October is such a busy month for us with 3 birthdays...a family baptism and just kid stuff so.. Okay so this was a little out of our comfort zone but we both decided to dress up at the last minute...Pippy longstocking(with out red hair) and fred from scooby doo! We had fun! I know we look silly but why not:0
The kids really had a great time, we ended up going trunk or treating at our ward party. Leah was a princess, Kaetlynn was going to a masquarde party, brian was...something mom doesn't like, Dylan is Hulk and Reece was Sully!
Dylan just being the Ham that he is.

Reece's Birthday!! I so can't believe that he is one! Time really flies. I remember when I was first pregnant with this little man. I thought that the timing was so wrong when in fact Heavenly Father sent him to us for so many reasons.....He is really a mama's boy, he was three months old when my mom became very ill he was a little trooper spending day in and day out at the doctor's office with mom and I or at her house spending as much time with her as we could, Randy was so awesome...he was there for the other kids and had a really great handle on the kids and the house work that needed to be done and reassured me that we could stay with my mom as long as we needed to(we meaning Reece was attached) if it wasn't for Reece it would have been a lot harder going through what we did with my mom, I had something else that kept me going day in and day out after mom passed away, it would have been so easy to just close the door and sleep. Two really great things that I remember as mom was getting sicker was we were in the car and I was driving her to have a blood transfusion and she said to me....."I was out on the back porch drinking coffee and I could feel God," she said. "I talk with him all the time and it is like he is right next to me." Of course at the time I just thought that she was starting to build a relationship with him but little did I know she really was that close. One other memory that little Reece and I had was when we were sitting out on the couch with mom and my Auntie Willow and papa and Greg and mom was dozing in and out of consciousness and she looked at Reece and said...aren't you cute Reece, she smiled at him put her finger on his chin and back she went to sleep. I love you Little Reece and you have a special place in my heart:_




Holy Moly! It was Kaeltynn's birthday and she turned 9 this year, we took some of her friends to bounce and came back to the house for pizza, presents and fun! I just love girly time!

School pictures are my favorite and seeing them change from year to year. Brian got glasses and braces all in the same year.

School pictures are my favorite and it is so fun to see how much the kids change. Brian has gotten glasses and braces all in one year.
Kaeltynn is growing up to be such a cute young girl.
You can tell that Dyan had a good time playing at recess before he had his picture taken. He as well has grown up just since last year. I love how the picture shows how they really are instead of fake and perfect.

So I really have to explain this picture of Reece to you....So ever since he was just a little baby and had gotten RSV...he has been attached to yes....my under-roo's, if any of you have seen him he has an old part of one of my tops that he carries around and it has a well....once upon a time green border on it, he carries it around and sleeps with it, especially when i am not around, he loves to hang on to the silkiness, so one day....we couldn't figure out where he had gone and Randy went to look in our room and he had pulled out all my under-roo's (as I will call them) and was i guess sorting them out to find the best one, it was pretty funny. He had this look like what...??? needless to say if he can't find his "silky" he knows where to find one:)
Leah is pretty comical..she is always finding some way to amuse all of us.
AND SHE IS OFF!!>......not sure where but she is having a good time
Reece just being his cute self

The weather is turning colder and leaves are starting to fall...as we catch what is possibly the last semi-warm day my kids each have what they like to do on their own....Miss Leah is just hanging out lookin cute:)
Kaeltynn tried to play basketball with her brother but found out really quickly that basketball just isn't her sport...
Dylan is kinda the lazy one of the bunch and you can always find him sitting around somewhere unless he is with friends...well then...it's a different story.

Like I said, always just sitting around chillin......
Brian on the other hand when ever he has the opportunity he loves to play basketball

Okay so not the greatest picture of me but my little man is sure darn cute and such a mama's boy! I totally love it.

Leah really tries her best to keep up with everyone.

We decided to head to the old school playground and have a water balloon fight, it was pretty funny!

Reece of course just hung out and was just happy doing his thing.

We went to bounce and again...the kids really wanted to take Dad and show him what it was all about...it took some convincing but Randy finally got in on the action and had fun, it was really cute, Leah is Daddy's girl and kept saying c'mon daddy, c'mon and pulling his had so he would go down the slides.

So these are just a bunch of random pictures of some things we have been up to. Every summer as a child I loved going and feeding the ducks, the kids love to do it and would everyday if I let them.It was much easier to find them this year.

We had lunch at the park and this particular day Reece thought he needed to be center of attention and was really cheezin it up, his smile is so contagious I just love it.