Kylie's Halloween Birthday Party!

Kylie will be turning 12 soon--and this is her year for a birthday party with friends. She invited 9 friends and her 2 sisters to join in some Halloween fun. Ken went all out decorating the porch and embellishing Heidi's interior decor for some spooky fun. We had a blast and were also happy at 9 p.m. when the house went back to the noise level of only 3 children versus 12!

Carving Pumpkins

We enjoyed a fun family night of carving pumpkins and taking "Boo" treats to a couple of neighbors. That is a fun tradition. Someone left us a little goodie last night and then you are supposed to take a goodie to two other neighbors and you hang up a little ghost in your window so you don't get "boo"ed again. The girls love the Boos! We are gearing up for Kylie's big 12th birthday party on Halloween as well. A busy and fun week!

She's had a birthday, shout hooray!

Our little pumpkin turned 9 and has enjoyed her birthday festivities! Many thanks to family and friends who remembered her special day and sent her lovely cards & gifts. She loves each one!

Long time no blog...

Hello all! I have been extremely remiss in blogging the last few months. I will hope to do better. Hope you are all enjoying autumn! It is sure pretty here! :-)

A fun photo shoot at Gardner Village

Little Grandma invited us to Gardner Village Wednesday morning to take some pictures of the girls. Grandma is a fabulous photographer so we could not turn her down! :-) Here's a few of my favorites.

A Fabulous Day at Lagoon!

The beloved OdySea
Cute cousins

Waiting for the Wild Kingdom Train

Love this cool water fountain.

Cathryn & Lizzie

For Ken's 41st birthday, the gift he wanted was a family trip to Lagoon. We had planned to attend on his actual birthday (July 30th) but Kylie had been really ill the weekend prior and needed a few more days to recoup before taking on an amusement park. So we planned for Monday, August 3rd. Fortunately, that change made it possible for Aunt Natalie & cousin Cathryn to join us for a fun filled day at Lagoon. Natalie was the photographer for the day. The adults managed not to be in any pictures (yeah--we are so thankful!!) as we did not look particularly glorious on that hot day (we got wet as much as we could) :-) Ashley was really brave and went on lots of things without complaint. Lizzie decided to try some rides and found she really liked most of them, her most favorite was the OdySea! She talked about it all day and probably rode it 5 times. All the girls loved the Bat coaster. Kylie rode the Jet Star 2 at the end of the day and it was her all-time favorite. It was a very fun day!

The Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House

We had a wonderful morning on Saturday, August 1st. We met Steve & Barbara Rives and Natalie & Cathryn Fitzpatrick for a fabulous breakfast at Village Inn (thanks for picking up the tab, Steve!) and then we went to tour the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. It is a beautiful temple and it was neat for us all to be able to see the whole temple. The children enjoyed being in a temple again--it brought back great memories of our tour of Twin Falls Temple last summer. Here are a few pictures we took to commemorate this neat day together.