Halloween 2010

Before we left for Utah we picked out some pumpkins at the Farmers Market. Addi picked the worty pumpkin and picked out the biggest pumpkin for Aidan. I had planned to carve Aidan's pumpkin and put him in it but even at 4 months he was too big.
Halloween was only a couple of days after we got back from Utah and I thought Addi was feeling better so we went to our churches Trunk or Treating on Sat night. Aidan was a frog
and Addi was a very sad princess. Turns out she wasn't better and ended up with a very high fever that night and into the next day. That night was also the night that I first got sick so Sunday on Halloween was not a fun day at our house and poor daddy had to take care of the baby and his sick girls.
Since we were out of town and then sick we never got to carve our pumpkins so we did them about a week late. However, because it was after Halloween we got this pumpkin face set for 75% off. This is Addi's face.
And this is daddy's face. I just barely took the face off the pumpkin and both pumpkins are still sitting on the porch. It should be against the law to still have halloween pumpkins out at Christmas time.

The big 30

Didn't want to go into 2011 without mentioning that my man turned 30 this year. It was back in October I'm a little late, but I did make him a gooey caramel cake that was super yummy.
And I did throw him a surprise party that may not have been much of a surprise.
I love you Sexy!!!

Can We have Fun Now?

We did get a chance to go on one adventure before Addi got sick. We went to a local corn maze and pumpkin patch.
Aunt Shazie (aka Kenzi) got to come with us. Grandma, aunt Ky, and cousins Keldon and Kollins were there too.
At the begining of the corn maze there were all these boards that you stick your head in and take a picture. We kept making Addi stick her head in them until she finally said "can we have fun now" apparently that wasn't fun to her.
We let addi lead the way through the maze. It was made for little kids so how hard could it be?
We meet many dead ends but we eventually made it out.
There was a fun little carnival for the kids Addi had fun until the big kids showed up and then she was done.
Aidan was a fan of the pumpkins.
Kollins not so much or maybe it was Aidan she wasn't a fan of.
Addi picked out a pumpkin to take to grandma's house.
Could he be any cuter or more kissable?

Utah Trip October 2010

As my lovely sister pointed out I have not blogged in a long time. I have just not been in a blogging kind of mood. I have been busy. October was crazy and it didn't slow down any in November. As I blogged earlier I braved it and took the 2 kids to Utah by myself back in October. We spent most of our time at my mothers house because Addi got sick so don't feel bad if I didn't come see you we didn't see anyone.
I had to take a picture of the awesome fall leaves in my parents front yard.
Its a good thing I did because literally it turned winter the next day.
There was a lot of cuddling with grandma and grandpa. Grandpa put Aidan to sleep many times. He also taught him the ends and outs of football as everyone thinks he is going to be a football player. Grandpa also taught Addi the BYU cheer which she does all the time.
Great grandma and grandpa Keep we also in Utah. One day we went to lunch and checked out this antique store. Addi found a baby carriage full of beanie babies. She took all of them out and then one by one she rocked them and sang them "I am a Child of God" before putting them back to sleep. It was so cute and I wish I had a video camera.
My sister Makenzie is a senior in High School so we took her senior pictures while I was there. Isn't she cute? And I know you are still waiting for these Kenzie maybe after Christmas I will get to them.
Aidan wanted in on the picture taking action too so we took his 4 month pictures.
As you can see Addi was not so happy. As I mentioned Addi got sick while we were there. We didn't know what was wrong she just had a high fever and was cranky.
turns out it was strep throat and we didn't find that out for 10 days and only afterI got it and went to the doctors (I took Addi to the doctor but they didn't check her throat so they said it was just a virus). It was because of this that we didn't do much more then hang out with grandma.
We had fun, but were glad to go home to daddy and the kids were just as good on the way home as they were on the way out especially since Addi was so sick she just slept all the way home.

Apple Pickin' and a new skirt

October 2, 210
We went on our annual apple picking adventure.
Just because I have every other year I made Addi a special outfit to wear for the occasion. You can see how I made it on Mommy Creations.
I love my baby boy he is a happy little bub (thats what I call him bub).
I had some scrap material so I made Addi's baby a matching skirt as well. Addi has been eating a lot of apple, but she only eat half of it before she decides she is done and then an hour later wants a new one because her other one is yucky.

The Big E 2010

September 27, 2010
We went to the Big E (state fair for the 5 New England states)again this year.
We go to see the animals and this horsey had the same name as Papa Dodge so we had to take a picture with it.
We went straight to the petting zoo since Addi loved it so much last time and we didn't find it until the end. When I was taking a picture of Addi I felt someone tugging on my jacket. I thought it was a little kid, but it turned out to be a goat. I think he was trying to eat my jacket.
This year there was a circus and the kids loved it. Even Aidan got into the circus. We were just a little disapointed, because we told Addi we were going to the circus to see tigers and elephants, but there weren't any elephants. Whoops!
Addi always wants a picture in front of the big pumpkins.
We milked a cow (a fake cow) and it scared Addi when it mooed.
The singing veggies came in handy to distracted the toddler when the baby needed a diaper change.
Sometimes I feel like this pig at least I only have one little piglet.
Addi kept wanting to go see the big wheel. She wanted to ride it, but I freaked out and was afraid she would fall out so I told her she was too small. Maybe one day your mom will let you do something without imagining the worst.
Of course we had to get us some fair food.

Brave Woman

This is what I heard a lot of as I decided to fly across the country with my 2 children by myself. Yes I guess I am a brave woman, but it wasn't as bad as I thought.
Addi was great. See loves to fly she thinks it is so cool. When we landed in SLC she looked and me and said "Lets land again".
Aidan was also great and thanks to the nice lady at the gate he got his own seat. Who really wants to be the one to sit next to the lady and her two kids anyways. Aidan took 2 naps so was asleep for at least half of the 5 hour flight. Speaking of nice people while waiting to board we met a very nice lady who helped me on and off the plane. She also had a little pooh bear in her purse which she gave Addi and she happened to be only a few rows ahead of us with an empty seat next to her and Addi spent almost an hour with her playing play-doh.
When Addi wasn't playing with her new friend (who Addi asked if she wanted to come to her grandmas house with her) she was playing with her many activities I packed her on the floor. How nice to be little on a plane and have all the room in the world.

So everything was going great. We got through security with no problem we even got to skip the line. We all had our own seat. The kids were perfect. I knew it was all to good to be true. When I ever flown without some sort of problem. Well we go to get our luggage and the front pocket on my suitcase is ripped off. My bra is still there, but everything else that was in the pocket was gone. Also the carseat bag never made it. So, I had to spent a little time in the baggage office. The good part is I got a brand new suitcase, bad part is I had to borrow a carseat from the airport and then go back to the airport when they found the carseat, which they did, but the wheels on my carseat bag were broken. So not so good trip for my luggage, but overall much easier than I expected.