Grocery Cart CARS!

Our kids have always loved the carts that have the cars attached to them. Carter and Cambree are too big for them now, but Calee is still little and looks for them anytime we go to Smiths, Lowes, or Home Depot. Christy and I hate them, but we have always given in and let them ride in them. Well, tonight in Smiths Cambree and Calee decided to see if they could both fit inside the little car. It was hillarious. I took this cute picture of them squeezed in there together.

Cambree, Calee, and Addi

Saturday night we watched Addison for Emily and Kyle and our kids were super excited. Our girls decided to watch a movie in Cambree's room. When I peaked my head in to check on them, this is what I saw:

It was one of the cutest things that I have ever seen. I just had to grab my camera and take this picture.

Carter, Zombie killer!

Carter went on an overnighter and shooting activity with the scouts up to Howell Utah. They took part in a service project helping some farmers get rocks out of their fields and then they got to shoot guns. The scouts got to shoot clay pigeons and then also shoot .22 rifles. Carter has attended some Hunters safety classes with his Grandpa Roger and has been proving to me that he can be safe with guns, so I let Carter take my .22 AMT lightning Assault rifle and shoot it. I even went to Kents Shooters and bought him a bunch of really cool Zombie splatter targets for him and the scouts to shoot at. Carter had lots to tell us when he came home the next day and was proudly showing off his targets.

Nutcracker_2012

This year Cambree is in the Nutcracker and she is a sugar-plum fairy. We are so proud of her and how well she is doing in ballet. She is so pretty and so graceful when she dances and she is really excited for the Nutcracker to get here. Friday night was Nutcracker picture night up at Weber High School. Shandi and Emily helped Christy get Cambree's hair and make-up just right. We took her over and got her all changed into her sugar-plum fairy costume. A mom of one of the girls in Cambree's group even brought spray glitter and sprayed them all with glitter. Cambree looked so cute and so grown up. We love her so much!

Field trip to the Library

Calee was so excited for her field trip to the library today. Her pre-school class got to go to the big main library in downtown Ogden. The main library has a fun kids section with lots of books, games, computers and activities for little kids. They also read stories to the kids. The highlight of the day, though, was this cute little old man that came and performed little plays for the kids. He was hillarious. I'm just glad that I could break away from work for a minute and run up the street to the libray to be with Calee. It was fun!

Calee, our little thanksgiving Indian!

Calee was so excited to show us her Indian dress-up that she made at pre-school this week.

Kids and Leaves

This week, our neighbors, the Downs, were raking all their leaves up and all the neighbor kids thought that they needed to be over there playing in them. They each took turns jumping in the pile and then they all had a giant leaf fight. It was fun to watch them all play in the leaves together. It is also fun to live in a neighbor hood with so many kids that all get along so well. Jill took this cute picture of all the kids together.

Brylee, Taylor, Emmy, Cooper, Averee, Emma, Cambree, Calee, and Kelsie

 Cambree, Calee, and Averee

Here is another picture of Calee, Emmy, and Davis in the Hardees back yard playing in the leaves

Halloween 2012

Halloween 2012 was awesome!!! Carter was obi wan kenobi from Star Wars. Cambree was Merida from the Disney movie Brave, and Calee was Rapunzel, (of course). This year, the weather was amazing! The night started out with pizza at our house with friends. After pizza, all of us Dads headed out with the kids, while the wives stayed behind and had their own little party on the driveway sitting around the propane fire pit and handing out candy to all the trick-or-treaters. Carter is at the age where he wanted to go off with friends and trick-or-treat all night, so we didn't see much of him. Carter and Cambree had fun trick-or-treating and getting candy. Carter was out pretty late and by the time he got home, he had quite the haul of candy. The rest of the evening was spent around the fire in the driveway with neighbors and friends eating candy and having our own little late night Halloween party.

our 2012 Halloween Jack-O-Lanterns

We love carving pumpkins at our house. We carved a lot of them this year, but these were some of our best creations:

Ward Party and Trunk or Treat

Our kids look forward to the Ward Halloween Party and Trunk or Treat every year. It always starts out with soups and chilis and then the young men and young women in our ward put on a carnival for all the kids. After the carnival, everyon goes outside for trunk or treat and doughnuts and juice. This year, Christy and I had our three kids plus three more. Cambree's friend Averee came and then we also took Brylee and Emma Petersen with us. It gave us a glimpse of what it would be like to have six kids. They were all so good and we had such a fun night. The kids loved playing all the games, getting their faces painted, and trunk or treating. We only saw Carter a few times. He was running around with his friends Jaxon and Taylor the whole time having fun with all the other kids in the ward, so I didn't get too many pictures of him. We feel so blessed to live in this ward and have so many friends. It was a fun night!

Carter and Jaxon

Calee and Noah

Brylee, Emma, and Calee

Cambree and Averee

Kelsie, Averee, and Cambree

Dance Performance Day

Today was Dance Performance Day at Calee's Ballet school. There is nothing better in this world than watching our kids perform. Whether it's watching Carter in sports, or our girls in dance, it is always the best part of my day and I just love them so much. Calee is so tiny and so cute. We are very proud of her and the little dancer she is becoming. We are also so grateful for her ballet teachers. They are so awesome and just love Calee so much!

Raking leaves at Grandma's house

Last night after our weekly Sunday dinner at Grandma's house we went out into the back yard and raked leaves. It didn't take long before we had a huge pile to run and jump into. The kids took turns jumping into the pile and even some of the adults took turns jumping in. We took some pretty funny home video of all of us running and jumping in.

Carving Pumpkins and Baking cookies!

two of our kids' favorite things to do during Halloween. Carving pumpkins and baking sugar cookies. We did both yesterday. We carved pumpkins after church, and then last night we made sugar cookies to take around to all of our friends and neighbors.

Our kids love scooping out pumpkin guts and making a mess. Our kids also love to try and carve their own pumpkins. They did a pretty good job this year. We still have a few more pumpkins to carve the next couple of nights, but here are a few pictures I took. They also snapped a picture of me pretending to eat a big bite of pumpkin guts.

Park City Ghost tour 2012

Friday night we went with some friends of ours, Chad and Jen Francom, up to Park City for a fun little over-nighter. We stayed in the Park City Peaks Hotel. We ate dinner at a fancy little Italian restaraunt on Main Street called Ciseros. Afterward we wandered main street and then met at the Miner Statue for a Park City Ghost tour. Our tour guide's name was John and he was awesome. The tour took us up to the top of Main street and then back down, stopping along the way to see different buildings and to hear some bone-chilling ghost stories. Ironically, our first stop was Ciseros, the place we ate dinner. We learned a lot of really cool history about Park City. We also heard a lot of pretty crazy ghost stories. It was a lot of fun. After the tour we went and got hot chocolate and then went back to our hotel to relax in the hot tub. The next morning we woke up, ate breakfast, and then went back up to Main street so we could visit the Rocky Mountain Chocolate factory store and load up on some chocolate goodies before heading home. It was very fun to get away from the kids for a night and spend time with Chad and Jen.

 one of famous grafitti artist, Banksy's works in Park City

 Christy and Jen

 The famous Cisero's restaraunt where we ate dinner

 one of the buildings on our tour.

(third gable over, in that room, a woman named Lizzie was brutally murdered by her husband)

 another one of Banksy's famous works

 us with our tour guide John

us with Chad and Jen