Making Snow Angels...

Sledding behind the jeep!

Over Thanksgiving weekend, my brother came up to visit and it had snow pretty good so we were able to go sledding in the church parking lot down the street. The kids thought it was awesome, however the sled has a little bit of a hole in the bottom...then snow was melting fast.

I'm a little behind again...

Okay so I have been crazy busy with families trying to get sessions in before Christmas, however I took a little break for Thanksgiving and haven't been able to catch up since. I have pics from Thanksgiving to post ...I'll get right on it, I promise.

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Born Ready Website

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Fun for me...

I had a tone of fun with this photoshoot! Take a look...more posted at myperfectportraits.blogspot.com

Baylee the rock chic!

I was at a couple craft fairs this last week and I got this adorable beanie from a lady who will be making me many many more! And I ran into my friend Heather who has started a little clothing company for kids. The ? shirt is from her line. I offered to take some pics of kids in her clothes and so there will be more to post from that shoot! She makes those bracelets too...I LOVE it!

Laney is almost 10 months and has 2 teeth!

Been having fun with my new photoshop actions!

Rub a dub dub

Pumpkin Patch

I was so booked the two weeks before Halloween that we were only able to sneak away for a couple hours to see this cute pumpkin patch in Idaho Falls. The kids had fun on the train, in the pumkins, and in the maze... Asher was a little cheater climbing over the hay bails.

Trick or Treat

Well it snowed on the 30th so we were a little worried that we wouldn't be able to handle the cold long enough to even trick or treat our little street, but it was so nice! We went through our whole nieghborhood as well as a few streets down the road. The kids had so much fun! Baylee was a witch this year, Asher was a bat , and Laney was the travelocity gnome!

My three little pumpkins...

Everywhere we went this year the kids HAD to get pumpkins. We would either be given pumpkins (at the gas station and Kelli's wedding) or we'd pass by the grocery stores and the kids would pick out a little pumpkin to take home. By the middle of October we had our own little pmpkin patch on our front porch. But my three pumpkins were the CUTEST...especially Laney!

Sand Dunes

We've been spending alot of time at the sand dunes with family and friends. We were able to ride a sand rail and hang out with Cam while he was in town. We all had a blast chillin' (literally) at the sand dunes.

My baby is standing...

I thought I better hurry and post thee before she is actually walking. She is so little!!!

Hog lovers welcome!

My dad had a few too many trailers to tow back from Alaska so he sent the Harley down with a friend. It was here at our house for about a week before he got here so we decided to snap a few shots with it. The kids love that motorcycle and thought the outfits I picked for them were SO COOL! Thank you to Auntie Cassie for the AWESOME leather jacket! Asher gets so many comments on it! When my dad finally saw the photos he reminded us that all the chrome was on the other side of the bike. Dang it...we totally forgot to make sure we took the pic from the other side..oh well, turning a majorly heavy bike around on the backdrop in the garage would have been a huge task. (Don't look too close or you'll see the reflection of the chrome all the CRAP in my garage.)

Caught up with September

Okay so not that much really happened in September, but there was one thing we did over and over... swam! We swam pretty much every other day in September. My sister Jayme has a pool in her complex so the kids and I would go feed the cat while she was out of town and then we'd take a swim. The kids are gettin gso good at swimming with their life jackets on...plus the pool is only 4 ft in the shallow end and 4 ft 6 in in the DEEP end. We take our lunch and swim til naptime. Here are some pics from when we shared our swim time with some friends.

Our garden

This year as I already posted we got tons of strawberries. We also got two humongous zucchini, lots of carrots, and quite a few tomatoes. Laney thought they were yucky.

Secrets Revealed

Okay so I got a few comments about my last post regarding hair gel and clothes for the kids. So here are my secrets.

Baylee's jeans are 4t children's place that I bought when she was 2 because the store miss marked the price... the tag said $2.99 and all the rest of the jeans said $12.99. Oops for them yay for me. Asher's jeans are Target but I bought two pair 2t and 3t when he was 2 because they fit him so good around the waist without cinching them up with those dumb buttons that make my kids look like they have thunder hips. Gotta buy when you find something that works, plus they were only $7.99. Baylee's shirt is a 3t Old navy dress but it was on clearance for $2.99 so its a shirt for a 4 yr old. Asher's shirt was also Old Navy Clearance... last yrs style, but got two one blue and one orange. Baylee and Asher's shoes are $4.99 family dollar shoes. I find that with white shoes I may as well go cheap and replace more often because they get dirty so fast. Instead of paying $10 for one pair I get two pair for the same price and when one pair is super dirty we start over.Asher's hair gel is imported baby hair gel form Mexico (thanks to Adam's parents for snagging some before I ran out from the last time we were there.) Its so hard to find good long lasting baby hair gel int the U.S. Okay so I think I answered all questions. Those are my shopping secrets.

First Day of Preschool - September 23rd

Silly girls...

