Koby's 13th

Today my little baby boy turns 13-it's hard to believe how fast he has grown up. We spent the weekend celebrating. We never can seem to celebrate the kid's birthdays on just one day!

Koby asked to have a few friends sleep over on Friday night,(I am told it's not called a sleep-over but a bro's night-thanks for the info Jenna-I gotta try and stay cool!) a few ended up being six additional teenage boys. We fed them pizza, root beer floats, chips and licorice-really healthy food, I mean look at all of the food groups we hit! They played night games outside at the park and played a lot of X-box and watched a movie. We are lucky that Koby has such good friends. They stayed up very late and got up very early. So Koby spent most of Saturday looking like this...

On Sunday evening we invited family over for cake and ice cream. We are lucky to be surrounded by so much family that love him. He got some awesome gifts and we did our best to embarrass him. This is the cake that I sliced into before remembering to take a picture.



After everyone left we gave Koby one of his gifts since he had picked it out himself and he wanted to wear it to school today. Morgan is trying to do "heavy, heavy hang over thy poor head".


Anyway we are so glad to have Koby in our family! I hope that you have a great day, Koby! I love you!

Halloween fun run

On Saturday night Steve ran in a 5K. The race started at 7PM and went through parts of American Fork-including several roads through the cemetery. A lot of the runners dressed in costume-which we loved checking out.



It had rained all day long but thankfully it cleared up during the race and we just had to contend with the cold rather than the cold and the rain. The kids and I waited in the car until just before the starting time and then sat back in the car until we saw the runners getting close to the finish. Steve improved his time again and had a great time. We are very proud of him! The after-shot:

After we got home we made some warm cinnamon rolls and hot chocolate to get us warmed up.

crazy hair day & choc puddin'

Today was crazy hair day at Morgan's school. We decided to do several "popcorn balls" on her head. She sure looked adorable and my lack of hair dressing skills actual was beneficial in this instance!


The other day while watching Peyton we had chocolate pudding. I couldn't help taking a couple of pictures of her. It is always so fun to have her in our home!

Life is too short

Life is too short and too unpredictable.
We should not wait for a tragedy to strike to realize how much we love our loved ones.
We should never wait until it's too late to tell people how much we care about them.
Life is too short.
It's unpredictable and we may not have the time later to do all the things we meant to do.
I wish that it didn't take something so tragic for another family for me to remember how blessed I am.

Favs from the "fall photo shoot"

I forced my kids to smile and look adorable for a little photo shoot-they should be used to it, I do it all the time. Here are my favorites.





The first one below I love just because both kids have real smiles.




The walking away shot...

Awards at school

At Morgan's school, once a month they have an awards ceremony. Each teacher gets to choose a scholar of the month & citizen of the month from their class. They also get to pick two other "special awards" which can be anything from learned how to listen to always smiling. Morgan got an award last week for being a great helper in class. We are so proud! Way to go Morgan.

Morgan's 1st field trip

Since Morgan only has one field trip all year I decided to go with her. I took Friday off work and we went to the fire station. We walked several blocks with three kindergarten classes-lots of kids! Morgan said that the best part was getting to spray the fire hose. I got plenty of pictures.


If you want to know which one is Morgan, look for pink in the sea of red.

Koby the musician

This year in school Koby is playing the cello. He has been excited to practice-yes I know that probably won't last. It is really cool to watch him play though. Can't wait to see how much he improves through out the year!