Ward Party and Trunk or Treat

On October 30th we had a ward party at the church where we had yummy food, lots of fun, and ended with a trunk-or-treat.

The kids dressed up as pioneers. They looked so cute! Thanks Mom for making Jenalee's costume for us! Also, thanks Mom McRoberts for making Natalie's last year! Combined with Braydens gymboree costume they all looked great.

The kids loved playing the fun games that were set up. Natalie even did well enough in a few games to win a prize.

In throw the hula hoop around the pumpkin Natalie was a natural, making it around all 3 pumpkins.

Brayden was a star in pumpkin bowling.


Natalie got three in a row at the toss game.

We ate chili with corn bread, crackers, and cheese. Plus we had an array of desserts to munch on. Everything was delicious. Here are a few pics of friends enjoying their food.

The Hartungs

Hollie walking around

The Parkinsons. Their daughters are dressed as Annie and Sandy.

Sister Area with the Mullins. They are Zombies(Ashlee is martha stewart zombie) and a cowboy.

After the food the kids played a few more games and then enjoyed a story before heading out to trunk or treat.

They had tons of fun and got way too much candy!!

Halloween package

We received another halloween package from Grandma Bevans that was filled with clothes and goodies for the kids. Thanks mom!

Thanks Mom!

Play group Halloween party

On October 27th, we had a Halloween party at our house for playgroup. It was a combined party with both of my play groups, so it was a fun and lively event!

Leah with Boo in matching outfits

We had the kids dressing up in costumes as optional(most did), we painted pumpkins (byop-bring your own pumpkin), feasted on a yummy potluck lunch, went on a trick-or-treat hunt, and then ended with frosting pumpkin cupcakes for dessert.

I bought washable paint this time!

Jenalee enjoying her cupcake

Yummy potluck lunch. Teah made the prize winning Jack-o-lantern pizza

Janae made the prize winning Witches hats calazones.

Faith made the prize winning Mummy dogs. They all won prizes for most festive food.

I took pictures of most families that came. Tania and her two mushrooms(daughters dressed as mushrooms and sons where mario and luigi for halloween) had to leave before I started taking the pics.

Sharon with daughter hollie and Janae with son Zak

Me and my crazy kids

Anna with Miles and Ashlee with Gavin below. Ashley won most festively dressed!

Alanna with daughter Kiera

Faith and Myra

Emily with Carter, Alexis and Brynn. We'll miss you when you move to Florida!!

Teah with her boys Dillan and drew. Congrats on your new baby girl!

What a fun day!!

Our Family Update

We have been very busy this month. Which is great because it means we have been very active and getting out of the house! The above picture was taken after we found out we were having a boy at Wendy's where I stopped with the kids to celebrate their new brother!

Today Natalie had lunch with her school principal as part of the Lady Bug program(student of the month). Bug stands for Behavior, Uplifting attitude, and Grades. She is holding her certificate and a ladybug cookie too.

I forgot to mention that Natalie had a little boy from her class stop by our house(they ride the bus together so he knew where our house was). He handed her a picture he drew and they talked for a little. It was really cute. I wish I had a picture!

Today, we also had a speech evaluation for Brayden with the school district. He will be attending preschool in the next few weeks to help him with some of his consonant sounds. Especially focusing on the "k" sound. He is pretty excited to go to preschool, so that is good.

Jenalee thinks she is pretty big stuff. She can keep up with the big kids, but can also be a cute little toddler when she wants to be. Her vocabulary grows in leaps and bounds(which I must say is reassuring). Sometimes I think Brayden was speaking when it was really Jenalee.

She loves baby dolls right now and has to have one to sleep with at night..luckily it doesn't always have to be the same one! Natalie is really good about sharing them with her, that makes everything easier too!

Halloween Party

This past Saturday was a very busy one for us. It was our Wards Super Saturday, so I was at the church from 9:30 to around 4. Jeremy was suppose to take the kids to Hall-Zoo-ween, but only managed to take them out to lunch using their free coney coupons to skyline.

Then Jeremy wanted to go shooting with the guys, he thought I would be done by 2(that is when Super Saturday was suppose to end) and was upset when it went longer. He still went and didn't go to the Shuley's Halloween party with us.








We were a little late to the party, getting ready in our themed princesses and knight costumes, but it still ended up being a fun time! The kids hung out with their friends, and enjoyed fun games and food.
Natalie with her friend Hollie dressed up as Fancy Nancy.

Brayden and Leah with their friends Dawson and Eden

Brayden and Leah enjoying the yummy treats

Brad and his wife Sharon were lots of fun to hang out with and very helpful! Brad made balloon items for the kids.

And he held Leah for me so I could eat and get the other kids food too! Sharon was fun to hang out with and took our family photos. (sorry Sharon no pic of you)

Another prego shot. As you can see I am large and should lay off the Halloween candy....but it is so good!! My favorites at the moment are heath and take 5.

Our New little bundle of Joy...to come

We found out officially that I was pregnant on July 9, 2010. But I prepared Jeremy from the git go, because being my 4th pregnancy I noticed the signs and knew it pretty much since conception.

The great debate on names began. A boy name is pretty easy since we have had one picked out since we had Jenalee. But we started having issues when it came to girl names.

Luckily we found out last Tuesday that we are having a.....

BOY!!!

Jeremy was so sure it was a girl, and I that it was a boy, that we made a little bet. I won a Chicago style stuff crust pizza from Papa Murphy's....mmmmm yummy! I was suppose to get dessert too....but I am still waiting on that!