Parties and Pumpkins, Costumes and Candy!

I wasn't ready for summer to end, it seems like we just had the Holidays, and they always put all the Christmas stuff up way too early in the stores, give me a break, I can't deal with that right now....but a few Halloween parties and a visit to the pumpkin patch has gotten me in the mood for the Holidays. I've wanted to dress Aaron up as Harry Potter for years. Looking online costumes are $70+ so we had to figure something else out. Aaron already had the suit part with the sweater vest, white button up shirt, slacks, dress shoes. I found a black cape in our costume box, a pair of glasses and a tie that looks almost exactly like Harry's at DI. All we needed was a wand and we found a pretty good looking one among the sticks in Aaron's mom's yard in Delta. I think he makes a great Harry Potter, don't you? Tho I think he looks more like Harry Potter's Dad. I wish I had made time to put together a Ginny costume for me, would have been perfect, but the best I could do was witches for me and the girls.

Emma on her way to her Ballet Halloween Dance Party, had no idea she could be so sassy.

Chloe heading to her Preschool Party as Miss Kitty.

My Mom throws a Halloween party for the grand kids every year and it's so much fun for the kids. We got all 14 kids together for a picture and I took a ton and they all looked like this, someone blinked, looking the other way, or poor little Will unhappy and crying BUT

I got Lucky! My last picture I just happened to get all the kids looking, no one blinking, Will stopped crying and they're all smiling, amazing! And check out the wide arrange of costumes we have this year, my personal favorite was my niece Christine as Flo from Progressive, she looked just like her LOL! Will as Charlie Brown, Adorable! A mime, Pippy Longstocking, a giant banana and many more. Such creative kiddos.
Check out the spread! My Mom went all out for the food this year and she likes to work under pressure so she put off all the shopping and setting up till that morning so we all chipped into to get it put together.
We had cheese fingers,
rotten mouths,
delicious bones,
mummy pizzas,
and a severed hand in bloody punch.

After the party we headed to the Pumpkin Patch to pick out the perfect pumpkins. The girls loved the smaller sized wheelbarrows they got to push around, even though they were a little tough to push sometimes.







Decorating them is half the fun, and I found some fun ideas on pinterest this year.

The girls were so cute as we went Trick or Treating. They ran from house to house yelling at the top of their lungs 'Trick or Treat!' And then Chloe would end by saying in her sweet little voice 'Have a Happy Halloween,' she said they practiced at preschool. :) After an hour and half of trying to keep up with the girls, their buckets were full to the brim with goodies, we had to call it a night. Hope you all had a fun Halloween.

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Lil' Blessing

After 2 miscarriages, lots of pain and sorrow we have been blessed with baby #3 coming in the spring. Because of what happened before my OB wanted me to come in and have an early ultrasound at 8 weeks and this is what we saw. Just a little peanut but it's heart was beating so that was a huge relief. There was one concern tho, that dark rectangle shape on the bottom left is bleeding. So she set me up for another ultrasound at 12 weeks....
And this is what we saw. Isn't that amazing! In just 4 weeks it went from a little peanut to a little human with fingers and toes and the good news was that the bleeding was gone. My sister went with me and during the ultra sound both her and my OB said they saw a little wiener float by, but the baby was so wiggly and moving all over the place we couldn't get another picture. We'll find out for sure at my next appointment in November. Im already coming up with names but Chloe doesn't like any of them, she says we should name the baby Lovely, hmmm ;)
I debated over and over about wether or not I wanted to post this pic. Im in that awkward stage, too small for maternity and my clothes are getting too tight so I have nothing to wear. I've had to resort to using rubber-bands to button up my pants, if anyone has maternity clothes they can lend that would be much appreciated, mine are 6+ years old and way outdated. It seems the style now is tighter fitted shirts that show off your baby bump, my maternity bin is full of tent like shirts.

I definitely feel pregnant, something cheesy makes me cry at least once everyday, it's getting ridiculous! Nauseous all day everyday, whoever dubbed it morning sickness was full of it, mine is all day and gets worse when I lay down to go to sleep at night, but Im 13 weeks along now and am finally getting over the worst and starting to feel better, it's all worth it. The girls are so excited to have a baby brother or sister, Chloe asked me before I went to my last appointment if I was pushing the baby out that day, she is going to have a hard time waiting till April.

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Chloe's First Field Trips

Chloe's Pre-school has had some field trips lately. The 1st one was to Peterson Farms Pumpkin Patch out by Daybreak. They had a cute little corn maze and Chloe's teacher bought each of her students a little pumpkin. Chloe is really enjoying preschool and loves her teacher Miss Martha.


The 2nd field trip was out to an Apple Orchard in Orem. They showed the kids the process they go through with picking their apples and getting them ready for customers. They even let them go in their ginormous fridge where the apples are stored. They gave each of us an apple and they were the yummiest apples I have ever had, I had to buy a basketful.

Chloe had another field trip to the fire station, but when we got there the Fireman and Firetruck were missing. We looked in their kitchen and there was half eaten breakfast all over so we figured they got called out on an emergency, so we're hoping to catch them in November.




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What can you make with Raspberries, Cheesecloth and Marshmallows?

My older sister has a wonderful overflowing garden and others including myself have benefited. Tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, all the cucumbers Chloe could ask for, cantaloupe, zucchini, which I used to make zucchini pizza's which were surprisingly very tasty. But best of all are the raspberries. Kerstin called me over to pick as many as my heart desired despite the threat of getting stung from all the wasps hanging around. Kerstin taught me right then and there how to make my very own 1st batch of freezer jam, I am quite proud of myself, isn't it pretty? :) It tastes so yummy and was SO easy, if I had known it was this easy all along I would have done this years ago. I will never go back to store bought jam after this. I even froze some to sprinkle in pancakes later, looking forward to that! Can't wait to try strawberry next!

Pinterest is Awesome! If you haven't come aboard you need to, you won't regret it. One of my pins were these adorable DIY cheesecloth ghosties. Handmade decorations and things you put together are the best and so much better then store bought things. I got this idea of the hanging ghosts from my sister in law and I just love em! You can make them any size you want and as puffy or skinny as you like, I made a few large ones and a couple of small ones and have them hanging throughout my house.

Kerstin and I got together to make the ghosts and she brought starch so we could try making them this way as well. Aren't they cute? And they're so easy to do and cost next to nothing.

We do our family nights on Sunday because Aaron doesn't make it home until 8:30 during the week so tonight we talked about temples. I showed them pictures from our wedding, showed them my temple dress, talked about temple recommends and then we pulled out the marshmallows and frosting and built temples. Got this idea from my sister as well :) The girls had so much fun and were on quite the sugar high, they ate half of the marshmallows and frosting as they went.

Emma even put a graham cracker angel Moroni on top.
Doesn't it look yummy?


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