{Trick or Treating}

This year our friends invited us to Park City to go trick or treating. It was a blast!!

Park City Main Street was shut down and all the stores handed out candy. Not just for kids either, everyone had their dogs dressed up and the stores gave out doggie treats.

This was my favorite dog costume. So funny!

Even my little Rio put on a mask for the occasion

Um.... this guy was not dressed up, I think he always looks like this.

As you can see my night was a little crazy and I didn't take an individual picture of my kids. I will have to get them dressed up again and post later.

{Memory Tuesday}

TELL ABOUT A TIME AS A CHILD WHEN YOU GOT INTO TROUBLE

Wow, Which story do I choose. I got in trouble a lot.

My dad loves this story.

I think I was 16 years old and some friends and I had gone to lagoon and had such a great time that we decided to go again. For some strange reason in my mind I figured that if I asked my parents if I could go again they would say no. So, I lied. I told my parents we were going to the zoo.

I was the only person who followed through with that lie, Oops. My parents talked to other parents and found out that we had actually gone to lagoon.

As I am sun bathing in Lagoon-a-beach I look up and see my dad standing over me!! Lagoon is HUGE, how he found me I have no idea, you ask him how he found me he has no idea.

I had to pack up my stuff and go home with him and my mom. The 1 hour ride home was the longest and quietest ride of my life. I don't remember if a punishment was given when I got home but having to leave my friends and the embarrassment of getting caught lying was punishment enough.

{Carving Pumpkins}

Last night we went to our friends house to carve pumpkins. What a mess! It's a good thing this only happens once a year.

This year we decided to get creative and let the boys do a picture in the pumpkin rather than a plain old face. They were determined to do it themselves, the pumpkins came out pretty good.

Garrett decided on the skull and cross bones

McKay decided on a ghost.

{Birthday Wishes}, {Surgery}

Happy birthday to my mom!! I love and miss you mom!!!!!!!

My dad had a much needed knee surgery today, he is doing well, they are going to keep him in the hospital for a few days to monitor the pain and help him walk around.

{Memory Tuesday}

WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU "GREW UP?" DID YOU BECOME THAT?

Well, isn't it every little girls dream to get married and be a mom? I can't say enough how happy I am to be married to my best friend. Dave is amazing! we can count on him for anything, he keeps us laughing, he is handy around the house and he is the best father I know!
I am so grateful to have my boys. Some women never get the chance to fill a baby grow in their stomach and then to have the most overwhelming feeling of unconditional love when the child is born. It is another great feeling to watch your kids grow into really good kids (of course I haven't been through the teenage part yet, yikes!).

As a teenager I knew I wanted to work in an office environment, I have loved the 2 jobs (NuSkin for 11 years and current job DBA for 3 years). Of course the dream of becoming a mom also means staying home and I have been given some pretty harsh opinions about that, but I don't regret working. It has helped me to appreciate my kids more. Dave and I love "hanging" out with our kids, they go almost everywhere we go, very seldom do we get a babysitter.

{Birthday Wishes}

HAPPY 7th Birthday to my sweet baby, he isn't a baby anymore!!!

GARRETT

{Halloween Party, Birthday Party}

The end of October is a big party month for us. We have Dave's Birthday, Garrett's Birthday and my mom's Birthday.


When my mom was alive she started a fun tradition for her birthday to have a party with all of the grandkids dressing up in their costumes. We decided to keep this a tradition in her honor.


My kids are the 2 in the front with the scary masks. McKay is some scary guy and Garrett is a skeleton. Notice the sweet little Power Ranger not sitting close to the skeleton. That is my brother's son Isaak, so funny!

We ate pizza and then played a fun game eating donuts on a string with no hands. The kids were a mess after but they loved every minute of it

Then we took a pumpkin and birthday balloons up to the cemetary for my mom
Since everyone was together I decided to have Garrett's birthday party. We went to the local swimming pool. The cousins have so much fun. I am so glad they are all close in age and can grow up together.