Halloween!

We had a really fun Halloween weekend. On Friday we went to a pumpkin patch, on Saturday we had our ward trunk or treat, on Sunday we carved pumpkins, and on Monday we went trick-or-treating. My boys really got into Halloween this year and my sister Lisa even came down to spend the weekend with us. It was a lot of fun!

My three scarecrows

Kings of the mountain

 

Picking out pumpkins. Literally impossible to get all three looking at the camera at the same time.

 

Family Halloween shot

 

Carson LOVED this big box of corn! Couldn't keep him out of it.

 

The boys rode the little train ride and of course LOVED it!

 

Rick and the boys raced around the track on these cool bike/cart thingies.

So what were our boys for Halloween?

Tyler was the infamous Darth Vador! Oh man, did he feel cool!

Logan was Sheriff Woody! Seriously the cutest cowboy ever!

Carson was Donald Duck. He was so fluffy he barely fit in the stroller

These two joined forces and it was an unstoppable team!

The three munchkins at the trunk or treat

 

Love my family! It was seriously such a fun ward activity. Good food, good company, and perfect weather!

 

The boys with some of their friends from church. Everyone was supposed to be making their best superhero pose.

 

We carved pumpkins Sunday night. We were all excited that Lisas/our good friend Shilo could come up from Chandler and spend the evening with us. We ate dinner and then we all had fun carving pumpkins while we listened to the Ghostbusters theme song over and over and over again thanks to Logan begging for it All. Night. Long.

Love my Tyler

The boys with our pumpkins this year. I was just glad no one picked a gourd to carve like last year.

The boys loved having aunt Lisa here to visit! We all had a great time with her. Thanks for coming and thanks for such a great aunt/ sister to our family!

 

Tylers teacher emailed me this pic. At school on Halloween his class broke off into groups and opened pumpkins. They were making predictions of capacity using different sized pumpkins. At parent teacher conference his teacher told me that Tyler loves any chance to be social, and I believe her!:)

Random Pictures

I have not been good about taking pictures lately. Going through my camera though I did find some summer pictures that never made it on my blog. So here is a little recap in no particular order.

Tyler LOVES Darth Vador. I came home one day to find Tyler dressed like this. Rick had made this costume for him out of a ski mask, one of Ricks long sleeved black shirts, and a toy light sabor. Rick kept playing the Darth Vador theme song on the computer over and over again and Tyler would march around the house dressed like this. You could tell he felt pretty cool!

Carson loves to ride these little bikes and loves it even more when one of his brothers rides with him!

What's up Doc?

A BBQ in the park one night with some friends.  Rick and Logi had fun playing a little catch

The kids thought this was the FUNNEST thing ever!  I was just glad it wasn't my white sheet. I'm pretty sure after this activity those grass stains were never going to come out.

Macaroni and Cheese gone wrong! This was one of the first times he was eating it and he couldn't get it in his mouth fast enough. He ended up picking up the whole bowl to try and shovel it in his mouth but he ended up dumping it all down his head instead!

Ricks dad came out for a visit back in July when Rick got his new calling. The boys always love when Grandpa comes!

Tyler and Logan can sometimes be very sweet with each other.

Brothers!

Getting buried in blankets

Bath time! They LOVE baths. I always have to drag them out when they are starting to look too wrinkly.

Rico turned the big 3-0 at the end of September! Happy Bday to him! He entered a new decade so I guess he is getting old. :) I think Rick and I still think of ourselves to be our early 20s but I suppose we need to convince ourselves that that is not really the case anymore.

The boys are lucky to have such a fun loving daddy.

This kid fell asleep on the couch with his gogurt still in his mouth.

Little cheeseball. He seriously has the biggest teeth I have ever seen on a baby. They are huge for such a little mouth. His baby teeth are almost as big as my permanent teeth.

These two love to sit on the couch first thing in the morning and drink their milk together.

  Every time I turn around this kid is on the table. He loves it up there. He is constantly climbing up the chairs and climbing onto the table.  It is his favorite place to be.

Love this cute face!

 

Stole his brothers hot dog right off his plate. Didn't even bother to take the bun too.

 

We got to watch some friends of ours kids one night and they all had fun having a big movie night! 

