Here's a Sneak Peak before Halloween!

Here is Super Girl herself!

Here is Super Boy himself! (Yes, he is wearing tights!)

It's become a tradition from year to year that we go visiting the Grandparents before Halloween. On Halloween it is so busy with parties and elementary school parades that we just don't have enough time to go visiting everyone. So off we went. The kids new exactly what to do.

Our first stop was at Grandma Lucy and Grandpa Perry's house. This was the house to go first, the kids received BIG sized candy bars. I was lucky that Jake picked a Twix. They are a personal favorite. I don't think he will be missing it!!

Next stop was at Papi and Grandma Lou's house! (Grandma Lou was still at school! No worries, she will see these adorable super hero's on Halloween.)

Grandma Denny and Grandpa were eager and excited to have our super hero's join them for the evening. They were so excited to receive Nemo fruit snacks.
Thanks to all the grandparents having a few early trick or treaters!
*If your wondering where these adorable costumes came from...well, I must admit I learned how to sew. The good thing is the pictures can't show close up. Either way, I am happy I took on the challenge. I no longer am too intimidated by the idea of sewing. It really became addicting and fun! Thanks Emily for the pattern and idea!!*

Barnyard Boo...

FHE this week was with the Perry family. We went to another Thanksgiving Point activity. This time it was the Barnyard Boo! It was a really fun atmosphere. We lucked out with FANTASTIC weather. Each child was given a ticket with 5 punch pumpkins. So they had 5 activities that they could choose to do. This was the first, a witch ring toss. After each activity they would win a few taffy's.

Here is my brave little girl who finally has warmed herself up to animals. I was really impressed when at her own doing went to pet the baby cow. Way to go, Alayna!

Another activity that Alayna picked was bracelet making and frosting a pumpkin cookie.

Here are all the little kids who won scary teeth posing in front of the haunted house decoration.

Here is the gang of kids we travel around with. Yes, we know how to multiply and replenish the earth! But these cousins sure love each other!!

Here is Alayna milking a cow for her very first time! Once again, I was totally impressed by her touching animals.

Jake and Isaac are anxiously awaiting there turn to ride the ponies!

Jacob was very apprehensive at first and then he relaxed and was a little more content. Good thing Grandma Lou is around to teach the kids to enjoy animals. I was suffering from animal allergies, from behind the gate!
Once again, I was TOTALLY impressed that Alayna rode the pony all by herself! And she even had fun.

Finally, here are our dear friends Summer and Ethan. They came to visit from California. We are SO glad that they came to visit. It was fun to have them around so we could get to know her kids darling personalities. We enjoyed their visit so much. Ethan and Alayna are the same age, so it was fun to watch them play and interact.

Here is the cutest little thing ever! Baby Bella was adorable. She would smile so much. I was the lucky one to have her cuddle and fall asleep on my shoulder last night! I was in heaven. Summer we can't wait till you come back again!!!

Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point...

Here are a bunch of animals...ha ha ha...or should I say family! We had a fun family night out with Grandma Nettie, Grandpa Randy, Uncle Brian and Aunt Ashley. We first had some yummy chili and cornbread and then we headed off to Thanksgiving Point. We ended up doing the Cornbelly's actvities.

Here is our little Big Horned Sheep.
Aunt Ashley and Uncle Brian
This was hilarious. The family is always intrigued with Alayna's ability to be a good leader and director. Or in other words...bossy, in a nice way of course! But this was a tractor that she insisted on driving us all...the funny part was she went to each of us individually instructing us where to sit and to "Sit Down!" We just had to laugh at our little boss.
Here we are trying to stay warm while watching the Pig Races.

Oh...a family picture...don't those snow bunnies look so happy?

This was a riot! Alayna was making snow corn angels. It really was so adorable.

There was a huge hay stack with tons of different wild slides that we went down. Jake LOVED the slides! The entire way down you could hear him say, "Weee - Weee." So cute!

We had to take a large group picture of course! If you can't tell it was FREEZING!! It was a super fun night for all. After we left Jared and I were so COLD and FREEZING we stopped at Maverick for some good ole gas station Hot Chocolate! We lucked out any hot drink size .99 cents! Oh, we had hoped it would be SO tasty...but it was so gross! Oh, well it was hot and it thawed our hands. Thanks for all the fun, Sukers!

Joy School yet again...

Well, last week I forgot to take pictures of my cute Joy School kiddos. Last week was a raging success. We learned about food from the earth and where we get it. So we made homemade butter and whole wheat bread. It was a HUGE success, because of a great recipe! (Thanks Emily!!) I sent mini loaves home with all the kiddos and they got to try their yummy homemade butter.
This week we learned about who we share the earth with and about going GREEN! Yeah, it's never to early to teach kids about recycling. (Don't think I'm over the top, it was just a cute activity!)

Here is Alayna showing off her picture of who she shares the earth with.

Olivia and Alayna showing their "I can Recycle" plates.

We also made animal hand puppets. She was super excited about her silly bunny puppet. It was cute, because we then sand, "Old McDonald had a Farm." It made for another successful Joy School day. Next week is our Halloween Party! Fun.

What kids must think...

