Our crazy life about to get crazier

I started to feel brave, and thought it was time to have another child. I am not sure why because I feel like we have way too many near death experiences and most of them are me learning not to do that again, or to pay more attention. Now that we are actually pregnant I am starting to get a little scared. Arah you must be terrified for us, you've witnessed quite a few of those experiences.=) Mostly, though we are really excited. We are due August 5th. I am so excited to finally have a summer baby. Sounds so heavenly to not have to worry about the weather and RSV for a while. Kyle thinks we are having a little sister, I am relaying on his faith, mine waivers day to day. Another boy would be great too, we are good to go if that is the case.

The Christmas Tree

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year with Steve's family. Once the dinner is eaten we all immediately switch to Christmas mode. We got up early on Friday and went and cut down our Christmas tree. (I was lame and forgot my camera) In the past it has taken Steve a long time to pick out the tree. He loves Christmas and the tree has to be perfect. This year, thankfully he did in record time. We came home put on the lights and decorated the tree later that night. We decided to get it up fast so we could enjoy it before leaving for California for Christmas this year.

Kyle loved decorating the tree this year. He got so excited about all of his ornaments, especially any with his name or picture on them. I loved how he really got into it this year. I had so much fun just watching the boys get excited about the tree. It's amazing how your kids just make each holiday so much more special and enjoyable.

Jackson would look like this every time we put his ornaments on the tree, he just wanted to carry them around all night. Luckily each fit, and there were many, didn't last very long.

Finally understanding that the ornaments go on the tree.

The Finished product! Most of the ornaments were on the bottom of the tree, so we had even things out once the boys went to bed that night.

Girls can play football too!!

The leaves are changing, there is a crisp to the morning air, time for football. Anyone who knows me knows I love football!! (kami I still wish you were a BYU fan, just think of all the memories we could have) I haven't played powder puff football since high school, and thought it was a great time to play again. I had such a huge response from the girls in the original Cranberry Farms ward (before we split 2 weeks ago =( )! We had 20 girls show up to play!!! Thanks so much girls it was awesome!!! I have to give a shout out to our awesome referee Brady Fife. He was very brave to risk the possibility of making 20 women very angry at him including his wife. Steve took a lot of great pictures of everyone. Just a warning about the slide show, it has a lot of pictures, so I hope you have some time.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Thanks to all who were able to come. We missed all who couldn't. Lets do it again next Sat at 10. If anyone wants any of these pictures just let me know and I will email them to you.

Halloween

This year we had a massive truck or treat with four wards. It was fun to see all of our friends who are no longer apart of our ward. We ran out of candy well before it was over and had to recycle some of the boys candy for latter trick or treaters. It was tons of fun. We later went over to Steve's parents house and ate chili and some fresh brewed root beer. =) Thanks to my neighbor Michelle Acree, Kyle actually had a costume. I procrastinated Halloween because Kyle's birthday party took so much effort, that he almost had a sorry looking costume. Thanks Michelle for putting him together.







Our neighbor Oliver is an umpalumpa (sp?) and Nicole was Willie Wanka Johnny Depp style. They win best costume!!

The Greatest Show on Earth

Steve's parents were generous enough to take the whole family to the circus last Friday. I am not sure who had more fun me or the boys. I just thought it would be a lot of really weird Carney people there, but a lot of the performers have some serious talents. I still can't believe some of the tricks I saw that night. It was so so much fun!! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for such a great night!!

We parked at the conference center, steve's brother got us all tokens so we could park for free. We took traxs from there. Kyle was so excited to ride the train to the circus. He told everyone who would listen that we were going to the circus. It was cute. Jackson of course loves anything his big brother does.


We were only on trax for a block or two, but the boys still loved it.


Jackson and dad


Family pic


We got to meet the animals before the show started. They had a ton of tigers too.




Lots of little boy eye candy. Tigers, elephants, horses, pirotechnics, dogs catching frisbee's and etc. Can life get any better.

4th of July

This 4th we decided to stay home. Why leave when you happen to live by fireworks that people from all over the county drive to see. We had a quiet dinner with our friends Dustin and Nicole. The boys just ran around stepping/falling on each other's food while we ate. It was great! It's fun to watch them be so active and crazy. Love how Oliver is right in the middle of it. We unfortunately didn't get any pictures with the Lesueur's, thanks for a fun evening.

After dinner we all went to some neighbors house for dessert and firework fun. The guys there were so hilarious. It was almost as good as a monster truck rally. We had fireworks, daring stunts, and even a parade of fire. Luckily nobody got hurt, and we all had a good time. The fireworks were great, and we had a great view. I love fireworks reminds me of all the fun memories I had growing up on this day. Lots of water skiing, eating ice cream with my cousins and stay up as late as we wanted too. Here are a few pics of all the action


Kyle and Cannon just taking in all the action, at least for a few minutes. These calm moments never seem to last very long.


Spencer Dent jumping over the fireworks. It's funny to see guys get a little crazy once they start playing with fire. Reminded me of my brother, he would have totally done that too.


A few of the guys ran down the street with these in their hands, and I have the picture to prove it, well sort of.


Here is a close up view of what they were holding.



Jackson wearing Spencer's hat. It was so funny watching him run into things.


The magic!!! LOVE FIREWORKS, I just think they're pretty.

FINALLY LEARING TO RIDE A BIKE!!

My neighbor and I have been trying to get our boys to ride a bike for forever. They both insisted they never wanted too! A few Sunday's ago we were outside talking about it and the boys decided they were ready to give it a try. We were not about to let this moment pass, we got their helmets on and surprisingly enough they caught on pretty fast. They are still very slow, but they are peddling on there own. (I tied a rope to kyle's bike last year and pathetically ended up pulling him everywhere)


Just a little push


He's doing it!!!




Kyle and Gavin having a 1 MPH hour race, meaning the first to go 1 MPH wins. Just kidding we are very proud of his new accomplishment, and it did take a lot of effort on his part. We just need the rain to go away before we have to start all over again.