flu shots and weekly highlights

have you been vaccinated?

Maren showing off one of the many bright bandages we recieved Friday.

Maren, Celiese, Luke, and I all went to get the flu shot and other needed shots Friday. I must tell you...I was stricken with ANXIETY over the whole thing. I took all 3 kids by myself! I'm so used to having a mom around to go with and I had to drive to provo (30 min away) to a place i'd never been. I packed a bag of ammo: snacks, coloring books, and reading books. When we got there, I saw another mom with 3 kids going in..."oh" I thought, "i can do this!" And we did...Celiese got away a couple of times as you might guess..but Utah ppl are used to kids and let me know where she was. Now for the SHOT REACTIONS: Maren was the most dramatic. She cried and had a look of terror on her face when she was done. Celiese grimiced a bit then picked out a sticker. Luke screamed and Maren, who had just started to calm down, started crying and the look was back in her eyes! She was so worried about her little brother. I smiled because I was first and had to show the kids it was okay. Afterwords I felt so EMPOWERED (not from the shots) for a job well done! Whew...for now. We need to go back for the second dose of flu shots for Luke and Celiese in a month.

Adam and Kayla...thanks again for the game cube. It keeps all 4 of my kids and my brother entertained while I blog!

This is for Bryan and Vance. They had one of these green mnts and played with it for hours when they were little.

The legacy of curls continues! When Luke gets out of the bath his hair curls up.




Celiese and her heels! Every day...seriously..she puts these on and tromps around the house. It is so funny, when I think about it I just crack up laughing. She talks a lot now and says the most hilarious things. What a joy!

All three of our munchkins in their winter jamies.

Who looks most alert in the morning??

Maren and Celiese play so well together at times...they like to put eachother to bed, take care of their babies, and make me dinner! Our favorite games lately are duck duck goose with the other kids at the park and hide and go seek.

our first snow

2 weeks ago it snowed here...yah, snow in october craziness!The girls were so excited to wake up sunday morning to the snow. I think the video tells the rest of the story...

after the girls came inside jorden got each of the girls a bowl of snow to eat indoors. what a nice dad! by the time we got out of church it had all melted and jorden was kind of sad...not me, i've heard we'll have plenty this winter!

Last week my mom got to come visit for a couple of days. We sure missed her and we had a lot of fun with her. We went to Sundance and Cornbellys. But, I think most of all the girls enjoyed Grandma reading them stories. Thanks mom for all you do! We love you!!

Sundance

prove canyonMy mom came to vist last week and we went to see the pretty fall colors at Sundance in provo canyon. Michelle, Neil, Jackson, and Haley, Vance, my mom, and our family all went. It was absolutely beautiful!

a picture with grandma..Luke was pulling grandma's hair, sorry grandma!
the twins and leaves...read their shirts
Jorden and Bethany...I don't know when the last time is we took a picture of just us, kinda fun
Uncle Vance helping out

a walk in nature is always so refreshing. jorden and I want to get a cabin here and live, it's only about 15 minutes from BYU.

CORNBELLYS

CORN MAZE AND PUMPKIN FESTMaren's preschool went on a feild trip to Cornbellys at Thanksgiving Point (20 minutes from my house) and we got to tag along (meaning we got in for free)! My mom and Michelle and the twins got to come as well. It was really cold...but soooo much fun! They have fun activites for kids and a huge corn maze made out of David Archuleta...funny I know!

Luke in the "corn house" He sits on dried kernals of corn, pretty cool, except after I washed the kids clothes I found a bunch of it in my washer and dryer.
Maren pumping water with some of her classmates.
Celiese, Maren, Luke, and I on the Hay Ride. (thanks for taking the pictures Michelle!)
This thing is awesome..a jumping pillow..even I got on it and jumped with the girls. I want one in my backyard someday!Celiese picking her pumpkin...I missed Maren picking hers with her class, I was trying to get Celiese to come out of a hay maze...good times! We had tonz of fun and I think next year we will take daddy.