Halloween!

We are down to only 2 Trick-or-treaters left in our house!  We had a 50's girl, and an Asian Princess this year.  As always, they got tons of candy and had a great time.  What's now to love about Halloween as a kid!

PS - the adults in the house weren't so festive...we layed flooring all night!

Brinley's Halloween Parade!

 Every year Foothill Elementary has a Halloween parade.  The kids get to walk around every classroom and through the halls showing off their costumes.  Parents come and line the halls to watch.  Brinley is famous for not wanting to look at me when I go to watch her!!  It's a trick to get a picture of her.  She is a funny girl.  I kinda got a half smile out of her!

Meet Luna Lovegood!!

Kylee's dentist office did "Harry Potter" for Halloween.  She became "Luna Lovegood".  She worked for weeks on gathering things for her costume. Pretty awesome!

Emilee's 17th Birthday!

Happy Birthday Em!!  Can't believe you are 17 years old!!  We had a family party at Grandma's this year because our house was in shambles.  No worries though...we were still able to make her favorite dessert for her party.  Four layer chocolate pudding dessert!!

You are one awesome and amazing girl Emilee!  

We love you lots!

Chris' Birthday!

Happy Birthday to the BEST husband and Dad out there!  Chris usually gets a lot of treats and some money to buy himself something fun!  He is hilarious as he tries to decide how to spend his money each year.  Soooo many ideas for a little bit of money.  

We sure are lucky to have this guy to call ours.  He really is the best. He is funny, such a hard worker, so kind and caring, fun to be around and the spiritual giant of our home.  

Happy Birthday Chirs!  We love you.

Conference Bowl!

Our 2nd ever Conference Bowl!  We stole this great idea from a family in our ward.  We plan and make yummy food to eat between Conference Sessions...kinda like the "Superbowl"  The kids love it because we make all kinds of "bad" food that we don't normally have!  Hopefully in addition to just having great food they remember that Conference is a special time of year for families to gather together and hear the words of our inspired leaders!  I love love love Conference weekend! 

General Women's Meeting!

We got to go with Grandma and all the girl cousins to the General Women's Meeting at the Conference Center on Temple Square.  We stopped at Pizza Pie Cafe to eat yummy pizza on the way.  It poured on us while we stood in line at the conference center waiting to get in, but that's OK.  It's all good when you are with cousins!  The meeting was awesome and we had a great night together. Thanks Grandma Barb for getting us the tickets and taking us out to dinner!

Ogden Temple Re-Dedication!

Do you know what is so awesome about this picture??  All 5 of our kids were able to get tickets to attend the re-dedication of the Ogden, Utah temple!  Our whole family was able to attend together.  I have to say that I love this stage in our lives!  I loved having my babies and little kids, but its so awesome to have amazing independent children.  The dedication was awesome.  We loved it! 

What??

For 14 days during the Months of August and September my 2 cute little blonde haired, blue eyed beauties turned into black haired Asian girls!!  These 2 cute girls were in the play "The King and I" at Heritage Theater.  They loved every minute of it!  We went through 6 bottles of black hair spray getting them looking this way! We got really good at putting their hair in high buns, doing their make-up and spraying their hair out in the front yard!

Hair!

This is what it takes to have beautiful wavy hair!  These 2 wanted braids to sleep in so that they could have waves for school the next day!  What we go through for beauty!!

Cupcakes!

Quincy and Brinley and the Forsberg girls were asked to decorate mini cupcakes for our Enrichment night.  They were in heaven.  Our house was in major construction, but we still had our bar...kind of!  They did a great job frosing and then frosted the counter top when they were finished with the cupcakes!  What a mess.  Crazy girls!

Swimming!

A fun day of swimming at the North Ogden Aquatic Center with cousins. Aunt Jenni got us free passes because it was the last day it was open for the Summer.  

Family Pictures

It's done!!!  It is always such a happy day when outfits have been coordinated, hair has been done, and the yearly family pictures are completed!!  It's actually been 2 years since we've done family pictures.  We found a fun spot up the canyon at Sherwood Hills.  We had to do it early on a Sunday morning.  It was the ONLY time that we could get all 7 of us in one place during daylight hours!

I thought they turned out pretty darn cute considering we are our own photographers.  This is the dread of Kade's life and he actually cooperated pretty well.  He must be growing up!!  

Oh how I love the people in these pictures.  They are my whole world and I am so so grateful for every single one of them.  I am so proud of the BEAUTIFUL people they are becoming inside and out.

 This picture below speaks 1000 words!  Kylee and I laughed so hard when we came across this baby!  This is the "real" behind the beautiful family pictures.  Look how many of us are yawning!!  Brinley's face tells exactly what she thought about our picture taking session!  I cannot look at this without laughing right out loud.  So telling of how life is!  There's always more to the story than what we see in the "picture perfect" version of people's lives!!  Even still...I love them all!!!