails. It looked awesome.

Tyler fell asleep like this yesterday. Bahahaha!

The twins are growing up. They are getting potty trained. They are playing together a lot more. Kallie does puzzles all on her own all the time. They play pretend all the time. Kallie calls Tyler "honey" and he calls her mom. It's adorable. We love them so much.

Field Trip and Homecoming Parade

I volunteered to go and help with Mckinley's school field trip to Pumpkinland. They just walk across the street from the school. My dad came and watched the twins for me which was so nice, especially since he had to deal with three poop episodes while I was gone.

I was only in charge of Mckinley and one other girl so it was super easy for me. We had a fun time.

Every year we go to the BYU Homecoming Parade. It is so much fun. The kids come home with a ton of candy. Brandon and I are doing no treats for all of October so we ended up giving most of the candy away to our Sunday school class over the last few weeks. And we have been bribing the twins with it if they will poop in the toilet.

Fire Station and Jakers

For two days we didn't need to drive Savannah home from school so me and the twins rode scooters to go pick up Mckinley. I was proud of them for making it all the way.

Kristen told us about the Orem City Fire Department day of fun. The twins and I went with her while Mckinley was in school. They got to sit in the helicopter, see the fire truck, and other fun stuff.

We have had a few fun trips to Jakers Pumpkin Patch in Springville. It is the best place ever. So much fun for the kids.

The Twins are THREE

The twins turned THREE! It's crazy how much they are growing up.

The weekend of their birthday we went to the cabin for an over nighter. It was short but lots of fun. There was a random herd of sheep right near the cabin. We had a lot of fun watching them.

The leaves up there were gorgeous.

Tyler and Kallie had their 3 year well check and did so much better than they did last year! No crying and they actually sat on the bench while the doctor checked them out. They are still both so short. Somewhere around the 20th percentile for both of them on height.

Traditional Mickey Mouse pancakes for breakfast.

Tyler and Brandon putting together Tyler's lego car.

Trying to show "3" on their fingers.

We are so lucky to have them in our lives! Happy Birthday cute kids.