Pumpkin Patch

Last week my family went to the pumpkin patch. My family being My mom, aunt Jolene, Jeantte and Tyler, Deanna, Kelly and Kairi, myself and the two boys. Bob was at a Football game. It was a lot of fun. Unfortunetly we waited a little later in the month to go and wouldn't you know rain was in the forecast. We planned on meeting at 2:00 at the patch. That morning we woke to rain. I was crossing my fingers and toes that it would clear up. Luck was with us and by two it was better weather. So off to the pumpkin patch we all went. It was fun wondering the field. Zack had a blast picking up pumpkins and adding them to our wheelbarrow. He of course doesn't get the concept that we actually have to buy the pumpkins. All he knew was there was a field full of pumpkins and he could get whatever he wanted. So when he wasn't looking I put some of the pumpkins back into the field. He also didn't understand that you couldn't throw pumpkins. Luckily most of the pumpkins were squishy all ready so I didn't feel too bad if he bruised one or two of them. I was able to get some fun pictures of the kids.



These are two of the pumpkins that we ended up going home with (no charge of course). He's such a silly boy!


Gavin of course just wanted to eat the dirt, hay and vines that were in the pumpkin patch.

This is my favorite picture because it's all the cousins. Tyler who is 15, Zack who is 2, Gavin who is 7 months and Kairi who is 3 months.

Just as we were leaving the pumpkin patch it started to rain. By the time we got home it was a downpour. We definitly were there at the right time. The boys has such cute shirts on, it's too bad they were hidden by their jackets. This is one reason I'm not a fan of cold weather. Cute clothes are hidden beneath layers!

Oh What a Fright

I love halloween. I love decorating for it. I love wearing costumes. And this years I am super excited to celebrate it with my two boys. Zack has been practicing trick or treating all month. Not sure he understands the concept but I know once he gets that first bit of candy in his bag he'll be hooked. I started decorating a little late this year... but Zack was a big help. He especially loved his new friend:

I love this pictures because it's so Zack. He is such a ham. He would have played with this guy all day long if it hadn't broke. So all decorations are hands off from now on.

I also love dressing my kids for halloween. It's so exciting to celebrate Gavin's first Halloween!

I'm making the boys costumes this year so we'll see how they turn out. In my mind they are amazing. But not sure what it will end up being. And I'm kind of a matchy matchy type person so the boys will be dressed alike. I'll be dressed along the same theme. And Bob.... well he'll be wearing a mustache (that's all I could get him to agree too

Oh what a fright

I love halloween. I love decorating for it. I love wearing costumes. And this years I am super excited to celebrate it with my two boys. Zack has been practicing trick or treating all month. Not sure he understands the concept but I know once he gets that first bit of candy in his bag he'll be hooked. I started decorating a little late this year... but Zack was a big help. He especially loved his new friend:

I love this pictures because it's so Zack. He is such a ham. He would have played with this guy all day long if it hadn't broke. So all decorations are hands off from now on.

I also love dressing my kids for halloween. It's so exciting to celebrate Gavin's first Halloween!

I'm making the boys costumes this year so we'll see how they turn out. In my mind they are amazing. But not sure what it will end up being. And I'm kind of a matchy matchy type person so the boys will be dressed alike. I'll be dressed along the same theme. And Bob.... well he'll be wearing a mustache (that's all I could get him to agree too

Do the Wave

It's been a pretty crazy month in our household... have I said that before!?

Zack is still potty training... tell me it will end soon. We may have to try another tactic because the only thing that seems to be working is letting him run around the house naked. And out in public that is no bueno. There was one night we accidentally put him to bed with his underwear on and surprisingly the next morning he was dry. He does good for a little bit then the next thing we know he's naked. It's just a never ending cycle. But he's only 2 so he's okay. Now if in 2 more years I'm still saying the same thing, we are in trouble.

Gavin has gotten his first tooth... make that first two teeth. Both are on the bottom. Now it really hurts when he bites your finger. He actually handled it really well minus the 30 minutes it took to realize there was a tooth there. Hardly any drooling, fever or runny nose. After the teeth came in he started getting a fever so that was odd. He's also had what looked like baby acne round one of his eyes a few months ago. It comes and goes so I wasn't too concerned. Then the other eye started getting it. Now he's got what looks like a rash on his eyes, forehead, some on his back and also where his diaper is. Now I'm worried. I've called the doctor and we go in on Tuesday to have a look at it. I kind of hope it sticks around so we can finally get it taken care of.

Which leads me to the next fun thing. Our car is having troubles. Beginning of September I was driving home from being out all day and just as I was turning from the highway to another street my car died! D.I.E.D In the middle of the intersection. And this particular intersection is not a fun one. Normally only 2-3 cars make the light so with my dead car in the intersection trying to turn left I had some very unhappy people behind me. 3 lights it took me to turn. Ugh! It was a nightmare. It was also a day that I was late getting home to pick up the husband and his friends so we could go to a BYU Football game. So needless to say we left the car on the side of the road and got it later. And wouldn't you know it when Bob picked it up later that day it worked fine. Didn't die once. It hadn't had a problem since until my birthday. This time I had my cousin with me so she could confirm the fun ride we had home. Bob was home so he took it out for a spin and got it to fail that time. The next day we took it to the dealership to have it diagnosed and wouldn't you know they couldn't get it to fail. Two days they had it without a problem... ugh. I hate faulty cars.

