Snow, super heros, and a birthday

This seems like a distant memory, sometime in february i believe. So much white snow. So cold. So dreary. I do know it was so fun for Max to go outside and play in it though. It took SOOOO much effort for me to get all 3 kids out there and playing but it was still very much fun.

Bryson

Quinn

Celebrating Casey's birthday pathetically. Probably only with decorations and a cake and like 3 presents.

Super Max

Sometimes I want to cry because Max won't be two and little for long.

That little face covered in a super hero mask while wearing 4 different super hero capes is going to grow up. The cute way he says all his words. His excitement over the smallest things.

And then again, I want to cry because he is two. And two can be hard.

But for now I'll focus on that first flipping cute picture and squeeze this two year old for as long as I can.

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This weekend we'll be watching God's Prophets and Apostles teach His words to the earth this weekend! You can watch at 10 am and 2 pm MST on both Saturday and Sunday. I'm so excited to be uplifted, inspired, and grow closer to my Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ! Do watch if you've ever wondered what it's about! You can watch it live anywhere online here

pumpkins, cornbelly's, and costumes

we had the lovely tayliann cutler and her dear, dear friend come join us saturday for halloween!

we carved pumpkins, visited the grandparents, played mario brothers, and went to cornbelly's.

carving pumpkins is just plain fun.

it's like the one "artsy" activity that everyone always does together.

tayli: WYO (heart). cody: RIP. kimber: pirate. casey: cat/transformer/robot
as you can tell we don't plan out our pumpkins too well...

after scrounging around for our costume we finally were set as super heros!

materials:

random shiny fabrics and costumes from casey's mama,

tights/leggings,

gloves (i lost mine at macey's, stupid),
lots of wankified "sewing"

and most importantly emergency blankets from macey's! (they kept us warm all night:)

wahoo!
and making little masks with holes in them is not as easy as you'd think.
casey's eyes were too far apart and mine were too close, jeeze.
real superheros change in the back seats of cars on the way to their destination

lastly, we made it to cornbelly's for the night.
our activities consisted of going through 5 different haunted little mazes.
some were pretty darn jumpy, but we had loads of fun!
we also just walked around the place and admired the fun festivities going on everywhere.
this marks off another bucket list item too!
FYI- when weird/scary looking people chase you with things that sound like chainsaws, it really gets your heart a pumin'

 
highlight of the night: when people asked to take pictures with us,
i kinda felt like a celebrity!
halloween 2010 here
halloween 2009 here 


ps- my other favorite part about halloween: being texted pictures of nieces/nephews dressed up.
melted my heart into a puddle of happiness.
we got to see one of them in person on friday:
little red riding hood.
and then we tried to take a picture with her and this is what happened.
 

pps- happy birthday brooke!