November

Mackayla and I had been planning on making this turkey wreath for a long time and had fun doing it together.

It doesn't show up very much in this picture, but Jacob had food all over his chin and looked like he was growing a beard like his Daddy.

Just a random picture of Bradley bouncing around the house. I thought I'd stick this in here though because it shows the new tile on our bathroom floor. Jared's good friend, the tile guy, needed a place to try out a new heated floor system and so he installed it in our bathroom. Jared spent a lot of time helping him get this project done. We now have heated floors in our bathroom! :)

Bradley has been on a Jr Jazz basketball team and loving it. Most of the team is other kindergartners from our ward and the best part is, Jared is the coach!

The cute little spectator.

Jared and Bradley!

The kids were having fun pretending that Caitlin was a newborn.

"Uh, Oh! I made a mess!" I hear these words from Caitlin all of the time. This time she had brought a box of cereal over from the table and tried to pour herself a bowl.  There were just as many on the floor.

Bradley got to do the disguise a turkey project for school. He disguised his turkey as a Power Ranger, of course.

Another year of the thankful tree.

Brotherly Love

I had another birthday and turned 34 this year!

They gave me some presents and we had a little cake before we all headed out for the night.

Mackayla came home that day with a black eye. It looked much worse than the picture shows. She had collided with someone at recess.

I told Jared all I wanted for my birthday was for him to shave again. He looks SO handsome with his face showing!!!

I just wanted to go out for the night and get out of the house, so we went to cafe Rio for dinner and then over to the mall. We met the Nelsons there at the kids play area and let the kids play. It was a fun night.

Showing off some of my presents before bed. New pajamas, slipper socks and a Santa clause decoration.

Loving the fish at Cabellas.

Our pretty little angel, taking a nap.

A very exciting event of the month was that Mackayla got to go on a filed trip to Texas Roadhouse. They got to take a tour of the kitchen, eat lunch, and make these cute little rolls.

Playing Mario Kart for a family home evening activity one night. Caitlin thinks she's playing too :)

The kids have been wanting to do this rock climbing at the community center for a long time and we finally took them to do it. They had a blast!

The weekend before Thanksgiving, we got to see the Holts as they passed through town. We love getting to see family and are so glad they got to stay with us for a short while.

The boys thought it was great to have a big sleepover for two nights.

We can never get enough of our Caitlin

Another round of tackling Daddy. A daily occurrence.

We celebrated 9 years of marriage this month also. Jared got home a little late from work and I had mutual that night but we managed to make a very quick date, with the kids, to panda express to eat. Being married to him gets better every year!

Bradley and Jacob showing off all their Thanksgiving stuff from their school parties.

Caitlin loves to take all her clothes off and pull her diaper off. She runs around so happy, finally free! We've tried having her sit on the potty quite a few times but with no success so far.

You just never know when you'll look up and see that she's not dressed anymore.

Bradley was in charge of treat for FHE and so I looked up images on google of Thanksgiving treats and told him to scroll through and pick something he could do. He picked this icecream and cone sculpture to look like a cooked turkey.

And then things started getting crazy with the whipped cream.

Halloween

We made "monsters" for dinner on Sunday before Halloween. Everyone loved creating their own monsters. 

 Then we had our fun Halloween rootbeer party. Jacob loved that I dressed up a little as a witch. He was so disappointed when I had to take it off for bedtime.

 We have a picture of each of the kids drinking from these cups when they're little so we had to get one of Caitlin too.

 Carving pumpkins for Family Home Evening.

 Mackayla LOVED the goo and played with it all night. Bradley didn't like the feel of the pumpkin slime at all.

 Some of our finished work.

 Our Halloween girl.

Mackayla was ready to head out to school on Halloween day. 

 Jacob was ready for his Halloween party at preschool.

 Caitlin and I went to the school to watch the Halloween parade. Our picture of Mackayla walking by was way blurry, but here's one of Bradley.

 After the parade we went right over to Bradley's class to do the game for his class party.

 Class picture.

 We picked up Jacob and went home to put Caitlin to bed. Jared came home to sit with the kids for a bit, and I rushed back to the school to help with Mackayla's class party.  It was a fun day at school!

 Ready for trick-or-treating that night!

Caitlin loves Abby Caddabby and was SO cute dressed up as her.

 Bradley, the Power Ranger.

 Mackayla the Cat

 Jacob the Muscle Man!

And here is Daddy, ready to take them out.

 There was a fun rainbow in the sky as they headed out for the night.

They came trick-or-treating back to our house after awhile, and we figured they would drop off Caitlin at that point and then head out for some more. She didn't like that plan though. She loved trick-or-treating and wanted to keep going. She was out for two hours and loved it! Jacob; however, wanted to stay home and helped me answer the door at that point.

 Checking out her loot after she was done.

The kids had a few days off of school in mid-October for fall break. Jared had to work so we didn't go anywhere, but Jared was invited to take his family to Lagoon for a night sponsored by one of the trades they work with. We had A SUPER GREAT TIME! We loved every minute of it despite the very cold weather by the evening.

We sent the boys up one night to get their pajamas on. Instead, they came down laughing that they had every pair of their underwear on!

Crazy sock day at school! They had fun days at school all week. Jacob wanted to participate too, so he wore the crazy socks to his preschool that day. Caitlin just loves to be in the pictures. :)