October 2015

Olivia loves picking flowers for me, especially dandelions!

October 2, 2015

The UVU campus in Heber had a 5K that I did with a couple of friends. I wasn't going to do it with my hip but we walked the whole time so it wasn't too bad. I love Heber even if it was rainy and cold this morning.

October 3, 2015

While I was doing that, Matt took the kids to the store and sent me this picture.

October 3, 2015

We spent the afternoon at the cabin and then came home so Matt could go to Priesthood. While the big boys went to the priesthood session of conference we had a craft night at our house with my mom and sister.

October 3, 2015

Olivia turned 3! She was so excited for her birthday so we added some candles to her breakfast so that we could sing to her.

October 4, 2015

(I now know "Moo Muffins" are what Clarabel makes on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, but I had no idea that's what they were when filming this video!)

Olivia was excited for her new pink sparkly boots from Matt's parents.

Then she decided to be silly for pictures. She's full of personality!

That evening at Sunday dinner she had her "cake". She requested cheesecake and wanted Mickey, Minnie, Daisy and Clarabel on her cake.

She was excited to open more presents and squealed so loud as she saw what they were. It's crazy how fast 3 years went by but it's fun to see Olivia's outgoing personality.

Kaleb worked hard on his school project making his Egyptian sarcophagus. He used some nail polish for the shiny silver color and added glitter too. Olivia can't watch someone else painting without joining in on the fun so she made a mess with paint and glitter too.

October 7, 2015

I noticed this huge spiderweb in our backyard with a big cat-faced spider in the middle of it. The web was pretty impressive so I wanted to take pictures.

October 8, 2015 

Then, as I was busy snapping away a wasp flew into the web and the spider immediately went and started spinning its web around it and then carried it to the middle of the web. 

It's was gross but hard not to watch. I'm not a fan of spiders so I wanted Matt to kill it when he got home. He had the wonderful idea to spray hair spray and light it which just burned the web and it fell into the grass never to be seen again.

Kaleb was awarded the Student of the Month award for October 2015 for Murray School District. The superintendent gave him his award, certificate and most important a Cold Stone gift card. He received it for academics and being a leader and example in school.

October 8, 2015

I wanted to go up the canyon to take pictures of the kids and then my parents volunteered to come with so that we could be in some of them.

Olivia fell asleep on the drive up so she wasn't a happy camper for most of the pictures and I have lots of grumpy face pictures of her.

October 10, 2015

 

As it was getting dark quick the pictures were getting more grainy but I'm still glad we took the time to take some pictures with the fall leaves. It's my favorite time of year in the mountains.

Matt had sinus surgery to help him breath better and hopefully not have such bad sinus infections. The first thing he said after waking up was "I can breathe so much better". And that's with everything swollen right after surgery. He was definitely glad he did it.

October 13, 2015

Occasionally Zion's Bank will e-mail their employees with free Jazz tickets to that nights game so we were able to go a couple of times with the kids and my family too.

October 22, 2015

We spent another weekend up at our favorite place, the cabin. We always look forward to a big breakfast in the mornings.

October 24, 2015

Then we drove over to the reservoir to explore.

This log! Both of the boys were playing on it at separate times and both ended up falling in the water. Kaleb was trying to sit on the log and slipped forward and Ashton's foot slipped and he fell in. Their feet were soaked and we couldn't help but laugh.

Ashton always things he has to act cool in pictures like this so I have to say something to make him laugh to get a smile out of him.

As we were driving back to the cabin there was a small patch of bright orange trees up on the mountain so I zoomed in to get as good of a picture as I could. I couldn't believe how orange they were since usually they're more of a bright yellow.

That night I put Olivia's hair in sock curls so that her hair would be done for church so this is the next morning before heading home.

October 25, 2015

It was getting colder and so Ashton wanted to snuggle on the couch.

And Kaleb kept us warm with a fire.

This girl loves sleeping with stuffed animals. This is how we found her one night.

October 26, 2015

With Halloween on a Saturday school parties were the day before. Olivia came with me to drop off some supplies before their party.

October 30, 2015

Kaleb was Thor.

