All Hallows' eve

This Halloween we went over to our friends, Rosemary and Shannon's neighborhood. Wow! It was Christmas at halloween. We have never seen so many house full on decked out for Halloween. Almost the entire neighborhood had their houses and yards all spooked out. There was a spiderweb that went for 3 houses, a guy with a blow torch on his roof, a pirate house and so much more. We have definitely found a new tradition. Benjamin was a skeleton, Emma a broken doll, and I had face makeup for the living dead. I love doing fun make up :) Noah was over the costume tonight and Jake was dressed as the guy that just got a new iPhone 6 plus! Um what?!? Yes he is excited. Tara's little Kinsley was trying to make her appearance a little early and drew was so popular in his glow man costume. Everyone was having fun dressed up!

Last weekend we went to Benjamin's school carnival. The kids had so much fun playing the carnival games. Benjamin even went through the spooky haunted house. He was such a brave little pirate. Emma was dressed as princess Merida from brave and Noah was the cutest little lion ever. Benjamin wore the same lion costume and I loved seeing it on this little baby too. The kids got to take a ride in the really big blow up balls. They thought it was so fun, it was one of those 1 minute of fun traded for an hour in line :/ That was my day to be excited though because I got my gold iPhone 6! 

Benjamin had his school party this week. He was so excited to see his teacher and all of his friends all dressed up. My cousin Kelsey came over after school to play and Emma loved seeing her all dressed up as Elsa. This year we all had such a good Halloween! Now what to I with all that candy and rotten teeth.... 😜

Little moments

I love the little things in life. We were sitting on the couch and Noah was cracking me up sticking his tongue out. Benjamin and Emma kept wanting to jump in the pictures too. These are the moments that matter. Being happy, laughing and smiling! I love my family! 

San Diego, CA

Every year San Diego does kids free at all the parks and different places. Emylee, Chad and some of Emylee's family go every year and this year we got to join in on the fun! We had such a blast. We went with Emylee, Chad, Penny, Cash and Emylee's brother Ryan, Emily, Chance, Maverick and another couple Jay and Lauren met up with us too. They had two kids a girl Benjamin's age Madison, and a little boy Carter. Benjamin was pretty entranced by Maddie, it was so cute, anytime you mentioned her to Benjamin he would just start giggling.
 We left super early friday morning and went straight to Sea World. It was the kids first time and Jake and I hadn't been in a really long time. We loved seeing the ocean animals. The whale show was amazing, of course! Noah was so into that show. He just stared and watched the entire time. Every once in awhile he would make a noise and point to them. Benjamin sat down close with Emily and Ryan and there boys Chance and Maverick. They all wanted to get soaked, the rest of us went up high. :) We loved seeing the Polar Bears and penguins. The kids had so much fun. Benjamin went with the boys and some of the adults and rode some rides that were "crazy fun". The guys kept buying the food to feed the animals. The kids and the boys fed the sting rays and the seals. The sting rays you had to hold the fish between your fingers so they could come and suck it up into their mouths. Jake even had Noah do it... um what?! ha ha ha With the seals they were so loud. One of the seals was sitting on top of a rock just barking away. He would look at person to person barking at them, then waving at them to see who would give him food. He was a smart one! They were really entertaining.
The next day we started off our day at the Temple. It is such a beautiful temple. I love the peace and the spirit that is with you when you are on temple grounds. We took family pictures and I just love knowing our family is forever. We also took pictures of all the kids. We had the hardest time the first couple of tries with getting the babies to hold still and not crawl around. Then right when we were about to leave the kids all just sat there and smiled the biggest smiles. I love those pictures so much!
After that we headed to the San Diego Zoo. I love the zoo. It is definitely one of my favorite places. Noah was so interested in the animals he would just stare and watch. We got to see the gorillas eating. One of them was gigantic! I could not believe the size of him. When they were eating they would wipe off the food on their arms before they would eat it and they wouldn't eat the parts of the salad that were too soft. We also got to see the Pandas. The mom panda we watched eat bamboo. It is so fun to see how smart the animals are. I am just amazed and love them all! The gorillas and pandas were my favorite.
Emma and Penny were BFF's the whole time. They are so cute and their curls in the humidity were so on! We just love them and how close they are and they had to get friends forever necklaces. Benjamin was loving having boys to play with that were so close to his age. Those boys just were everywhere and loved playing together! Uncle Chad was the hero all weekend! He walked around with lots of change in his pockets to make sure all the kids could get all of the different pennies that you smashed and were stamped in the machine. The kids all had so much fun cranking that wheel to get their pennies and loving on Uncle Chad. Emylee and I even got our shopping on at a couple stores after our day adventures. I am so glad we had this little weekend of fun all together! It was amazing, thank you to everyone for making it great! We won't forget it and will be all ready for next year.

How fun is being ONE! Noah

Our little baby boy is now one! This year has just been filled with so many things. We have loved watching Noah grow and learn every day. He is so good and just crawls from thing to thing and loves on everyone. He is also completely mischievous and knows it. He will get into one thing and when we tell him no he just looks at us and smiles and laughs then goes to the next thing he isn't supposed to do and watches you smiling to see what you are going to do about it. It is the cutest thing ever, but wow is he fast at getting around and into everything! He is walking holding on to everything and will hold your hand and walk with you, but not quite up to the real deal yet. I am completely o.k. with that, he is already a fast little crazy I can't imagine how much more hectic it will be when he is walking too. We had a little mini last minute birthday party for him with Jake's family and had cupcakes. He loved his little cake and started off eating one little bite at a time. Slowly each bite became bigger and bigger until he ended with smashing and handfuls. He was more then happy to share with you if you asked for some. He is just the sweetest thing ever. Then on his birthday we had another little mini face time celebration with my family in Idaho. Benjamin and Emma loved it because they got spoiled with some fun halloween jammies! Every single time we face time them, it doesn't matter if Noah is crying or what, he gets extremely happy and will start dancing and talking away with them! He loves his cars and music. He will push those cars around forever and from room to room. Then he finds his drum set and will start playing away. Every time music comes on he starts dancing and will even sing with you when you start singing. I watch Ellen Degeneres most days and Noah knows exactly who that is and knows that dance time is about to happen and he gets so excited. We are so grateful for our family members that show us so much love and just love our kids!