Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! I can't believe Halloween has come and gone already! The last few months have simply flown by! This year John dressed up as Bumblebee the Transformer and Talyor was a "Big Fat Pumkin".

Some fun things we did this month to celebrate were:

Went to car dealerships in town where they had games and treats for the kids-



Carved pumpkins-







Taylor's class did some trick or treating practicing:






Trunk & Trick or Treated-



Played with our candy!- Can you tell they are excited?

John's 6th Birthday Party

John decided he wanted a Plants VS Zombies birthday party. For those who have no idea what that is...its a computer game that John has fallen in love with that he plays at his friends house. Its all he ever talks about. In the game you plant plants that kill zombies- thats it. Pretty simple and yet very addicting. So for John's party we decided to "train plants"(the kids) on how to be succesful zombie fighting plants.


First we played Plant..plant..zombie(duck,duck,goose):



Then we went Walnut bowling where we practiced our skills knocking over the Zombies:


Then we practice picking up our "sun drops" (candy) from the sun pinata:



We took a break from training and had rootbeer floats and presents. John loved all his gifts but the highlight was recieving his own copy of Plants VS Zombies (Can you tell he was excited?)



Last in our training was to learn to collect water- because everone knows plants need water to grow:

Taylor's First Day of Preschool!

Taylor started preschool today! He was a little nervouse as we walked in, he insited that I come in with him. Once he hung his bag and found the kitchen set to play with he was good to go. He gave me two sets of hugs and kisses and waved goodbye. He as grown up so much from a year ago. He would not even let me leave his side ever! When I picked him up after he said he really liked school and his favorite part was playing on the playground. I am so excited for him. He finally conquered the dreadful potty training days just in time. Here are some pictures:


Thumbs up-


Walking into school:


Hanging his backpack by his name:


Deciding which he likes better apples or strawberries.

Taylor's First Day of Preschool!

a trip up the mountain

So a couple weeks ago we went up Cedar Mountain with Wayne's parents and sister to check out some land a friend purchased and to have a cookout. While we were there some kids brought over water snakes. John and Taylor loved it. John had to hold one...which surprised me a little. He loved every minute of it and on the way home he asked me if we could get one-a snake. I informed him no such reptile will ever be in my home.

Later on we stopped off the highway by a cute little stream to have dinner. These were some really cute pictures of the boys playing in the stream. These pictures capture my boys silly personalities so well. What cute boys!

Brotherly Love:

A fight with a treadmill-OUCH!!!

So John decided while mom and dad were at the temple he wanted to run on the treadmill at grandma and grandpa's house. Needless to say he ended up in a fight with the treadmill and lost-didn't feel very good to say the least.

First day of First Grade!

So it was John's first day of school yesterday! He likes to say: "It's my first day of first grade mom!" He thought he was pretty clever when he came up with that. I thought it was pretty cute! For about a week before school started when I would ask him if he was excited for school he would get a very sad face start rubbing my arm and say "I am nervouse for you" how cute is that!! I think he was nervouse for himself but for him to say that was so preciouse-pulled on the heart strings. But when the day of school arrived he didn't even want me to drive him to school he wanted my neighbor to (we car pool and he wanted it to be her week) but I told him it was his first day of school and I would be taking him. He absolutely loved his first day of school! he said it was "GREAT!" He loves that he gets 3 recesses (one being after lunch), P.E. twice a week, that they have a big screen tv in their room (a projector screen), and that he has friends from last year in his class too. I am so glad that he loves it! I hope he continues to like school for years to come!

So I am such a dork- this is a picture of John's first lunch! I have never made school lunch before and I was pretty excited for myself. I also wrote him a quick little note that he brought home and showed me- he read it to me and gave me a big hug! How sweat!

John working on Bell Work at his desk: