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.

Our little Dinosaur

Porter is our LITTLE dinosaur these days and we just had a whole slew of tests run because he is so little. They all came back fine. His growth plate was small for his age but they hope that when his peers stop growing that he will continue to grow. So his IUGR (intra-uterine growth retardation) has followed him to toddler hood. hopefully someday he will be taller than me! (He better be!)

I LOVE fall

On Sunday we went up into the mountains and it was gorgeous!!!!!!!!! I had so much fun watching my kids exploring and capturing the moments. It was hard to catch any candid moments of the big kids they had their camera radar on and when I would go to snap a picture they'd flash me a smile, don't get me wrong I love their cute faces but I love capturing the moment. Maybe with my new camera that I'm getting SOMEDAY I'll be faster.

My baby girl is six!!!!!!!

Abbey turned 6 on Oct 24th! I can't believe she is getting so OLD. I was okay with Tucker turning six (he was born an adult) so I was fine with it. But my little girl NO WAY. Tim and I tried to convince her to stay 5 but she just wouldn't. Then she went on to tell me how she'll grow up and have babies and bring them to visit me. UGH stop already!!!!

All Abbey wanted for her birthday was the latest barbie and movie, Barbie and the diamond castle. Now we are serenaded by her singing barbie and her of course singing right along with it. She also got some new paints and paint brushes which she loves and spends HOURS doing. My kitchen table is constantly COVERED in paper! (I don't know where she gets it from)

Here she is already for the presents from her friends. We had 6 little princesses in crowns and necklaces with wands running around the house. They had so much fun just being girls. Tim and the boy vacated after watching her open her gifts. The girls had fun eating, and eating did I mention eating? and watching the new barbie show while dancing around and singing!

Here's an attempt at making a cake look like the barbie she got. I'll get good as soon as she doesn't want princess cakes anymore. She liked it and that's all that matters.

President?

Tuck "Mom did the president make a rule 'finders keepers losers weepers'?"

Me (without laughing) "no"

Tuck "then who made it up?"

okay my answer doesn't really matter, I just thought it was too funny that he thought the President made this awful rule up!

Cousins and Pizza

So for our little break from school the kids and I headed up north for a visit. We left Friday morning and when we got there us girls were off a shoppin. The little boys went to G'pa's to hang out and he spoiled them with happy meals, I think he had more fun than them. Us girls went craft shopping, I was in NEED of revamping Abbey's bows and Jo was getting supplies for a bow class for church and Grandma came along for the company! We had lunch outside on the patio of Rumby Grill, it was so nice to sit outside to eat, probably the last time. The girls complained a little about it being too hot and we laughed and said enjoy it, it's almost gone.

When we got home it was bow and flower making time. The kids played with clay while Jo and I played with ribbons. We made sooo many cute bows and Abbey even kept them in her hair today. She usually comes home with them in her school bag saying, "I'm afraid they will fall out" well that's just fine at least they won't be rotting in a drawer! I made sure to tell her that aunt Jo made ALL of her bows hoping that will make them that much cooler.

Tim arrived on his bike (someone dropped he and his bike off near by) and then we were soon off to Chucky Cheese. Jo has 3 kids with birthdays in the last month and Abbey's is this Friday so it was a party. Although Spencer her 14 year old son didn't want to come...... why not? The kids had so much fun I think they all forgot to eat! Abbey got a new Cinderella doll from G'ma and G'pa and her cute cousin McKenna bought her a fairy barbie with her own money, which she loves!!

(those bows in her hair are some of the new ones)

There was an awesome game that Tim came to show me, you stood on a pad and and oval shaped thing was in front of you about 6 feet tall, it had lights going around it. When the light came by your feet you jumped like it was jump rope. Tony and Tim had tried it out and Tim thought I'd like it. He warned me that it was really hard. Well I did and my first try I beat it. He was dumb founded so he had me go again and try a harder level.... beat it again! WAHOO I was better at a game YEAH! I got 36 tickets each time I won. If I'd had more energy and more tokens the kids could have gotten COOL prizes. Skylee was so cute and asked me to do it for her so she could have a lot of tickets.

We went back to Jo's house and the guys watched a movie while we finished up our craft. We then ended up talking until 2 AM, we are getting to old for that! And half the kids were still awake. So we just slept over and Tim helped Tony do some stuff on their house. We were back in time for Abbey to go to her friends B-day party.

Kreative Blooger

Mindy gave me the Kreative Blogger award. Not sure how deserving I've been of it recently but now with my Internet card up and running I hope to live up to it better. I'm supposed to list 6 things about myself and name 6 people to receive the award.



1. I love exploring with my little family

2. I enjoy blogging, reading them or posting

3. crafting is one of my fave things to do.

4. I love reading

5. I really love to eat, I'm trying to convince myself I don't "NEED" a Reese's peanut butter cup right now!

6. I'm trying to learn that life is a journey and not a destination!



So I give this award tooo.... drum roll please.



Sarah- the most amazing blogger who has 2 toddlers and works full time from home.

Emily- because I miss her and want her to post again (hehehe)

Kris- she's been in such a good bloggin groove, I must keep her there

Brooke- She is such a FUN mom and sooo patient

Tracey-so amazing to raise 4 little ones and home school and start theri own business

Amy-oh she puts anything I craft to shame, ah to live in her craft room what a dream that would be! oh and she ltes me come play in it, so fun!

Taggily daggily do

I’ve been tagged by Mindy. The few times I've been tagged by people I like I realize that I could almost just re post theirs and be done, it's fun to see the things that you have in common with other people.
5 fears, 5 joys, 5 obsessions/collections, 5 surprising facts about you. Tag 5 people.

5 fears

1- Losing Tim
2- Fire
3- not knowing where my kids are
4- not having a wal-mart ( now Dani please don’t pass out. My wal-mart is how you described your Target and my Target sucks rocks, the one in Sandy is nice but it’s so far)
5- no chocolate (okay so I guess I don’t have many REAL fears, that’s a good thing though)

5 joys-
1- Family
2- Gospel
3- Friends
4- food- salty, sweet, you name it, depends on my mood.
5- a clean house (well I think that would make me happy, I’ll let you know if it EVER happens)

5 obsessions/collections

1-Paper, I LOVE paper and I love buying it, that’s why I’m on a ban right now.
2- Lately I’ve been into crocheting, I know it sounds nerdy but it’s relaxing and I’ve made some cute hats, I’ll have to post a pic.
3- reading
4- eating
5- trying to get my body into better shape

5 surprising this about me

1- I am the QUEEN of bargain shopping, love love love it. Mindy tried to claim this one but I’m just not sure about that :)
2-I want a house of my own (ha bet that didn’t surprise anyone)
3- I’ve know Tim almost as long as my sister has known her husband and they have a 14 year old son.
4-my nieces and nephews are now older than I was when they were born, this is sooo weird for me.
5-I'm trying to get in better shape (this should surprise ANYONE I know)

I tag Sarah, Kris, Emily, Brooke, Amy & Tracey