Toquerville must do's

The kids love coming down to Toquerville. Ally wants to see the neighbor dogs that are friends with Jaylee (my dads dog), and the boys always want to go down to the creek and jump in. So we came to visit this weekend, and what did we end up doing first thing? We went for a walk, and stopped to say hi to Trouble (Ally's favorite neighbor dog) and to play in the creek. We got 2 important (according to the kids) things checked off our list of must do's when we come to Toquerville, tomorrow we will pick up where we left off!!

Tag-a-longs!

Today Ally's preschool went on a fieldtrip to Black Island Farms. What a fun place! My kids have been with friends before, but I've never been and we had a great morning together playing on the slides, getting lost in the corn maze, going on tractor rides, swinging, watching pig races, & feeding animals. I have been wanting to take my kids to a corn maze, but with all their activities I've been having a hard time fitting it in. When I got the info. about this fieldtrip, it said siblings were invited and it was only $4 vs. $15 regular price. I didn't think twice about taking advantage of this and letting the boys sluff school for the day. I figured hey it is a short day and the day before UEA so why not?!?

Pretty in Pink

Davis got into the colored hairspray tonight. He wanted to go to school like this tomorrow, and at the moment he is in the bath washing his hair....and mad at me.

All by herself

Ally has been working on writing her name. She is doing a pretty good job.

Progress

This picture is a big milestone for my boys. They may act tough, but like I said in an earlier post, they are terrified of the scarey factor of frightmares. Side note...they may or may not have gotten their scaredy catness from their mother. But, look at them being all brave with this chainsaw guy. Why do complete strangers have to ruin pictures? So just ignore the dorky boys behind the chainsaw yielding lagoon employee and focus on my boys and be proud of their braveness!!

Fall Drive

One of my very most favorite things to do the whole year, got a little out of hand today:) We went for a drive to see the beautiful leaves and ended up clear up past Bear Lake. Funny though, because I have never been to Bear Lake, and now I've got a vacation planned for next summer! It was a fun drive, a little long, but so many pretty leaves. We had lunch at a park in Logan, and that was a good stop to get out and stretch and let the kids feed the ducks, and go wander around for a bit. My kids were great sports, and didn't get too upset until my love of fall made them late for a family dinner at Carries. Thanks for waiting for us everyone, my kids were pretty worried everyone would be done and gone by the time we finally got there (we were really only 45 minutes late, but to a little girl wanting to see her cousins, it may as well have been 3 days). A night playing with cousins trumps their crazy mother and her fall drives any day!

Favorites pics of the day

I think Gator feels left out at games. I am busy taking pictures and watching the games. Today I thought I had lost her. She had found a nice spot to sit and eat her cotton candy. I was really sad when she came up to me and said "mom can you just hold my hand." Ahh of course. She is pretty high maintenance, and doesn't like to be forgotten about.

Owen has been lucky enough to have the same coach for his 5 years of football. Coach Hadley is amazing, and I know he really cares about his team. Owen loves his coaches, and they have been great to look after us with Clark being on the road.

And oh my gosh, I love it when I can actually get a good action photo. My man Davis is a stud! Look at this great tackle. He almost had the ball...so close D Stew!

Redo!

Found it!!! Oh my gosh, I am so excited. Here it is midnight, and I just couldn't calm down, I was so upset about losing my camera. Yes, I know I have problems, but I was so sad. Anyway I went back out to my car and looked again and there was my camera. It had fallen down off my seat and was stuck in between that and the console thingy. Oh happy day! So anyway now for an update on the pictures. We went to Lagoon tonight. I made the mistake of telling Gator we were going this morning, and it was a very long day. Poor girl just loves her goon. So after football practice we headed out with some buddies to meet up with cousins at Frightmares. I just have to laugh when I think of my big tall strong boys, running and crying when they see the scarey ghosts and goblins walking around the park. I guess I shouldn't laugh, but I do. And I guess I really shouldn't post it and make fun of them, but again, I do. It's all in love though...I promise.

I'm sad...

I was going to update tonight with cute pictures from Frightmares, I had some good ones. But I lost my camera. I don't even know what to do, I am so sad.

Yea me!

