Pumpkin Carving

There are two schools of thought about pumpkin carving at our house. Cody thinks it just isn't pumpkin carving if you use a stencil. I, on the other hand, never really enjoyed pumpkin carving until I found stencils and a pumpkin carving kit.

With that in mind, Cody had carved two pumpkins before I had poked one eye with the poker. Actually he had carved Ty's whole pumpkin before I even got my stencil taped on. Cody carves as fast as he can and I take my time to make a good looking pumpkin. With that information can you tell which pumpkins Cody carved and which I carved?

Paige was not lucky enough this year to be a large part of pumpkin carving. She basically walked around and dispersed Cody's wallet, keys, glasses, name badge and watch throughout the house. She was a bit disappointed and I think she was just getting back at Cody.

You may wonder why Ty and Paige have no clothes on. Pretty much, I am wondering the same thing. We went to a Halloween party today and I wouldn't let them where their costumes all day and then I just didn't put any clothes on them.

First Snow

We woke up this morning with at least 6 inches of snow at our house. The kids were really excited. Ty couldn't wait to go out and build a snowman.

It was a chore getting both Ty and Paige ready to go build a snowman. A few months ago we went to the DI and found some snow boots for Ty. We were really excited. When we went to put them on him today we realized that they were both right foot snow boots. It is a good thing they are a bit big so he can still wear them on his left foot.

Paige came out with us but cried the whole time. I just let her cry since that is how she spends at least half of her waking hours. I have been wondering lately is there is something such as a colicky toddler. If not I think they should do a study on Paige to see if it is possible. Needless to say, she did not like the snow and was not about to help with the snowman.

I made Paige stay out with us until we finished our snowman so we could get a picture of her with it. After the snowman Ty and I made snow angels and had a snowball fight. I won the snowball fight. We had a really good time. I had to bribe him with marshmallows to come inside. It was a GREAT morning to have the first snow.

Brock's First Solid Foods

Brock will turn 4 months old in a few days. This week we started giving him solid (well as solid as you can call runny rice cereal) foods. He wasn't a huge fan of rice cereal, but he will get the hang of it. I can't believe we are already starting solid foods. Now if I could just get him to sleep until 6:30 or 7:00 a.m. consistently.

Chaos at Our House

We had a bit of chaos at our house yesterday. It was my turn to do preschool for six 3-year olds. I actually survived. The boys with really good kids. We talked about dinosaurs and made dinosaur puppets and dinosaur bones necklaces. I think the boys had a good time.

Ty was really good for me. He was really good at participating with what we were doing. My saving grace for the day was that Grandma Frederickson came up to help me. It was so nice to have her there to help with Paige and keep the kids in line. We are so lucky to have her!

Fall is in the Air

I have not seemed to have time to post on my blog lately. We have been working on lots of projects and with my three kids I just seem to be busy. At night when I have an opportunity to post I am always tired or something more urgent needs to get done. However, tonight I am not going to bed until I post something.

Cody had Friday off work. We have been working on the sprinklers in the backyard and decided that if we finished them on Thursday or Friday morning we would go up Farmington canyon and take a lunch to see the pretty leaves. We finished the sprinklers on Friday morning and then packed up and left.

It was beautiful. We went up on the mountain for a long time. It is a really good dirt road. However, we had to about drag Ty out of the car when we would stop because he thought he would fall down the mountain. We took some pictures of us. My favorite is that in a lot of them Ty is trying to look like he is having a great time, when in fact you can tell he is quite nervous and just wants to get it over with.

At the bottom of the canyon there was a pond where we stopped to eat lunch. We all had a really good time. I think Ty was pretty relieved when we were finally on paved road. We obviously need to take him to the mountains more.

To make sure we remembered family during our trip we did a few things in honor of certain members of my family. To remember dad, I took a picture out the window of the car. However, it wasn't in true dad style because I wasn't driving and Cody stopped the car. We also got a flat tire to remember Becky and Scott.

First Day of Preschool

Ty went to his first day of preschool. He was so excited he woke up at 6:30 a.m. He seemed to be climbing the walls all morning until he got to go. I didn't even have to ask him twice to go to the bathroom before we left.

He learned about bugs. They made bug eyes, cut paper, played bug hopscotch and went on a bug hunt. He had such a great time. He was a bit disappointed when we walked home and I told him he couldn't go again until next week. He was ready to go to the next house for preschool all over again.

His preschool has 6 boys in it and we are just switching houses. I only have to have the 6 boys at my house every 6 weeks. Hopefully it will be fun for him and for Paige, Brock and I.

Day at the Park

On Thursday we decided to have a picnic at the park. We met Becky, Aubree and Sydney as well as Rebecca, Phil and Londyn. We had such a good time. The weather was perfect. Ty and Paige played really well. Paige is finally starting to go off and play.

After we were done eating lunch and playing we went and fed the ducks. The kids loved it. In true Becky fashion we took some pictures. Becky took the pictures, Rebecca held the large diffuser and I made a fool of myself trying to get the kids to smile. We all got some pretty good pictures of our kids.

It was a very pleasant and fun day at the park. It was nice to get out and let the kids play while the adults relaxed and just talked and laughed.