Gymnastics

Kennady and Brooke had their gymnastics "show off" day. It's a day for everyone to bring their parents to see all the things that they have learned so far this year. 

Kennday has come such a long way when it comes to the balance beam and the bars.
She is slowly overcoming her fear of heights. 

Brooke is so excited to be in the "Pre-team" level of gymnastics.  She is learning a lot more advanced moves and is loving every minute.  She is getting more and more flexible, strong and coordinated every week.  Her favorite so far is the bars and vault.

Jake's Birthday and Thanksgiving

We celebrated Jake's 37th birthday by taking it easy at home.  He was on call for work but we still had fun.  Kennady wrapped up a picture that she had been working on for him in one of our bathroom towels.  She is so cute! Then we celebrated with a pumpkin cheesecake.

Thanksgiving was pretty low key as well since Jake was on call. I made our Thanksgiving meal which turned out pretty good, if I must say.  HaHa.  After cleaning up and having a well deserved nap we took the kids to see "Rise of the Guardians".  When we got home we decorated the Christmas tree.

We went to Kennady's class to watch a little play that they had been working on.
  Kennady sure made a cute little pilgrim.

Some misc. pictures

Kennady and Zach are quite the characters! They definitely liven up our house.

Halloween

Instead of going to the Fairview Trunk or Treat we decided to just stick around our neighborhood and have the kiddios treat or treat the good ole' fashioned way, door to door.  Not only did I love it but the kids did too, even though they didn't end up with as much candy.  

I had the kids help me make these yummy carmel apples

Dad was a trooper and helped a lot with carving the pumpkins.

Tyler and Brooke couldn't wear costumes to school but they
had fun with crazy hair day and the pumpkin patch contest.

Jake and I went to Kennady's Halloween parade at school. What a cute little kitty!!

Zach and Cooper on the front porch just before we left to go trick or treating.
 Zach didn't know what he was in store for but loved every minute, he loves his candy! 

My cute kids all ready to go trick or treating.

Tyler's friend, Robert, came along with us.

The girlies trick or treating!

Fall Break

We rented a cabin near Park City for a few days with Cari and Phil for Fall Break. It turned out to be a lot of fun for everyone.  

Kaden, Tyler and Danny spent a lot of time playing pool.

The girls had a lot of fun together. They played games, watched movies, played with their American Girl dolls and loved getting in the hot tub at night.

I think Tyler was a little out numbered in the hot tub!

I celebrated my 36th birthday while we were there.  We made a trip into Park city to get some groceries, ate at Cafe Rio and went to the outlet mall to find me some boots.  When we got back from Park City, Jake made me a yummy chocolate cake and we played card games.  It was a fun birthday!

Grandma and Grandpa were able to come up one day for a little while.  We went on a walk/hike, had dinner at the cabin and then played some games.

The last day we made a trip into Salt Lake. Mostly because Jake wanted to check out the new Scheels sporting store.  While he was looking at bows, guns, ammo etc.  I had a couple of hours to try to entertain the girls so we took lots of fun pictures and Brooke even went on the ferris wheel that was right in the middle of the store! 

I could not get Zach away from this gun arcade game.  He loved it!
He is such a little man!!