Halloween party w/ the McKee's

 We had our friends, the McKee's, over to carve pumpkins and make caramel apples last week.  We thought the kids might want to be more involved...

 but, as you can see, the adults did...everything.  We had a great time though.

 Jared likes to design his own--he was going for a zombie look.

 I carved a cute little jack-o-lantern from the pumpkin Sam got at school.

 Casey's ended up looking the coolest because of the green face.  Plus his was the biggest.

 The first two are the McKee's that they brought from their own garden.  The last three are the Bigler's.

 I didn't take any pictures of the caramel apples, but they were delicious!  I even made my own caramel.  I also baked the pumpkin seed and they tasted yummy too.

I tried those nail stickers

I'm only on day two, but they're still holding strong.  The package says they should last 10 days.  We'll see.  I really love how they turned out!

The Hites + Grandma came to town!!

We LOVE it when family comes to visit!  We had such a great time!  The Hite kids were on their fall break, but Vernal wasn't so we had all the places to ourselves!  I don't have any pictures of the rec center pool, but we had so much fun there too.  The last picture here is of a teas party that Baylee set up with all of Sam and Quinn's stuffed animals.  SO CUTE!  Thank you so much for visiting!!!  When will you be back?!?

Sammy's birthday month

 On Sammy's birthday we went over to our friend's house and had a birthday dinner and ice cream pie.  We love our friends, The McKee's, and it was nice of them to open their home for us to party at.
On Monday Sam got to share some birthday treats with his pre-school class.

Then a week later grandma and aunt Marci and our Hite cousins came to visit us in Vernal and came with gifts.  We had such a fun time showing the cousins what Vernal had to offer.  We went to the pool and to the bounce house place and to seven 11.  My nieces and nephew thought that Vernal was the best place!

Happy 2nd Birthday Quinn!!!

 I made a monkey cake for my little monkey...

 Quinn loved this bear from his Aunt Mandi soooo much...until he opened the next present.

  My mom is a very smart and talented woman!  She made sure Sammy had something to open up on Quinn's birthday.  Thanks Mom!  The boys LOVE their capes--I love their capes.  I love, in the above picture, the pose Sammy is in.  He's showing his cape off to Jared.

 Quinny's saying "car, car..."  This present was a big hit too!

 Here Quinny is roar-ing at his new dinosaur blanket

 I love this action shot of Quinny in his new cape.

Can you tell the boys don't want to be disturbed while they were playing with their new toys?
We had a party that night with some of Quinn and Sam's friends, as well as some people from Jared's work.  We all had a great time!  Thank you EVERYBODY!  We have a wonderful group of family and friends.  We love you all!

A new addition to our family!

Isn't it beautiful!?!

1st day of pres-school

My baby is growing up!?!  Sammy looks so old in this picture!  This was the best shot I could get of his first day of school.  I was chasing him around with the camera and then I started to get mad so he paused for 2 seconds so I could take his picture.  He told me it hurt his eyes when I took it and then he told me to put the camera away.  He's so bossy!  He had a fun first day though--he didn't want to leave so we made a scene getting back to the car--he was kicking and screaming the whole way.  When I asked him what they did in school he told me they painted.  Sammy is very excited to go back again.  I just hope Wednesday we have a better picking-up experience.