Pictures

Here are some really cute pics of my kids. I must say!

Early Birthdays

My 2 biggest boys have birthdays right before Christmas which can be not so much fun so last year Tucker opted to open Birthday gifts early and we did if again this year. It gives him a chance to enjoy his birthday "stuff" before the Christmas stash arrives. We'll still do the cake thing on his B-day. I'm no sure I'm ready for his real birthday he will be "8" where did my baby go? Who am I kidding Tucker's been an adult (or thought he was) since he was 2 :-)

I think we hit the jackpot this year with his gift, we can't keep him away from it! It's and erector set from Costco which I highly recommend if you have a boy who enjoys building and tinkering. He's already built a car and now he's onto the airplane, it will make 35 different models. He hasn't even asked to watch TV since he opened it Friday night which for him is amazing!!!

i got Tim Settlers which we have wanted forever!!!!! He always says he hates surprises but what he hasn't quite realized yet is I'm good at them :)

Here is a picture of his car he built, it is even motorized. And the set come with their own little power tools, he is a little boy in heaven!

my little princess dinosaur

okay this poor boy is going to hate me someday for all these pictures I take of him!!! He loves wearing other peoples shoes and Abbey's are the easiest for him, plus they make noise on the carpet so it's a win win.

This particular day he was in his red Pj's for bed so the shoes added the perfect touch instead of the dino feat.

Abbey thought it was so funny to trade dress-ups.

a lot of nothing

Well I don't have anything fun to post, all we've done lately is have sickies at our house. 

I did get a new vacuum and that has been the highlight! how sad is that? But I do have to say..... it is awesome. The part I love the most is it has a red and green light and the green light comes on when it doesn't sense anymore dirt being sucked up. Well..... after having it for exactly one week i have totally filled up the vacuum bag!!! can you say GROSS. did none of the people who lived here before vacuum. I know they didn't "own" the house but seriously!  I seriously vacuumed for hours everyday the past week just TRYING to get a green light, but you can only vacuum for so long even if it is a new toy :) Some areas have been successful in getting the light to turn green, so each time I vacuum I start somewhere new and still do the whole house but at least the beginning seems to get more attention by the end I can't stand doing more than 4 passes on the same part. So I hope I didn't just gross you all out! who would have thought that one or two times in each spot wasn't enough to clean the carpet.

I can't believe November is half over and I have Christmas (as do all of you) AND 2 birthdays coming up! AHHH and I'm so not prepared this year! 

hopefully my next post will be more exciting!

HalLoWeeN weekend

Halloween started the night before for us with a ward party. The kids were so excited to dress up and go to church in thier costumes. They even kept them clean! Porter won a prize for his cute little costume!

I would have added pics of them at school too but it's just more pics of them in the same stuff LOL. but Poor Porter had to wait through 9 different stops before he actually got to his destination of choice which was Uncle John's house (my oldest brother). So first we went to the parade at the school, then back to get the kids early, then we stopped at Grandma Jenkins' house to have some lunch and give her some tech support, then off to Alice Ann's (Tim's oldest sis) or San as Porter says, to drop off a washing machine for her. We only got to see her for a second since she was at work, but she looked good. Then we FINALLY got to Uncle John's. porter just loves him! and he looks like John when John was little, kinda SCARY :).

Tim and John went out with the kids, here's a few pics I got.

Tucker didn't want his picture taken, he thinks he's getting to old.

After the treating the adults went out to dinner at John and Bev's favorite Indian restaurant. I actually enjoyed it, I'll admit I was nervous since I don't like curry but luckily not everything had curry in it.

We spent the night at their house since it is 2 hours away.

The next day our plans had changed and we didn't need to leave right away so John had a brilliant idea to go to Willow Park. It's the closest thing Logan has to a zoo.

John, Abbey, Porter, Mason

Here's an afro duck I had to unclud we just thought he was funny looking.

Porter and Maddi

Maddi, John, Abbey


Porter.

Tucker climbed on the outside of this slide and fell from the top to the ground. Bev watched it and thought his arm was broken, luckily just bruised!

Daddy holding his owie boy. Porter biffed it right after Tuck, and Abbey had biffed it right at first so we were 3 for 3!

The day didn't end there!

The kids spent the evening at Grandma and Grandpa Sanders house while Tim and I went to the Jazz game. We had great seats!!!

It was a fun busy weekend end and Abbey topped it off by getting sick on Sunday. She's fine now and hopefully Porter avoids it since Tuck had it last week.