Pumpkin picking

Our special pumpkin faces this year.

At the pumpkin patch.

Lots of pumpkins to choose from.

At the straw maze in salem with our frinds the Moffits. Bailee, Ella, Brayden, Addie, and Ellie

Bailee and ella at the staw maze

Well last Saturday we decided to get into the Halloween spirit and go pick out pumpkins. We went to this big red barn in idaho falls. They had 2 big fields of pumpking growing. There was every color and size you could imagine. The kids had a good time picking out their pumpkins. Them we took them home and did the easy way of carving pumpkins this year. Our house is coming along. The shingles are on the roof, and all of the windows are in now. Hopefully next week the plumber and electrician gets to work. Ella had a bad week this week going to the baby sitter. She usually likes to go, but this week she cried and was not very happy with me when I went to gt her. Joe is in Salmon fishing this week with the guys from co-op. My dad has also been gone this week so it is just he girls, me, and my mom at home this week. Ella is finally starting to say a few more words. With much help from grandma tammy this week she now will say gradma and papa. We are looking forward to boo at the zoo and halloween next week.

cute ella

I was looking through pictures on my moms computer and I came across this picture of ella. She was between 2-3 months old. Ella is a challenge to me everyday. She makes my life very colorful. Where would our family be without our sweet and very lively ella. So here is a picture that makes me really want another baby and help's me remember how much I love my sweet ella!!

Family Fun

Okay how sad is this, but this is the only pic I have of my whole family. I usually never get in the pics because I am taking them. I think I decided that we are going to have family pics very soon, maybe after harvest. I need a nice family picture to hang in my new house.
What a cute new friend ella found at grandma's house. No it's no her mother after working her night shift!!

Logan, where are your pants?
This will be Peyton's first Halloween, so of course we had to try on his costume too. What a cute Lion!!
Rachel and Tyler have a new baby named Bella. They adopted her from the Human Society. She is a rather large dog, but she is very sweet.
Peyton is starting to look more like his mommy.
Ann and Brad are back from new york and I think will be home for awhile. We had a fun family weekend at mom and dad's. We got to watch the snow and enjoy the nice warm fire. Thanks mom and dad for being such gracious hosts. Even though the kids destroy the house, I think they are glad we are all here. Mom was not in the pictures because she seems to avoid the camera and dad and jesse were on their way back from council braving a blizzard to get home to their families. We are glad they made it home safe!

Halloween preview

He is getting so big. He is almost 4 months old, what a handsome boy!!
How cute are these two babies. Ella is always loving on peyton.

What a cute girl. Ella was showing uncle jess and aunt kim her Halloween costure. How long do you think the head piece will stay on?

Well the progress on our house this week is windows, and almost all the concrete is done. It seems like it is still so far off. Rach and Ty are here and we are enjoying them. We are not however, enjoying the weather. Who ordered the wind? It it suppose to snow, we will see. My best friend in boise said it snowed a little bit there so I guess that means it is headed our direction. We will try to get some pics of everybody this weekend. Dad and jesse are in council hunting. Jesse shot his deer, I think he was pretty excited. Sure hope kim likes deer meat. I hope the weather stays nice for about another week so we can get the potatoes out of the ground.

update on the house

Well the house is coming along. Here are the most recent pics. They are suppose to pour the rest of the concrete and get the windows in this week. We are getting excited. Living with my parents has been good but it is just hard not to have your own space. We are now 4 days into spud harvest. All is well so far. WE are just hoping we don't get too much snow this weekend that causes us to delay digging. I think I recall that happened to us last year. It is funny that the weather was in the high 70's and as soon as we started digging spuds the temperature dropped about 20 degrees. Ironic isn't it? Work is going well. I started working one day a week at the BYU-ID student health center. It is a lot of fun. They have a great staff and the students are friendly and mostly very appreciative of the care. We are getting excited for halloween at our house. Bailee is going to be Hannah Montana (what a surprise) and ella is going to be a flower. Grandma tammy found the cutest costume in park city for miss ella at children's place. I am in charge of Bailees halloween party for Kindergarden so it should be fun. I can't believe how close it is to xmas. I guess I better get shopping. We are going to Lagoon next week for frightmares with our friends rebecca and makayla weaver. That is going to be fun. We should also get some good pictures to post. A couple weeks ago in relief society we had a lesson about being mothers based on one of the confernce talks from the april conference (I think). One of the points in the lesson talked about "mommy moments". It was fun to listen to everyones mommy moments. The lady teaching the lesson said that she had a special place in her journal the she dedicated to mommy moments. She would just write down random things as they happened. I thought that was a very cute idea. It seems like our kids grow up so fast and that is just one more way we can try to remember all the cute things they do.