Pumpkin Carving and Mayli's preschool party

Aj's group of guys that he studies with at school has all of our families get together once a month and do something fun. This month we went to Garette and Kricket's house and the adults carved big pumpkins and the kids painted little ones, it was a great time.

Sadly I forgot my camera to take pictures of the girls painting but this is the pumpkin that AJ carved. Isn't it awsome! That is free had too! All his group members joked that if this MBA thing doesn't work out then he totally could have a careere in pumpkin carving!
















This was on the side of the pumpkin. So AJ!

On Thursday Oct. 30th Mayli had a Halloween party at her Preschool. She just loves all her friends that she has made there.

MBASA Halloween Party

The MBA spouse association has a Halloween party every year and I am on the family committee so I got to help with it this year. It was ALOT of work but alot of fun too, we had soups and rolls and spooky deserts and games for the kids to play.

Tori really just wanted to play on the stage all night long, she was not to interested in letting me get a cute picture of her, oh well.




Mayli on the other hand was more than happy to pose for a picture, gotta love her!

Neighborhood Halloween Party

Friday Oct. 24th some moms in our area got together and had a Halloween party for the kids. It was really fun, the kids got to play games, eat mummy hot dogs, and win a prize for their costumes. I really love our neighbors and all the fun things we get to do with them.


After the mummy dogs the kids got to eat ice cream witches, what a cute idea and yummy too!







After the older kids played a game Tori and my friend Danette's son Aaron decided to take over the popcorn, so dang cute!













Now this was very smart, they brought sharpies and we brought our pumpkin for Mayli to color. All the kids loved it and Mayli of course took it very seriously.















Here is Tori just buzzin around.











These are just some of the kids that were there, they were lined up to play a game. It was a really fun afternoon.

Scarecrow Festival

On Friday October 17th Lynette was in town to wach Abby while Amy and Spencer worked at The Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point to raise money for the boys that they work with. SO... We got to go too! It was lots of fun, it had big bouncy slides, fun games, yummy food, a train ride, and even a toddler area for the kids to play in. Needless to say the girls and their cousins had a blast!

Cutest little cousins in a huge pile of pumpkins!

Me and my sweet girls in a cute photo op!

Amy used her magic powers and was able to get Mayli right on to this even though there was a super long line. Mayli LOVED it! I was a little nervous for her but it looks like she is going to be a thrill seeker just like her mama! She is on one of those trampoline things where you get to jump way high in the air, she had a blast.

Thanks Aunt Amy!

Tag

Ok so I never do these tags but I was tagged by Amy and Natalie and this one is very simple and I thought I would do it. You have to go to your pictures file and post the 4th picture in the 4th file and describe it a little and tag 4 other people.

This is my sweet baby Tori when she is only 5 days old, wow I can't believe how time flys. I love her sweet face! I tag, Mom, Jes, Ann, and Sarah, have fun!

Grammie and Aunt Cath come to visit!

My mom and sister Catherine came to visit us the weekend that AJ was in Atlanta for school. It was so much fun, a total girls weekend!
We went to the mall (of course), went to a movie, baked TONZ of goodies, and just hung around watching girly movies and enjoying each other's company.
My girls LOVE their Aunt Catherine and were so happy that she was here. She had the idea to have the girls make spider cookies and it was lots of fun.
Amy and Abby came over while Spencer went to the BYU game and made spiders with us.
I think the kids enjoyed eating the stuff much more than making them!
We had such a fun weekend, I wish it could have been longer! Only a couple of months until we will get to go home for Christmas and see everyone, we can make it!

Tori Time!

When Mayli is at Preschool for 2 hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays I get to have a little time alone with Tori. She is such a sweet girl and is learning and growing so fast. I just love this time I get with her!

This day we painted our toes! Tori loved it!
Her little toes are so cute! (Of course I painted Mayli's toes too when she got home! Mayli and I get to spend time together too when Mayli wakes up from her nap while Tori is still sleeping and I treasure this time so much too. I have the sweetest little girls!)