Happy Halloween!

Lauren has been SO stinkin excited about Halloween, and Yay that it is finally here! We started off out Halloween with the Down Town Lovell Trick-or-Treat on Friday night. As we started getting ready Sawyer would NOT get on her costume! I had a feeling she wouldn't earilier in the week when I tried to get her to try on the tutu I made - she was not having any of it. (yes, I made a tutu! I didn't realize how easy and cheap it is to make tutu's, and it was so fun and easy, that I made one for Lauren's costume also!) So that afternoon Lauren went as a cat, and Sawyer went as a Terrible Two year old!

Look at miss serious Cat Women here..

She was in a posing mood apparently, or else she was trying to be cat-like! I was having a hard time not laughing while I was taking pictures!!

 

This one is more Lady Lauren!

 

The next Halloween festivity was Lauren's Preschool Party! She was so excited and told me that they would get to party the whole time at Preschool, no "work!"

 

 

 

 

Lauren had a blast at her Preschool Party! She LOVES preschool, and her teachers, and friends! I am so grateful to live in a community where she can have such a great preschool!

 

 

When Lauren got home from preschool, we ate some dinner and headed over to the trunk-or-treat! Trying to be a sly as possible, I succeeded and got Sawyer into her costume! My mom had bought Sawyer's Lady Bug costume at Pamida when they were selling out all there stuff for cheap, and it ended up being too small for Sawyer. So I thought if I added a tutu it would work, and it did - but I think she looked more like a Strawberry than a Lady Bug! If Sawyer would have let me try the costume on all together sooner, I could have made a green tutu and she could have been a Strawberry :) But, she was a Lady Bug and it worked out just great!

 

Trunk-or-Treat is a great way to go when you have small kiddos, I think! You can get their buckets filled fast, and then have time to go show off the kids to their Grandma's and Grandpa's!

 

 

My little Lady Bug, and Kitty Cat

 

Erik has a different job (same company), and now he works straight days (instead of a continuous work week) and this was his first Halloween to go trick or treating with the girls! 

We visited Great Grandma Allred, and I forgot to get a picture with her! Then we visited Great Grandma Fran! (and my camera has been taking very blurry pictures lately, and of course I figure out the problem when I get home Halloween night, and have a camera full of blurry Halloween pictures! Oh well, you get what you get and you don't throw a fit, right?!) 

 

 

 

Sawyer was so sweet, she didn't want to leave Grandma Fran!

Erik was set on doing some door to door trick-or-treating, so we went around Cowley to a few places, and then headed to Lovell to visit the Grandparents there! We had a fun night trick-or-treating, the girls ate too much candy - and they still are eating too much candy. I just try to remind myself that I probably ate too much candy during Halloween when I was younger and I made it through ok!

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!

Lovin' the Leaves!

The weather has been so nice lately, and I feel like we need to soak in all the good weather that we can before winter comes! And thanks to abundance of leaves, we had some fun raking up piles and jumping into them! We also had some of those sacks that look like pumpkins and ghost's to fill up with leaves, and that kept us busy for a while! I really thought I might be able to rake up all the leaves to make the yard look nice... and then I started... and then I thought, what was I thinking! I asked Erik if I got the leaves all in a pile could he burn them for me, and he was said "oh, I thought you were just playing around, I was going to mow up the leaves." Music to my ears, Erik! Then I started to have fun!

 

 

Sawyer had SO much fun walking through the leaves!

 

 

I cannot believe how blonde her hair is getting!

 

 

Lauren was determined to fill a sack up all by herself, and no one was allowed to help her!

 

 

 

Lauren is getting ready to jump..

And the landing is good!

Contemplating her next move... 

PLAYING IN THE LEAVES IS SO MUCH FUN!

 

Corn Maze

This post is a tad bit over due!

 

About a month ago, we went to the corn maze over in Worland! I have never been to a corn maze, so I was excited to go :) Lauren was antelope hunting with Erik so it was just Sawyer and I with my Mom, Lila, Kandace and her boys!

 

 

 Not even half way in, and we are LOST!! Haha! We found that we weren't as smart as we thought we were!!

 

Since we didn't know how to get out of there, we stopped to take some pictures!

Kandace and her boys!



My mom with my nefew Dylan (who has now outgrown everyone!)

And we are off agian!! With Kandace as the leader we were sure to find the end ;)

You know those times you are excited for your kids to be able to get out and walk, and you think they will enjoy it just as much. Well Sawyer did NOT want to walk!! Because I usually feel bad when we have to drive along time, and think that the kids will just want to run free and wild... I guess I should expect to just hold her, and then she will want to run wild :)

My mom and Lila, trying to make it "fun" for miss Sawyer to walk!!

