Pick'n Punkin's

This year we went to the little Pumpkin Patch in Springville.  It was okay, but not as fun as some other places.  They had thorns all over the ground.  They were stuck in to the pumpkins & they stuck to your shoes~ especially flip flops!  So we just had the kids pick them from the 

pre-picked pile. :o(  

I forgot my camera so you get phone pictures again :o)

 They had a little wagon ride that we went on that the little kids enjoyed.

Brin's cute Frankenstein

Brinley's teacher texted me a pic of her cute Frankenstein that she drew.  I LOVE it!  What a good job she did!  She is quite the good little artist!

Rylan's 2nd Birthday!

This year was a crazy year!  We had thought about building and moving again and decided to run to Lehi on his birthday to look at some floor plans for houses.  I had already invited the Smith's over for cake and on our spur of the moment drive to Lehi it dawned on me that I hadn't made a cake!!!  For my son's 2nd Birthday!!!  What kind of mom am I???  I felt really bad!  If you know me, I always make my kids birthday cakes and it's kind of a big deal!  We knew he wanted a train birthday, so this year... he got a store bought, sort of hand made (by the addition of his train on top) cake.  Right before his party, Rich and I had to do a quick errand and were back in just a few minutes, but when we got back we noticed that some sort of "mouse" had taken a bight out of his nice crisp new cake!  See- he is pointing at it ;o)

When we asked who did it... this is what we got :o)

 ME!!!!

 And then he showed us how he did it :o) No hands!  All face! Such a funny kid!  

Luckily it was his own cake!

This kid loves anything with wheels!  He is ALL BOY!!!  We sure love him!  He has the cutest personality!  He is turning into such a cute little man!  I can't imagine life with out him! 

Happy Birthday Buddy!  

Rich and the kids trip to Disney

Yay! Blogger is letting me upload pictures again!

Now to catch up! :o(

In September, Rich took most of the kids to Disney for a week and left me, Micailey, Macie, and Rylan home.  I was pregnant so I couldn't go on any of the rides and Rylan was too little to ride most of the rides, and Micailey just chose to keep the money and go shopping with me! :o)

So here are a few phone pic's from the trip.  

 I have BEGGED to go hike up to the Hollywood sign almost every time we pass by it and we never have.  So- the time I don't go... look where they went!

 The Hollywood sign!

 Excited to be at the new Car's Land!

 Rich's high score for one of the days... he's #5 on here.  He always make the board... it just depends what time of day it is if he is #1 or what.  If I remember, this was at night and he had been bumped down from #1

 Dallas got to celebrate his birthday at Disneyland!

 They always go to the Golden Horseshoe and watch the skits there.  They were looking for volunteers to help them in their skit and Dallas was pointing at Richie apparently a little too emphatically because instead of calling on Rich, they called on Dallas! 

 hahahaha!  Way to go Dallas!

 They got out of the park to late to get a real birthday dinner, so they ate at IHOP and then had birthday dinner the next night.

 Silly kids!

 Dallas's Dinner plate at the Cheese Factory for his birthday~ Cute :o)

They had a ton of fun!  No one needed strollers or to wait for big kids to ride rides... I don't think they even stepped foot in Fantasy Land!  They got to go with their Grandma and Aunt Kellie and her boy Cooper.   When Rich takes pictures, you get a very limited supply so we don't have very many pic's of them.  :o)

While the cat's away, the mice will play!

Rich took most of the kids to Disneyland for a week, but a few of us stayed behind.  I was pregnant and couldn't go on anything, Micailey chose to stay with me and use her ticket money to go shopping, Macie said she would rather stay home and go to the zoo with us :o), and Rylan didn't really have a choice...  

We PACKED our week with tons of fun stuff!  I can't remember the order of events, but here are some pic's from the week.

 Shopping at the mall,  we decided we should have a Carousel ride like at Disney :o)

Micailey LOVES to climb the rock wall!  She does awesome!

 We didn't know half of this stuff even existed outside!Ry loved the airplane ride!

 Mini golf was an adventure :o)  I think we basically gave up half way through!

 He loved these rides too!  We have a video of them and he loves to watch it over and over!

 We also went to the Hogle Zoo!  Rylan was so into all of the animals!  I love to watch their faces when they see animals for the 1st time in person after only seeing them in books!  You can see the wheels in their head turning and in awe about their sizes in real life!

 This Polar Bear was so fun to watch!  He was quite the crowd pleaser!  He did circles over and over and over!  he would swim up to the window like this and then back float back out, and then flip back and swim to the window again.  It was so cute!

 My Monkey's!

 Saying good bye to the giraffe's

After the zoo, we went up the canyon to Park City for some more shopping.  It was a long day!  On the way home we stopped for shakes at Granny's YUMM!!!!  

 Rylan's prize from the zoo!  He LOVES it!  He just sits and watches it go around and around!  

 We also went to the Thanksgiving Petting Zoo.  They had so much fun seeing even more animals and being able to feed them the corn.  

 Micailey was an awesome big helper the whole time!  We really enjoyed the whole week together!  It was really fun just to spend some, sort of one on one time with them!

We had so much fun!  I want to do this all the time! :o)  An entire week of playing but yet still in the comfort of your own home!   It was awesome!