On top of that our computer hard drive crashed and burned. It was fine one minute then I got the blue screen of death. I tried to restart the computer and it started making a horrible noise. My brother in law and brother both looked at and confirmed that it wad dead. Luckily I had backed up all my pictures last month so what wasn't backed up was still on my camera. Unfortunetly a few movies and music that we downloaded hadn't been backed up. But what is upsetting me the most is all my "favorites" are gone. I had a awesome catalog of crafts and cool websites that I had found. Oh well if that's all we had lost it makes us pretty lucky.

And since all things come in Three's. Our faucet started leaking and we had to drop $130 to get that fixed. The fun of being a homeowner :)

Now my news....

I am finally employeed. I am the newest member of Bed Bath and Beyond.... yeah I'm excited too. It will be fun. Every once in a while I'll get to work with my good friend Sharma so that will rock. The pay isn't that great but I will work mostly late afternoons/Evenings so I'll be home with the kids but still bring in a little bit of money. I did interview with Nike the day I started at BB&B so we are crossing our fingers they pay more and offer me a job. I 1/2 way interviewed with Discover but they called just as I had gotten Gavin in his car seat which he proceeded to have a meltdown when I left the room to take the call. Needless to say when I had to get off the phone with them and asked the women to call me back in an hour or so she didn't :(. Which makes me sad. Discover would have been perfect for me because they pay more and they had a shift from 5-1am. Oh well, I tried.

Craft Blog

So many of you noticed the vinyl project that I had posted a few days ago. And just to clarify Deanna did buy the vinyl and I just used it ALL. But to be fair I am going to buy her more and cut out whatever she wants in any color that she wants... so in the end I will have spent the money on the vinyl. Love you Deanna :)

I have started a craft blog that I am going to try to document some of the crafts that I have tried. Many of them will be things that I saw on other craft blogs and I'll give credit where it is due. I'm going to try to make tutorials as well so if you want to craft along with me you can. I just didn't want the craft stuff to overwhelm my family stuff, so I'm keeping them seperate. The craft blog webiste is

http://tried-by-jenn.blogspot.com/

but you can also find it if you go to my dashboard. I do have three blogs on the dashboard because I'll probably be going back to public with my blog but didn't want the same web address so everything on the third blog is a duplicate to this one.

Another reason that I'm doing this is because I want to try out for so you think your crafty and I needed a place to document my crafts. Of course to be a part of that contest I'll have to have original crafts so I'm trying to find my style and get more crafty.

Thanks for keeping up with my family and hope to see you on my craft website as well. Feedback is wanted.

I have a Circus post below so don't forget to read that as well :)

Do the wave

It's been a pretty crazy month in our household... have I said that before!?

Zack is still potty training... tell me it will end soon. We may have to try another tactic because the only thing that seems to be working is letting him run around the house naked. And out in public that is no bueno. There was one night we accidentally put him to bed with his underwear on and surprisingly the next morning he was dry. He does good for a little bit then the next thing we know he's naked. It's just a never ending cycle. But he's only 2 so he's okay. Now if in 2 more years I'm still saying the same thing, we are in trouble.

Gavin has gotten his first tooth... make that first two teeth. Both are on the bottom. Now it really hurts when he bites your finger. He actually handled it really well minus the 30 minutes it took to realize there was a tooth there. Hardly any drooling, fever or runny nose. After the teeth came in he started getting a fever so that was odd. He's also had what looked like baby acne round one of his eyes a few months ago. It comes and goes so I wasn't too concerned. Then the other eye started getting it. Now he's got what looks like a rash on his eyes, forehead, some on his back and also where his diaper is. Now I'm worried. I've called the doctor and we go in on Tuesday to have a look at it. I kind of hope it sticks around so we can finally get it taken care of.

Which leads me to the next fun thing. Our car is having troubles. Beginning of September I was driving home from being out all day and just as I was turning from the highway to another street my car died! D.I.E.D In the middle of the intersection. And this particular intersection is not a fun one. Normally only 2-3 cars make the light so with my dead car in the intersection trying to turn left I had some very unhappy people behind me. 3 lights it took me to turn. Ugh! It was a nightmare. It was also a day that I was late getting home to pick up the husband and his friends so we could go to a BYU Football game. So needless to say we left the car on the side of the road and got it later. And wouldn't you know it when Bob picked it up later that day it worked fine. Didn't die once. It hadn't had a problem since until my birthday. This time I had my cousin with me so she could confirm the fun ride we had home. Bob was home so he took it out for a spin and got it to fail that time. The next day we took it to the dealership to have it diagnosed and wouldn't you know they couldn't get it to fail. Two days they had it without a problem... ugh. I hate faulty cars.

