Halloween 2013

Happy Halloween 2013...

Jake the Black Ninja

Caleb the Red Dragon Ninja

Alayna the Pirate Princess

 

A warm cozy snugly oh so grumpy Bumble Bee

A real Ninja...Really...

I giant pregnant momma with her four wild trick or treaters....

He's now a vampire Red Dragon Ninja

Learning the wonderful world of Ring Pops...Alayna suggested we give one of these to Ben every single week during sacrament meeting. She said it would make him so good and soooo quiet! I just think we might have to consider this as a new reverent idea!

Caleb returned home an hour earlier than the other kids....

He was exhausted!

Alayna and Jake went hard til about 9pm...crazy kids!

Yes I was there.

So was Jared.

Jacob's stash of goods.

Nothing better than starting out Halloween morning with sugar Halloween cereal! Yeah, baby! I'm such a cool mom!!!

Alayna showing off her curly pirate hair.

Off to the school parade.

Our black ninja...Who knew they were walking so fast I couldn't get a clear picture! Oh, well. The holiday was awesome as usual. The kids had a riot out with Jared, my dad, Jared's dad and cousins. And I had a "riot" passing out candy...Ok, so here is the deal. We moved down the street....it's a sleepy street. I had 10 door bell's and it equaled 62 kids...TOTAL. So lame! Honestly, I was disappointed. If it wasn't for our awesome neighbors across the street who were SCARING like crazy the kids it would have been a boring night, but they had quite the Halloween scares going on. I have never in my life heard any better screams than they were able to produce! Anyways, next year we may have to do some really cool candy for the few kids who came to our house! Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Birthday to Ben!!

That's right! It's birthday time over here. Ben has turned TWO. He's officially a Big Kid...Well that's what we are telling him since we will be adding a new "baby" here soon.

We've started the tradition of sprinkled donuts on the two year old birthday to keep things simple. It seems I've been prego a few times right around their 2nd birthday so why not skip the cake making and do sprinkled doughnuts. Kids love them!

So we bought some on Saturday enjoyed them at a really awesome park, and we saved one for today for the standard birthday picture.

The funny thing was Ben was so intrigued by the "fire!" he touched it....

He didn't seem to mind, he said, "Mom, HOT!" But the kids reactions were awesome.

Since we had a family party tonight, Alayna had this brilliant idea to make a CANDY cake for Ben. Because if you know Ben...he BEGS for TREATS and CANDY every other minute of the day. So what better cake to document his life than a candy cake.

He loved the frosting...

He's eyeing the candy and SO wishing he could eat it all!!

The family of six soon to be one more....crazy!

He gobbled up all of his "treats" off his candy cake.

A happy kid on his birthday. In new birthday pajama's from my mom.

Yeah, for his Cheese face. We love you Ben!

Monthly Update....

Yup. He did it. He set a goal to ride in a Century Bike Ride...100 Miles!!!

I can't believe he was still smiling after 6-7+ HOURS of TORTURE, WIND, HILLS, WIND, HILLS, WIND... WOOT WOOT. Nice job, we couldn't be MORE proud of you!!

The cheering squad.

The Man Buddies that he rides with. Two finished at the same time, then the other two finished together. It was a super tough race that pushed them all, but I think the WIND and HILLS left them all desiring to do another one.

Our kids spent the day waiting for Jared to finish the race by helping the other little kids pass out the finishers medals. It was great fun. WAY TO GO!!! (Just for the record a 2 hour half marathon seems like a walk in the park compared to this race!)  

The kids were being funny one night. They were placing ALL of their socks on their legs and pretending they had broken legs.

 

 

 

Yet again, our morning view...all four kids eating breakfast and getting ready for school.

One of Ben's all time favorite past times. "BUCKLES" Buckling them and then hauling the chair over to me to unbuckle them. Just so he can do it all over again, and again.

Time Out For Women Logan...This is one of the BEST weekends I look forward too ALL year. Honestly, it's so uplifting and so wonderful.

The Perry Girls

 

The Peck Gals