Birthday Time

Not only is October busy with all the fun things associated with Halloween, but it's birthday month for Jon and Taylor. Taylor had a great birthday this year. We had a family dinner before Jon had to go out of town. Her Grandma Taylor was visiting on her birthday and took her to get a Build-A-Bear (she's been saving her money for 2 years now for one:), then she had a Princess party when Jon was back in town.

Jon had his favorite; meatballs, for dinner and was kind enough to share a princess cake with Taylor. Fun times. I can't believe Taylor is 6 now, she is so fun and beautiful! Happy birthday you two!

Halloween

We had a great, but very WET Halloween. It poured the whole time we had our trunk-or-treat on our street. The kids managed to still get enough candy to make the Dentist proud, but we were all inside and drying off after 1 hour. Taylor and Baily were witches, Payton was a flower (and thrilled about being one too!), and Trevor was a musketeer.

Ready for Halloween!

Busy day today of helping at the kid's School Halloween parties. We are all looking forward to celebrating Halloween tomorrow. Hopefully we find time to actually carve all the pumpkins we grew in the garden this year! I'm excited to take pictures of all my cute trick-or-treaters. Here's my favorite from today I couldn't wait to share!

Girl's Just Wanna Have Fun!

Last week while Jon was in sunny Puerto Rico for work, my Mom and sisters took pity on me and came for a visit. The little kids had a blast with their cousins. I'm still recovering from staying up way too late and talking with the girls. It was so much fun!

Baily and Emma made a lot of bubbles in the bath together!

Trevor and Russell tried to get some smashed pennies on the railroad tracks.

Payton was very taken with Grandma!

Fall Break 2010

A couple weeks ago during fall break, Jon and I decided to finalize the brainwashing of our children to become die hard BYU fans and take them to hike the "Y". The last time Jon and I hiked the Y we were dating, so it was a little more work now hiking 4 kids (2 of which we carried) to the top. But we made it with just a total of 3 scraped knees, 2 scraped hands and lots of encouragement. We had a lot of fun and were sore the rest of the weekend.

Thumbs Up!

A few more items to carry up the mountain than when I last hiked it 10+ years ago!

Baily

Payton and Dad

Taylor and Baily

Conference Leaves

As we usually do, we took the family up through the canyon between conference sessions to see the fall leaves. Beautiful as always. We know this great spot you can stop and hike up a short ways and have a great view. Jon took the kids while I stayed back to nurse the baby. He locked the van and left me, so when I opened my door, the car alarm went off. Jon was half way up the mountain, so I had to grab the baby and run up the hill to find him and have him turn off the alarm. By the time we got everyone situated, Taylor and Baily had both fallen on the dusty trail and were covered with dirt. So, it makes for some pretty funny pictures!

Note the dirty cute face:)
I am loving her fuzzy head!
Another dirty face, I'm so glad we bathed them that morning!

Beautiful Girls and funny kids

I have more time now with just Baily and Payton, since Trevor and Taylor are in school. I can't help but take pictures of these pretty girls.

Payton is just 5 months, but is getting pretty good at sitting up by herself already. She is so fun!

Baily loves her "sparkly" dress, and would wear it every Sunday if we let her!
The kids squeeze in as much play as they can before Trevor leaves for school in the mornings. I was cleaning up breakfast, when I looked over and listened to them for a minute. Baily was Cinderella on a ship, Trevor and Taylor were Navy officers, and lucky Payton was the captain. They were pulling Payton around in her saucer while holding a flag they had made out of my broom. I love how creative they are!