September has come and gone, but at least we made it to Sausage Fest!

We've been busy this month. Okay actually, we are ALWAYS busy, but it seems like even more so this Month as its a grand transition month. With putting away summer clothes, bringing out sweaters and pants and real shoes. As well as putting away all the summer stuff from the yard and bringing out the season of decorations. Don't get me wrong, I love Fall and all that this season brings. I love the decorating and the pumpkin patches, the parties and all that good stuff, it just keeps us even busier. 

I'll recap with pictures mostly, as I always do. So here it goes...

 How sad that I am just posting this now, when he is only 3 days away from 9 months, but at least I took it at 8 mons. LOL. this little chubbers of mine is absolutely adorable! he is getting into everything, even the toilet paper already. He is pulling up on everything and waving too. Holy cow, this all happened over night. He still loves his Mama lots, but is getting better with Daddy. He is an absolute joy to have around. We sure Love you Everett Otto!

 First day of preschool. She is loving all 5 days of it and asks over the weekend when it will be preschool again. She has a crush on Owen right now, and its pretty adorable. girls...they're something else.

 washing Roony always turns into more play and bubbles than anything, but seriously if you give kids a hose, a bucket with water and a bit of dish soap in it, they are in heaven for hours.

 Everett was very intrigued.

 We have lots of craft times at our home and its always messy, but in the end so much fun...for the kids.

 making egg carton caterpillars.

 Final product. Vienna did awesome! she saw the picture on pinterest and wanted to follow it exactly and that is what she did. Lincoln just had fun!

 Our paper bag head crafts. So fun and cute!

 Some projects we have finished. My mail organization shutter, which I Love!

 Our TV stand. So awesome. I really need to take before and afters.

 Linc came running to us and said "I'm ready Mommy. I'm ready Daddy." we were both like, where you going? Mike said "Mardi Gras" and he says, "Costco" Too adorable.

 Vienna is wanting to ride her bike but Lincoln gets all sad that he doesn't have one so Mike just brought him home this one the other day and he figured it out in 2 seconds. We went for a bike ride/walk the next morning. It was so much fun!

 We went to Grandma's for dinner but we didn't get there until much later than expected and I didn't bring jammies, but luckily she had some adorable pink birdie ones, so we started calling him Evelyn for a few minutes.

 Holy adorable baby...

 So Vienna's show ended during quiet time and I was folding laundry watching Parenthood (I love this show) and all of a sudden she came to me like this and we started to play restaurant. We made a menu and colored it. I ordered like 8 times. It was a blast!

 A playdate with Bryson. They play so well together, too bad they don't include Lincoln, it breaks my heart.

 Not a great pic but this is my halloween craft I did with Bree and I Love it. We did it, despite my children and all their shenanigans (which was lots!)

 Getting out Halloween stuff and she just couldn't resist.

Last of all its SAUSAGE FEST!

Truthfully we weren't going to go, we were going to eat All you Can eat Shrimp at Red Lobster instead but Steve called us to see if we were going and said they were taking all their kids, so we decided to make it a date and I am SO glad we did. Vienna and Lincoln had so much fun with their cousins and at all the games and stations. This is the ultimate fundraiser. Amazing really. We will definitely be going back next year!

 Getting their hair done was so fun for them!

 Rainbow and BSU. OH Yeah!

 Cotton candy

 This game was a hit, the chicken catapult. You stomp on the white thing and it flings a rubber chicken and the goal is to get it into that silver wash basin thing. 

 Here's the Linc's man stomping.

 nice form Vienna

 nice for Linc's

Go Remy and Vedder!

We had so much fun. Thanks Steve and Tiki for invited us to go. Its a date next year. 

We are looking forward to All the festivities that are right around the corner.

Labor Day Weekend with Mema, Papa Auntie Chubbs and baby Leo

It has taken longer than usual to post about fun times, but thats how life with three little kids just happens sometimes. I am going to recap our visit with family over labor day as best I can. We had 5 days, that is it and in that time this is what happened

- We went to the country mercantile to enjoy some sampling and buy peaches for canning. While there we let the kids ride some of the rides they have.

