Pumpkin Walk

Friday night we went to the Syracuse city pumpkin walk with our good friends the Yeates. There were over 1000 carved pumpkins on display. We dressed the kids up and along the pumpkin path the city had Trick-or-Treating. There are some pretty talented pumpkin carvers out there. We were very impressed! This is going to be a new tradition for us, we had so much fun and Kenedy loved the candy! Thanks for the invite Yeates family!

What a cute butterfly!

Waiting in a long line!

Dad and K!

Mom and K

Our little Butterfly flyin'!

Our little "Tree Hugger"!

After the long wait, we got to enter the pumpkin walk! The pumpkins were carved to spell WELCOME! So cool!

Sooo cute!

Kenedy's Favorite pumpkin!

Heidi's favorite pumpkin! My favorite was the "Cars" Scene they had, but my picture didn't turn out that well. The Cars scene was the scene from the movie where Lightening and Mater were tractor tipin'. They had all these pumpkins carved liked Tractors and then they tipped the pumpkins. They had Lightening and Mater there as well. It was so cute! These pumpkins were so cool, they are just lightly carved, so the light comes through, but there is no actual hole in the pumpkin except for where the top is cut off to pull the seeds out. What will they come up with next?

Mike's favorite, Halo of course!

Cute Yeates family getting warm by the fire!

Our cute family tryin' to get toasty!

Good Night!

The Treehouse

Every Wednesday, My friend from the ward, Gaby and I get our girls together for a play date. Kenedy and Julia are 3 weeks apart so they have so much fun together. Last week we took them to the Treehouse in Ogden. The Treehouse is so much and it keeps us entertained for hours! CLICK ON THE PICTURES TO ENLARGE!

Vampires, Wolves, and Romance! Oh My!

So I followed the pack and finally read the Twilight series! It took me a little longer than everyone else. I read them in three weeks versus three days. I loved them and I am sad that they are finished until next year! I have to admit that during the second book I was a Jacob fan. I kept thinking why does everyone love Edward so much? But I fell in love with Edward during the third book and Jacob drove me crazy. It will be interesting to see what feelings the next book will bring! I need to find another good read. I want something that is as addictive as these books! Any suggestions?

Funny Things!

Kenedy is the funniest thing ever! She make us laugh everyday. I tell myself I will never forget every little story, but I do. So I made this cute little journal to record all her funny things and stuff I love about her so I can give it to her one day. Of course the journal is empty sitting in my cupboard. So I decided since I'm on the computer all the time I will start sharing them with you and then I can go back later and write them in the journal when I get a second. I decided it was better to write them somewhere than nowhere. So hear are a few things that made us laugh today.

Babies
Kenedy's favorite thing lately has been babies! She loves to rock them, kiss them, feed them, drop them and then soothe them. It is so funny to watch her pretend. When she plays with her dolls I always have to be involved. She is the mommy and I guess I'm the big mommy. Anyway she always wants me to kiss the baby and rock her also. So she handed me the baby and I was kissing her and then I said, "I want to kiss and rock this baby." And I pointed to Kenedy. She looked at me with the most disgusted face and said, "No, baby!" and pointed to her baby and said, "baby"! She thinks she is not a baby anymore! I asked her if she was a big girl and she said yes. I asked her where my baby was then and she pointed to her doll. It is official she is no longer a baby. Sad, but so much fun!


Prayers
Saying prayers is so much fun around our home now because Kenedy takes a turn. So on Kenedy's night to pray she gets a huge smile on her face and repeats the words you tell her to say. When we say "Thank you for. . . she repeats and then does sign language for food. It is so funny, I almost burst out laughing every time. Even if you are going to say, "Thank you for our family, she always adds food, but does it in sign. Kenedy is very grateful for food and she wants to make sure her Father n Heaven knows it, so just in case her Father in Heaven can't hear her, he will be able to see her! What a funny girl!

Farm Field Trip

Today Kenedy and I went to Black Island Farms with my mom and her class. When we first got there we got to go on a "hay ride" but there was no hay, I'm not really sure why they call it a Hay ride. However, Kenedy loved it!

We stopped on our hayride at the pumpkin patch and got to pick a pumpkin. We stopped at the corn field also and learned about different kinds of corn. Did you know that there is a new kind of corn called strawberry corn? It looks like a strawberry with the skins of corn. Pretty neat!

After the Hayride we went back to the courtyard and watched pig races and ate lunch. While my mom's students headed into the corn maze, we headed off to have some fun playing on and in the toys!

Sand Box full of corn!

Slides made out of Haystacks!

Pumpkin jumping house

Train made out of plastic barrels. We had so much fun today! I took a bunch more pics, but I am tired of uploading them sorry! We also played in a mini maze and looked at the animals in the petting zoo. We had so much fun! Thanks for letting us tag along mom!

Gardner Village

Slide shows, scrapbooks, photo ecards, and more

October Visit Teaching Message

Poison Control

I am the best mother in the world! I have had to call Poison Control four times in the last four months! Yes that is right, once a month. My sweet Kenedy eats everything! First it was pool chemicals; then it was Cascade, baby oil and just yesterday Oil base paint. Every time I call I feel like I am the worst mother ever! I feel like the people are thinking where were you when she was eating paint? The funniest thing is that most of the time I am sitting right there and catch her right after she inserts the chemicals in her mouth! I promise I feed her, she just gets into everything! Every time you call they ask your name, her name and your zip code. Yesterday they asked me for my last name after I gave them the first three answers! I was freaking out that they are tracking us and that they are going to come and take her away because they think I'm not taking care of her. However, to my relief a friend of mine told me that she called countless times with one of her mischievous children and everything was just fine! Kenedy is such a sweet little girl, but the biggest klutz you will ever find! Between her accident proneness and her desire to taste everything, I wonder if she will make it to her fifth birthday!