Halloween is near...

So in the spirit of Halloween, we carved our pumpkins for family home evening tonight. For some reason we always buy one for everyone, even though the kids don't help. We think it's cute to have 4 pumpkins out, and we let the kids pick what they want on their pumpkins. Mady wanted a smiley face and Noah wanted a kitty, probably because that was the only thing out of the list I read that he recognized. :) Mady was super crabby tonight, so she just wanted to watch a movie. Noah wanted to help though! He got right in and started grabbing the pumpkin goup and throwing it in the garbage. He was all about it and so excited. We've had the pumpkins outside for a couple weeks now, and every time he would see them he would scream, "Punkins!" So he had fun. It gets us all in the spirit of Halloween. This thursday my mom is watching our kids and my soon-to-be niece and nephew while we all go out to dinner and to Dr. Slaughters House of Terror. We're excited, we haven't been to those kind of things since before we had kids. It will be fun! Well...here's our "punkins"!
Noah's ready to go! Oh my little drama queen, this was all the excitement she could muster. Kru even joined the fun for a few minutes. The finished products!

PICTURES!

So we got the kids pictures taken on Saturday! I've never gotten their pictures done in the fall and it was beautiful! Now comes the daunting task of "process of elimination", since there are like 230 pictures. So I'll post some of the ones I'm trying to decide between. If anyone wants to leave feedback on ones they like, it could sure help!!! lol. Adam gets impatient with me... Hee hee! Apparently I'm indecisive.











Mady is more of a pro then Noah so her pictures were easy...Noah is hit or miss, but we think they turned out really cute!

So Guess What....?

Nope! We aren't pregnant....WE SOLD OUR HOUSE!!! (even better! j/k)
Yippee!!! We are super excited. Hopefully everything goes through smoothly. We sort of came to a pay off agreement but we got $8,000 up front so I think he's pretty serious; we also signed a contract. Plus I went to school with him and we were pretty good friends. He even dated my friend Melanie...hee hee! Anyhow, him and his wife want to use it as a rental, so good for them! He still needs to talk to the owner of the mobile home park and make sure they work out a good agreement...hopefully it won't be my luck that it all goes to crap. So for anyone who doesn't know, we've had our single wide up for sale with a realtor for a year! We ended our contract with him and sold it within 2 weeks. What are the odds? We didn't really make diddly squat, but at least I feel like we may be able to move on and really look at houses or building options! Yea!

Well, other then that we are all doing good, other then the fact that everyone in the house is sick at the moment. Work has finally slowed down a little. Some weeks too much, but I guess that's good. Means less sick people! Adam is still working his butt off at work, like usual. He works pretty hard for our family with very few complaints! Noah is probably the sickest of us all. Poor little guy. He's cutting teeth on top of the head cold and cough. So it's medicine, vicks, and humidifiers for him! He is not real crabby but very cuddly. He's still talking up a storm and coming up with something new every day! Sometimes it amazes me so much that he catches on so easily. He sure is a fun kid. -Mady has been loving dance and school! At school they've been learning about farms and animals. They've had real goats, chickens, roosters, puppies and a big tractor at school. They've fed the goats and colored eggs from the chickens! She sure loves it, and the other day when I was doing her hair she just started singing me the ABC's. I think this has been so good for her. Well, hope all is well with everybody! I sure need to be better at blogging! - Anyhow... I have a few pictures of the kiddos.....
Before school....she has such curly hair and the green shirt makes her eyes look like a beautiful shade of green.

So this is Noah's new favorite game with Adam and he NEVER gets tired of it. He says, "Dad. Up. Pider" Cuz Adam tells him he's a spider baby! He loves it.


So we went to Grandpa and Grandma Huntsman's tonight and the kids were so tired! I had to post this for Terri because she predicted they would be out before Teton. Well I don't think it was before, but it sure wasn't long afterwards. By the time we pulled into the garage, Adam, Jamie and I just sat there. It was so quiet without any screaming kids. Lol. We had to talk ourselves into getting out. They were pooped. Noah wouldn't even let me change his diaper; He just rolled over and was out. Such cuties they are!

