The Craziness Around Our House

Fall is technically here, though we're still waiting for it in Southern Utah. We can now go outside during the middle of the day and enjoy ourselves! It's my favorite time of the year. Same old stuff going on here. Three crazy kids and two parents trying to keep up.

My sweet little one turned 6 months old last week and we thought it was time to try out the good old rice cereal. Hmmm..... does she like it?

Well, hopefully it will grow on her. Probably gonna have to get some baby food to mix in with it. The stuff just smells gross, I can't imagine what it tastes like!

We went hiking one evening and Brylie had fun in a little slot canyon.

Making Halloween sugar cookies and eating them of course. One of our favorite things to do.

I Wanna Be A Firefighter!

Ivins City had a Safety Fair the other day and we couldn't wait to go. Cody is so excited about fire trucks these days. The kids had their picture taken with Smokey the Bear. Cody walked right up to him and gave him a high five!


The highlight of our evening was riding in the fire truck.

His face says it all!!

One morning while I was getting ready, Brylie came to me and asked me to draw her a Sleeping Beauty. I told her I wasn't sure I could draw Sleeping Beauty (her dad is more of the artist than I am). She then came back a few minutes later and asked me if I could cut out Sleeping Beauty because she says I am good with scissors. I told her I didn't know how to do that and kind of shooed her out so I could finish getting ready. When I was done getting ready I came out of the bathroom and found her with scissors and paper. She proceeded to cut out Sleeping Beauty with pieces of paper (like a pattern) and glue the pieces together. Then she colored it. She said, "See Mom, it's not so hard to cut out Sleeping Beauty!" I was so proud of her picture that I had to take a picture.

Cody is our money child. He likes to hold money, count money and put money in his piggy bank. He usually pats his dad's and grandpa's pockets to listen for the sound of change, and they usually give in and give him money from their pockets. I've never seen a child like him before. We were having family home evening one day and Cody of course had a penny in his hand. During the lesson there was a loud sound and the lamp went out. When we figured out what happened, we realized that Cody had taken his penny and stuck it in the floor socket where the lamp was plugged in. His hand was black and he was scared to death, but he was ok. We had to thank Heavenly Father that night for the protection of our little boy. Things could have been a lot worse. Needless to say, Cody is not allowed to walk around with money anymore. It goes directly into his piggy bank.

Here is the sacrificial penny.

Santa Clara Swiss Days

There is nothing like a good small town parade. My kids sure enjoy them. High school marching bands, horses, fire trucks, and lots and lots of candy. Doesn't get any better than that.

Cody quickly learned by watching Brylie that waving your arms gets you more candy.


And candy we did get. We definetly don't need Halloween this year. We even got a frisbee and I got a Snow Canyon High School t-shirt as well. The t-shirt was rolled up when they threw it to me. When I looked at my lucky prize, I noticed it was a 3XL. Do I look like I wear a 3XL?.... Never mind, don't answer that.

Sadie enjoyed the parade in her grandpa's arms.

The kids sure enjoyed parade. I did too. I also enjoyed all the craft booths at the Town Hall afterwards.
Cheese!

Sadie has picked up a new habit of sucking on her toes. Yum!

Pine View Reservoir

I haven't done a very good job at keeping my blog up to date, so I am going to try to do better. I'm going to try to get caught up over the next week or so. So here I go:



A few weeks ago we went to Pine View Reservoir with some of Michael's family. His sister Cammie and her husband Heiko just recently bought a boat after going quite a few years without one. The weather was perfect and we had a blast. Above is a picture of Cody helping to bury Colton in the sand.





The kids had so much fun playing on the beach. The beaches are so sandy and perfect for sand castles.




This was Brylie and Cody's first time on a boat. Brylie loved it and Cody didn't. Cody was so nervous when we took off. He yelled at his Grandpa to sit down in his seat. He didn't want anyone getting up. Then when we stopped to get Colton set up to wakeboard, Cody realized that the boat was floating in the water and he lost it! For some reason us floating in the water was not okay with him. Needless to say we soon took Cody back to shore where he happily stayed the rest of the day.



Here is Brylie and Austin going on the tube. Brylie is our little dare devil and she is always willing to try anything.

Michael's Dad, Michael, Kyla and Dave hanging out on the beach.

Brylie and Aysia swimming with their life jackets on. It was the end of September and the water was chilly. I guess kids will get in the water no matter what. The adults only got in the water when we had to so that we could ski.

Cody had so much fun on the beach. He literally played for 8 hours straight in the sand. He was so tired but he wouldn't nap or do anything else but play in the sand.

Michael wakeboarding. Fortunately there aren't any good pictures of me wakeboarding (cause I didn't get up for very long).

Brylie with some of her cousins and her Daddy on the boat.

Me holding Sadie on the boat. She didn't care for it either. Probably because the lifejacket wouldn't allow her to get her fingers in her mouth. She is a regular finger sucker. Please don't laugh at my farmer tan lines.

Grandpa and Sadie. He was so good to stay on the beach and take care of Sadie while we were out skiing. He took care of her wonderfully except for the diaper blowout incident where he had to call in reinforcement.