Halloween Partays!

So we were at it again....Andy came home for a couple days this weekend and of course it was filled with parties and lots and lots of driving. Next trip home I will not plan anything. Of course he was supposed to be home and gone by the time the weekend got here, not that I am complaining...I'll take him anytime I can get him. ANYWHO.......
As mentioned, we did some Partaying, the first party we went to was on Friday night at Andy's aunts house in West Jordan. They have an annual Halloween Party there, we always try to make it. It is always fun to see everyone all dressed up. Brandon of course loves to play with his cousins. The second party we went to was at our friend's house in Pocatello. It was fun to go there too. I actually got Andy to dress up! He actually found his costume before I found mine. I was having a hard time trying to figure out what I was going to be. I always try to get us all matching somehow. This year with the boys not the same theme, I was having a hard time. Then Andy came home so we were trying to just match as a couple, and that didn't work either. Thanks to everyone who planned parties and invited us, I love Halloween. It always brings a smile to my face to see the costumes everyone comes up with. I hope you enjoy the following pictures, they are backwards (Pocatello party is first)

"No Problem Mon"

I just love me some witch!

Brandon the Ham. Always willing to pose for a picture!

The Rasta, Supergirl, and of course the Chicken.

Andy's cousin as Star Trekie

Brandon with cousins, Adam the Tomato, and Katrina the Pumpkin.

Tomato and Dino

Scrapbooking!

My sister-in-law and I have decided to make Conference weekend our scrapbooking weekend. Me and my boys were able to go to her house this weekend and let the boys play while we sit and scrapbook. I am so excited to be almost caught up, well at least our family book. I haven't started Tyler's yet, but I can't be perfect...Right? Thanks Bridgette for letting us come hang out for the weekend, and for staying up until 3:00 with me. We will definitely have to do it again in 6 months! if not before :)

Winter Or Fall?

We just got home from driving down to Salt Lake, to take Andy back down to work. And this is what the canyon had to offer. The first picture was on the way home...a little more snow to be found falling at least. On the way down there were some pretty awesome pictures to be had, if I felt like stopping and actually taking some good ones. I pulled off the side of the road and Andy shot some out the car window. The one on the top we were stopped because of a crash so I was able to get a good snow with the leaves in the background. Pretty awesome if you ask me. Of course the crash reminded me that even if the snow isn't sticking to highway it still can be slick. I guess I better prepare myself for the snow. It is coming!

Let the games begin...

Brandon started flag football yesterday. We (by we I mean Andy) was excited, they do flag football by grade, not age, like everything else and since he in now in First Grade he can play. I double checked with the Rec Center when I signed him up to make sure because he is only 5 not 6 like most First Grader, she said that they go by grade and not age. SWEET! So of course I had to jump on the chance to get him in the coveted sport of football.


I tried to get some good pictures of the game, but with Tyler and the game being on the other side of field most of the time. I only got a few. But they are cute non-the-less. They had a practice on Monday night and when we first got there he was a little scared, this was a new thing for me he has always been the kid to just jump in and do anything. After talking to him for a minute I found out that he thought it was the same football that daddy plays and that he sees on TV, the see if you can knock the teeth out of the other guy kind of football. I explained to him that he was just going to have some flags hanging from his waist and that he was only going to be touched, he was okay with the whole football idea. He seems like he is having a lot of fun.





Huddle Up! As you can see he is scoping out his target early!





They gave everyone a shot to play everywhere. He was the ball handler on this play. He decided to run the wrong way but he learned that was an oops pretty fast.



For most of the game he played Center, or hiker, as he likes to call it. That was okay with him because that is what daddy plays too.



Here is a video of him at practice on Monday. It is way cute! Again running wrong way, but figuring it out soon enough. Good Job Buddy!

Thanks Amber!

My friend Amber is taking a Photography class and she needed some "practice", so what do I do...offer my boys as models. It was way fun to go around Richmond today and take some pics of the boys, mostly Brandon, Tyler wasn't really up to it. She is really good and has a lot of fun taking them. If anyone needs pics taken you should go to her. Thanks again Amber!

P.S. If anyone wants to see some of them go to her blog page (www.ambersphotoplace.blogspot.com) or you can wait until I get the CD from her and I will post some here too.

1st Day of School=1st Grade?

Normally the first day of school does not equal 1st grade, but I guess when the school tells you that your kid will not learn anything in Kindergarten then you bump him up. I think I was more worried about it than he is. He at first was not excited to not be going to Kindergarten, since that is what we had been counting down for the last 3 months, but he got over it when he found out he was going to eat lunch there.
The school called me yesterday and said that he more than passed his Kindergarten assesment and we should seriously consider moving him to 1st grade. Well, after about an hour of Andy and I talking on phone, we came to the conclussion that moving him up was the best option for him. Especially since the principle suggested it, we figured she knows best what is taught in each classroom. So yesterday I spent the day convienceing him that he was going to school today even though it wasn't the 31st today. I was able to get him to believe me when I took him to the school to meet his teacher. After that he didn't stop talking about it, he also wanted me to go buy every single thing that was on the teachers list for us to get. We got about half and he reminded me this morning that we didn't have it all. It was really cute, he didn't think he could go if he didn't have it all. I hope we made the right choice for him.

Good Job Buddy! Mom and Dad Love You! Have fun in the 1st grade!

The big boy waiting so "paitently" for us to leave.

The cool Transformer backpack.

We walked in the front door without any hesitation, he was more like running.

He walked right in and sat down, what a big boy I have!

I have to admit...I got a little teary eyed when I got back to car, but not the wave of tears I thought would come. I am proud of myself. He wanted to ride the bus to school, but I told him that I was taking him. He gets to ride the bus home.

What A Mess!

Today was a good day for Tyler....he was given some watermelon to munch on. Of course he had crackers to go along with that. Usually I just give him one at a time but this time I decided to load up the tray and let him go at it. He LOVED it! (As you can see) We have now entered the "remove clothes before eating" phase of life.

This was round one outfit. We took that one off and then we did it again for dinner. Oh well, it is a good thing he is cute!