Happy 7th Faye

Faye turned 7 today and she is sick as a dog. Saturday was her party and she had her cousins and a friend sleep over. I did a scavenger hunt around the neighborhood that was quite lame, but they thought it was great. I really just wanted my girls to be able to wear their costumes more than just Halloween night in the dark. Our ward canceled it's trunk or treat, and though i'm not fond of them, at least it's something for the kids to get to dress up and have fun in their costumes.

Ella and Chloe's moms are kinda dumb and forgot to send costumes for their daughters, hence the get-ups those two girls are in. They just ran-sacked our dress up clothes. Result; Ella-wizard, Chloe-tutu head girl. We had pizza, cake and ice cream, and Faye got WAY too many presents. She got a new dress/leggings outfit from Grandma Pat that is so cute, but straight outta the 80's. She also got Pollyanna from G & G Lingwall. Sean and I watched it yesterday afternoon while the girls were upstairs playing. Wow! i'm a nerd, cuz I almost cried.

She is a gracious gift-getter and said thank you to everyone (at least I got a good-mom point for that). She also got a LIV doll from Charlotte which is one of the things she wanted for Christmas and said "Now I don't need one for Christmas mom. It's Katie and I wanted Sophie, but that's ok." She's still getting Sophie for Christmas because:
a. I just bought it last week and
b. she's a nice girl who says things like that.

I love this girl more than words. She is a sweet girl, but can also be an airhead. She is a good big sister and also mean at times, but quick to apologize. She is also honest and when something happens, she will almost always tell me the truth, even if it implicates her. She is super anal and always likes her room to be clean and is often heard saying "How about we play in your room Daff..."

A B thee's

Field Trippin' with pumpkins,pigs, and Malachi? oh my!

We went to Black island Farms for Daphne's preschool field trip. She got to pick (yet another) pumpkin, though these are pie pumpkins, hence why they are so little. HOwever, i won't be making a pie from it.

Phoebe got a dirty carrot, she was pleased as punch and trying to eat it.

The pig races. Daphne was good at picking the winner, though we didn't win any money... utah and no gamblin, sheesh.


Daphne is a wild woman and ran straight for the biggest slide when we got in there. Unfortunately that one was closed (i spose they think preschoolers are too little for it, hmphf!) So she continued on to the second biggest slide and came down head first, of course.


The train was actually quite fun! Though me bum hurt after we got off.


Ringo Starr eat your heart out.


My children of the corn. Watch out for evil redheads.

Hayride & Punkin Patch

Gardner Village with cuzins and friends

As said before I love fall and love all the fun activities there are to do. Gardner Village and the Witches is one we do every year, and even better it's FREE. One of the last true free things. However, there is Afton's candy shop at the end and I always end up buying something, couldn't pass up a caramel apple this year, well really April bought one, then I tasted it, then Daphne tasted, and then we had to have one.

It was really crowded that day and so I didn't get as many good pictures as I would
have liked. Way too many "prissy" ladies too, that place has.

We also did the petting zoo which my kids love. I mostly love the stink. The goats are my favorite, they are so cute. If they didn't eat everything in sight I think they'd be way better than a dog. Case in point, someone had dropped a piece of paper and a goat goes right to it, and gobbles it up. The llama was particularly cute. Lovely underbite.

This does not look right...


Nice smile.


Faye said this was one of the Billy Goats Gruff going over the bridge, and then I said "watch out! the troll must be under there!" She jumped, it was funny.

No Clowning Around

I started adding pictures yesterday and finished adding some more today, so I could just do a slideshow. Well, something went wrong and it won't let me put the downloaded pics, so no slideshow. I just love when I waste all my time on something that doesn't work out!


my lap cat

The "ladies" all dressed up from when I used to be in a Bunco group and we would do a costume party.

Anyone remember Teletubbies!


Yes, Sean shaved a cul-de-sac on his head.





Gardener Village and the Witches

Check out my melons!

These "massive" cantoloupes are all we got from our garden. They are little mini cantaloupes. I have never done them before and after a while I just figured the plant died because I planted it too close to my sketti squash. Somehow 2 little ones made it through. They were a bit too ripe when I picked them, so I wasn't super fond of them, but the girls thought they were great. Sweet, sugary, that's all they need in a food for it too be good.



Do you like the shirt-less little girl in the background. That'd be Phoebe. She decided it was officially innapropriate for her mom to be wearing red lipstick, so she took it upon herself to eat, smash and smear it all over my bathroom. Lovely. The funny thing is I didn't even have to get that mad at her. I just kept saying "I am NOT happy, i'm very upset!" and she was just bawling. It was kind of funny. Hopefully she will always beat herself up, then i won't have to.

That big dude with Sean (who is 6ft 1 himself) is a guy from our old ward, who is like 6 foot 8!

I do all the make-up and I quite enjoy it. Wait Sean's skeleton face he did himself, that is why mine is better. ha ha. I'd say i'm kidding, but really i'm not.

Daphne in utero as Humpty Dumpty was a hole cut in a shirt and my belly is just painted, a la Nellie. She also made the arms and legs, then sewed them to the shirt. See, I come up with these ideas, and then Nellie helps get the costume to fruition, since I don't sew.

Halloweenie time!

This is my favorite time of the year; fall, autumn... HALLOWEEN! I think i just might like Halloween better than Christmas (blasphemous, I know). I don't know if it's the dressing up, the candy, the weather getting cooler. I like it all. I'm not really in the mood to blog a whole lot so i'm just adding some random pictures of Halloweens past. I will post more when I can find them, but in the meantime I hope all these pictures will make that Keith Urban song go away!