You'd think I'd learn

This is what you get when you try to take a group shot of 5 (mostly) young kids anxious to go to the farm/corn maze/pumpkin patch. Total chaos!

Oh, yeah. If you were wondering, the little guy who doesn't belong to me is my cousins son, Tray, who I was babysitting that week. He was by far the most well behaved child I had that day. We won't talk about how we lost Jake. Shhhhh!! Don't tell Rob!

Can't have a post full of pictures and not have some of the kids!

Ooops! Sorry, guys. I'm a mom, I have to! Here are some pictures of the kids from that ATV ride we took in September

Heres Max

Here's Jake and Jordyn

Heres Si

ATV ride

The last time we took an ATV ride was clear back in September. Wow!! I can't believe it's been that long. Shows you how hectic our life is getting and our kids aren't even in any extracurricular activities.

Anyway, it was still warm when we went and we all had a good time. We were on a dirt rode and drove around a bend and there was this old house sitting next to a pond or a lake. It was really unexpected, but I love old houses and we had to stop to read the plaque and take pictures.

Here is a picture of the house

Here is a tree house next to the pond, which is next to the house




There was a circular driveway in front of the house and this old wagon was situated in the middle, so I had to take a picture. I'm fascinated by old wagons. I'm fascinated by lots of old things, tractors, barns, lots of stuff.




This barn was up the road a bit from the house. It's not that old, but I thought it had an interesting shape.



These next 3 pictures are just some pretty views from that ride.

Church

Ok, ok, I admit it! I haven't been to church since, oh, January or February. I know, I know (hanging head in shame!) Anyway, I have been thinking about going back for a while now and Jordyn started asking me this morning if we could go and if we all couldn't go if she could go with her friend, Emily. At first I was just going to send her with Emily, but then I decided we should all go. I hurriedly got everyone ready and we made it on time! Yay!!

Anyway, sacrament meeting went well, I was quite surprised. I dropped off the kids in their classes, then I went to mine. Jake went to nursery really well and I left him with no problems. Towards the end of my first class the nursery leader brought Jake in to me. He looked so sad and had tears in his eyes. I put him on my lap and we waited for class to be over. The warning bell rang and Jake said, quietly, Yay! Time to go home! I said no, not yet. Then the last bell rang and the teacher was still speaking and Jake let out a big grumbly sigh and said in an exasperated tone, It's time to go home!! I said nope, we have one more class to go to. I took him to the bathroom and then we had a talk. I told him he could go to class with me, but he had to sit quietly on my lap and listen or he could go back to his class with the other kids and all the toys. He choose to go to his class and stayed there the whole time with no problems.

When I picked up the olde kids from their classes I was told that they were practicing for the Primary Program. All the kids except Jake have a part and the program is next Sunday, so we will definitely be going to church next Sunday. I am really excited to see my kids in the program!

He's gonna be a heartbreaker, that one!

The other night Max and Jake were out riding their bikes in the driveway. Pretty soon 3 little girls wandered up and started talking to my boys. Max wasn't too interested, said a quick hi and continued on with his riding. Jake, on the other hand, was very animated and talked those cute little girls' ears off. They were so cute to watch!


This is were the blondie noticed I was snapping pictures in the background...

And here she is asking me to take some more! Aren't they cute?

Just don't go breakin' my boys heart!!

A Maxism

That kid is so darn funny.

Today we made a quick stop at Costco for fish sticks and milk. The kids really like their fish sticks and we were out of milk and I hadn't had time to make something for their dinner before work, so I figured fish sticks it was!

Since I was already there I picked up some big canisters of Cinnamon, Lemon Pepper and Taco Seasoning. I had all our stuff on the conveyor belt and Max was looking at the spices. He looked at me and said "Mom, why are we buying 3 boxes of different sand?"

Late Halloween Post

It's only 2 weeks after Halloween!!

All in all, I think we had a pretty good Halloween. It was on a Friday this year, which is a day I normally work, but I took it off and I'm glad I did. Last year I worked and I didn't want to miss 2 Halloween's in a row. Plus, Jake was really fun this year with figuring out what Trick or Treating is all about!! He was so cute walking up to the doors and knocking and saying trick or treat and then thank you after he got his candy.

I do have to say that we got a TON of candy and we only went around the block. I guess when you have 4 kids it adds up fast, right?

Here are some pictures of the kids in their costumes. Si was the scary Scream guy, Jordyn is a princess, Max is a Ninja Turtle and Jake is (of course!) Buzz Lightyear!!