Trick-or-Treat

Happy Halloween!!!

I love this holiday, and now I have a little boy that loves it just as much as me! We took Noah trick-or-treating for the first time last year and he really didn't know what to make of it. He was pretty confused the entire time and just went along with the fact that he was getting candy at every door. Well...this was different, very different. Noah is old enough to realize that we dress up on Halloween for fun and he understood that he was going to be going to go from house to house saying "Trick-or-Treat" in exchange for the goods...CANDY! He got it...he was excited! I was a little worried that he wouldn't be as excited when we actually went, but he was, and we had so much fun!! Yay for getting older and understanding these weird little holidays! My only problem is that he told me tonight that he wants to go again next week...now I have to explain that he has to wait one whole year. Oh boy!

Noah was a COWBOY! Yes, he was a cowboy last year too, but the costume still fit him, and that's what he wanted to be. He was SO excited to get all dressed up and would walk around saying "Howdy partner".
Leah was a LADYBUG, and she was SO CUTE! These costumes for little kids are just too cute! I smile every time that I would see her walk around in this outfit...it really is so cute! I think that the tights make it complete :).
Doug and I were UTAH FANS...we were a little bummed that there was a home game tonight, but there was no way that we were going to miss out on going out with our precious kids tonight. Instead, we showed our support by wearing our red. Oh, and the Utes won...GO UTES!!!

We went to Alli and Spencer's house tonight and went trick-or-treating with them and their cute little boy, Ryan, who was a LION! He even mastered making a ROARRRR sound...very scary!
Leah really didn't know what to make of the whole thing, but she just went along with Noah and held on to her bag with a death grip. She wouldn't let anyone touch that thing. She knew what was in it and she wasn't about to share with anyone! Little does she know...{wink, wink}.
OK...Noah is seriously the best big brother to Leah. He was constantly saying to Leah "Come on, cute little Ladybug"! Plus he was constantly fixing her head piece for her and holding her hand as they went from house to house. I love how close they are getting. Makes me smile :).

We hope that everyone had a fabulous Halloween and that you got lots and lots of yummy treats :). Until next year...

Carving Pumpkins

Noah has been looking forward to carving our pumpkins all week, so we made an event of doing it last night.

Noah was so interested in what we were doing when we were cutting them open...he was a little confused on what we were doing exactly.
I don't think he realized that carving pumpkins isn't all fun...especially when I gave him the task of cleaning out his pumpkin.
Obviously, there wasn't much for Leah to do and she did not like the fact that she was not being included. Therefore, she was doing a lot of this at my feet...
So I put her in her highchair and gave her her own chocolate cupcake to eat. There...all better :).

Noah spent a good amount of time drawing his face on his pumpkin, or he just had fun drawing on the pumpkin.

Then we tried to get a picture of the kids together by the finished product...that just didn't work. I seriously can't win when it comes to getting a posed picture of Leah. Oh well.

So, here are our finished pumpkins without all the chaos. Happy Halloween!!!

Utah Game with Noah

We decided to take Noah with us to the Utah game this past Saturday, and I can truly say that this little guy is a true UTE fan! Yes, it was rainy and a bit cold, but Noah was too focused on the game and everything that was going on around him to care about the weather. Thankfully, the game was an afternoon game and the weather cleared up by half time, which made me feel better because the last thing I wanted was for him to get sick or something. Anyway, he loved it and was SO incredibly good until the last 30 minutes when he started to get a little sleepy. I was a little irritated that the game went into overtime, and ofcourse we had to stay at that point to see if we won. Good thing we did WIN! Go UTES!! It's always nice when we win and that other team loses...at home! Anyway, I'm so glad that we took Noah and that he enjoyed himself...we might just take him again :).

The joy of trying to get a decent picture with a 3 year old...story of my life!
The only thing that Noah didn't like was the ANNOYING whistle of this guy behind us. It is seriously an ear piercing sound...I don't blame him for curling over and covering his ears!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy 70th Birthday!

I love this picture!

Doug and his mom dancing...how cute!
Doug and his mom when he graduated from the U of U in 2005.
We had a big celebration for Doug's mom, Karin, last weekend, which consisted of a luncheon and an open house. We had such a wonderful time spending the day with family and celebrating my wonderful mother-in-law. I really got so lucky to have married into such a wonderful family and to have such a wonderful and loving mother-in-law! She is also an amazing grandma to all of her grandchildren. Noah and Leah absolutely adore her and get so excited every time we go to her house! She goes out of her way, every time, to make sure that the children are given the attention that they need and want. She really is so great! We love you bunches!!


Karin and her sister, Aunt Kathy.
Karin and our little family.

Messy Girl

I love giving the children fresh chocolate chip cookies and just letting them devour them and get as messy as they want. They were pretty good :).

See here for some pictures of Noah getting messy when he was little.

The Scarecrow Festival

So, Doug and I decided to take the kids to the Scarecrow Festival last week, and we were sadly very disappointed. I don't want to make this post a total bummer, but it was a total waste of $20 {just my opinion}. Despite the fact that we were all beyond bored 95% of the time, we were able to get some pictures of the few things that we did enjoy :).

The KSL Helicopter was there, which was very cool for Noah to see. He LOVES anything that goes, so he was thrilled to go up and see the helicopter up close with Doug. We were also able to see it take off, which was pretty amazing, and a little bit scary!
Noah and Leah did enjoy playing this one game, which consisted of throwing balls into Slimers mouth.
OK, the games were pretty lame, but Noah was a good sport and tried them out. He pretty much spent just a few seconds at each one, as they just weren't very amusing to him.

We ended our trip by doing the Fishing Pond. Noah was happy to get some little trinkets to play with, although he wouldn't share them with Leah, which wasn't a good thing. Sharing is just something that he does not want to do...we're working on it.

Fuzzy Wuzzy

Last month Noah kept noticing all of these caterpillars in our front yard. We would go outside daily and watch them crawl around and Noah was SO fascinated with them. One night we came home and one of the caterpillars was in our garage, so we decided that we would put it in a mason jar with some food and watch it for a few days. Well, after a few days I realized how great Noah was towards our new pet...always giving it some attention, making sure that it was given some fresh food and grass everyday, and he named it...Fuzzy Wuzzy. Now, do you remember in Monsters Inc. when Mike addresses Sully about naming Boo..."Once you name it, you start getting attached to it!". Well, that's what happened...Noah became attached, and he didn't want to get rid of his new "pet". He even remembered that he was given a little container for his birthday that was made for catching bugs and insects and he made sure that Fuzzy Wuzzy was put in there instead of the mason jar. Well...after one month of taking care of Fuzzy Wuzzy, {which, after a little research on my part, is a woolly bear caterpillar that will hybernate during the cold months and then become a MOTH in the spring...I know...very interesting!} I convinced Noah that it was time to let him go so that he could live where he was supposed to live. He finally agreed and today we took Fuzzy to the park to let him go. Noah was a good sport and told Fuzzy Wuzzy to "Have a good life". Isn't that cute! All in all, having Fuzzy was a good experience...especially for my little Noah :).