Birthday week

We start birthdays in this family in October. We went to lunch with Shawn on the 13th for his birthday.
Then Josh's birthday on the 16th. When did he get so much older than me? Then Kylee turned 14. Yes that is right 14! When did my baby of 7 years grow up to such a beautiful amazing girl?
She had a birthday party with 4 girls. She wanted to project a movie on the side of the house, but it ended up being really cold, so they did it in the toy room. Then at 10:30pm went out and jumped on the tramp and woke up all the neighbors being so QUIET! We gave her money to help with Competition fees for Tumbling. She joined the tumbling Team after not competing in Gymnastics for quite a few years. Now she will start competing in January. It will be fun to go and watch again. I have been missing her for the 5 hours a week she practices. She is the best kid!!! Always helping out and playing with Cass and the twins. She is always out to have a good time and makes us all laugh. She gets a 4.0 without me every bugging her. She is such an amazing part of our family and we love her so much!!!!

October

We started out October by going to the Dinosaur park in Ogden for UEA. We went down for Jordan's eye doctor appointment and then to lunch with my mom and Shawn for Uncle Shawn's birthday. Then we headed off to see the Dinosaurs!
The babies walked the whole park, thinking they were so big!
They have it haunted at night, so all the haunted decorations were still up and Addie was very cautious.

Kissing alligators!Take my picture mom.
AJ decided he wanted his picture taken and with every dinosaur. ROAR!!

What's this rope for mom? Oh, to hang on and knock them all over!


Watch out, Addie Bug!!!!!!
Take my picture here mom!
The playground was a big hit! My Ky and AJ man.

Look at these rocks mom! Can I just have 2 from each display?
Is my belly as big as his horn?We had so much fun and AJ and Addie both know what a dinosaur says.

black eye

We started a play group type of thing and this time it was at Carl's Junior. We have a new one here and it has a playground!!!! Although their food is not much better than McDonalds, but they do have fry sauce. Anyways, AJ fell off a step I didn't see what happened, but went over and held him gave him fry's and my friend says, "Oh my Gosh, that eye looks horrible." I asked, "What eye!"

This Eye!!!

Not his first black or purple eye and I am sure not his last! It healed really fast.

He is always doing crazy things like swinging on the table. Addison pretends to do it with him.

Peach Days Parade!

All decked out for the parade!

My two favorite guys! Aren't they cute?

Jordan decided if he wasn't going to wear his sunglasses she would wear them. What are we sitting here for?

If you have never been to the Peach Days celebration you are missing out! They have the best parade! It starts with like 40 cop cars, fire engines, and ambulances all with sirens blaring and horns honking. I could do with out that part. Addie hated that and AJ was Ok until the fire trucks started honking.

Here I am, look how cute I am, throw me some candy!
Addie would run all the way down the street to get more candy! We had to chase her down a few times.
She sat still once she got a Popsicle as big as her head, at least until it was gone.
It didn't slow AJ down.
More popsicles
More popsicles
And even more popsicles!
and more!

After that I couldn't believe the amount of candy and things they threw out!! Cass always loves the cereal that Malt-O-Meal throws out. In fact she prayed the night before that she would be able to catch some cereal. Good thing they make sure everyone gets on and she actually got three! You got to take every chance you get to let your kids know that prayer works, right!? I told her good thing she prayed for cearal. She even got Silly bands! Pretty exciting. After a yummy lunch at Josh's Aunt Kathy's, Cass aqnd I went to the fair and boutique, once again expecting something small for such a small town, It was huge and wall-to wall people. Cass and I got split up from the people we came with. You know me, I didn't bring my phone, so we walked back to the car and waited for them to show up there too. We had so much fun! It will be a tradition for us from now on.

The Broadway Lion King Show

We bought tickets to the Broadway Lion King show a year before it came to Utah. We gave the tickets to the girls for Christmas. We finally got to go on August 12th. Grandma Debby came with us. She was the one who got to the ticket office early on opening sales day and got us tickets!!! We were so excited! It was an amazing show! It was worth every penny we spent. Cassady loved the whole thing. She kept asking what was going to happen. I didn't realize she had not watched the movie. Kylee's favorite movie was Lion King. She would watch it once a day if I let her when she was little. Her and I had it memorized and could repeat the lines from the movie.

The whole crew after the show!

Before the show started Cass wanted to take a picture of Josh and I. I kept forgetting that the camera we had flashes twice and I kept moving after one flash. This one turned out really pretty good. Cass and I waiting for it to begin.

A big thanks to Sarah for watching the twins for us. We thought Addie would have a hard time, so we brought a bunch of things for Addie to do. Addie was fine and AJ cried a lot.

Homecoming

Isn't she beautiful?

Jordan was asked to homecoming by Chris (her Boyfriend). He asked her by droping off a 12 pack of Mountain Dew and Reisen candys on the porch with a note,"You are the "Reisen" I live, will you "Dew" me the honor of going to homecoming. She answered him by dum-duming his room. Jordan and Ashley's term for throwing dum-dums all over his room and putting her answer of "I'd be a dum-dum not to go to HOmecoming with you"

Hannah brought her prom dresses over and is letting Jordan borrow them. She went with this Pink one. It looked really go on her. Beverly did her hair. I told her to pose in this picture. It reminds me of "Walk like an Egyptian" for those of you 80's kids like me.

Jordan and Chris after she told me not to take a lot of pictures.Mom, How do I put this on? I told her and this is the look I get from both of them when I said just don't stick him! Pretty funny!
After much planning a suggestion of reservations for 14 at Olive garden on a Saturday night at 6pm. (It would have taken hours to been seated) And a fight over midnight curfew, Josh and decided that we would have all the kids over here after the dance and project a movie on the side of the house. But when the temp at midnight was suppose to be 54, we set it up in the garage. Our garage set up after we moved everything to the sides. Josh borrowed a screen and set it up right in front of the door. Easier than hanging a sheet like we usually do. I got popcorn, drinks and root beer floats. They all came back to our house and come to find out all the girls had to be home by midnight! Not just our child. The boys all took their dates home at midnight and came BACK for the movie! So Jordan watched the movie with 7 boys! Next time we will just do root beer floats! She had a good time, but went to get pictures taken at 10:30 and the photographer was already gone.
Church the next day was interesting, with Josh falling asleep on the stand and me fighting babies to stay awake so I could have a nap after church too.

Cache County Fair

We always go to the Cache County Fair and Rodeo every year. Even took the babies to the rodeo last year. That was first year we realized the Rodeo was so Loud. This year we had tickets to the Lion King on Thursday night in Salt Lake. Ward Camp out Friday night, and then the Fair and Rodeo Saturday night? We decided for the first time in a long time that it might be better to skip the rodeo this year. We still went to the Fair.

AJ picked out his future 4-wheeler.

AJ would run up to the animals pen stick his had in and see if he could reach them.
He would get upset when Cass could reach and he couldn't
He would touch the animal and then laugh and run away to the next animal.
Addie was little more cautious, especially with the sleeping,snorting pigs.
These people had the nicest cows that they let the kids sit on.
AJ giving the cows a kiss. He is such a lover.
Addie not sure what she is doing on this big stinky animal. She kept plugging her nose when we would go in the animal buildings.
We let Cass ride one ride. She wanted to ride the Harry Potter slide. I talked her into a little roller coaster. I just couldn't pay $3 fro a slide. I think she even had fun. I got a lot of Christmas shopping done and bought myself some sunglasses (that Jordan already broke). Gotta love the Fair!