 

 I stole this picture off of my friend Charbel's blog. Me with some girls from the ward after the R.S. Broadcast. We all decided to go out to dinner afterwards at Claim Jumper. It was lots of fun!

Go Cardinals!

 Are You Ready For Some Footbaaaaaaaall!

We are! Football season is here and we are excited at our house, especially Rick. We went to a Cardinals preseason game last week with some friends of ours from the ward. They played the Denver Broncos. We of course got the cheapest tickets we could find so we sat way up high in the corner but we had a blast. It was a great time! 

Our family in front of the stadium. Our kids had so much fun! They loved all the action at the stadium and they loved to dance to all the loud music that was played during the game.

Trying to get a family shot in our seats. We root for the Cardinals because we live here but Rick wants everyone to know that his true heart still lies with the NY Giants!

Logan Turns Three!

Our little Logi Bear just celebrated his 3rd birthday! He is so cute and getting so big. He has a smile that lights up his whole face and these great big brown eyes that you can't help but love this cute little boy. We celebrated with a fun filled day that started with birthday doughnuts for breakfast, a trip to the library, Mcdonalds for lunch, a trip to Chuck E Cheese to play a few games (courtesy of Rick so I could get the house ready for the party), and then the finale was his party. He had a full day and I think he loved all the attention he got all day. I think he felt special and that is what we wanted.

 Eating the birthday doughnuts bright and early. Our boys wake up at 6 so kudos to Rick for waking up extra early to go get the doughnuts.

He was really excited to open his presents that morning.

 Tyler was more than happy to help Logan open his present from him. What else would Tyler pick out to give to someone besides a transformer.

 The Toys R Us by our house was having a huge moving sale and everything had to go. Toys went waaaaay cheap. If you were brave enough to fight the crowds, they were worse than black friday, you could get some pretty good deals.

 The crew at the party, minus one little boy who was too busy playing to come sit at the table.I normally don't do a friend party for a 3 year old but ever since Tylers bday party Logan has been talking about his party. I didn't want him to feel any less special than Tyler so we threw him a little party. I think he loved all the attention.

I love how at all kid parties the kids are all right on top of the one opening the presents.:)

 Blowing out his candles. It took him three trys to blow out three candles. It was cute :)

The birthday boy loved his Mickey Mouse cupcakes.

We love our Logi Bear!

1st week of Kindergarten

Tyler had such a fun time his first week of kindergarten! He would come home each day and tell me all kinds of stuff he had learned. He learned a lot about different shapes and their lines and angles. The thing that shocked me the most was when he came home on Friday and told me that a diamond is also called a rhombus. Seriously?! I'm pretty sure I was in like 7th grade geometry before I ever heard of a rhombus! Any way he kept looking so cute every morning before school so I kept taking pictures and pretty soon I had a whole weeks worth.

 Tyler can be so funny, especially in front of the camera. He kept looking at these pictures telling me that these are his "cool poses"

When I picked him up on Friday he was wearing this crown. It says "I survived my 1st week of Kindergarten" He was very proud of it!

Tylers first class picture. I thought it was so cute. His teacher emailed it to all the parents on Friday. "We Made It!!" We survived our first week of Kindergarten!

Kindergarten!

The much anticipated/dreaded day finally came yesterday. Tyler started Kindergarten! We are all so excited for him and this new adventure but sad that he is growing up too fast! We were fortunate to get Tyler into a really great school that just happens to be right down the street from our house. The school is so popular and so great in fact that it is almost impossible to get your kids into. My friends and I had to camp out over night in front of the school the night before the waiting list opened up just to get our kids in. Call us crazy but there were lots of other parents there doing the same thing. It was well worth it though to get our kids into such a good school. 

Being crazy showing off his new clothes! So excited to finally have his first day of school.

His spider man pose. Shooting his webs.

Finally a normal pose

Tyler and his friend Regan outside their school. They didn't plan to dress the same but chances of that happening are good because they have a pretty strict dress code at the school. Solid red, white, or blue collared tops and plain navy blue or khaki shorts or pants. That made school clothes shopping really easy.

Tyler with his teacher Mrs. Gullette. She seems really sweet and patient with the kids and we have heard really great things about her! We are really excited that Tyler got in her class.

Tyler sitting at his desk. I can't believe how big he is. I hope he has a great year!