Cornbelly's with the kids!

On Wednesday I decided to take the kids to Cornbellys Corn Maze. We had won some tickets at Jason's work party a few months back and since it was the last week I figured I better take the kids. Jason was out of town so luckily my Mom came with me. She was a great help. The kids were excited that Grandma was there too. Since it was almost dark we did not actually do the big corn maze but Dawson did the Kiddie maze. The kids did get to do alot of the other activities though and had a really good time. This time of year is so fun! I love it.

Me and the kids at the corn maze.


Kennidee loved these big peddle cart things.



Kyson loved the wagon

Kennidee and Kyson Dawson had already ran off

Dawson was a mad man on these. He was almost running over kids and parents.

Kennidee and her silly Grandma in the Train

The kids swinging. Grandma even joined in the fun

Dawson and his Grandma

Dawson and Kennidee racing down the slide.

Kennidee took this silly picture of Grandma. Kennidee loves taking pictures of people.

The kids had such a fun time. We are so glad that Grandma was able to come with us. Even though we froze. I let the kids pick out pumpkins to carve. After the corn maze we took the kids to dinner at Paradise Bakery. If you haven't been there they have really good salads and sandwiches.
(Jason you are sure missing out on all the fun this week being out of town) LOL

Our Halloween Lunch!

Every year my friend Niki and I have had a Halloween lunch with our kids. We have the kids dress up and we rotate whose house we do it at. This year it was at my house. We do it potluck style. I had sugar cookies for the kids to decorate. It is always fun for the kids and fun for us Mom's to show of our cute kids. This year it was just Me, Niki and Jesse with our kids. It was alot of fun though.

Jesse, Niki and Me

The kids decorating their cookies.

Kyson and Ryker eating Lunch

Jesse and Niki with the kids eating lunch

How "Incredibly" cute are we?????

So a few days ago we had our 1st annual Halloween party with Jason's family. All the cousins were there with their kids in Halloween costumes. Some of the adults even decided to dress up. Well last year Jason and I purchased Incredible costumes on clearance for this year. The kids thought it was pretty fun that we were dressing up to match them. Dawson even told me that when I go help with his party at school that I could dress up too. The kids had fun decorating Pumpkins as well as decorating sugar cookies. We had Pizza and lots of other muchies too. The kids had a good time. With exception of Kyson who kept falling off of chairs and getting hurt. He was very sad and it was a very long ride home for me. Jason had to leave a little early to fly to houston for work. I love Halloween and we are definitely getting alot of use out of the kids costumes this year.

Dawson was so proud of his pirate pumpkin!

Kennidee and Skylar

Jason, Kyson and Grandpa. Don't you love the coconut bra.

Alexis in her Little Bo Peep costume her Mom made. She is such a cutie.

Kara and Jake

Rusty, Kristen and their family!

Carving pumpkins with Daddy

Thursday Kacy had Bunco, and since I will be out of town next week, I decided it would be a good night to carve pumpkins with the kids. My friend Tyler and his daughter came over.cThe kids had fun getting all the 'guts' out of the pumpkin, then carving them (or watching Daddy and Tyler carve them). I had bought a few books of designs for pumpkins, they actually turned out pretty cool. Dawson had to make an incredibles one since we're all being the incredibles for Halloween, then he had to put on his Dash costume, since Kennidee and Kyson had pictures in their costumes on the blog already. Kennidee wanted to make Cinderella's castle, I didn't think it turned out that great, but once we lit it up and turned off the lights, it looked pretty good. Kinsey (Tyler) picked out a skull and crossbones. Kyson was a great spectator, buckled in his high chair chowing down on a corn dog!

Here are the kids cleaning out the guts!

Here are the kids with their finished pumpkins!

And here are the pumpkins all lit up.

Halloween sugar cookies with the kids!

So tonight we decided to make Halloween sugar cookies with the kids. I had made dough earlier in the day and then that night I helped the kids roll them out and cut them. They had so much fun. After we had them all cooked they got to decorate them. They had so much fun. I only gave them each 10 to decorate. The kids had lots of fun putting M & M's and sprinkles all over them. Kennidee was really good about using a Napkin when she got it on her hands. Dawson on the other hand would lick in between each cookie (this explains why they only had 10 each). I frosted the rest to give out to friends. It was such a good time and the kids enjoyed it alot.

Jason put frosting on Dawson's nose. At first Dawson thought it was super funny but then he got mad.

But you told me to Dad!

So I wanted to wash Dawson's bedding today and I asked him when he got home from school to please go and get his bedding of his bed and into the laundry room. He of course did not listen and said "Later Mom" Well later came and he still did not do it. When Jason got home he told Dawson to go down and take everything off his bed so I could wash his sheets. Well a few minutes later Dawson came upstairs and Jason asked him if he had put it in the laundry room and he said no. So Jason followed him downstairs to find this.....


