Spooky Pumpkins

I love carving pumpkins. It mean's it's almost time for Halloween fun!! Instead of doing regular old Jack-o-Lantern's we went searching for templates online and found some semi=easy ones that Josh & I could do. Kids and knives, just don't mix in my book.

Here is a cute picture of Miss Piper. I tool this while my hands were all covered in pumpkin guts. She was being way cute and laying on the floor being, well cute. It's in her job description.

Tyson wanted no part of sticking his hand inside the pumpkin. He was content to sit and watch Josh carve his spider pumpkin.

Owl by Brandy

Spider by Josh

My cute hubby cleaning out Tyson's pumpkin.

Piper thought they were so cool! And they really are. I didn't have any tealights last night, so the lighting ceremony will happen tonight.

A Sunday Drive

We took a Sunday drive up to Kolob and went over the top of the mountain and came down in Cedar City. It was such a pretty drive and it was fun to just all be together and laugh and have a good time. With Josh working six day's a week, it's a rare treat to get to just hang out!!

The red rock kinda grows on ya!

Some more rocks!

These sleepy heads missed the whole first 1/2 of the trip! We woke them up when we got up to the Ranches. We went to see the changes the Posts had made to the cabin.

Oh, look who's awake now! Look at Piper's face. She heard the Cheeto bag open!

Kids and rocks. Not a good combination, but they somehow alway's end up in the same sentence.

Tyson is alway's just happy to be along for the ride!

chewing on a piece of grass. His cud, to quote the boy.

picking wildflowers

Josh telling us stories about the cabin.

It was a great day! Lot's of memories. Josh and I used to go that way all the time.

We honeymooned at the cabin 8-years ago. Hard to believe it's been that long

Atleast it will be officially that long on Tuesday.

Holy Crow! Love you babe!

Blessings

Photo taken by J.D.

I am so blessed

This should be a pampers commercial

That's a lot of water batman!!

Holy Absorbent!

I should send this to Pampers???

I was bored

Your sitting in a parking lot, in a 105 degree weather with a ton of humidity. You have 20 minutes to wait, what do you do? You take self-portraits of yourself!!!

Okay, it's hot. Time to get back in the car and turn on the air conditioning!

This one looks kinda cool.

GOOD NIGHT!

I Was Kidnapped

I was plotted against! My dang husband and my best-friend Mandee plotted against me and threw me a surprise, girls night out, birthday party! And I'm so glad that they did. It was so much fun. We went and saw 17 Again, which is the funniest movie ever! Seriously. The greatest ever. It also has my new boyfriend, Zac Efron in it!! He's like a super cute man child. Does that make sense? But he's only 6 years younger than me. Weird, I know!

The Birthday mobile! So cute. The inside was filled with crepe paper and I got to sit in the seat of honor!

Here I am, in all my glory. I was crowned queen for the night with the birthday crown and my jewels, which I wore into the theater. The worse part of the whole night was when Mandee jumped up, (we were on the 2nd row ~ it was packed) and led the theater in singing happy birthday to me. Mortified, wishing I could melt into my seat, kind of mortified. But thank you girls! It's a moment I shall never forget.

From L to R: Kris, Maggie, Me, Becky, Megan & Mandee! Thanks for a great evening! I love you all!

I'm Pretty Lucky

My Son, The Vampire

For those of you who don't know it, I am a tad bit obsessed with the Twilight series. Okay, not just a tad, but alot. I tend to get hooked on something and I jump on the bandwagon! I also have a crush on a fictional vampire, by the name of Edward, but it's okay, because he's fictional right??

So I went to Walmart at 12:00 a.m. this morning to get my copy of Twilight. I went with Mandee, Kris, Maggie, and Kim. We had a blast!! I'll try to post some of those pictures tomorrow, if I remember.

Anyway, J.D. know's about Twilight. He's seen my books around and every time the commercial comes on, I all but have a heart attack. I finally sat down to watch the movie, this afternoon as I folded the million batches of laundry that have piled up on my couch. J.D. had a friend over and they were in and out of the house and J.D., being the curious child that he is, started asking me questions about vampires. The first thing he said, was that vampires drink blood. So he and his friend start chasing Tyson around, trying to suck his blood. Imagine if you will, the squealing of a 4-year-old boy in my tiny little house. So in an effort to put an end to that little game, I told J.D. that the vampires on Twilight only drank animal blood. "Okay," they said, and disappeared outside to play. Tyson, meanwhile is standing at the screen door yelling, "hey, come suck my blood!" He thinks this is a great game. So, J.D. and his friend come back in about 10 minutes later and tell me that they sucked the blood out of a rabbit. NICE! They then proceeded to get a box, some string and some carrots from the fridge. They built a trap in the driveway, trying to catch a rabbit. About 30 minutes later, they came in and told me that they had sucked the blood out of a mountain lion. Now what?

J.D. had to tell Josh all about it and he told Nicole, my neighbor all about it! I'm betting money, that he is going to tell his primary teacher tomorrow!! That will make for some interesting conversation when I go to visit teach her this month. My son, the vegetarian vampire!!

Then tonight, I could hear Tyson mumbling in his sleep. So I went in and he was mumbling the word "vampire". GOOD GRIEF! They've never even seen the movie!! People are going to think that my child is going to grow up to be like a serial killer or something. Well, good night everyone. I'm off to devampire my house.

Pirate Island

Cousins and Friends

Feeding The Ducks

For the first day of spring break, we headed out to Bloomington to feed the ducks! Always a blast and the kids love it! Grandpa came with us and had fun watching the kids. Tyson thought that since Piper was throwing rocks into the water, he could throw them. I had to keep getting after him. There are also tons of coy in the pond and once the ducks swam away they would surface for the left overs. It was a lot of fun!

3 Little Cowboys

Last week at preschool it was Western Week. The kids got to wear their cowboy clothes and had a blast making these fun hats and buckles! Aren't they stinkin' cute?

Randomness

Dixie Rock

We were on our way home from Marysvale today and as we drove by the Dixie rock, I told Josh, "I want to take the kids up there one of these days." So he pulled off the road and said let's go now. It was a lot of fun. We will defiently be going back.

Daddy & Piper. She has him wrapped around her finger.
Hey, wait for me J.D.

I did it!!!

What a good lookin' cowboy!