Carving Pumkins

Once again we spent the night before Halloween carving pumpkins, It is a good thing for Paul, he is always so good to help the kids with the fancy pumpkins. I usually stick to the cute smiley face pumpkins!

 

Sarah's pumpkin was the easiest of all!  Just a traditional Jack-O-Lantern!

 

Abby had the best (and easiest) idea of all, she made a polk-a-dot pumpkin, with a drill gun!

 

Gavin cracks us up, every year he dry heaves when he has to pull the seeds out of the pumpkin!

 

Our finished product!  Pretty cute huh?!

Escalante Art Festival

For the past two years Abby's violin studio has played at the Escalante Art Festival.  I can't believe what a good little violin player she is!  It is so fun to watch her play!

 

 

Don't Tell Him That This is Work!

Gavin has been BEGGING me to let him mow the lawn. He has a million reasons why I should let him. I finally got tired of hearing him beg so I told him if he could start it, make a round, empty the bag, put it back on, and start it again, then I would let him mow my lawn. Yep you guessed it, he did it like he had been doing it for years!!! I did have to rein him in, and tell him that straight up and down rows was the only way he could mow the grass. No circles and no curves! I really believe there is nothing that kid can't do!

Bowling

It was taking us forever to finish the book of Alma,  so Paul and I told the kids that if they would try hard to get up and read every morning so we could finish that book we would take them bowling on Friday.  The kids tried so hard that week, but we were still a 1/2 chapter short of finishing the book.  We told them we would go anyways as long as we finished reading it in the car.  The kids had so much fun bowling, and we told them when we finish the rest of the Book of Mormon we would go again.

 

Next time I have got to do a little better!  Gavin just about beat me.  If it weren't for a few lucky strikes, and the bumpers, I would have been in TROUBLE!

 

Our Butterfly

At school the kids are asked to go find caterpillars and bring to the class so they can watch them form a ca coon and then turn into a butterfly. Gavin came home with a couple extra so we put one  into a jar and hoped for the best. It was so fun to watch that caterpillar spin a ca coon. We waited and waited and watched the jar turn all gross and moldy. I was just about ready to throw it away when one day the kids walked in from school and noticed that it had hatched! It was so fun. I had never done that before but will probably try it again!

 

 

 

See you later buddy!

 

The Beach

 

We broke up our three days in DisneyLand with a day at the beach. We had so much fun. Last time we went we just about

froze, but this time it was beautiful! The kids loved swimming in the ocean, and playing in the sand. I think we came home with about 100 seashells!

 

 

My cute girls!

 

 

 

Gavin helping Sarah out in the water.

 

 

 

Gavin and Kyle out in the water.

 

I felt so bad for Paul, he sunburned his legs so bad, that it hurt to wear socks the next day!

 

 

Disnyland 2012

We were so lucky to get to go to Disney Land again this year.  We had so much fun!  We debated weither to take Sarah or not, but we were so glad that we did.  She was the cutest, and the best little girl!  She loved Micky and Minnie, and all the princesses.  She waved at everyone!  She even loved some of the rides.  (She did say some were scary after we got off!)
We went with Lynn and Priscilla and their family.  We had so much fun and it worked out really well. Priscilla and I went with the little kids, and Paul and Lynn took the older kids and rode some of the bigger rides with them.  
Every morning we would ask Sarah where she wanted to go, and in her cute little voice she would yell "Disney Land!"