It's Halloween time!!!

Halloween is such a fun time with kids!!!! There are so many activities and fun times to be had!!!This year we started the fun more than a week early! The school Halloween carnival was more than a week before so the kids got to dress up and play at this! They even got to go over to my parents before and have a bbq and play with their cousins. The carnival was pretty fun. Toph got sick after eating a cupcake and we bought to many tickets and there wasn't time to use them all. Luckily we were able to use them at the bake sell and the kids got cotton candy, soda, and some cookies. T.J. also won a cake in the cake walk!!

The next night (Saturday), we went to the redbarn looking for some pumpkins with some of our friends. The kids loved the straw maze!!!! We didn't do the train to much wildness for me!!! Although they did get to ride behind a tractor in these little box things so i think they were happy with that! We finally got a picture of them all together but Pearson would not look at the camera! We do think that T.J. may be allergic to straw because he was covered in a rash later that night!!! We picked out some really good pumpkins and then had a bbq with our friends at our house. Fun night!!!!

Of course things during the week around here always get a little hectic so i was a little worried about getting the pumpkins carved. Luckily Tyler skipped out on one of his meetings so we ended up with an open Thursday night to carve us some fun pumpkins. Toph did his own face! Cree drew hers right on the pumpkin and i cut it out. T.J. drew Tyler a picture and then Tyler cut it out. Tyler also did both the family pumpkin and Pearsons. Yes we do alot of pumpkins.

We also got our scare crows ready for the trunk or treat. This is only a pic of the big one the little one didn't get till the next day and i don't have a picture of it!!!

This week at school was also red ribbon week so the kids were able to do crazy hair day, wear hats and team jersey's. We are not big sports people so they just wore jerseys from previous years when one or the other played!!!

Last night was our ward trunk or treat. So the kids got to dress up again!!!! Toph was Harry Potter! Cree was a Masquerade Princess! T.J. was of course a Pirate with the sweetest peg leg! Pearson was a gnome, he isn't wearing his hat or beard yet because he had to eat before trunk or treating and i didn't want him spilling food in his beard!!!

I really think they would dress up everyday of the week if i would let them. I think they had a great time and it is hilarous to hear Pearson say trick-or-treat!!! We came home and the kids put on a light show with glow in the dark sticks in the basement. It got really intense when Tyler jumped in with them! we had glowing interlocking circles galore!! It was so much fun to watch!!!

Maybe the sad part of all of this is we haven't even made it to Halloween yet!!! We still have all day tommorow to get through the primary program. Then it will finally be Halloween. The kids get to dress up to go to school and have a nice little parade and then on to the real trick-or-treating.

My son's symes amputation and life with a prosthetic limb (extended)

Me and Tyler felt like we left alot of stuff out of the last one that would be good to have in there, so this is a longer version of his story. oh and Tyler says the music doesn't skip. This one shows more of what happened with his wound when it got infected so be prepared. Tyler says it isn't to gross, i am not sure i was sooo used to it when it happened it doesn't throw me but i worry about showing people the photos anyway. Hope you enjoy it!!!!

My son's symes amputation

So here is the video we took to T.j.'s class and showed them! We did alot of stopping and explaining but can't bring ourselves to write anything on it because it kind of ruins the feel of it! Anyway let me know what you think!!!!

It's a ............

So life around here has been pretty crazy!!!! But I had my ultrasound last Friday afternoon!!! We were afraid Tyler wasn't going to be able to come because his work has been sooooooo crazy but he was able to!!!!!! I usually have my ultrasounds done at Rosemark. I didn't with Creedance and it was kind of wild. So that is where i wanted to go this time. But there was a different lady at the front desk of my doctor's office and when i told her I wanted to go to Rosemark she said "you mean Mountainview" and set up for there!!!! oh well it went really good. The lady was a little worried because i wasn't 20 weeks yet but she was able to see everything just fine and it all went well. We were a little sad it wasn't our regular lady but at Mountainview i guess they offer a free 3D ultrasound if you get your regular one done there. So in a couple of weeks we will be able to go back and have a 3D ultrasound which is really cool because I have never had one!!!

So anyway....... It's a BOY!!!!!!! Hopefully i will not regret putting this pic up but it was soooo obvious this time that i just had too!!!!

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After the ultrasound we rounded up all the kids and took them over to my mom's. They all got to sleepover!! Me and Tyler ran away to Jackson for my birthday. It was so nice to have some us time!!! I always miss the kids though and want to get back! This time i came home to some extra onery kids. They had woken my mom up at 5:30!!!!!! Then Pearson only took a half an hour nap which is NOT good. We survived though and had a GREAT weekend.

This is Tyler out by the Tetons! He worked on a visitor center putting windows in a couple of years ago and had to show me all the stuff they did!! He also took me to some way good restraunts! Sorry honey that i wan't able to eat at Bubba's it really was good!!!!

The other big thing we have been up to is, T.j. wanted us to come and talk to his class about his amputation. We have a slide show that Tyler made a couple of years ago and we planned on taking in some of his old feet, and to basically give these kids a condensed version of what happened to T.J. It was a good thing Tyler was able to come with me because every time I watch the slide show i cry and not just a little i sob!!!! These are the picture that always starts it!! I can't help it! I love all my little people but T.j. has always been able to wrap me around his little finger, and touch my heart!!!!

Birthday!!!

Things have been a little crazy around here, and of course nothing can really change for my birthday, so we kind of played it by ear this year!! Work is kind of stacking up for Tyler so he had to go out of town for most of the day!! I was happy that he didn't have to stay overnight so I didn't complain.

Tyler left early before anybody was up! So it was just me and the kids. I got up and got everyone ready for school. And off they went. Me and Pearson cleaned house, and got me ready to go teach dance. We also started my cake! I decided i wanted to try this ice cream cake that my friend Natalie put on her blog. Doesn't it look delicous!! Took awhile to get it made but in the end it was way worth it. Our good friends the Jones's invited me and the kids over for dinner! (They knew Tyler was going to be out of town!) We ate wonderful chicken noodle soup! MMMmmmmm....

Tyler made it back just in time to have cake with us. Then it was off to bed for the kiddos! And off to bed for the mama!!!

Lately i have been wanting homemade snacks galore this is one i got from my sister Rachel and her Husband. They are yummy. Kind of stinks that i take a couple bites of anything and i am done. Oh well everything still tastes good!