My Sweet Grandmother!

I just want to say that my grandmother is one of the most amazing people I have ever met. I absolutely adore her. We have been very blessed to live close to my grandparents, so our kids can get to know them too. She hasn't been doing very well recently and we have been visiting her a lot. Jack always puts on a show with his loud voice and giggles, and Davis showed her his rock collection for scouts and then sang her some songs from his Thanksgiving Day program at school!

Yard Work!

Mark was taking advantage of the warm fall weather and trying to bury some of the sprinklers he was able to get in. He was being very patient with Davis who was supposed to be learning and helping, but instead he was being eight!

Jack was supervising the project and boy can he yell.

We finally polished the turd!

The poo has turned blue. (A quote by Mark Petersen!) The house is almost finished being painted. It just needs a few touch ups and some gray paint for the gables. The colored turned out pretty great and now I never drive past our house because I didn't see it!

I just want to point out our fancy new drive way! Yep there will be no more mudding for me in the spring! Hopefully the dirt level in the house goes down also.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween. I know more Halloween pictures. We can't help it, Halloween is our second favorite Holiday. Plus if you have to put work and money into Halloween costumes you might as well let the kids wear them as much as possible. If only we had the same mentality for wedding dresses.....


We went trunk or treating with our ward this year and it was fabulous. I am a big fan. I know some people hate it, but those people must not have children. We do leave a big bowl of candy on our front porch for those who chose to go door to door. We don't ever get trick or treaters, but I keep thinking someone will get smart and come over and dump the whole bowl into their bag!






This is Davis and Ethan. They were both pretty excited that they were Indiana Jones!















Ethan, Davis and Noah having a great time making multiple rounds around to all the cars! I was very grateful the kids were going around to the cars more than once. We had way to much candy and I was staring to give handfuls to get rid of it!









My Beautiful sister Hilary and her awesome son
Iron Man!














Mark and the bumble bee.




My sister and I passing out candy to all of the fabulous kids. Yep, I am wearing flip flops and a winter coat. Go figure!

Halloween Parade

Davis's school did a big Halloween parade. Davis was so excited to dress up for school. He was even telling me that he made sure not to run around on the grass at recess, so he didn't get grass stains on his Indiana Jones' pants.

This is Davis with his fantastic teacher Mrs. Flake. For anyone who has a kid going into 3rd grade I highly recommend her!

The whole class!

Pumpkin Carving

The day before Halloween, we had my family over for homemade pizza and pumpkin carving.
I ran to Macey's right before everyone was coming over and every single one of their pumpkins were gone. I really wish I was a better planner. Luckily I had taken Davis to the pumpkin patch on Geneva Road and I had let him pick out one pumpkin for him. I figured we didn't all need pumpkins. Mark ends up helping him out anyway and then I get out of carving all together!

This is my niece and nephew, Maddie and Dallin. Davis had taken off his nice shirt, and carved in his undershirt so he wouldn't get it dirty. Maddie and Dallin decided they didn't want their clothes dirty either!

This is my other Niece Elli. She was just standing around looking cute. She is pretty good at it!

My brother-in-law Earl was helping his daughter Nadya with her pumpkin. Isn't her smile adorable!

Mark was making sure his fat baby was fed before he helped his eldest with his pumpkin! What a good Dad.

All the kids showing off their pumpkins.

Our Stay-Cation

For UEA we decided that with Gas prices and the baby it might be easier to stay home and find fun things to do here. So we had a Stay-cation. (I just learned that word from the Young Woman's president in our ward, pretty clever huh!) We went to Cornbelly's with my sister Hilary and her son Dallin and had a great time enjoying the last of the warm weather.

There was a ton a different things for the kids to do and Jack loved being toted around in his snuggly. I loved that Dad was doing the toting!

We also went on the Heber Creeper with our friends the Dansies. They have a train that you can go on and they tells ghost stories with scary sights on the way and creepy passengers.

The guys had the babies in this picture, but that didn't last long. Grumpy babies need their mommies.

Lana, me and the boys all dressed up!

The boys wanted to sit by themselves for a while to show off how tough they were!

Davis looks quite dashing. I think he could play the next Indiana Jones!

Time Tests

In Davis's class they do timed math tests to help them memorize the basics, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Davis was having a hard time with this. He is easily distracted and he tends to psych himself out. Anyway I will confess I was a little worried because he was getting behind so I went and bought flash cards and a little bribe, a new Indiana Lego set! Say what you will about my Mom skills, the bribe worked and Davis passed the subtraction test two days later. Not only that, but without a bribe he passed the two's multiplication the next week!

Grandma Petersen's Halloween Party

These are pictures from Grandma Petersen's annual Halloween Party. As always she did a fantastic job and the kids had a lot of fun. They painted pumpkins, did a craft and Grandma read them spooky Halloween stories.





We were also were able to celebrate something very special at the party for Davis. On Oct. 9 we went to court and the judge agreed to let us change Davis's name. He is now officially a PETERSEN!!!! (The cupcakes have his new name on them) We are very excited and I think it will make everything a little easier. Doesn't Indiana, I mean Davis, look happy!!!!!

Chuck E Cheese

It was a very cold weekend and the kids needed to do something, so Jeff, Amy their kids and our family all decided to go to Chuck e Cheese! Amy and I searched on line for coupons and we were able to get a pizza, drinks and a whole bunch of tokens for $30.00. We split it and had a whole bunch of fun for $15.00. Worth it for a couple hours of fun.

For some reason we were never able to get a family picture with all of us together, so I posted them all! It was pretty noisy for Jack, note his face in the carrier.

Amy and I with our coordinating sweaters! Happy to have the kids running around and yelling somewhere besides our houses!

Erin wondering where she can use her tokens next!

Katelyn on a joy ride!

Davis and Ethan stopping their game of ski ball to pose for a picture!

Davis feeding his crazy amount of tickets into the machine!

Ethan and Davis deciding what great little toys they can get for their hard earned tickets. This is my least favorite part of Chuck E Cheese, it drives me crazy. Davis stands there for what seems like hours deciding on what cheap toys he can take home. The goal is to get as many things as possible instead of maybe getting one or two cool things that are worth more tickets. I think being the helper at the ticket counter would be my worst job ever. Waiting for kid after kid to decide what trinkets they want and then changing their mind.

Anyway we did have a blast despite the ticket counter!