(I post this because I love Lila's face!!)

 



We made it!! Everyone jump for joy!

 



After the jumping Benson was trying to get my attention because he wanted me to take his picture while he jumped!



Wow guys, Sawyer was impressed!!

Dylan looks more like a worm coming out of an apple!

The kiddos! 

The adults :)

Kandace and Lila win "Best Silly Face!" I tried to think of a better silly face, but I panicked and Dylan was taking the picture so I just had to go with something!! I guess being silly (or maybe just weird) comes easier to Kandace and Lila ;)

 



That plan backfired... literally!

Yesterday Erik was working on his truck and asked me to come help him, I so kindly agreed. His truck wasn't starting up so he asked me to spray some starting fluid for him.. sure no biggy, I have done this before. So I sprayed the starting fluid and the truck still wouldn't start. So he started to wiggle things around and see what the problem was, I went back inside. He came in again and asked me to spray the starting fluid for him agian. So he tried starting the truck and I spraid the starting fluid, the truck was sounding like it was going to start and he said to spray somemore (atleast I think he told me that, or I just sprayed more because it seemed to be helping) then. it. backfired. I see a big flame shooting out (at me) and hear a big boom! I scream and jump back. Then I realize that hair burns, I have lots of hair, I love my hair and my eyebrows... Is it still there?! Erik jumps out of the truck and asks if I am ok, and he looks at me and his eye's get BIG and then he laughs. Yes, he laughs. I think I start to laugh and cry because I don't have a clue what I look like! He gives me hug (still laughing) and makes sure I'm ok and says "Uh, I think you are going to need a hair cut." I ask if it is bad, and he says it just got your bangs (I love my bangs!) and then I move my face around and feel my eyebrows are crunchy feeling and I panick and ask if my eyebrown are still there. He laughs and says yeah they are still there but the ends are burnt. Then he asks me if I am ok one more time and asks if I am mentally ok, and I say yes. Then he laughs so hard that he almost fell to the ground! At this point I don't want to look in the mirror, because the smell of my burnt hair was enough to make me thing the worst, but I look and it wasn't terribly bad, but not terribly good either!

 

 

Pictures never do any justice... My hair was kind of wind blown back so it got under my bangs, and I can hide it easily. Some of my longer hair was infront of my jacket and the ends got singed together. So I will definitely need a hair cut, but it didn't do as much damage as I thought, or as it could have done. My eyebrows and my eyelashes are a tad bit shorter now, but again - nothing I can't handle. I am just grateful that it didn't do anymore damage. Yikes!

Look who's TWO!

 

Little Sawyer turned 2! I’m pretty sure she didn’t have a clue as to why she got spoiled that day… but we spoiled her anyway! We started our birthday celebration off by going swimming at the Powell Aquatic Center. My girls have really started enjoying swimming, so we try to go as much as we can! Then as we had to rush home to get Lauren to the bus, Sawyer and I relaxed until Lauren got home. When it was time we headed out to my mom’s house to get the party started! I decided to do a Blue’s Clues party for her because she loves the show Blue’s Clues! (But then again, I could have done anything and she would have loved it!) And when I say I did a Blue’s Clues party the only thing Blue’s Clues at the party was the cake… and some of the presents! Haha! I think it is so fun when people go all out and decorate, but with my kind of procrastination… things like that don’t happen!

Anyways, our kind of family parties go a little like this; eat some yummy food along with some awesome cake (made by Grandma Debbie), and open presents!

 

 

 Some of our party guests!! (Doesn't Lila look fabulous!)

 The Blue's Clues cake! Grandma Debbie always does an amazing job. The frosting on this cake was. simply. AMAZING.

 The birthday girl with her cake!

 She wasn't so sure about the candle's, but she did try to blow them out!!

 Benson and Sawyer fighting over Blue!

 Time to open presents!! She didn't really want to open them, so we had Ben and Lauren show her how it was done. They were more than happy to help her out!

 (do you like me wrapping paper?! With my kind of procrastination, you wrap the presents at the last minute with the wrapping paper that you have in your house. And the only wrapping paper in my house is Christmas!!)

 Sawyer got a handy dandy notebook that she loved!

  She got lots of fun presents. This bear bag was filled with about 8 little babies, she was in heaven!

 Who doesn't love a camera! Sawyer new just what to do with it! She was telling everyone to say cheese!

 Sawyer worn out from all the present opening had to come back to the table for another round of cake! That's my girl!

She was showing me Blue!
We had such a great day with our birthday girl! I cannot believe how fast she is growing!