So I am not a real handy lady, but today I am proud of myself. My fix it list was growing and today I conquered it. My Excursion has been needing a new battery, check. Ally's bike needed new tubes and the chain kept falling off, check. My stroller also needed new tubes, check. It took me a little while to figure out how to even replace tubes, but once I did it was quite an easy task. Ally is even proud of me, that or just happy she can finally ride her bike again, or go for a walk/run with me instead of getting left home.

Slow month

Gosh my post count is way down this month. It's been crazy busy, but just the same stuff over and over. Time for an old picture. Grace what in the world were you doing here?

Just cause they can't get enough

Football, football, football. It is insane. We spend all day Saturday at games, and this is what they do when they get home. Have friends over and play more football. Look at Ally out there in the middle of all the action. Although even she had a playdate today. And believe it or not it was with another 3 year old girl. I bet that was fun for the mom, glad I was home with all the boys:)

We're lonely

Gator and I are laying here watching Strawberry Shortcake, and she says "momma I miss my boys". Me too Gator, me too. It is crazy, they are just so social lately and growing up. I am happy and grateful they have such great friends to be with, but I miss them. Last night they were out late at the Fremont football game, and today we've been to their games and right after they both went with friends. And all the while they've been gone, my phone and doorbell has kept ringing with more friends wanting to hang out. I am going to have to start getting a schedule of "mom time" going soon. So we are looking at pictures of our boys, Gator liked this one. It made her smile.

Is this ok?

I look at this picture of Owen, and I think "Oh my crap, that kid is huge!" Most the time his size doesn't phase me, I am used to it. But other times I look at him and it just blows my mind. I love every last inch of him though!

Well rounded (crappy phone pics...I was too lazy to go get my camera)

Ally that is. Since she's been born, she's been around the boys and all their friends. She loves all their friends and they treat her great. But she doesn't have many girl friends. Just today I took her to McDonalds after school and she was the only girl in the playland. I think there was at least 15 little boys running around, but it didn't phase her. She had a great time. Also she spends all her time at football or basketball or doing "boy" things. But she is very girly. She loves to dress up and she loves sparkles and glitter and babies and painted nails. So today I thought it was funny, when she was wearing her princess dress, basketball shoes and playing football. I don't think there are many 3 year old girls that say things like "I'm the center, Owen you be the quarterback." Or vice versa. And she knows just what she is talking about. Her and Owen had a great game of football downstairs. She knows all the plays, if the boys have their way she will be out on the field in about 5 years. But she will be wearing her "fancy shoes", and jewlery, with pink polish on her nails.



And just cause I like to cause myself grief and make my kids whine and fight and scream...I took a picture of the 3 of them after the football game. A picture, it could be such a simple thing. Not for my kids though. It has to be a huge ordeal.

I can't be trusted

With keys that is. Just a couple of weeks ago, I left the Excursion keys sitting on the trunk of the car. Well, Clark took off to go pick up Davis at a friends house and this is how I found the keys the next day in the middle of the road.

Down one set of keys. And tonight the kids and I were at Owens basketball practice at the park. We go to go home and no keys. Dang...where did they go? So we walked home (the kids were not happy about that at all). I got the extra set of keys and walked back to the park and got the car.

Down another set of keys. I better learn a way to keep my keys. I only have one other set for both cars, next time I will be in trouble!

The day came

We've all been talking about preschool for months. Gator has been so excited to start school, and she has been waiting and waiting for her turn to go to school. Well, today I took her to her first day of preschool. As we were driving she told me I would go home and when I missed her I could come wait outside for school to be over, then she would come outside and give me a hug and kiss. She got out of the car and never looked back. She had a great first day being a detective looking for her letters. I've included first day of preschool pictures of the boys too. This was actually Owen's second day. His first picture, he was pale and sad looking. I guess that would explain why when we got to school, he threw up all over the parking lot. He looked much better the next day so we got another picture. Gosh look at these cute kids!!

Ally makes breakfast

With it being Labor Day, there was no school bus coming this morning to get us out of bed. Plus my only plans for the day are yard work and washing my car.....who's gonna get out of bed for yard work? I hear Ally down in the kitchen saying "mom I'm hungry.". She came upstairs with breakfast and a big smile.

Binki Babies

More old pictures. All 3 of my kids have LOVED their binkis. We spent lots of money on binkis and lots of time looking for them around the house. :( no more binkis around our house.