Carving Pumkins for Family Night

So we decided to carve pumpkins again this year. I'm thinking it will become an annual ritual. The girls seem to enjoy it. Grandma and Papa came down to join us as well as Aaron and Lisa. It made the experience more fun. Thanks you guys for coming and helping carve the girls pumpkins.

The weekend

So this weekend was a little crazy for me. It all started with a Relief Society Visiting Teaching Conference our ward decided to put on. I was asked to sing in a group at it so off I went to that at 8:15am-10 am. Then I had to pick my kids up at my neighbors house cause they so graciously offered to watch the three older girls until I got home (Brad was working). I went to go pick the kids up and my sweet neighbor told me her husband had to take their oldest daughter to her tennis lessons and that I needed to hurry and pick the girls up, but when I got there as soon as I found that out, no one was home. Poor Iuri had taken his four kids and my three clear to Ivins to drop Aydia off. So I had to wait for him to get back so I could take Brinly out to her school carnival by 10:45am. He got back just in time for me to pick the girls up and drive out to her school which is about an 8 min. drive from home. ! Her Kindergarten class was performing a few little chants they had been learning. Then I needed to go volunteer at the bounce house booth for an hour. My wonderful mother & father-in-law showed up to watch Brinly and to help take the girls around for the hour that I had to be at the booth. Thank you, thank you again!They left and I took the kids around to a few more booths until I was worn out and Skylar had had it. We left around 2:30pm just in time to lay the girls down for a nap before our wards trunk-or-treat @ 6pm. Brad got home from work around 5:30pm and I was madly waking kids up and getting them all dressed up for the party. Good thing a little mascara isn't as challenging as all over face paint. The girls turned out really cute and thanks to Brad for getting Skylar ready while I finished with the girls.
After the party, we took the kids to pick up pizza, came home and ate, bathed the girls for church the next day & put them to bed. Phew!!! Then it was time to finish my lesson for YW! What a day!!

PIctures of our four beautiful girls!

So here are a few pictures that my friend Miriam took of our girls. We had a hard time getting all of them to be cooperative but we managed to get a few cute ones.

Skylar is 4 months???

So here are a couple of pictures of our adorable little Skylar. She is now weighing in at a whoppin' 15 lbs. and measures 27.75" long. She flips over almost as soon as she is layed down. Where did our baby go? Why do they have to grow so fast. We are enjoying every minute with her but I wish she could slow down a bit.

Trip to Zion

I know this has been two weeks in the making, but cut me some slack. Four kids, YW lessons, scrapbook club, making costumes, canning, and whatever else, has been keeping me a little preoccupied. So here are some pics of a couple weekends ago from a family trip we took to East Zion. It was so much fun. We stayed in this beautiful cabin at this resort and just hung out really. Most of Brad's family was there. We scrapbooked, went four wheeling, played games, ate and chilled! I really need to work on getting my camera out before the end of the trip.


Here are Brad's parents and Grandma Great