Kate's Wedding

My neice Katie got married at the first of the month. We were so excited for her. Here she is with her new husband, Adam, my brother and his wife. We were so glad to be able to be there for the festivities. She is such a good example to my kids.

 While we were there we snuck in some shopping and other fun activities. We went to "Wreck it Ralph" and then my sister took us to a park near her house in Saratoga. They had the funnest pyramid to play on. My kids loved it!

 Chloe loving the park because her older cousins would take the time to play with her.

 We moved Chloe into her new room in anticipation of giving her old room to the baby. We are working on decorating it now. She loves it and has slept great in her big girl bed. yah! One more milestone accomplished for this sweet little girl.

Halloween 2012

 Halloween has become quite the event aorund here lasting up to a week of fun! Here they are on the big day - Hayden the BYU football player, Chloe the pink poodle, and Hannah the Chinese girl.

We started out the week with Hannah's halloween piano recital. She played Grim Grinning Ghosts. She decided to dress up as a witch for this night. It was really fun to see everyone's costumes and see all the decorations. Her teacher did a great job.

 
 Here is the pumpkin she carved just for that night.

 We can't have a year without carving pumpkins grown from Grandma and Grandpa's garden.

 All the creations at our house.

 A picture of the brain fruit dip we brought to an adult costume party we went to. I dressed up like a bun in the oven and Heath wore an apron and hat being the bun maker. It was a lot of fun.

 They started out the night before Halloween going trunk or treating with Grandma and Grandpa Jackson. They had a lot of fun.  On Halloween Day we went to the school to see the parade.

 Then we got to help in Hayden's classroom's party. We had so much fun!

 We ended the day with trick or treating! Here we are visiting grandma's and then their dad took them around the neighborhood that night. They ended up with plenty of memories and candy to last for awhile.

Chloe

 This little one is growing up too fast. I thought I better do a post all about her so I can remember just how sweet and fun she is at two years old. I really enjoy this stage. We have a lot of fun together all day while the kids are at school. It is nice to have one on one time with her. She is really speaking a lot now. It is fun to hear her little thoughts. She is really funny and has a quick wit. She loves to sing, march and skip everywhere she goes. She loves to read books. She is still really good at sleeping at night and a three hour nap in the day. She loves to watch Mickey Mouse and Lion King. She loves when her brother and sister come home each day. She is quick to tell them if they are being mean or nice to her. Of course it is never her being mean. She is quick to say that she is "daddy's girl". She loves to be with him. We will be setting up a new room for her this week to make room for her new sister. She seems very excited about it and loves to be around babies. Hopefully that will continue.

Rylin comes to our house once a week. Chloe loves her Ry Day and can't wait each time to have her all to herself.

She still loves to read and take care of her baby's.



She loves making cookies with her brother.

Sand Dunes

 I have been wanting to take the kids to the sand dunes here in Idaho Falls for a long time. I remember going as a kid and loving it! It seemed like everytime I would think of it it would be too hot or too windy. The Huls were in town and we finally had time to squeeze it in. They loved it! I don't think they realized what a big hill of sand it was going to be. They had fun digging, rolling down the hills, and digging caves. My kids loved it so much we had to go back the next week with Zach and Rees. Once again they had a great time. I will have to keep this on my list of fun things to do. Harley was lucky enough to go and I think he had more fun than the kids running around and digging in the sand.

Hayden's Football 2012

Hayden loves football. He had a another great season. They won some, they lost some but made huge improvements. He plays with a great group of boys and the coach's (thanks Ed Murdock and Christian Taylor) were awesome. He was really good at getting flags, busting throught the line to the quarterback and he even got to run it a few times.  He is really starting to figure out the rules. He can't wait for tackle football (we will see once he actually gets hit a few times).  Now . . . on to basketball season.