Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was pretty low key this year and we loved it. My parents went to Seattle to spend Thanksgiving with my brother. We got together with Brandon's family on Wednesday night for soup.

Then on Thursday we had Thanksgiving dinner with Brandon's parents and two of his siblings. Such a small group. We all fit around the dinner table. Tyler and Kallie napped while we ate which was perfect.

Mckinley wanted to have a tea party as soon as we were done eating.

Tyler and Kallie had cereal. :)

I absolutely love this time of year. I am so excited for Christmas I can hardly stand it. Our kids are at such fun ages! It's going to be the best!!

November Pics

Tyler feeding cereal to his skeleton the morning after Halloween.

Of course Kallie had to follow suit...

Mckinley is such an amazing artist. All she does is draw all day. And I love it.

This was after a nap where I couldn't get into Kallie's room because she had fallen asleep RIGHT against the door. And when I finally did peek through I thought her face looked weird. She covered herself in marker.

Mckinley loves to embellish her clothes. Everything is attached by tape. We go through tape like we go through milk.

We find Kallie in lots of different places in her bedroom.

Tyler and Kallie love to get out of bed and read books together by the door.

Kallie insisted that I put Tyler's pajamas on her over her clothes one day. Tyler threw a fit like you wouldn't believe.

This also describes Mckinley very well. She is always gathering "collections." She picked a bunch of flowers from the yard and put them all in cups and bowls of water.

Tyler and Maverik are the best of friends. I absolutely love watching them play together.

All ready to head out in a small little snow storm we had.

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I'm glad they got to go out and play in it because it didn't last long. They are all so excited for there to be enough snow for us to build a snowman.

Our thankful tree didn't last more than a few hours.

Brandon and I got to go to a freezing cold football game on a Saturday. We had a blast.

Love this!

This is how we all feel about 1:30 church. Mckinley falls asleep in sacrament meeting or primary every now and then. She doesn't even take naps. But Sundays are brutal. For all of us.

After Kallie handed me about 200 of these, I chopped her hair so we could leave it down and it wouldn't be in her eyes.

Mckinley all dressed up as Elsa singing Let it Go.

Tyler in one of the most uncomfortable sleeping positions ever.

We love our Macey's ice cream trips.

We got to go to the Bean Museum for Maverik's birthday.

We had so much fun watching a Jazz game from the NuSkin suite.

 Mckinley is definitely my daughter!

Tyler found his pockets and he was pretty happy about it. Side note: he picks out his own clothes.

These guys are so funny!

Jaker's Pumpkin Patch

So there is this really fun pumpkin patch in Springville called Jaker's. A few friends had told me about it and invited me to go and I just never did until finally I went with Kristen on Halloween. It was the last day it was opened. My kids had so much fun and the place was totally awesome. Everything was free except for buying pumpkins and the corn maze. 

We went on a tractor ride, the kids had so much fun on the slides, and they loved looking at the animals. They brought animals over from the guy who lives down the street who has a ginormous pig, a kangaroo, and lots of other fun animals. We always stop by and look at his animals when we go to Ashli's house in Springville. Anyway, I was so sad that I didn't get my butt in gear and go to the pumpkin patch till the last day it was open. We will definitely go next year as much as we can.

Their corn pit is HUGE! The kids had sooo much fun playing. We went to Hee Haw's last year and the twins were so much smaller and harder and I didn't enjoy it that much. But this year was just the best. I feel so blessed to be able to stay home with my kids and do fun things like this. I love that Mckinley only has school a few days a week. It's going to be sad next year when she is in Kindergarten every single day.

Halloween 2014

Halloween was so much fun this year! Our kids are at really good ages where they can walk everywhere on their own, and they actually understand partly what is going on. We really enjoyed ourselves.

My sister Kristen invited us to her ward party and Mckinley was obsessed with this kid and his headless costume! She wanted to get her picture with him. The kids also loved seeing the Elsa's, Anna's, and Olaf's, and pretty much thought they were the real people, even though they were kids. Ha! Mckinley had the cutest Elsa dress she could have worn this year but she wanted to wear her fairy costume instead. I was fine with that. I think there were enough Elsa's to go around this year. :)

Tyler and Kallie refused to wear their monster capes until I told them they had to to get candy. They didn't complain after that!

My mom bought Kallie this cutest mouse costume for her birthday, and she actually loved wearing it! She also had a cute candy corn costume this year that she wore to a party with her cousins.

The kids had a lot of fun at our own ward party.

Kallie is trying to put vampire teeth in Tyler's mouth for him. Melts my heart!

Mckinley begged and begged to go to a pumpkin patch and we finally did on the day of Halloween and I bought her a pumpkin and went home and carved it for her. We lit it up in the laundry room so the kids could see it, and then never ended up lighting it up outside. But she was so happy with it!

Trick or treating was lots of fun. My favorite was watching Mckinley just run up to the doors on her own and then her friend Kaylie, and Tyler and Kallie would follow behind. She had so much fun!

My THREE kids trick or treating together. Such great memories! Every year is just going to get more fun as they get holder. Holidays make me happy.

BYU Homecoming Parade and Hogle Zoo

Saturday, October 18th started out as a really fun day. We took the kids to the BYU Homecoming parade and had so much fun!!! The weather was amazing. The kids got a ton of candy and loved being there.

Right after that we were supposed to go to the zoo with Brandon's family but I discovered I was bleeding (I was 6 weeks pregnant at the time) and so I stayed home and Brandon took the kids to the zoo. We were supposed to go to the zoo on Tyler and Kallie's birthday but it rained all that day so it got pushed back a few weeks. I was so excited to go. I really love the zoo and I was excited to see the kids' reaction. Brandon didn't take very many pictures because he was too busy keeping track of all the kids by himself but he said they had a great time.

Tyler and Kallie with their cousin Hadlee who is younger but much taller! We have two shorties on our hands. :)