Happy Thanksgiving!!

I love this time of year!  I especially love to see the creative things that my kids make at school...

They are so proud to come home and hang it on the fridge for everyone to see. 

I remember the holidays were my favorite time in elementary school, just because of all the fun stuff we would make.  My favorite was the turkeys out of apples, gumdrops and toothpicks...

But what do you do with all of this stuff after the holiday passes?  I saved all of Carter's preschool and kindergarten projects, and I'm just wondering how long this can go on, especially with multiple kids...  Do you just throw it away or do you save it somehow?  As cute as each of these are...it's just beginning to be a little much...

Yummy Dinner

I actually made something that my kids ate and then asked for seconds!!  That NEVER happens at our house!  The only things I know my kids will ALL eat are pizza, soup, or anything they can dip in ranch.  Healthy hu?  Well tonight I decided to make enchiladas.... with no flavor and no heat.  Can you say blaaaaa?  Well they loved them!!  Mila and Leah both had two full plates and Carter just had a little bit because he didn't want to admit that they were good, so he wasn't gettin' more... (I know he liked them though.)

Mila was cracking me up when she was done with her second helping...  She was actually licking her plate!!

This will probably never happen again, so I thought it was worth writing down.

Jason and his Root beer

Ever since I've known Jason he has been into trying different root beer's.  Where ever we go if he sees one that he's never tried...he'll buy it, but they have to be in a glass bottle.  We've even taken road trips to places that he's found that sells rare root beer.

When we first got married he found a "do it yourself" kit where you make your own root beer and then bottle it.  It had to ferment for a while, and when they were ready it was GROSS!!!  He tried it a few times, but they never turned out to where you could actually drink them.

I love homemade root beer with dry ice and I like the "normal" root beers A&W or Barq's, but those don't seem to be good enough for Jason.  He likes the unusual ones that have tree bark as an ingredient... or the ones that seem to taste like black licorice.

Well, he found out that BevMo, that is just down the road, sells a lot of different sodas, so he had to go see what kinds of root beers they had.  He bought four to try out...  I mean just look at the names...what would make you want to try them?

Jason liked them all, but I thought they were ALL nasty!!  I'm sure he's wanting to go back for more soon...  I think I'll just stick with the A&W, thanks.

Carter's Rocket

Carter has wanted a "fire rocket" for a couple of years now.  He's asked for one for Christmas, birthdays and every time we go to Wal-mart, but we've never let him have one.  Well a few weeks ago we saw one at a yard sale, new in the box for five bucks!  Jason couldn't pass it up and Carter has been on cloud nine ever since. 

We took it to a Power Ranch park the other night and it really got quite the audience. It's really cool at night cause you can see the fire when it blasts off, but then it's really difficult to find the rocket when it lands. By the time that found the rocket and gathered up all of the stuff to head home, it was really dark and we left the igniter box at the park. No worries though... Jason rigged it up with a nine volt battery and a phone cord to make it work the next time.

And as I'm typing this they are in the garage building a new igniter to go blast it off later.

I think Jason loves to play with this just as much as Carter does.

Veteran's Day

For Veteran's Day Superstition Farms was having a free day at the farm.  I took the kids back in 2007, but Carter couldn't remember it... So we decided to take them again.

Here's a picture of when we went last time.  Leah was the same age as Mila is now.  To me Carter looks exactly the same only taller.  So funny.

The kids really had a fun time.  They had lots of stuff to do and see, and Mila is way into animals lately, especially cows and horses so she really enjoyed it.

When she saw this horse she said, "NAAAAY".  Her animal sounds are so funny.

We went on a hayride around the farm and Mila LOVED it!!  She kept pointing to the cows and then she would yell "MOO..."  It was so cute.

And then here's the pirate cow.  This cow looked so pitiful with its eye patch.  The kids thought the cow next him was sticking its tongue out at him.  So sad...

The weather was so nice and we ran into a lot of people we knew, but I was glad to leave.  I had enough of the smell.

Spelling Test

Today Carter had to make-up a spelling test from when he missed school on Friday.  We studied this morning before school and he did great.  He didn't miss any words and was really sure that he could get a 100%. (He's gotten 100% on all but 2 tests so far.)  When I picked him up from school this afternoon I asked him how he did...He said, "I don't know, they put a bunch of numbers on my paper."  I told him to let me see it.  He pulls it out of his backpack and it has a 96% and 23/24 on the top...He missed one word.  I asked him "What happened?"  His response was..."They made me sit in the hallway, on my knees, to take the test and I couldn't breathe."

