Halloween

Here is our Halloween! Only a few month behind :) The kids of course all loves the countdown all month until the big day! 

Colt did lots of Halloween themed things at school and loved it so naturally the girls were a little jealous of his "fun" school and wanted to do some of his stuff too.

Colt at his preschool parade. Colt was excited to be a super hero for Halloween this year. I think it was a Thor costume but he went with super hero!

I love all of his smiles! 

Everyone had a great Halloween day. We saw Colt's parade and then got to eat lunch with the girls at school. The girls thought they heard an announcement that they could wear their costumes too school but they were mistaken and were the only kids to show up in costumes! Luckily they wore regular clothes underneath just incase this was the situation! 

We went out for a quick dinner, in costume of course!

So we had a super hero, a 80's girl, a princess and a cheetah!

Ellie was right there with all the other kids running along from house to house. She was the cutest saying trick or treat and thank you. She got scared of one trick or treater with a scary mask which was sad and kind of funny. Our street was so crowded and lots of the houses were decorated so it was a fun atmosphere for trick or treating.

Great day for us. I sure love this gang! And that night was a true blessing, Becky had her baby! A healthy baby girl named Lakey! Such way cutie!

Welcome sweet girl!

Terrible Two's

I haven't resorted to this yet but I am awfully close! This was from our Relief Society activity and I thought it was hysterical! Ellie has just been on a whole different level of hard for me than I have experienced thus far. She has many opinions, demands, she is smart and knows how to do a lot of things as well as not being scared to do anything. She screams a lot and is extremely loud and stubborn and sometimes makes me want to cry and pull my hair right out.  

When she gets mad or agitated, which is often, she says "uuugghhhh" loudly, calls people stupid, and spits with her tongue out (like making a pass gas sound!). She is out of control sometimes and I don't know where picked up the spitting habit. 

I want you to know that you are giving me a really hard time lately Ellie but I sure do love you tons. You are infuriating one minute and cute as can be the next with your babies and saying who is your best friend at the moment. You make everything you see into a mommy and a baby and it is so sweet how you think like that. 

I love love you but you are very hard for me right now! But as I have been told, these are the easy problems just wait until she is a teenager, so I will take them and be happy you still want me to hug and hold you. 

Colt's Best Buddy Bevo!

Meet Bevo the guinea pig. The week before Halloween Colt got to bring his class pet home for a week. He was so excited to have him here and got even more attached as each day passed. By the end of the week he never wanted to put the poor guy in his cage and I know he would have loved some quiet time in his cage!

It was really cute to see Colt so attentive to Bevo. He just wanted to take care of him and play with him like he was a real toy. It was so sweet to see him care about this little guy!

Everyone loved little Bevo and he was constantly being played with. Colt got his quality time in with Bevo when the girls were at school.

Just sitting there watching Bevo in his house!

And boy did Bevo love to eat! The kids were feeding him as much lettuce and carrots as he would take. I think he gained like two pounds when he was here! Colt can't wait until we get to take him home again! Thanks for a fun week Bevo!

Eric's Birthday!

Happy Birthday Eric!! Eric's birthday was in October and the kids loved decorating for his big day. They hung balloons all over and made some other decorations. The kids had off that day so after we got to celebrate a little and help dad pop all his note filled balloons, we got a babysitter and headed out for some massages! I was lucky and got to enjoy his birthday too with massages for both of us!

Rachel made him a rubber band bracelet, Livy wrote him a book about our family and Colt not wanting to be without a gift went and dug something up to give to him-a Justin Bieber book! He even wrapped it up with help from his sisters!

Ellie helped Eric by opening all his gifts for him.

Happy Birthday Eric! I hope you know how much we all love and appreciate you for all you do and the great person you are! We are so lucky to have you! I love you!

Salt Lick aka Salt Lake

A fun quick weekend in Austin to check on the boat dock after a storm. One anchor ripped off but everything else was ok. I love when the kids can be entertained by just being outside and that's what it is like there. Collect stuff, explore, throw stuff, watch dad work on something :) It was beautiful weather and we got to go to our favorite Austin resturant, Salt Lick. Even the kids liked it which is rare for them to enjoy the same stuff as us! They were talking about how they liked but kept calling it salt lake instead, another of my favorite places to go!

She is so sweet sometimes! And so cute always!'