Cozy night & Popcorn

So tonight we spent a cozy night in the house. Call me crazy but I like days like today, where it's cold, rainy and overcast. I know eventually I will hate it, but right now I'm enjoying it. We went and got Bajios for dinner (Yummy chicken green chili salad! Mmmmm...) we brought it back to the house to eat, then we got the kids in the bath and got jammies on. Afterwards I got out the popcorn maker that I don't think we've used since we moved here. So we made some air popped popcorn. It was pretty good. I'm not going to lie though, greasy-buttery movie theater popcorn is much better. This came with less guilt though. Mady got super excited! I don't know if we've ever used it with her before?? Anyhow... then we turned on the t.v. and all cuddled on the couch and ate popcorn, it's been a good night!


Mady was hilarious! We both wished we had the video camera! When the popcorn started getting high she put her hands on her cheeks and very dramatically yelled "Oh no! It's gonna blow!!!!" Me and Adam laughed so hard.


Just hangin' out with dad.

Afterwards both kids had a cup of milk and we put them to bed. Mady had school today so she was wiped out, which is nice! :) And of course Noah is our little character. I was holding him with his blanket when we were laying him down and Adam kept asking him for a kiss and saying I love you, so that he would say it back and all Noah would do was push his face away, point to the door and say, "Get out". It was just funny because Noah loves his daddy but he is so opinionated! He tells you EXACTLY what he wants. As we look back Noah has very few 1st words, it's more like 2 words together. The other day in the grocery store he kept yelling, "Mommy!" "Mommy!" Which is so cute until it is screamed 10 times in 5 seconds. When I said what, he said "I'm stuck!" Ha ha. Which is a good thing because he was in the grocery cart, he just wanted out. What a goof ball!

1st Day of School

So actually Mady's 1st day of school was on Friday and she loved it! Adam was off that day so we all went to lunch and then dropped her off. I almost started crying because she looked like such a big girl. She just gave me a kiss and waved. Didn't even look back. I guess you want your kids to be independent, but sometimes it's sad too. She even cried when I came to pick her up. The weird thing was that she peed her pants at school. I couldn't believe it because I can't remember the last time that happened. I think she was unsure of who to ask and where to go, so she just didn't! But she went to school today and went potty fine, so I think she's getting used to it. They've been learning about goats and she was so super excited to tell me how she got to pet it and feed it corn. Apparently they taught them how to grind up corn and feed it to them. It's so fun to see how much she likes it. I think it will be good for her. On the way home she even told Adam that she had a friend named "Annie", I don't even know if there's a little girl in the class with that name. It was probably the goat! LOL. Anyhow... here's a couple pictures of her.



So Monday's are really busy. She has dance in the morning and school in the afternoon, but she loves it. But boy did she go to bed good tonight. So here's a couple pictures of her in her "dance dress". She loves it so much that I have to bribe her to take it off. But usually once she tries to go to the bathroom and gets stuck, she'll agree that it's time to get dressed. :)


Since the weather is suppose to turn to winter in the next couple days, (45 degrees and snow/rain on Wednesday...what the heck?!) yeah... anyhow it was really nice today so we took the kids to the nature park and fed the ducks. Noah loves it, but if he holds the popcorn in his hand for too long the ducks will come nip it out of his fingers. The first time that happened he freaked out and about climbed Adam's leg. lol. But he got the hang of it. They love it and there were so many ducks out. I wasn't sure since it was almost October but there was tons!!



Seriously...look at all the ducks. Crazy.

So looking at these pictures and the upcoming weather forecast makes me realize that summer is coming to an end. I have mixed feelings because I love cuddling in blankets when we watch movies, making soup, having hot chocolate, and of course the holidays. But I also miss just being able to let the kids outside to play, the easiness of finding things to do with them, and at some point...I start to resenting cooking every night and I really miss using the BBQ daily. It's been really nice to have a big, private yard for the kids this year. We definitely enjoyed it and spent tons of time outside! Oh well... it will come again!

Mrs. Leatham

Many of you may already know, but for those of you who don't and that I went to high school with, Mrs. Leatham's (Amy) little boy was diagnosed with Leukemia last week. She's keeping a blog- www.ironmanjace.blogspot.com There's also a link off my list on the side. Reading this breaks my heart, it just reminds me that no one is immune to cancer. At some point I'm sure we will be taking care of him up here at the hospital and everytime I have a kid with cancer I go home and cuddle my kids. I realize how blessed I am. This just hits home so much more because it involves people I know... please pray for them and keep them in your thoughts.

