Crafts

Here are a couple of fun crafts that I made at our ward Relief Society activities.  I had a lot of fun decorating them.  The first is just a decorative sign that says Peace.  The second is an advent calendar made out of a muffin tin.  Every day we will open it during the month of September and there is an activity, scripture, song, and chocolate inside.  

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving. Ben and Sara came over and we enjoyed a yummy turkey dinner, watched a movie (while the kids napped), and had some yummy pie.
I am so thankful for all that I have been blessed with. I am thankful for my family and friends and I am thankful for my Savior. I love this Holiday season.

Oreo turkeys

A couple of days before thanksgiving we made our Thanksgiving turkeys using oreos, candy corn, whoppers, nerds, and chocolate chips. We love doing this and the kids have so much fun. JJ I think loved it the most this year. We decided to let them do it all on their own after watching me make one. His didn't look like a turkey at all and was just a blob of cookie and candy corn, but he loved that blob and would get the biggest grin on his face whenever he saw it.

Joe's Turkey

My Turkey

Emily's Turkey

Maddie's Turkey

JJ's Turkey

JJ and Asher

JJ loves Asher so much. Lately whenever he gets up from his nap I will come into the front room (where Asher is napping) to find this:


JJ thinks that he needs to climb right in with Asher in his pack and play.

Halloween

This year for Halloween our day was pretty full. We went to Gardner Village in the morning with Sara. After Gardner Village we went to Joe and Benny's work to do trick or treating there. The kids were spoiled so much with the candy there. Everyone was giving out fun size candy bars, it was good stuff. Then we went home and took naps, and that evening we went to our wards trunk or treat. After trunk or treating we went to Ben and Sara's house and the kids watched a movie while the adults talked. We even got to see my cousin Kari and her husband Ryan and Daughter Abbey when they stopped by to say hi.

Here we all are at Joe and Benny's work

Here are our kids and Kaidyn at Ben and Sara's house. Emily is a tiger, Maddie is a chick hatching out of it's egg, JJ is a pirate, and Asher is a pea in a pod. Kaidyn was Elmo, but he had taken off his costume by this time.

I have to add too that sometime during the trunk or treat, Maddie heard someone telling someone else that there was a cute little chick bum. She knew they were talking about her and was extremely offended. I didn't stop hearing about it for weeks. I tried to explain that they thought she was cute, but it didn't work.

Asher 7 months

Asher is 7 months now. He is still growing so much and is such a joy to have in our family. He is finally sitting up on his own, but he still won't roll over at all. It scares him to much. Anytime we roll him over to his side to help him practice he gets really upset as soon as he finishes rolling over. It doesn't matter if it is to his tummy or his back he just wants to stay in whichever position he was in to begin with.
He is eating quite a few solid foods now and loves it! We thought he didn't care what the food was as long as something was going in his mouth because he wouldn't react for any foods other than asking for more. We couldn't ever tell if he really liked what he was eating-until we gave him green beans. He takes after his older sister Emily and hates green beans. He cries when we feed them to him. Anything else he just gobbles up, but green beans he refuses to eat.