- Played in the pool that afternoon

- Mike and my Dad left friday night to The Dalles so they were closer to the trail head of Mount Adams, which they hiked on Saturday (and it destroyed them) (all the pics are on Mike's phone)

- On Saturday us 3 ladies (Mom, Me and Chubbs) attempted to take on Uptown with 4 little kids. It was fun but we werent able to do much. Although Vienna got to have her first manicure with her Aunt chubbs.

- Started painted our living room

- I gave a talk on Sunday

- had a fire, had FHE outside and roasted smores on Sunday

- did some shopping Monday morning

- canned peaches all afternoon and painted more

- finished all the peaches tuesday morning and had time for an afternoon of swimming. 

- we also watched last of the mohicans, played wizard Monday night - with a consequence, painted our toes and went through all the scentsy scents and items.

- plus attended to 4 little children, 2 of which are babies and ate wonderful homemade meals all 5 days!

HOLY SNAP!!! We worked super hard, played hard and created lots of memories.

I can't thank them all enough for helping us paint, it was SO simple when sharing the load. They didn't have to, but they wanted to help us. I LOVE being only 9 hours away from my family again. Still wish we were closer. (although they got snow today and we were down at the park having dinner in the park with family, so I don't want to live too close. lol)

Anyway, pictures always speak louder than words.

 My rollercoaster buddy

 my airplane pilot

 These two were co pilots. These are all at The Country Mercantile.

 The family...

 Auntie chubbs wanted to do the frog hopper, but they couldnt get it to work.

 Papa and Lincoln

 So fun!

 Farmer Vienna

 Lincoln would say, "Old McDonald Lincoln" (he is so into farms and farmers, its adorable)

 Farmer Everett

 POOL TIME! Chubbs and her sweet baby Leo

Unfortunately it was getting to the end of the season so it was chillier than usual. My poor folks were here in May, at the beginning of the season and Sept at the end of the season :( Hopefully next summer they can enjoy it when it is a bathtub.

 Mema and Papa with the kiddos!

We got a new fire pit for super clearance. This was our first use! Smores are so funny, but oh so messy for kids. The only way to do them is with Chocolate covered digestive cookies from Peak Freans, which you can only get in Canada. Thanks Mema and Papa for the supply.

 such a fun activity for FHE

 action shot

 getting messy.

 Here is the before color, its a dark moss green. I can't believe I didn't get any action shots of painting this room, the only one I have is of Mike below.

 This isn't good lighting at all but here is our new color, it was called 'tropical surf'

We love it, we're just trying to get it 100% complete but its a work in progress.

 My sweet little lady gettingt her first manicure, It was $3 and it was chubbs treat! Thank you Auntie!

 So we played wizard one evening and we made the consequence of jumping in the pool naked and guess who lost...this girl. LOL. It was actually a really good game. Chubbs started at the end, then it was me, then Mom, dad got pretty close and then at the very end it came back to Chubbs. She was a super good sport.

Last but not least was canning peaches!

This is so special to me. Growing up, I have always LOVED eating my Grandma Betty's peaches. Whenever I'd visit her in Cardston, I'd ask for some for breakfast and sometimes she'd let me take a jar home. She knew I loved them so much, she gave me 12 jars of them for part of our wedding present. So special, because they take so much time. Anyway, as I got older I started to ask my mom to do it too. It is hard on her back and time consuming but she has agreed and we started doing it more often. My younger sisters would take jars from Mom and Dads back home to wherever they lived, so its passed down. Anyway, I have wanted to do my own, but its WAY too big of a job on my own with 3 little kids, so amongst doing all those other things, my mom brought down her canner and 36 quarts and along with my 36 quarts we canned peaches. Chubbs learned the ropes too. Our backs and feet ached but it was so worth it. I had my first ones today and they were delicious. Thanks again Mom! I  couldn't have done it without you!