October pictures

Riley & Preston

The first year they carved pumkins by them self.
Preston had a wonderful dress up birthday party.
He is now 6! Blows me away!

The 2 older kids spent a week with Grandma Katie in California. Here she is visiting our house with the Raymond cousins.

I was just about to jump in the shower when I saw that Pyper had made a mess. While quickly cleaning it up she helped herself to my shower

While the kids were in California, Pyper and I went to the pumpkin patch again with the Heaps family and Grandma Hendrickson.

She sat there with the kids and called out "Cheese!"

Zoe, Grandma Hendrickson, Pyper and Holly

Pyper and I went out to witches night.

We went to St.George and saw Kade play football. He is getting way to big. It's hard seeing him grow up so fast.

Preston, Chad and Riley

Look how big he is next to the other players his age!

We also met my sister Sharon's second baby boy Max.

We love this corn maze and pumpkin patch! The kids spent a lot of time getting just the right one.

Pyper and Alanna. Still growin!

Man I have cute kids!

Out of the mouth of Preston

I have to catch up on so much blogging (this is the way I scrap book). But, I just wanted to write about some things Preston said to me. A couple of weeks ago I was feeding Preston at the bar. I don't remember what I did or said but, he did not like it. He told me, "Mom, when you do that it Pisses me out!" I thought Oh No! I let him know that "piss or pisses" is not okay to say. It brought it to my attention that I should not say it myself. I did not know how ugly it sounded until my 6 year old said it.

Just last night Riley, Preston, and I were snuggling on my bed watching America's Funniest Videos. Jon came in and laid down on the other side of Riley. (I was in the middle of the kids) Riley let go of me and snuggled up to Jon. I teased about always being ditched when dad comes in the room. Preston said to me that he would never do that. That he would always snuggle to me even when he grew up and got married. Oh, if only that were true!

This picture of Preston was taken when he was still 2. Time goes by way too fast!

Old Friends

Many years ago I had the pleasure of being roommates with these girls. We had so much fun. We had not seen each other for a long time. Jeanette put together a BBQ and invited us all to join. It was so fun to talk about old times. These girls can sure make me laugh.

Malese, Jeanette, Me, and Lara

Jeanette showed us all a good time.

"Puppit Show Here!"

Riley and Preston put on shows for Jon and me quite a bit. It’s not always puppet shows. It can be plays, or dancing. They always give us home made tickets or invitations. They set up chairs for us to sit and watch them. This puppet show even had a great message about how smoking is bad for you. I have it on video too; it’s a little long for the blog. Jon, Pyper and I were laughing the whole time. Man I sure do love my family. It’s good to get away so I can keep loving and appreciating them. I recommend a cruise to anyone who has not taken one. I think Jon and I should take the kids on one soon. We all would love it!

Weekend Canadian Cruise with Laura

Laura and I left all of the kids with our wonderful husbands and boarded a cruise ship in Seattle. This was my first time really being away from Pyper. It was harder on me I’m sure. It was so nice being pampered. Being served dinner and not having to lift a finger to help make it or clean it up, playing Battleship and Cribbage with Laura pool side, getting off the boat in Victoria and Nanaimo and doing a little sight seeing and shopping. The weather could not have been nicer!

Here we are with Nanaimo behind us.

Here we are in Victoria.
Besides gathering my much needed sanity Laura and I scored some awesome shoes from this little shop in Nanaimo. These are the ones I bought.

Thank goodness for home owners insurance!

When we got home from Midway Riley came running upstairs and yelled, “Dad, the carpet is all wet downstairs!” While we were away in Midway the main pipe to the sprinkler line broke. I thought those huge fans would drive me bonkers before they finished drying everything out! Now we are working on putting our basement back together again. What a mess! Jon is so good to deal with it all with a positive outlook on the whole situation.

Labor Day in Midway

Jon’s mom and dad/Blair have time share. They were so sweet and shared condos with us. We had a great time. The kids loved the Swiss Days Parade. I love parades too! I loved the small town of Midway. It’s a place where I could see myself live.

A little pool time with the cousins!

One night we all went out to dinner!

I found these three girls just snuggled up together on the couch eating cold cereal out of a cup Grandma Moser had given them. Cute, cute, cute!