I guess the lack of oxygen made him forget to put the e on the end of more.

What happened to my baby?

Mila is now 18 months old.  For me this was an exciting day.  This day meant that she could finally go into the nursery at church.  It meant that maybe there was actually hope for us to be able to attend OUR class instead of roaming the halls with a very wild toddler. 

Well today...not so much.  When I went to drop her off in her nursery class, it was CRAZY!!  There were crying kids everywhere!  She gets very emotional when she sees someone crying, so I knew that I wouldn't be able to leave her...So lucky Jason got to spend the day in the nursery.  Maybe next week.

These are just a few pictures of her personality...She's quiet and happy one minute and the next she's throwing a fit for something.  This one is for her clothes off.  She's really good at the fits lately.

Knowing that she is our last baby, I kind of don't want her to grow up...but in a way I can't wait either.

Queen Creek Safety Fair

The post of the car crash was done by my jokester husband... After he saw the pictures, he thought they would be funny to post that way to get his mom going...

They were actually from the Safety Fair that Queen Creek had yesterday in the Target parking lot.  I knew it would be right up Carter's alley...so when he woke up on Saturday I told him that he needed to go take a shower, cause we were going to go check out some fire trucks.  He was so excited.

This EMT was showing carter the scissors they use to cut seat belts.  He showed him how it can even cut a penny in half.  Of course he thought that was the coolest thing ever.

This is the bomb-fetching robot that they had moving around.

Carter loved all of the guns that the Sheriff's Department had on display.  Guns seem to be his passion lately. (He was right in the middle of his annoying hard blink.  I thought it was funny.)

We had to leave right when they were getting ready to burn some buildings, so we missed the best part.  Hopefully they'll do it again next year.

Car Crash!!!

Not one scratch on any of us.

Kenya is Home Safe

Last weekend when we went to Safford, Leah left her "bestest friend" Kenya. When we got home and unloaded the car she discovered that she was missing and began to cry hysterically. I knew she was attached to this stuffed dog, but I had no idea how much until she didn't have her for 4 days!

At least she's home safe and sound now, and Leah couldn't be happier!!!

Halloween 2009

Since Halloween fell on a Saturday this year we decided to spend the weekend in Safford.  As soon as we got into town my sister called me and told me that my Grandpa had just past away.  It was very sudden and very unexpected.  I'm so glad that we were there. I was able to spend most of the weekend with my step Grandma, just trying to comfort her through this difficult time.  Once my mom and her brother and sister came I felt like I could go and enjoy Halloween with my family, even though it was difficult.

Carter wanted to be a cop again. I told him that he needed to think of something else because he's been a cop for the past two years.  Well, he came up with a prisoner...it's so Carter. 

Leah wanted to be a cheerleader.  I was lovin' that because we already had the dress-up costume.

Mila was going to be a witch.  I say going because as soon as we started putting her costume on her she starting screaming.  By the time I finally got it all the way on, she was crying so hard she started puking.  We would rather have a happy baby then a grouchy one, so we took it off of her.  Maybe next year...

Mila wasn't sure what to think and everything was "ughee" to her.

Jason's family really gets into Halloween.  They've done haunted houses and Halloween parties for as long as I've known him.  This year they decided to have a party for all the kids and their friends instead of going trick or treating.  This year's haunted house wasn't nearly as scary as in the past, but the kids still loved it!

My mother-in-law the Fortune Teller.

Carter and Leah just went trick or treating to all of the family that lives close by, and they came back with their pumpkins half full.  He says, "Everyone gave us more than one at every house."  He was in candy heaven!!  I guess it was a good thing we didn't plan to go trick or treating... They got enough candy!!

At the Halloween Party the kids had such a fun time!  Jason's mom and sister really went all out to make the night so fun!  They did a treasure hunt, had a contest to make the best mummy, a doughnut eating contest, a cake walk, and a costume contest.

We all had so much fun!!  I really enjoyed just laughing at Aaron the "Nerd".  He fit the costume so well.