HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Our Pre Halloween dessert. YUM!!! Pumpkin cheesecake with oreo crumb crust. Thank you Pintrest!

Jacob said he liked it but I think he just liked the whipping cream ghosts on top.

What a cute Super Hero and Super Villain

Pumpkin Patch

I don't know what it is about this picture but I think Thomas looks just like Mitch!






We have been going to the same pumpkin patch for years, it has kind of become a tradition. With the boys being out of school for UEA, we thought we would go. So we got the pumpkin cart and off we went. Thomas always manages to find the biggest pumpkin he can and this year was no exception. Jacob found his and then I made them find one for Mitch and Maddi too. Even though they aren't going to be home for Halloween, I couldn't leave without 4 pumpkins, it's tradition!. Jake was getting frustrated with me because I kept making him pick a different pumpkin if it didn't have a good enough stem. That's the only thing I insist on is a cute stem, that's not too much to ask for is it? So we found 4 perfect pumpkins and I got a spaghetti squash, YUM! We will carve them next week, the boys are already planning what they are going to do. I love halloween but man I miss having all my kids home for family traditions. Now we are off for another family fall tradition, Frightmares at Lagoon but we are down to one kid. Thomas went to St. George with his favorite person in the whole world, his cousin Tanner. So we have uneven numbers for rollercoasters!
Last weekend we had SO much fun having Maddi home. So much fun I forgot to take pictures. We went shopping and to lunch and saw Footloose (SO GOOD). The weekend went way to fast and I hated sending her back, but if you are her friend on Facebook you see that she is doing great and loving school, well loving her friends any way.

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I said I wouldn't watch this video because I would cry. Well I watched it and I cried watching all those homecomings but makes me look forward to August. Just really missing him this week!

Away she goes

We took Maddi down to school this weekend. We set up her room in her apartment, went grocery shopping and left her in her own place on her 18th birthday! Let me just tell you that two summers of having my kids leave is really starting to get to me! I am excited for her, it will be a great experience for her. I am just sad because I miss her. That is all I have to say for now because I don't want to start crying again, my eyes and head hurt from too much of that already!
Her little room in her apartment turned out cute, thanks to grandmas for helping her with blankets and pillows! She is all stocked up on Smart Pop popcorn and tortillas, she has it made.
Thank goodness I can at least call her and text her whenever I want and don't have to wait for emails!
Thanks to everyone who did so many amazingly nice things for her to get her ready for this adventure, we appreciate it so very much! Also very funny, of course she is wearing her Josh T shirt!(Sorry the pictures are so blurry, my camera is broken so we took these from her i pad )

Are you ready for some Football???

Jacob plays baseball, Jacob is good at baseball. I wish Jacob would play baseball all year long but.... he talked us into trying football this year. A lot of his buddies play and have been telling him how fun it is and his older cousin Tanner who he adores plays and his other cousin Gage, so he decided to take a break from soccer and see if he likes football. All signs are pointing to yes, he does like football!
He went to a camp at the high school and then he had try outs to see what team he would make . Little did we know that he was going to love tackling and he was going to do a really good job and he made the B team. I thought that swimming took up a lot of time but football is almost as time consuming! Practice every day and after practice you bring home a very sweaty, stinky kid but he loves it. I think all of his gear weighs more than he does. We will see how the season goes if he plays again next year. I know I know I said my boys would never play football but so far so good. We are three weeks into it and haven't played a real game yet.
Maddi took some cute pictures of him at practice the other day, I have been told (by Kevin) that cute isn't a word you associate with football, but he looks pretty cute in all his gear!

Josh Groban singing Happy Birthday

A Longer version that the mom of the boy sitting next to Maddi took