Pumpkins????

McKenna was able to spend two nights at our house, and we had so much fun! Grandma Sanders also spent the night, and then went to Janene's house some of the time too. McKenna loves to scrapbook so she was in heaven at my house!!! She spent a lot of time learning how to use my little Cricut machine, I think she wanted to move in! Well she did miss her baby sister a bit.
McKenna and Tucker braved the land of gooey pumpkin entrails. Abbey wasn't even remotely interested, she spent the evening playing and singing with her new toys. Porter however wanted to be right in on the action a little too much! None of us could figure out how he managed to keep getting hold of the knife!!! Maybe that night he could have been a magician.
McKenna was so great to let Porter help her with the carving, she was a great helper! Maybe she can move in!
The finished products!!!
McKenna was bumbed, we forgot to bring her pumpkin to take home. I told her it can look cute at our house.
Do they look proud or what?

A Huge Celebration!

Sunday afternoon we went to Janene and Chris's house for a combined Birthday party. It was soo fun, we celebrated for Spencer, Tony, Abbey, Bryson and Braden. Abbey was a little confused about it! I think she thought she had two birthday's. Plus it was Grandma Jenkins' birthday that day too and when I told her she said "you said it was my birthday." I tried to explain it was a party day for her, she'll get it eventually.


Abbey and Bryson's birthdays were the closest in proximity, well and Braden's but I don't think he really cared about sitting on the counter and cutting himself a huge piece of cake. Abbey was a little apprehensive about using a knife and being able to cut the cake. Uncle Chris was sooo cute with her. He plopped her up on the counter and gave her a huge butcher knife and tole her to cut as big of a piece as she wanted!!! Well she cut a big one!! Earlier that night she had told me that she was shy of Chris, well I think she has started to overcome that now, it was just so fun!

While everyone else was busy watching gifts be opened Porter snuck over and started helping himself to someones cake, he was a pure mess from what I hear. Dani McAllister was nice enough of do the cleaning off.


He is becoming so demanding these days. Tim and I were just talking about him needing a new nickname. Tim was thinking about tornado, I though maybe hurricane Porter. It still hasn't been decided, maybe it will depend on whether any liquids are involved in the act of crime!!!

Halloween Parade

Tucker's school had their Halloween parady on Friday, they thought that maybe it would cause less interuptions on the actuall day, well I guess they'll find out tomorrow! Super boy was tired of waiting for the parade to come by.
Tucker didn't see us for awhile. They were walking by so fast it was hard to get a good picture.
Porter's little cape blowing!! He was so cute walking with it on, he was so proud!

Abbey's Birthday!!!

Abbey was so excited to turn 5 she had been counting down for days!!! In fact one day at Grandma Sanders house she asked how many days it was until her birthday, I told her 13. She replied with "is that two 5's?" I told her it was two 5's and a 3 then she said "a 3 and a 2 and a 3 and a 2 and a 3?" My mom and I looked at each other in shock and replied yeesss. Tim was convinced it was a fluke until she did the same thing 2 days later when I told her it was 11 days until her birthday. I'm sure it's because she knows there are 5 people in our family and 2 girls and 3 boys, or 2 parents and 3 kids, we do that a lot. But it was still impressive!!!

Abbey only wanted to have Island Princess for her birthday, it's the latest Barbie movie. Well I thought she had plenty of Barbie's but since she talked about it non-stop who was I to decide what she got! She sings all the songs all the time, in fact she even copies the vabrado in the song, it's sooo cute and pretty amazing too.

I think her face says it all!!!

My attempt at making an Island Princess cake, she was supposed to have peacock feathers, and Abbey had the idea to use the candles as the peacock feathers, it worked pretty well.

I swear I didn't buy trick candles, but those things wouldn't to out!!!

A little frosting anyone?

Abbey and her new Island Princess doll, which did I mention it sings too. Porter carries it around pushing the button non-stop!!! It can be fun!

bub you!