On top of that our computer hard drive crashed and burned. It was fine one minute then I got the blue screen of death. I tried to restart the computer and it started making a horrible noise. My brother in law and brother both looked at and confirmed that it wad dead. Luckily I had backed up all my pictures last month so what wasn't backed up was still on my camera. Unfortunetly a few movies and music that we downloaded hadn't been backed up. But what is upsetting me the most is all my "favorites" are gone. I had a awesome catalog of crafts and cool websites that I had found. Oh well if that's all we had lost it makes us pretty lucky.

And since all things come in Three's. Our faucet started leaking and we had to drop $130 to get that fixed. The fun of being a homeowner :)

Now my news....

I am finally employeed. I am the newest member of Bed Bath and Beyond.... yeah I'm excited too. It will be fun. Every once in a while I'll get to work with my good friend Sharma so that will rock. The pay isn't that great but I will work mostly late afternoons/Evenings so I'll be home with the kids but still bring in a little bit of money. I did interview with Nike the day I started at BB&B so we are crossing our fingers they pay more and offer me a job. I 1/2 way interviewed with Discover but they called just as I had gotten Gavin in his car seat which he proceeded to have a meltdown when I left the room to take the call. Needless to say when I had to get off the phone with them and asked the women to call me back in an hour or so she didn't :(. Which makes me sad. Discover would have been perfect for me because they pay more and they had a shift from 5-1am. Oh well, I tried.

My Craft Blog

So many of you noticed the vinyl project that I had posted a few days ago. And just to clarify Deanna did buy the vinyl and I just used it ALL. But to be fair I am going to buy her more and cut out whatever she wants in any color that she wants... so in the end I will have spent the money on the vinyl. Love you Deanna :)

I have started a craft blog that I am going to try to document some of the crafts that I have tried. Many of them will be things that I saw on other craft blogs and I'll give credit where it is due. I'm going to try to make tutorials as well so if you want to craft along with me you can. I just didn't want the craft stuff to overwhelm my family stuff, so I'm keeping them seperate. The craft blog webiste is

http://tried-by-jenn.blogspot.com/

but you can also find it if you go to my dashboard. I do have three blogs on the dashboard because I'll probably be going back to public with my blog but didn't want the same web address so everything on the third blog is a duplicate to this one.

Another reason that I'm doing this is because I want to try out for so you think your crafty and I needed a place to document my crafts. Of course to be a part of that contest I'll have to have original crafts so I'm trying to find my style and get more crafty.

Thanks for keeping up with my family and hope to see you on my craft website as well. Feedback is wanted.

I have a Circus post below so don't forget to read that as well :)

About a month or two ago I won 4 tickets to the Circus. I love the circus. It usually is in town right around Jeanette and my birthday. I was so excited to take Zack and Gavin to see the cirucus even though I knew they wouldn't really understand what was going on. We went the weekend for my birthday so it was a great start to a my birthday week!

As always the circus did not cease to amaze me. There was so much going on in the rings that you couldn't keep up with everything. I loved it though. 40 minutes into the circus both our kids were asleep. Yup that's how we roll.

They did both wake up after a short siesta and seemed to be pretty entertained by the entire thing. Gavin loved the excitement and was pretty much jumping on my lap the entire time. Zack... he liked the $10 cotton candy... LOL.

Things that we saw at the circus:
Tight Rope walkers
7 motorcycles in a small little sphere
Dancing horses
People jumping on a trampoline
Acrobats
A very stong man that lifted over 1000 lbs
People that could bend EVERY which way
Tigers
Elephants
The newest member of Ringling Barnum Circus... a baby elephant. And already he was putting on a show.
Motorcycle on a tight rope
Lady being swung/spinning by her hair
of cours the clowns
And I'm sure much more... like I said there was a lot to see!

And now for some pictures... some of the quality aren't so good but you get the idea.

Circus

About a month or two ago I won 4 tickets to the Circus. I love the circus. It usually is in town right around Jeanette and my birthday. I was so excited to take Zack and Gavin to see the cirucus even though I knew they wouldn't really understand what was going on. We went the weekend for my birthday so it was a great start to a my birthday week!

As always the circus did not cease to amaze me. There was so much going on in the rings that you couldn't keep up with everything. I loved it though. 40 minutes into the circus both our kids were asleep. Yup that's how we roll.

They did both wake up after a short siesta and seemed to be pretty entertained by the entire thing. Gavin loved the excitement and was pretty much jumping on my lap the entire time. Zack... he liked the $10 cotton candy... LOL.

Things that we saw at the circus:
Tight Rope walkers
7 motorcycles in a small little sphere
Dancing horses
People jumping on a trampoline
Acrobats
A very stong man that lifted over 1000 lbs
People that could bend EVERY which way
Tigers
Elephants
The newest member of Ringling Barnum Circus... a baby elephant. And already he was putting on a show.
Motorcycle on a tight rope
Lady being swung/spinning by her hair
of cours the clowns
And I'm sure much more... like I said there was a lot to see!

And now for some pictures... some of the quality aren't so good but you get the idea.