I am thankful to be able to say that my kids still nap from 2:30 to 5:30 everyday, however, lately Baylee sometimes does not sleep while she is in her room for naps, and this is what I found a couple weeks ago when I went in to let her know she could get up. (Note: this happened on a Friday and was not totally gone by church on Sunday) And another day while I was busy cleaning and the kids were eating at the table, I finally started cleaning the kids up and this is how I found Laney... so tired!

Hay its a partay!

Asher's party was a blast! We decided to incorporate two things he loves, bikes and racecars, so we raced bikes... and since the party I have heard that everyone LOVED it! We had all the age groups race and then each 3yr old little guy friend of Asher's raced their dad/uncle/mom! It was hilarious!

Asher's birthday week...

It just so happened that Adam had the week of Asher's birthday off so the entire week was full of fun stuff! We swam at Jayme's pool a couple of times, and we had lots of cake, and Asher opened presents a couple times.

Jayme and I pieced together a McQueen cake which melted because it was so dang hot that day, but he didn't care, he LOVED it! Laney also loved it! Asher got some McQueen jammies, a McQueen poster, McQueen books, McQueen puzzles, and a Razor scooter!

Asher's birth DAY at Riot Zone!

Asher's actual birth DAY was sooo much fun. He asked to go to McDonald's for lunch and then we thought he'd like to go race cars! We had been talking about racing cars for a while so when the day finally arrived he was ecstatic. We didn't realize when we got there that the kiddie carts were only age 4 and up, but when that gate opened and the kids ran into claim their cars nobody checked ages, but when the guy said go you could tell the 3 yr old boys weren't quite getting it. They were stop and go, slamming into each turn and Jense kept going into the pit with all the cars that weren't being driven. We could tell the guy who had to run out over and over to straighten kids out or remind them how to push the pedal was getting a little frustrated, but it was a great ab workout for me! By the fourth time around the boys totally got it and so we let them go again! and Baylee went a few times while dady took Asher on the Big cars.

Happy Birthday, AShEr!!!

I could not believe Baylee wanted to climb the wall when we walked up to it, and she zipped up the kiddie was so fast they let her try the adult one and she shot right up. I was so proud of her, it was so high!

One last camping trip...

A few years ago I offered up the suggestion to Adam that we try and start a tradition of camping one last time as a family on Labor Day weekend every year. Two years ago we went to Heise and loved it(pics in previous post). Last year it was Asher's birthday on the day so we didn't go, but this year we got out and did it, even though it rained and we forgot the top part of our tent. Luckily we had a shade bug tent thing we just put over our tent, I got sprinkled on a little bit, but it was no biggie. Adam's parents and little cousins were here and came with us. We were able to eat Heise's famous pizza, mini golf, play in the river(for like 2 seconds), roast marshmallows, and do some exploring. The kids had a blast running around and around and around...etc!

Two years ago...

My friend Melyssa put this type of post on her blog and I thought it was such a cute idea... You choose pics from 2 yrs ago as close to the day as possible. I can't believe how my two kids were just babies then! Its crazy how little they were. Asher was just a yr old and the orangest baby you've ever seen, too much orange baby food I guess, but he was sure cute with his golden locks! Baylee still had her baby fat then and was just losing her cute rolly thighs. Adam usually had a scruffy face in those days, I'm not sure why..I liked it though. Maybe its cuz Qwest didn't care... he just worked in his own little cubicle back then. And I was dang thin. Maybe its cuz I wasn't pregnant or nursing, and so I wasn't always stuffing my face cuz I was starving! I look back and miss those days, however we've come so far as a family regarding the love we have for one another, our love for others, and our love for our Savior! Time flies...xoxoxoxo... us!

Last BBQ of the summer

Katie abd Doug and a super fun BBQ the weekend before Labor Day , and it ended up being our last of the summer. It was so fun though! The kids played and the adults played Bocce ball. We had great food, and the boys got a little technical with the Bocce game but all in all it was a BLAST! Thanks Doug and Katie!

Friday night lights!

Baylee did so good in her performance at halftime! We took videos so I'll have to upload those! It was hilarious! Go Baylee! Oh and go Bobcats!

Go Team!

Every year the cheerleaders at Madison do a fundraiser where they hold a cheer camp for three days for girls 4-13. The girls practice for 2 hours everyday and then get to perform their dance/cheer at halftime during the first game of the season. It is so much fun! I loved going to the practices and watching Baylee let loose!

Good ol' Rexburg

After fixing our alternator Monday morning in Vegas we headed home(thank you Tony for fixing our car!). School started that Wednesday and so Tuesday was the huge day at the park school kickoff thingy. I think it's called kids' day or something. They set up booths like a big carnival and the kids play games, get to meet police men, ride a train while learning about safety around railroad tracks, jump in jumping things, run through the water that is shot in the air by the huge red fire truck, eat popcorn,cotton, candy and ice cream, and then the older kids stay for a concert/dance in the park. The best part is, it's all free. We made sure to ride the TRAIN!