Porter is sooo funny. He put on Abbey's shoes (over his PJ's) grabbed his sunglasses (gyasses)and his car that he never leaves behind (thank you Melanie he loves it!) and headed for the front door saying "Bub you glglglg bye glglglgl later" translation - love you, bye, later. I don't know the translation to the glglglglg maybe someday we will all know what he's been saying all this time! Soon after this Abbey's carpool came to get her and he was sure he was going too. He cried and cried after I closed the door.

He wants to be so big!!! I'm sure going to miss his little language when he grows out of it and those cute stubby legs of his. I hope he loses the stubby legs eventually though so he can be tall like his daddy. He still has time to catch up they say it can take up to 3 years for them to catch up to their peers and some even longer. It's amazing to me to think that what they miss in the womb can take years to achieve. There are some things we can do with technology but recreating the comfort of the womb isn't one of them, although I'm so thankful of what they can do!!!!

The following pictures are of Porter's escape outfit and Abbey her last time being 4 going to pre-school. She is sooo excited for her birthday!

Coupons

Here is a link to a coupon for $5 off any Tylenol product. I got kids tylenol for .78 cents today, so I think I will stock up and be prepared for the worst, at least in the tylenol area that is.
http://www.tylenol.com/page.jhtml?id=tylenol/news/subpcccoldmed.inc

I will also be prepared with lots of Polly Pockets, here is a coupon for $5 off any Polly Pocket toy. It is straight from mattel. The registers don't seam to like the scanning of it, but Target took it today. I got $16 woth of stuff for $1 it was GREAT!!!!
http://www.mattel.com/pollypromise/

http://i.slickdeals.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=58277&d=1192824404

Kids can be surprising!

Well last night Porter slept in a big boy bed, (and he is there right now too) well actually on the end of a big girl mattress but that's just a technicality. Since we are just renting there are simply mattresses on the floor for the 2 bigger kids and a crib all in one room, no one wanted their own room. Anyway Porter slept all night, I did hear him crying in his sleep at one point and found him on the edge of Tucker's bed all snuggled up next to Tucker freezing. He even woke up early in the morning and as I raised my head to see who it was I saw this little marshmallow pj guy walking back into their room. At nap time he even slept on the mattress, so I guess we can take down the crib this will be the first time in almost 7 years that we haven't had a crib up.


Tucker was being a little snort earlier today ... the details are unimportant but later he brought both Tim and I a little note he had printed out on the computer and here it is...

Hi mom and dad I love you a lot I m saroy that I was pil I very saroy wil you vr giv my love tucker Jenkins

saroy=sorry
vr giv=forgive

Not bad for a first grader, now if I teach how to use spell check he should be good to go! We never even called him a "pil" tonight he so I thought it was cute that he used that word.

Bijous

I watched Nene's kids today while they took care of "business" (or bull *^#@) which ever way you care to look at it. Anyway Briley was soooo cute with this baby doll and so grown up!! She is changing a ton everytime I see her.

She would look at the baby doll and then kiss it. Then she would do it again!

"Muffalo" Island

We went to Antelope Island with cousins on the Jenkins side back in July. The kids had so much fun!

I should give background to the name "Muffalo." When Tim had his back surgery G'pa Jenkins took the kids to Antelope Island where they saw buffalo. Abbey referred to them and "Muffalos" and thus Muffalo Island was born!

A Trip to the Fire Station

Porter thinks he is part of Abbey's class. He just marched himself on over and stood in front of Abbey. When they were on the floor watching the show he squirmed his way into the little circle. He'll be ready for pre-school before his mom is ready for him to go!

Look at my cute "fire people"!!!!!!

Here is Porter being "MR BIG" in the fire truck. He plopped down on the floor he was sooo excited! Abbey wouldn't get it. Who's field trip is this anyway?

Here is Abbey's pre-school class sitting on the front of the Fire Truck, Abbey didn't want to get on and it was all I could do to keep Porter out of the picture!!

look-alike-meter

I found this web site where it calculates who your kids look like more, the mom or dad. So here are the results.



And we always thought Tuck looked like Tim



Tim always says Abbey looks like me.



Here's the shocker, Porter looks sooo much like my brother and my uncle, who would have guessed.