Mady's 1st day of dance

So Mady had her 1st day of dance today. She loved it and she did suprisingly well. I DO NOT envy her teacher having like 10 3 year olds. LOL. Chaos, chaos, chaos... that's all I can say. She say's that we'll be surpised how quick they catch on, so I guess we'll see. But Mady likes "Miss Amy". The only thing is that a couple other girls had little tutus on and now Mady wants a "dance dress". So lucky her!! Her soon-to-be Aunt Bridgette found a cute one at Target and got it for her today! She'll be so excited to see it tomorrow. I'm sure she will put it on right away, so we will post more pictures.
Mady's in the black capris, NOT a dance dress apparently.



Chaos, Chaos, Chaos....

Also this week, Adam's sister Aubrey was voted in for Homecoming Royalty for the freshman. We went to the Sugar City Homecoming Parade and she looked beautiful. She is such a sweetheart and she so deserved it!
The kids hangin' out with Papa in the back of the truck, waiting for Aubrey.



I had to post just a few random pictures of the kids. I've been trying to get Mady to smile normal, instead she is dramatically posing. But whatever, she's cute. And Noah... oh don't get me started on mr independent.


So Noah thinks he can go potty like a big boy now, only not really. He just likes to yell "Potty!" like Mady does and run for the bathroom. But sometimes he just will not let it go until you let him sit on the potty. Maybe we'll get this kid potty trained before he's 3!

An Update....

Well we have been pretty busy the last couple weeks, but it has been fun. First our friends Chant & Kara were up from Missouri and it was a lot of fun to see them! They have 2 kids the same age as ours, and 1 that is a year older so it is wild and crazy in our house and we've really missed that! They are fun. We can't wait until they move closer!
Daddy's and their boys! (It's so shocking how much the little boys look like the big boys!)

Ainsley is such a doll, she doesn't have them on, but her new glasses are so cute!

Chant and Kara with all the kids, (minus Porter, he was tuckered out & Ainsley's got her glasses on!)

So I'm working on picking out outfits for the kids pictures, but I think I need to work more on Mady's cheesy smile! She cannot figure out how to smile normal, she's always cheesin it up.

I think this is the first time we got Noah his own ice cream cone. I would have to say he enjoyed it... A LOT; he was a disaster.


Overall we've had a good Labor Day Weekend. We went out to dinner Friday night with Adam's sister and brother-in-law and all the kids at Garcia's, we even told them it was his birthday and they sang to him he got to wear the big sombrero! ha ha! It was funny. Then they came over saturday and he brought his new smoker and we did ribs, they were AWESOME! I should have recorded every one's sounds; one after the other it was like..."ooh" "aaahh" "that is so good" "yum" "oooh, yeah" but it probably wouldn't have sounded good. ;) We played Phase 10 until like 11:00 and then we all went to the Blackfoot Fair the next day. It was tons of fun. We went with my mom and Josh and Craig and Bridgette and all the kids. We were there for 6 hours. We were boiling hot and my feet burned by the time we got home. But we had tons of good food!Mmmmm....funnel cakes!!! Adam and Josh got turkey legs that were as big as their heads I swear. It was fun, but by the time we left we were tired. Adam's mom and Rick came over that night and we had dinner with them. We went to bed early and were total lazy butts all day today. We were seriously in jammies until like 4:00! We took a nap and watched t.v., it was pretty pathetic. We did get ambitious tonight though and made some awesome ham and potato soup, and while Adam cleaned up the house I made strawberry/rasberry jam. It's just freezer jam, but it's sooo good! Anyhow... here's some pictures of the kids!

This was our big group just trying to make it through the fair still together! We lost a few people a couple times, even one of the kids! But Kynden was just with Adam! Scared us all for a minute though. So we made the kids hold hands. Aren't they cute?


Mady and Daddy at the petting zoo!

Noah loved the horses! He's so stinkin cute! He gets excited over such simple things! He's easy to please; and he was a pretty good sport since it was such a long day and it was so hot.

Mady and Kynden had fun riding the few rides they were tall enough for!

Adam and Josh riding on a ride that would have made me lose all my good, hard earned fair food! No way.


Well, not this week but next week, Mady starts school and dance. I'm very excited for her because it is so good for her. She does so well with the teachers and she seems to learn so much. She also loves it and talks about it all day so it will be good for her. I still feel like I've been working too much, but I did get put on call tonight and I have hopes that it will slow down soon! Other then that... we are all doing great!