Snow Snow and more Snow!

On Monday we got 14 inces of snow which my children were loving. We did have to shovel off the trampoline as you can see it was loaded. Brennan did most of the work,which was okay because he enjoys getting his frustration out on something besides his brothers. My kids still thought it should be spring though, they were outside without coats. Silly boys.

Air Bags

Did you know that air bags can go off if you slam the vehicle door too hard. My two oldest boys learned this yesterday. We were sitting in the middle school parking lot. They were fighting over the door, actually Skylar was pulling and pushing the door, driving Brennan crazy. Brennan pulled really hard and the air bag went off. It was very loud. It scared us all pretty bad. My children learned an important lesson about being gentle with doors. They'll never do that again. We are making them work to pay for the air bag. They're not happy, but I think this is a valuable lesson. They need to learn there are consequences to their actions and even though they didn't know there was an air bag in the seat they shouldn't be slamming the doors. I hope they learn to treat things with respect because of this.

Caitlin's Messes

Caitlin loves to draw and has made art on about every surface in our house. The other day I fed her lunch we left her plate on the table while we went to get her brothers from school. We came home, I didn't put the plate away and she found a pencil made art on the plate. This was easy to clean up.

We went to Layton to see Grandpa and Grandma and went to lunch with Grandpa and Aunt Kris while Grandma had surgery on her toe. Caitlin wouldn't eat her lunch so we brought it home. I sat it down and she helped herself while I was bringing stuff in the house. Again she chose to make art with Dalton's fry sauce all down the front of her. Yes playing in it was one of her criteria. Alas, instead of getting mad I ran for the camera.

Birthday Celebration!

We celebrated Brennan's birthday a couple of weeks ago. We have a tradition in our family that allows the birthday person to pick what they want their cake to look like and Mom makes it. Most of the time they turn out pretty cool. He wanted his cake to look like the book Brisingr. I gave it my best shot and he loved it. This is actually one of the quickest cakes I've ever made. I love rolled fondant. Now the kids think I can make anything. We took him and his friends ice skating because that is all Brennan wanted to do. We came back to the house and had cake and ice cream. It was a lot of fun.

I Finally Did it!

Family and friends I finally got the bug, I'm blogging. After reading my sister's blog and my cousin's blog I finally decided to join in. Once I figure out what I'm doing I'm sure it will be better.

Halloween

We carved our own pumpkins for Halloween this year. Dalton picked a dragon, we ended up searching the internet for pictures and found one that he liked I drew it on the pumpkin and then cut and scrapped to make it look like he wanted it.

His costume was also a dragon. He was so excited that he wore everyday for 2 weeks before Halloween. I've never seen him so excited about his costume.

Caitlins was a Princess for Halloween and she was crying because she didn't like Bradly holding her. She didn't like the crown neither. It was all rather funny.

Her pumpkin was small and had a simple face.

Playing in the leaves

My children love fall for all the leaves that fall down. Most of the time it's Skylar and Brennan playing in the leaves, but this year it was Caitlin and Dalton who had the most fun in the leaves. Caitlin enjoys being outside all the time. So playing in the leaves was one of the perks of cleaning up the leaves. It was a lot of fun watching them play, bury each other and hop around. Skylar and Brennan acted so grown up with Dalton and Caitlin, helping them get the leaves gathered and helping them cover up and get out. It was fun watching them play together.