Carving Pumpkins

Carving pumpkins is always an adventure. It takes a lot of time to carve 5 pumpkins. But it's always worth it after when the kids get so excited as we light up the pumpkins for the first time.

Cornbelly's

On Kyli's actual birthday we decided to go to Cornbelly's as a family. We had so much fun. It's just so nice to have us all together and be able to spend time like that as a family.

Kyli is 12!!!

I cannot believe that our little Kyli is 12. I went home to meet Kalun's family for the first time the day she came home from the hospital. She is so cute and we are sooooo soooo soooo grateful to have her be a part of our family again. We decided that this birthday needed to be a big one. It started the Saturday before her b-day. We had a party with her friends. We had planned on going to Cornbelly's, however it decided to rain and hail. So as the girls were arriving we were desperately trying to come up with a plan B. Luckily we hurried and booked a party at classic skating in Sandy. It ended up being so much fun, I'm glad it was raining and Cornbelly's didn't work out.

We ended up booking the Karoake room which was a huge hit. It was fun to watch them get up and sing. My favorite though was Haylie. She loved the stage. All the kids went to play laser tag and I stayed in the room with Haylie. She just repeatedly kept singing the happy birthday song to Kyli except that Kyli wasn't in the room. It was so adorable. Tate and Haylie love Kyli so much. It's adorable to see how much especially Haylie has grown to love Kyli, because she didn't really know her.

Then on Sunday we had a special birthday dinner at Grandma's. Then Mondeay (her actual birthday) we got up early and made her favorite breakfast, took treats to her class, and went to dinner, and then went to Cornbelly's.

It's a................

For those of you who didn't know, I am pregnant. For all of you dying to know....we decided not to find out what we are having. I am due March 9th. The kids are all getting really excited. Kyli and Haylie both want it to be a girl and Tate wants it to be a boy. I guess we'll see next March.

Brother and Sister

Tate and Haylie have been so cute lately. They have gotten to be really good buddies. Haylie always looks for Tate as soon as she gets up. Lately there are a lot of times I'll walk in a room and just find them cuddling and talking or watching TV together. I think it is adorable. I hope they will always stay good friends who watch out for each other.

Update/Fall Break/Bear Lake

So, I know I haven't posted for a while. I like posting pictures however unfortunately Kalun accidently broke our camera. So, needless to say for my birthday I just got a new camera. This year was the big 3-0! I was not very excited about this milestone. Kalun gave me a girls weekend the week before my birthday which was fun. I went to Park City for the night with some friends. It was fun. 4 of the 5 of us were pregnant though and all in the early stages so there was a lot of nausea and tiredness. However there were 3 of us that managed to stay up until 3 am. We then spent the next day shopping. It was nice to get away. That next night Kalun's step sister Kelly and 2 of her kids came to our house. This is the first time I've ever met her (Kalun and I have known each other over 12 years). She lives in Georgia and was out here, it was a lot of fun. Her son, which I guess is technically our nephew, is just a couple years younger than us and her daughter is 21 and about to get married. It has been fun getting to know them. The next weekend was my birthday and fall break. We ended up going to a cabin up at Bear Lake with our good friends the Cluffs. It was a very laid back weekend, it was nice to just lounge around and relax.
The kids had a lot of fun playing the wii and playing rock band, watching movies, and playing for hours in the hot tub turned swimming pool. We had a great view. The cabin was on the hillside overlooking the lake.


They have a little girl who is 3 months younger than Haylie named Peyton. They also have a little boy 3 months younger than Tate. Laura and I often find that we dress our kids in the same clothes. They also look a lot alike. Haylie and Peyton have the same swimsuit and looked so cute in the hot tub together.
Tate and Logan insisted on sleeping by each other. They each had their own sleeping bag and insisted on sleeping on the top bunk together. The top bunk was a twin size when the bottom bunk was a full or queen. We tried really hard to try to convince them to sleep on the bottom bunk where there was more room but of course the bottom isn't as cool as the top. Tate is a psycho sleeper, he is everywhere and he usually lays horizontally instead of vertically. We went up to check on them and of course Tate was hogging the whole bed and laying on Logan. Logan I guess didn't care because they both slept all night and never got out of bed.