Jayde's Birthday

Jayde turned 2 yesterday and we had a pizza party for her. She was so lucky because she got to have both my parents and Shawn's mom here for the party as well as her Uncle Kevin, Aunt Tiffany, cousins Corbin, Brityn and Boston, and her Uncle Trent.

Before she started opening her presents, she thought we needed a prayer.

As she was ripping into to wrapping paper, she thought she needed to throw each piece away as she tore it off (what a good little girl I've got). At first she started to run into the kitchen to throw them away, but I quickly got a bag so we wouldn't be there all night.

One of her presents was a jack-in-the-box and as you can see by the look on her face, she loved it. The other kids did as well. We had some fighting over that one.

She, like most little kids, spit all over the cake when she blew out the candle. Yummy!!!

Enjoying the cake.

Among other things, she got a dress up outfit and a doll she was quite thrilled about.

She had a blast opening up her presents and playing with them.

We had such a fun night with her. She is such a little joy to have around and we love her so much.

Time For Christmas

We spent the last few days decorating for Christmas. I know it is a little early, but what can I say, I love Christmas time. Besides, I wanted it done when we got back from Thanksgiving in Utah.

The kids really got into the decorating spirit. They loved decorating the tree, especially the same branch over and over. I tried to fix it, but I am sure there are plenty of ornaments stacked on top of each other.

This is the first year we have ever done any outside lights on our house. Fox saw the neighbors hanging their lights and told me he wanted to too. So as much as I knew Shawn would love it, I told him that we were going to do the lights outside this year. He was a good sport about it.

The bad part about it though is we don't have a really tall ladder so he had to climb on the roof and scoot out to the edge to put them on. As you might be able to tell the clouds were rolling in and it started to rain a little bit, but he got done and off the roof before it started.

The kids were happy for a second to put the lights on outside, but it got old fast, and really cold. By the time we went to the store for supplies and then back to the store for more supplies, it ended up being an all day project.

Happy Halloween!

The kids had a blast tonight. We went with Kevin's family trick or treating and as always I tried to get a picture of all the kids together. This is the best picture I got. They were to excited to load up on candy to stand still. Although, now that I look closer, it is just my kids that won't pose very good.

So I tried to get one of just Fox and Jayde together and at least they sat there for a few seconds. Even though they didn't look at the camera.

Fox found out that Boston was wearing a Spiderman costume and couldn't stop talking about dressing up just like him. So we went costume shopping last Friday night and Saturday, and 3 WalMart's later finally found a spiderman costume. Thank heavens, or we would have had a sad boy.

Fox and Boston

Jayde was just happy that we finally started trick or treating.

Fox is proud of his stash. It got too heavy for him to carry. That is when we called it quits.

Pumpkin Faces

Thursday Boston came over to play and we made pumpkin faces. I don't know about Boston and Jayde so much, but Fox loved it. He wore it most of the day chasing the others around making ssssssssss noises. Now I know what a pumpkin sounds like!

Tagged Again

Kinsey tagged me a few days ago. I am supposed to list 7 things that are weird/interesting about me or that have happened to me. I have been thinking about that and must resort to my high school days for some of them. So sorry to my high school friends that read this because it is nothing new to you.

1. I have a broken back. Ok, more specifically I was diagnosed with a compressed fractured vertibre while in my high school days. Basically 2 of my vertibre are crushed and my doctor at the time said that it will never heal. Most often it doesn't bother me though.

2. I was involved in many things while in high school. I played volleyball, softball, and basketball and was also on the dance team. Each year I dropped out of one thing because of one reason or another. Volleyball, I didn't like my coach. Then softball because my back hurt too much and I didn't know why. Then basketball because my back doctor said I had to quit everything. I was very upset about that one. But I stayed on the dance team because back problem or not, I was not quiting everything.

3. I was 'drill mistress' of my high school dance team my senior year, which basically means that I was president, or captain, or what ever you want to call that. Anyways, I had to take charge of the dance team often when our advisor was out because of a surgery. We went on to nationals that year in California.

4. I got dance sterling scholar at our school. For those of you who might not know what that is, it just means that I got a scholarship because of dance, though I didn't have to go on to dance in college.

5. I was on the ballroom back up team the end of my freshman year of college. A friend of mine, who was on the back up team, came to me and told me that some girl got hurt or moved or something, I can't quite remember, and they needed someone for the following week's performance. I agreed to let him teach me the dances, there were 3 or 4 dances, and 4 days later, I was performing in the big end of the year ballroom dance performance. It was a lot of fun.

6. I pop my elbows all the time. Some people think that is weird.

7. I can't think of any thing else so I guess that is it.

Pumpkin Carving

Today after church we decided to carve our pumpkins. Let me just say, I think I should stick to the basic pumpkin face instead of trying to do a witch or something else. My witch turned out not so good. Part of the face broke off so I had to prop it up with some pumpkin scraps I found in the garbage. Shawn feels the same way about his spiderweb that Fox had to have, but his turned out much better than mine. The kids really enjoyed trying to cut into the pumpkins and get all the 'guts' out.

Trunk Or Treat

Last night was our Ward 'Trunk or Treat' party. After looking for two days straight we found a spiderman costume for Fox to wear. He was so excited to dress up just like 'Bosty' in his spiderman costume he could hardly contain himself while they were trick or treating last night.