And Ashton a stormtrooper for the 2nd or 3rd time, he likes Star Wars. I helped with his class party and we made name skeletons that we decorated with stickers and light up jack-o-lanterns made with orange balls that they decorated. I was too busy to take any pictures but they turned out really cute. Ashton added a bowtie and mustache to his skeleton and he liked having his own Halloween decoration in his room with the pumpkin he made.

That night my parents had their ward trunk-or-treat so we went with them to that. The kids always come away with tons of candy.

And Kaleb added an eye patch to his costume for some reason?

I didn't get any pictures of Halloween night, I wasn't very good at documenting Halloween this time but Matt took pictures of the boys' pumpkins. Kaleb and Ashton each went trick-or-treating with friends and Matt took Olivia around for awhile but she didn't care to stay out too long.

October 31, 2016

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September 2015

I really need to be better about blogging and get caught up!

Olivia loves to have her picture taken.

September 3, 2015

This will be a good blackmail picture one day. I tell her not to and she laughs and wants to do it even more.

She was facinated with her shadow.

Another season of soccer started and the boys had a blast as always.

September 3, 2015

Matt and I had a quick weekend escape to Logan. It's nice to have time without kids and sleep in. We went bowling and we always seem to bowl close to the same scores so I had to document it. 

September 5, 2015

Playing on the playground during Ashton's soccer practice. She loves going anywhere with a playground.

September 8, 2015

If you know me you know I don't wear make-up. I'll occasionally put on mascara and that's about it. So I was surprised to see Olivia putting on make-up one day. She's definitely a girly girl and loves make-up and accessories.

September 9, 2015 

The leaves were just starting to change colors at the cabin this weekend.

September 11, 2015

The boys love playing games and we had just bought Swashbuckled that my cousin introduced to us so we had a fun evening playing. Olivia was on my team. :)

September 14, 2015

This kid. So much personality. You can see his faded drawn on mustache from school and he likes wearing sunglasses, even inside.

 September 15, 2015

Olivia found a workbook and came in my office and said she needed to do her homework for preschool. Being an October birthday she didn't get to start preschool this year and it's all she talks about. That and when she can start dance classes.

September 18, 2015

Earlier in the year Matt, the boys and I signed up to race the Dirty Dash in Midway. Unfortunately with my hip injury I wasn't going to be able to do it. I was really bummed about it and had been looking forward to it. We stayed at the cabin the night before and headed for Midway at around noon.

September 19, 2015

My brother took my place since it was already paid for so I figured someone might as well use the spot.

The kids race wasn't for another hour and a half so the boys just decided to do the whole 5K course with Matt and my brother. I'm glad they did because the kids race only went through a couple of obstacles but they were able to do them all.

Ashton was cold and was happy to be done but he enjoyed it.

Kaleb loved it and would have kept going if there was more to do.

I always tease Matt about how he puffs his cheeks.

They take pictures throughout the race but it's hard finding them because your numbers are either ripped off or covered in mud early on. But there were a couple good ones.

Ashton played flag football for the first time and he enjoyed it. We don't really watch sports much so at the first game we realized we should probably have filled him in more on the basics of the game but he picked it up pretty quick.

September 22, 2015

Slowly each weekend the leaves at the cabin became more and more yellow.

September 26, 2015

My sister and parents will come up on Saturday's if they are able to.

We had another Sunday dinner with all of my dad's side of the family at our cabin. We had to be to church so we started the roasts and made the rolls so they could rise first thing in the morning, then Matt and the kids headed down in one car to get ready for church, and once my parents and sister arrived after their church I drove down and also went to church. Then we drove up after church and had yummy food and homemade ice cream. It's always fun being together but it's even better being in the mountains.

September 27, 2015

It was also the night of the eclipse so we watched that too. 

She loves taking selfies.

September 28, 2015

The kids always love going to the school carnival and Olivia especially loved it. She REALLY wanted her face painted so I waited in the slow line while Matt took her to do other things. She wanted of course Elsa and she sat really still.

September 28, 2015

Ashton didn't care to have his face painted but Kaleb did.

Ashton was having too much fun running around to the different blow-ups.

The dunk tank is always popular with the boys.

There was even a pretty sunset just as it was ending.

Olivia thinks it's funny to suck a cup to her face. She was pretty proud of herself when she figured out  how to do it.

September 30, 2015