Temple Square

Thanksgiving Weekend we were able to go the Temple Square to see the Christmas lights. It has been quite a few years since we have been and I was sure that the kids didn't even remember the last time that we went. So we went down saturday after thanksgiving and braved the cold and fought the crowds, but had a wonderful time. The kids were so good and enjoyed it so much, and the only complaining that we heard was that they were too hot (I do tend to overdress them sometimes), but we had a wonderful time and it was a wonderful start to the Christmas season!

Brooklyn's dance recital

Last weekend we were able to go to Brooklyn's christmas dance recital and it was quite a night. It was so much fun for her to have a night that was all for her. Isabel is doing gymnastics this year, so she wasn't in the recital and Brooklyn loved having a night all for her. She just loves getting all dressed up and she did so great. It was so fun to watch her and she just ate up all of the attention. It was a really fun night and we were so proud of her!

More Crafts!

The past few days we have been doing Christmas crafts with my sister and sister in law. It has been a lot of fun and pretty productive. It can be a little crazy trying to get projects done with all of the kids, but we have gotten quite a bit done. These are a few of the things we have done. Also this is the top and bottom of Hunter's quilt that I have been working on. I now just need to get some batting and quilt it, bind it, and put it all together, but I am taking a break from that to get some christmas projects done. But I am so happy with how the top and bottom turned out and can't wait to finish it!

Crafting it Up!

Lately I have had the crafting bug. I have just been staying busy doing project after project and have gotten quite a few things done lately. Having a project to do just keeps my sanity sometimes, although sometimes trying to do projects with a 6 yr old, a 3 yr old, and an 18 month old can make me pretty crazy. I just find these cute ideas and then once I get the ideas in my head I just have to do them.


This is the progress I have made on Hunter's quilt. I am just loving the way that it is working out and now I have to arrange these blocks into rows and put the quilt top togher. I am really enjoying doing this and it is the first "real" quilt that I have made by myself, so I am really learning a lot from this.



I am always looking for cute things for my girls hair and I have seen these flowers around and decided I could make them too, so I spend the afternoon making them and just love the way they look on my cute girls.


The biggest project that we have been doing has been painting the girls room. They have been in their own rooms and now we are putting them together in the same room, so we painted and got the room just the way they wanted it and they just love it. I wasn't sure I wanted to paint it pink, but I love the way it turned out and the stripes just make it so much fun. It has been quite a work in progress, but is so nice now that it is done, and now we are going to paint Hunter room, so the process just starts all over again.


Blair wasn't so happy about Hunter having to be the model for this towel, but I am going to a baby shower tomorrow and decided that I wanted to make a hooded towel. I thought that it shouldn't be too hard, and after a little trial and error I think that it turned out pretty cute. Now my girls both want one, so this is probably only the beginning of the towels for us.


And lastly this afternoon my cute sister in law Katie showed us how to make these cute flowers. They turned out to be pretty easy once you got the hang of it and now I need to put them on headbands and hairclips and they will look amazing.

So that is what we have been up to lately. We also have squeezed in a veterans day assembly, dancing class, Thanksgiving Dinner with Isabel at school, gymnastics, and a great movie night tonight. So it has been a very wonderful and productive week for us. Now onto enjoying the weekend!

Ooey Gooey Fun!

One of my favorite things about Halloween is the pumpkin carving. I don't know what it is, but I do think that it is fun. My hands and wrists were really tired that night after carving everyone's pumpkins, but we had a great time and the kids were really into it this year. Isabel made a ghost on hers and was able to do a lot of it herself. Brooklyn wanted a mean puppy, which took a lot of creativity, but she was very happy with it and loved it when it was done. Hunter didn't care much about what his pumpkin would be. He was very interested about what we were doing all night and wasn't shy at all about sticking his hands right into his pumpkin and helping me clean it out. He is at such a fun stage where he doesn't really care what we do as long as he can be big like the rest of the kids and do what everyone else is doing. So the night was definitly a success for all of us. The only sad thing was that I forgot to take a picture of the finished pumpkins, but that is okay because Blair got some pretty cute ones of the process!

Step one: find an inspiration

So I have been deciding on colors and themes for decorating Hunters room lately. I have been so stress and just haven't been able to find the things that I want to. I have been looking for fabric to make a quilt for his room and hoped that I would find one that I just loved and that inspired me a whole theme and color for his room. Well I have been looking like crazy and just can't find anything that I like. I really like brown and orange and just can't find anything that I like. Well last night I was in bernina and I fell in LOVE.

Dinosaurs weren't the theme that I was looking for, but the colors were so perfect that I just couldn't resist. It was exactly what I was looking for and it was just perfect that I could find nine other fabrics to coordinate just perfectly for the quilt that I want to make.

So now that I am inspired I have to make this inspiration turn into an amazing quilt for my baby boy. So it may take me a long time to get it done, but I am just so happy to have found just what I love that I will work forever just to get it done. So wish me luck and I will keep you updated on how things are going!

Corn Maze and Fall Fun!

I love fall because their are so many great things to do that the kids just love. We went to the American West Heritage Center last weekend and had a great time. The kids just love being outside, so doing just about anything outside they are happy. They had lots of fun on the corn maze and kept occupied husking corn. We had a great day and the weather was just perfect. We look forward to carving pumpkins, the pumpkin walk, and trick or treating. It is a great time of year!


Hunter's favorite part of the whole day was petting those goats. He thought it was the best thing ever.

Isabel's horse ride

Brooklyn's horse ride

Brooklyn and her love for corn mazes

The kids in the corn

Pirate Brooklyn

Isabel and her intense pirate face

Isabel and the slide

Hunter and the slide

Me and the kids enjoying the slide

Hunter's new Hobby

Hunter has been very busy lately. He is always walking around with his golf club and just loves to hit that ball around. He is pretty good and we love to watch him swing and then say "golf". Blair is so proud and hopes that Hunter will loves golfing as much as he does. Although the club has been used in the toilet many times and to hit Brooklyn far too often he does use it to golf pretty much every day all day lately.

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Brooklyn's Birthday!

Brooklyn was able to have a great birthday last week and had a great day. I can't believe that she is four. We went to the fun park, opened presents, played games, and ate lots of cake. It was a great weekend and she had so much fun.

Brooklyn is 4!

I just can't believe that my little Brooklyn is 4 today. The time just goes by so fast. She is just such a sweetheart and I can't imagine our family without her. Her are a few pictures of her through her four year.

Labor Day Weekend!

We were able to go down to St. George for the weekend and we had such a good time. It was kind of a spur of the moment trip with us deciding we were going thursday and then leaving on friday. I have such anxiety about traveling with the kids in the car, but they did pretty good and we were able to get down there without too much crying. We hadn't been down there for a long time, so we loved the trip and were so glad we were able to go.


Nice family photo at the temple


The girls at the temple


The weather was so great and the temple was just so white that it was hard to look directly at it. It was beautiful.


Brookly just loved sunbathing. She told me that is what you do at the beach


The girls getting ready to swim


The girls enjoying the swimming pool (their favorite part of the trip)


Me and Blair posing for a rare couples photo

My climber!

Things seem to just be getting busier and busier all the time. Actually things aren't getting busier, Hunter is getting busier. I thought when he started getting a little older and wasn't such a small baby I would have more time, but the opposite is happening. He is getting to be a better climber, more wild, and more daring everyday. A boy is definitly something that I was not ready for. He is into everything and always defying my rules, but when he smiles at me I melt. He is the sweetest, cuddliest, wildest, naughtiest, craziest, but best son that I could ever hope for and I am just taking it one day at a time and loving it.