Happy Halloween (and all of its activities)!

I feel like Halloween is quite a long holiday.  I guess we do a lot of activities and we enjoyed the festivities.  I mean who doesn't involve a holiday with free candy and pumpkin guts!?

First, our annual trip to the "Pumpkin Patch"-Texas style.

Raegan loved the corn box.  This was a lot easier to clean up then sand too!

 Skeleton hands.

 This was our best take.

 Then came the ward Trunk or Treat.  This year Harrison wanted to be a Lego Zombie.  So, the girls then got to be Lego bricks.

 We went to the zoo for the Zoo Boo activities.  I forgot my camera, but the kids had a great time and got candy, a pumpkin and tattoos.

 We carved our pumpkins another night.
Before

 And after.

 Then on Halloween the kids waited through the monsoon like rain and we had a quiet day inside until we let them out after dinner to go trick or treating to some neighbors.  Harrison loved it, Raegan lasted for about 4 houses and Bode was just along for the ride.

 Love this cute girl and her smiling face!!

 All ready to go trick or treating.  Like I said, they didn't last long but had a great time after handing out candy to the kids who came to our house.  I would say that we had a great Halloween and now we just need to get through all the candy we got!

October Randomness

So, October rolled on and seemed to fly by.  My sister, Deana, celebrated her birthday shortly after Harrison.  We had fun celebrating with her and enjoying ice cream together that night after presents.

And the kids continue to make me laugh...

Jeff gave Bode her first cookie and she is less then thrilled!

 Raegan loves to make her silly "smile" face.

Harrison managed to catch a lizard in the backyard and wanted to keep it.  I let him "play" with it until the poor thing looked almost lifeless and then we let it go.

 Bode seems to spend most of her day like this...

 or this.  She is an amazing baby and I couldn't have hand picked a better third child. She goes with the flow and doesn't seem to mind the chaos that is around her always.  Keeping her fed is the only requirement she seems to have.

 Raegan spends most of her time outside when we will let her.  She loves to swing and will stay in the swing as long as someone will push her (the other day it was 45 minutes and then we bribed her to get her out!)  She also loves climbing to the top of the slide, but will not slide by herself.  She will sit and wait for me to hold her hand all the way down.  Sometimes she will wait a long time, so I'm hoping she will go down by herself soon without being scared...we will see!

5 years

I can't believe I have been a mom for 5 years!  This sweet little face made me a mom on a very cold Sunday morning in Utah.  Life has never been the same since and I wouldn't have it any other way!  He is so fun, so energetic and loving.  He is also particular about his stuff and has an idea on how he wants to do things.  I did an interview with him when he turned 5 and it was pretty fun.  Legos are the favorite now.  He also loves Rhinos, bacon and the song Dynamite.  He loves to play with friends, still misses his friends who have moved and is enjoying some of the new friends he has made. We love this boy and the joy he brings to our lives!

 He is playing fall soccer again this year and is enjoying that too.  He had a game on his birthday and Jeff is his coach.  I think that is fun for both of them.

 He got plenty of Legos.  We even made a trip to the Lego store downtown the day before his birthday to pick out Legos instead of a birthday party.  Win-win for everyone!

 Officially a Buckeye!

 The Ukulele he wanted.

 This is the face I get when I say, smile for me your best 5 year old smile! Love this boy!!  Can't wait to watch him continue to grow!!

Everyday life...

 Life is busy!  Wow, I thought 3 kids wouldn't be too bad and it's not, but boy do I feel like we are constantly busy.  Just keeping up with feeding, dressing and cleaning up after 3 kids takes a lot of time. Then add in trying to keep the house clean, keep myself in shape, preschool, playdates, shopping and keeping the kids entertained and I am pretty wiped at the end of the day.  It is fun though.  They make me laugh and keep me on my toes...whether I'm cleaning poop out of the bathtub, spit up off the couch or pulling legos out of everywhere in our house, I am one busy momma.

But how could you not love every minute you get to spend with these crazy kids?