Halloween 2011

We had a fun little Halloween here at our house and neighborhood. Earlier in the week we tried to carve pumpkins but for whatever reason (me being pregnant, unmotivated, tired, Ryan was gone) I didn't want to make a mess by myself with 3 kids and then clean that up. So we made a different kind of mess and I let the kids tape all sorts of different craft stuff on their pumpkins to make faces. They had fun and could do that all themselves (with a little help) and the mess was much easier for me to clean up, so I think it was a win, win.

Here's our Spiderman and Captain America

and our little China Doll (this was my Halloween costume when I was Hadley's age. It was actually some pjs that some friends of my parents brought back with them from China. I think?)

The Loot.

(Thankfully not all was consumed, but unfortunately it was mostly consumed by me :o(

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August 2011 - Caleb's first day day of Kindergarten

After we got back from our fun vacation, we had two weeks to rest and recoup before Caleb started all day Kindergarten. I'm so glad he was able to go to pre-school even if it was only for a couple months because he loved it and had such a great experience with it, that all summer he talked about going to Kindergarten and really looked forward to it. Me on the other hand had mixed emotions about letting my baby go, but we both did just fine and Caleb is still doing great and loving Kindergarten. And yes Caleb's school has a uniform he has to wear but it does make it nice getting ready in the morning.

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July Part III - Disneyland!

After leaving Utah and spending a few days in Las Vegas we continued on down to California with Ryan's parents to go to Disneyland for 2 days. We wanted to surprise our kids so we didn't tell them we were going to Disneyland and we didn't even tell them that daddy was going to fly back and meet up with us at the Hotel. So our hopes of them waking up, finding daddy there and us telling them "we're going to Disneyland!" was going to get a huge surprise happy reaction out of them, but to our dismay it did not. They were excited to see dad for sure but when we told them we were going to Disneyland they just sat there looking at us dumb founded. Oh well, maybe when they get a little older. But we had a BLAST! Caleb was also tall enough this time around that he could ride all the big rides, but he was a little scared of soem of them so we didn't take him on everything. We took a ton of photos although I still look back and think, we missed this and that and why didn't we get a picture of that, but at least we have what we do. And here is just a few of them.






Sitting on the Peter Pan ride.

She didn't want to get out of the elephant. Poor Hadley.

Tea cups, I can't go on these things, they make me so sick. But the boys love them!

It's a small world after all. It's always nice to go on this just for the sake of sitting in a cool dark place and taking a rest.

Eating some lunch while the boys watched the Jedi training show. They LOVED it, but didn't want to volunteer to go up, after words though they said next time they would :o)

Parade!

Getting ready to watch some fireworks.

And the end of our 2nd day getting ready to drive back to Vegas.

The next day after getting back from Disneyland it was time for all of us to pack up and head back home to Georgia. We had a nice family breakfast before we left and Ryan's Grandparents were able to come and say hi and bye to us. We sure miss our family a TON and wished we lived closer but we are SO blessed to be able to at least see them once a year if not more when they come out to see us.

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