Kids must think that life just isn't fair! Late Saturday night the upstairs and the downstairs tenants decided to make a run to the new Iceberg in Herriman. So we returned with yummy shakes and the best onion rings. As we gathered around the table enjoying our late night treat and enjoying the peace and quiet of sleeping children, a child woke up and caught us! We all sat their silently, looking around at our somewhat rebellious behavior, wondering how it might look to him. Conner was struck with a little "That's not fair!" in his eyes, but he didn't say anything. He just walked past us as we were struck with almost embarrassment. We felt so bad having him have to watch us enjoying life so much, and knowing that he couldn't change his lot. He had to go back to bed. He didn't say anything. Shandra and I said, "Conner, we will save some for you tomorrow!" We new it was an empty promise, but we felt it needed to be said. He lingered at the top of the stairs as we talked and laughed.
Watching him watch us from up above, down on our little party, I had to snap a picture to document my childhood memories of the unfair lifestyles between parents and kids. I have SO many clear memories of the "kid table" and the "adult table." The "munchie runs" to the store for just the Uncles and Aunts...and not the kids. I can't forget the kid cereal and the dad cereal, the kid popcicles and dad popcicles! There were so many, I can't list them all!
For those of you who know my personality you wouldn't be surprised that by my very young age of 4 or 5 I'd hold such feelings, that "Life is unfair for kids and parents can do so much more!" But let me tell you, I still am enjoying the fact that as a mom I can eat sugar cereal anytime I want!
Anyways, this was a fun moment for me to remember how it feels to be a kid. I hope that I have learned to include the kids on some of our super fun adult parties. The second best part of the night was we introduced "Ticket to Ride-Europe" to Todd. It was a fun competitive game (for us all but Todd) to try and win, Shan came out the winner - but Jared's streak of the "longest train ever!" has continued about 8 times now! I lost so bad I couldn't even be upset. Either way, it made for a great relaxing night!

Staying busy this week...

We have another stow away for a few days. Andrew has stayed with us while his parents were partying in California. He and Jake have had lots of fun playing catch with footballs, basketballs, etc.
Yesterday, the sun was shining so much I couldn't stand the thought of staying in doors. So out we went to the park. We met up with some cousins and the kiddo's had a blast! Well, not really a blast trying to pose in a picture. But we had to take one.

Here are my triplets. Isaac, Andrew and Jacob. I was watching them for a few hours and this was their favorite activity. Sitting on the bench and watching the neighbors dogs. They were in a trance.

This was my favorite, because the boys are anxiously making their doggy sounds and pointing, and then suddenly the dog started coming closer towards them. You can sense in their body language they were overly excited!

Here is Miss Alayna playing sweetly in her toy house out side. She's been a good trooper the past few days. She's had two baby brothers that I've had to tend too before her. She really is so patient and willing to wait a little extra until it is her turn for attention. We really haven't been up to much...having three kids really has kept me home for the nap schedule or too the park. Other than that, we've just been doing the kid thing. Thanks heavens for this beautiful weather it's kept all these kids sane the past few days!

"The Witches have Arrived!!"

The gang...every year we go for FHE to Gardner Village to visit the witches. Honestly, it really isn't that exciting of an event. There is nothing really to do other than walk around and FREEZE! All the stores have so many little trinkets that we can't take the strollers in and especially we can't take the running kiddo's. So besides keeping up the tradition, we go.

This year we decided though that we are going to bring Hot Chocolate and Donuts next year to livin up the party! Because we all want to buy the SUPER expensive hot chocolate and we are always tempted with treats at their bakery. So to save us money, next year we will plan ahead better. Don't get me wrong, I love this tradition, it's something different and out of the house and it kicks the Halloween festivities off! I'm just shocked each year how cold it is! Why does it have to turn so cold so quickly??

Our little twins...Jacob and Isaac sporting their twiner coats for this year.

Trying to get a family shot...(Jared had to work the late shift tonight, so he missed the yearly tradition. Sorry, hun...at least you didn't freeze!)

Alayna and Aunt Krista trying to scare us like all the witches!

Do you think they were warm enough? This is probably torture for these little babies? Oh, well they were troopers.

Alayna is showing off her new cute coat. Thanks to Grandma Nettie who gave it to her. She LOVES the polka-dots and it fits her perfectly. It really is a HUGE improvement from her old coat she was going to have to use. So this is a good excuse to not have to buy a new one this year. Thanks.

Our handsome little man...

Yeah, these pictures are really just for me to remember how cute our little guy is. We dressed him up in his new 18-24 month old clothes. We thought he looked like a handsome "twin" (referring to Angela's boys...who are always decked out from head to toe! Everyday, no joke!) So we thought we should take a picture to document that he has at least one handsome outfit and new white shoes (that won't last long!).

Oh, he LOVES his football!

Hats and balls are his two favorite things...next to me of coarse!

Something to remember...

(Kierra age 8, Olivia age 5, Alayna age 3, Grandma Lou (we will keep that a secret!))

They braved the freezing cold weather and trudged out to take pictures of the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple. We've been wanting to take some pictures of the kids in front of it while it is still under construction so in 20 years they will have proof they saw it being built.

Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple

Grandma Lou and Papi are great to always make memories happen with our cute little kiddos. Thanks Mom and Dad!