GIRLS TRIP!

i hadn't posted any pictures of our girls trip since i forgot my camera1 so these are courtesy of shelley and heidi...

our girls trip was so fun! we started out going to good things utah and then made our little stops on the way and headed to st.george. we left all the kids home, except kembrie and i thought she's be so good since she's such a good baby, and man was i wrong! she was horrible! but oh well. i'm so glad i got to see KRISTI! and sad that i didn't get to see TIFFANY , and got to got to DIXIE'S HOMECOMING. it was fun to see kori and the rebelettes. man i 'm old though 7 years since i've been a reb! holy cow! so so old! thanks for the trip mom!

good things...

in and out burger!

(me and heidi were so excited!)
shopping...of course for our kids. i didn't come home with anything for me. just the munchkins!

PuNkinAze!

thanks to the stratford girls for letting us have our playdate at the punkinaze! so much fun and the kids all looked so cute! i love the group picture (thanks to ticey i copied from you:) huttson is crying my kids are pouting, heidi is holding hali and renner! and the one of renner and carter on the slide (thanks to shelley for the other photos :)

thanks ticey for all you did, we had a blast and dax is still talking about the slide hopefully we can make it one more time if it would stop SNOWING!

MAN I LOVE A GOOD DEAL!

"THE MAN OF MANY COSTUMES!"

well dax had a hard time deciding what to be for halloween this year and decided he'd be buzz again like last year....then at the pumpkin walk decided not to and wore his cowboy dress up that my mom made him and he rode his horse...then we thought he was going to be dracula, and today at target we found this football uniform for...(drumroll please!) $10.16!!!! i about fainted in the store. it was an online only item and when they get them back in stores they sell them for super cheap! it was regularly $40.96. we had actually looked at them online and decided against it. but he's sooo excited. he's even going to be #31 like dad, and he can't wait to play football with bode cause he has a uniform too. man i love finding good deals!

the "final"costume

the buzz lightyear attempt (which i might add i found on disneys website two years ago for $10.00 also)
and .........the cowboy costume!
(ps. how cute is dorothy in this picture...or if you ask braden "alice" he can't remember his fairytales!)

party, party, party!

i'm not kidding my mother outdoes herself every year! this year was as wonderful as always. and the food and treats were amazing! here are a few pic's of our party.

the "pumpkin carving champions"

kari had to make a face like dax and tysie cause they were being so goofy!

you can see here cute decor behind tysie. and i really don't know why she's growling. she kept growling at gooch?

my pictures are all sideways and i don't know why but here's a few of my favorites of the night
mini spider cupcakes
yummy monsters!

bones and flies....

gooey teeth!

and slimy eyeballs in the salad...yummy!

we played toss the bats in the bowl....can't remember who won? jared or my mom

this is the only picture i got of all kids in the frame! and all you can see of tysie is a little pink! so many little ones they would not stay put!

dax kept pulling renners tail to get him to stay!

my cute girls! my mom made tysie this cute cupcake for pinkalicious!

"grandpa taylor"

(jared looked awesome!)

our little monkey!

and ms. pinkalicious! it turned out so fun. pink face and all!

{silly girls...}

tysie spent seriously an hour standing these dolls up today. she said they were her "decorations" and she kept crying as her typical brother kept knocking them down. so funny. we love our "wizard of oz" dolls, they're so stinkin cute.

and ms. kembrie.....eating everything in the house. i hate when they get to the age that you have to vacuum like 10 times a day! she eats everything and she's everywhere!

this is the funniest though. i had the halloween costumes hanging here in the hall and when i came back she had crawled over and was eating the tail. what a goof!

well we did it!

i thought alot about this whole vaccine situation...and well today was the first day the shot came available and we did it! i am 100% happy with my decision, although i did have so many concerns prior. bottom line...i want my kids to be safe and my poor kembrie has enough problems no need to give her any more. just today we have to get a urine sample again and when she's 9 months we'll be back at primarys again. so needless to say she doesn't need to catch this like she did RSV (man if there could only be a vaccine for RSV!) so anyway i'm doing what i can to keep my kids healthy and safe.

my only advise. my mom and heidi got there at 12:45 today (i was a bit later) and they got numbers for us and my kids were the last 3 to get the shot today! at 3:00!!!! people started lining up at 11:15. so even though they won't start till 1:00 be early if you're going to go. hopefully it will be more organized after today.

good luck with your own personal decision!!

what do i do?!

all right all you moms.....are you getting the swine flu vaccine? everyone knows i'm PRO vaccinations and such but i have been so back and forth and so torn on what to do! my kids got the normal flu shot (flu mist actually) and i have still not decided completely on what to do. i've heard so many different things. my bottom line is i want my kids to be safe and i think we're all bound to get the flu if i don't prevent it since it spreads like WILDFIRE! everyone is getting it! so please tell me what you think (ticey you might have some insight since you just got the flu!?) let me know what you think. i did hear that if you're going to do it, then to do the shot not the mist cause the mist has mercury in it which is all the rage with autism.....and ogden doesn't get the shot in till the end of the month but then will it be too late? any tips or advise would be great!

pinkalicious tysie!

this is the cutest book ever! (christa i think i first saw it from you:)

tysie is completely consumed by pinkalicous right now! we are even attempting to make her PINKALICIOUS for halloween... gotta love girls and PINK!
also i found the pinkalicious website and it has cute coloring pages for girls too. check it out

http://elizabethkann.com/?page_id=3

{random happenings}

braden built dax a "bike jump" and he is basically living on the thing! he thinks he's so big. we love it. tysie loves it too since she thinks she's big and can ride his old bike. (since the trike is too wide for the "jump"

"sassy child"

those of you who know her need i say more. 90% of my day this is the face i get.......maybe someday she'll grow out of it! (i hope)

miss kembrie is trying so hard to crawl but is getting better at climbing! she wants to stand more than she wants to crawl. she's good at scooting backwards and is slowly on her way moving forward. i had to break out the gate for the stairs... BOO! i hate that gate. i'm sad that when i leave the room and come back she's no longer in the same place.

concentrating so hard!

and my little blondie got a hair cut too. she looks so different but cute. i didn't realize how blonde her hair was till i cut it! we love it!