Noah learned a while back how to do somersaults. He is pretty good at them. He has also taken to his daddy a lot more over the past few months. He loves to be around Jay especially when Jay is playing on the xbox or the computer. Daddy even taught him and Zoey recently how to play Mario on the old Super Nintendo. What a fun, great dad!

Cheese

Noah doesn't EVER volunteer a picture opportunity. He asked me the other day to take his picture and I of course ran for the camera. I love my adorable little man.

Happy Birthday Jenn Feef

Last weekend we celebrated my favorite sister's birthday. Ok, I will not call her my favorite but she is pretty awesome. We had family over, delicious food and of course presents and cake. It seemed like a fun evening to me. I hope it was great for Jenn. We love Aunt Jenn/Feef and are so glad she lives close by. Hope you had a very happy birthday!Such a happy birthday girl!

The awesome clown doll we got Aunt Jenn when we were in Vegas. (She is a collector)

A ridiculously funny rendition of happy birthday accompanied by our older bro on his daughters pink guitar. So dumb yet so funny. It even made the dog start barking.

Happy Birthday Jenn. You look so much older and more mature than the 10 candles on your cake reflect.

A Happy and Fun Halloween

This was one of our funnest Halloweens yet. Uncle Donnie and Aunt Amy and all the cousins were here. On Friday night we all went to the ward Trunk-or-Treat and all the kids seemed to have a good time. Then Saturday we all got together again and had pizza and went trick-or-treating in the neighborhood. We also got to have Zoey's friend Maddy and her mom and dad come along with us. There were 7 kids and 6 adults along for the trek for candy. It was a big group and a lot of fun. A lot of people out and about loved our big group all of whom had on glow stick necklaces and/or bracelets. It was a fun night and big and little people alike all enjoyed it.

Our kiddos in their cute Halloween outfits.
My pretty Zoey. She is totally in the weird smile phase but I still think she is precious.

My adorable boy. I love his big grin!

Costume modeling.

Noah showing us his ninja moves.

Zoey in her pretty princess costume. Jay gave her the official title of Queen Katherine of England.

I wish this one of Zoey didn't turn out so crappy with the coloring. I think she looks so pretty and her smile isn't so silly.

Darth David and Spider Kella.

Princess Elyssa and Spider Joshua.

My little ninja all ready to go trick-or-treating.

Our big ole group out on the streets.

Time for Jack-O-Lanterns

I have made it a family tradition for my family to carve pumpkins. Anyone who wants to join in is free too. Aunt Jenn was a good sport as always and joined in the fun this year. It is getting more fun as the years go by and our kids grow. Zoey carved most of hers by herself this year and Noah helped me carve most of his. It was just a lot of fun, and of course Jay and I had our own creations to make too. It was time consuming but we all really enjoyed it. I also very much appreciated my husbands compliment in telling me what a good mom I am in making sure that our family does this kind of neat stuff together. It was very nice of him and I am glad that he participates in my activities because it wouldn't be the same without him.

Drawing out ideas.

Yay Aunt Jenn for being and awesome Auntie!

Daddy showing Zoey what to do.

Nothing is as fun as pumpkin carving!

Carving all on her own.

Mommy helping accident prone Noah.

Trying it on his own.

Zoey's finished creation. She had a very clear vision from the beginning of what hers was going to look like. She drew it out on paper first to make sure Daddy knew just what to draw on the pumpkin.

Aunt Jenn's finished work. (And it didn't take her long at all to come up with what she was going to do. :) We love the star eyes.

Noah's finished pumpkin. He picked the shapes for his. Gutting the pumpkin was like an eternity to him. He just couldn't wait to get to using the knife.

Jay is obviously very happy with his creation...

The picture is blurry but we thought it was funny. I wasn't looking my best last night so I showed off my pumpkin a different way.

All of our finished products. We really did have a lot of fun and I think all our jack-o-lanterns turned out fabulous! Happy Halloween! (Isn't great that the table cloth says that?)

Just For Fun

Tucson has finally been blessed with some beautiful cool weather, so the kids and I have been taking advantage of it and spending more time outdoors. I love fall/winter and I hope warmer weather doesn't come back too much until next summer. (I hate my camera though. I try to be thankful that I have one at all but I really hate mine. I need a new one. Hopefully one that will take better pictures. The lighting is always all crappy. Anyway, just had to throw that complaint in there.)

Riding bikes. Maybe this year for Christmas Santa will bring them real bikes.

So sad that Mommy is taking his picture.

He musters up a smile for me.

Being silly just like he always is.