Well he did get everything of the bed like he was told. What can you do? Just laugh! No wonder it did not make it to the laundry room.

Another Proud Parent Moment!

So 2 weeks ago at church Dawson volunteered to give a talk in Primary. This is the first time this year that he has done one and so I was very happy that he finally got to. I have a serious phobia of getting up in front of people and really don't want my kids to be like that. So Saturday night Jason sat down with Dawson and had Dawson choose a topic. Dawson chose Temples. Dawson then wrote his own talk. Of course when Sunday came around and it was time to give the talk he said the first line and then got nervous and hid behind the stand. Jason was lucky enough to give the rest of Dawson's talk. I am so proud of Dawson that he was able to write his own talk though. He has such an amazingly strong spirit. Every night he has to listen to kids scripture stories to go to sleep. He loves the Gospel and learning about it and can't wait to be Baptized and someday be sealed to us. Here is his talk!

My talk is on temples.

I love when we drive by temples, I feel good when I look at them, and when I walk around the temples I feel good because of the Holy Ghost.

In the temple we can be baptized for people who were not baptized when they were alive.

We also go for ourselves to receive blessings.

We also can be sealed to our family for eternity.

We are blessed to live so close to so many temples.

I hope that some day I can be sealed to my family in the temple, that would be a very special day for me.

In the name of Jesus Christ Amen

Time to Brag!

A few weeks ago I had parent teacher conference for Dawson. Every parent can relate when I say that I was so nervous what she was going to say. At home I definitely have struggles with Dawson. Last year I always got good reports from his Kindergarten teacher but now he is in all day so I was not sure what to expect. Well I was so happy when I left. Mrs. Skillicorn had so much good stuff to say about Dawson. She said he is the most advanced student in reading that she has ever had. She said that he is doing wonderful in math and is a perfectionist in all of his work (I have no idea where he gets that from). She also said he is the most respectful little boy. I was so happy to hear that I seriously thought I was going to cry cause I was so proud of him. He was also very happy cause she sent chapter books home with him that night to read. He was running down the hall swinging it around telling everyone that he gets to read chapter books. Being a parent is so rewarding when you watch them growing and excelling so much. I love watching my kids learn new things.

Dawson is such a wonderful little boy. We are so blessed to have him in our family. He is such a wonderful big brother and Kennidee and Kyson look up to him so much. We love you Dawson.

Our little Getaway!

Since it was UEA and the kids were out of school I decided to take a trip down to St. George to visit my family. So Wednesday we headed out after dance class. Since it wasn't our holiday time then I did not have Dawson. I had been invited to a Halloween party with the kids on Wednesday night. We got down here just in time to get the kids dressed and head to the party. It was at Kori's friends parent's house. They do it every year and they have a potluck dinner and then all sorts of little games for the kids. They even had a Hurst. Kennidee and Kyson looked so cute in their little costumes. They had a super fun time at the party. I can't wait til Halloween. I seriously love this time of year.











On Thursday Me, Kori, Jill and my friend Christy took the kids to Staheli Farms(I am a loser and forgot my camera this day so I don't have pictures from Thursday). They have all sorts of fun activities for the kids like a petting zoo, Corn slide, swings, straw tunnels and of course the maze. After dark they do a scary corn maze as well. Since Kori's kids are a little older they insisted on doing the scary corn maze. Jill was a good sport and offered to watch the little kids so that Kori and I could take her kids. Kennidee insisted on going through it as well. I explained to her that it was scary and she still wanted to go. Of course after she was so freaked I could not get her to stop crying. It really wasn't that scary but for a 4 year old I can only imagine.

Friday night I got to go out with my sisters and my brother in law. We went to Texas Roadhouse and that is my favorite. I love it. Saturday was a super lazy day. Kori and I made sugar cookies and then my friend Christy and Jeremiah came over to watch movies at my sisters house. Sunday Kori and I were bored so she cut and dyed my hair. So now I am back to dark again. I love it though. Tomorrow we are heading back home. It is nice to be away but I am ready to be home. Not looking forward to all the laundry that I get to do after vacation time. (Brittany want to come and fold)? When is my vacation from my vacation?

New Family Pictures

So we went a little early this year to do our family pictures. Rather then the normal Kiddie Kandids ones that we do we thought we would do something different this year. There is this place here in Lehi that I have seen alot of people doing pictures at this place and loved it. I also like the "not so traditional" style. So here are our new pictures. We loved the way they turned out. Even though my kids were being huge stinkers. I felt really bad for Shelly cause the kids were so difficult. But here they are.





Here are some of the kids together and alone.









And of course we had to do one of Daddy with his little princess and Mommy with her little princess too.



We did one of Daddy and his boys and then a few of Jason and I.