Decorating for Christmas

Bryson has been wanting to put our tree up for several weeks now. Finally it is time. I am one of those that has to wait until Thanksgiving is over before we take out an ounce of Christmas decorations. Bryson helped decorate the tree, it is nice to have him old enough to help. Preston will still just throw the ornaments at the tree.

As you can see from the bottom of this picture, Weston has already made a break for the tree and it starting to take it apart. This will be a fun adventure.

The stockings hung over the stairs with care...

Our finished tree!

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend, it was so nice to be off work and a family for 4 days straight~ Darren's parents did a breakfast this year instead of dinner, which made it nice to not have to choose between parents. I went back home to finsh my 12 layer Jell-O... yes that's right I take 4 hours to make Jell-O each Thanksgiving, I guess it's a tradition. Darren loves it, my boys won't touch it, and it usually gets a few takers at dinner. My mother put on the usual wonderful, movie worthy dinner. She has this amazing way to present dinner on a fancy table, with all the courses of dinner. It was amazing as usual, Thanks Mom! We don't go out for Black Friday, I find that crazy! But we did do a bit of shopping later in the day. Bryson was so excited to put up the Christmas decor so we did that Friday morning. Saturday, Bryson came down with a fever and chest cold. So we spent most of the day in... he did feel up to going to see Bolt. It was a cute movie, the boys liked it. I am so grateful for my family, my husband and my 3 healthy boys. I feel so lucky to have all that I do in my life. Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

Halloween

Well - Seeing as today is ThanksGiving I thought it would be best that I got these halloween pictures posted. Boy am I behind!


The boys out Trick-0-Treating - they wait all year for this night and would like to go out again for the next week!

Here are the boys at our Preschool at my office. They got to go from office to office and get candy. Bryson wanted to be a black bat (I have no idea where that idea came from) and Preston was in love with Batman (he has since moved on)

Weston and Daddy, Of course Wes was a little Batman, it only made since to have another one. When you have 3 boys it is really easy to do themes. Darren on the other hand planned his costume weeks before this...

Preston showing off his muscles!! This is acutally a dress up costume we found in the toy isle. I quilted some foam on the back to make his Big Batman muscles.

So if all your boys are Bats and Batmans what should the mom be? Well, Bat MaMa of course! You cannot see the icon on my chest but it is the Batman logo with Bat MaMa under is. Ever since then Preston has refered to me as MaMa and not Mom.

The whole family after Trick-O-Treating... nice Flash!

Skate Night

Bryson's school host's a skate night at Classic every fall and spring... we try to not miss it! Bryson makes sure that we don't miss it is more like it. The school gets us in for free so it is an evening out of fun that isn't a hit on the pocket book! The boys love it, Preston gets a bit nervous when the lights go out, but Bryson is out there trying to keep up with the 12 year olds. For a child that we didn't think would be able to do much, he has sure surpriced us with his abilities.

Pumpkin Pickin'

For FHE we took the boys to pick out pumpkins and while the Schmidts lot on 90th south seems to be the HOT place to pick, we found a smaller quite little patch to pick! It was nice to take the time wiht the boys and have it all to ourselves. However this was one of those really cold days we went through, it was a quick picking the boys were cold and getting pictures was next to impossible.

Bryson is pulling Preston and Dad after we have picked all our pumpkins

Preston found a winner! It had to be small enough for him to carry or he didn't want it.

Bryson wanted one that was huge, this is the one he got.

This is the best we could do, you can see the cold on Preston's face

As usual, Weston is just happy to be part of the family

Weston's Mobile!

Weston has been doing this really funny army dead leg crawl for about a month or so. On the 11th of September he figured it out, and is off and moving. He turned 7 months just 10 days ago, I can't believe that he is starting this already. He will chase me from room to room and loves that he can now follow the boys where they go!

The crib is no longer safe - this is how he is when he wakes up in the morning. Always a happy baby! Time to lower it down before he does a front flip out of it.
Here he is showing off his new moves!
In 2 days time he figured out how to go from crawling to sitting and back to crawling. He has this whole thing figured out and thinks he is pretty hot stuff!
Of course my house is much cleaner due to this new adventure!
Oh, did I mention that he is pulling himself up on anything he can. I love it!

Fall is HERE!!

We went up to Park City toady and spent some time shopping... couldn't really find any good deals. What a let down. But it was nice to get out of the city and up in the cool air. On the way down the canyon we decided to go up East Canyon and Emigration Canyon to view all the colorful leafs. Took some good pictures of the boys, must have taken about 50 but I think we have some keepers...

Our boys! All looking in the same direction, Yeah!

Preston sitting in the leavesBryson on the rock
Daddy was tickling them to get them to smile for the camera, this one they are both laughing, I thought it was really cute.Preston up on the rock.
Bryson in the leaves

Boys up on the rock

Weston smiling for Dad