Snow and a sleepover!

I swear Utah is bi-polar! It can't decide what season it wants to be. We had 70's, then snow a few weeks ago, then high 60's again all this week, and snow today! The kids always have a blast playing in the first good snowfall. I can't tell you how much we got today because it is still snowing like crazy! Tyson and Sydney had a couple friends over and built a snow "ramp" off the front porch steps. Yikes! They have also fine tuned their plan to become rich shoveling all the neighbors driveways this winter. If you live close by, consider yourself warned! Meanwhile Kylie is upstairs sleeping the afternoon away. She had 5 friends over for a sleepover last night and bed time ended up around 4:30a.m.! They were so loud it was unbelievable, but they were having such a great time that I couldn't bear to tell them to quiet down! I was thoroughly entertained just listening to them! They played wii, dance dance revolution, painted nails, ate pizza, watched a scary movie, and other activities that had them laughing so loud I was waiting for cops to show up and give us a ticket for disturbing the peace or whatever. I have no idea what they were doing around 2 am but it sounded like a herd of elephants upstairs. I was waiting for my ceiling fan to come down on me any minute! I am so mad I didn't get pictures of them, because they ratted their hair to high heaven and played rock band like pro's. It was quite the sight! Kylie has such a great group of friends, we love when they come over! Even if it means a sleepless night for all!

4 excited kids! Think the excitement will last 6 more months? (Tyson in front)



Tyson and Carter hard at work!

Pinewood Derby//Halloween 2009

Tyson had his first ever pinewood derby the end of October. He and Brian had a great time making his car. Tyson was so excited when it was finally pinewood derby night, that as you can imagine, he was once again bouncing off the walls. Man, it seems like I say that a lot about my boy! He had a great time and took 3rd place out of 18 boys. Not bad for a rookie! Brian has already figured out what he needs to do to lock in first place next year. Good grief! Isn't this just for fun?

Brian and Tyson with their finished product! Looks great guys!


Tyson after one of his wins. Look at that grin!


Tyson and Carter. Phew! They were still best buds after the race!


Any guesses on how Tyson felt about the results?


What a great bunch of goofy cub scouts!




We had a great Halloween, and HOORAY the weather cooperated for us. It was a beautiful night. Kylie was a pregnant housewife, and decided that having a huge belly in front of you isn't much fun. She was so glad to take out that pillow at the end of the day! She hated it so much that when it came time for her to go to a friends Halloween party she changed her costume completely and became a pink lady bug. I didn't get any pictures of that, darn it! She had a fun time at the party but totally missed getting lots of candy. Thankfully Sydney and Tyson shared a little!
Sydney put together a creative smore costume. She looked great, but man she could hardly move in this costume...so she ended up ditching the graham cracker part of it by the time the evening was half over.
Tyson and his best buddy Carter were cheerleaders. And DANG cute ones too! Their costume came complete with a cheer and everything! I took these two trick or treating and they lasted for 3 1/2 hours and came home with over 8lbs of candy! Holy cow! I have never laughed so hard though, they were absolutely a blast to hang out with. Carter's Mom made homemade chicken noodle soup, scones, and pumpkin chocolate chip cookies to fill us up right before we headed out. YUM! It was soooo stinking good! Thanks a bunch Natalie! When the boys got home they sorted and organized their ridiculous amounts of candy. They were soo dang funny! It was a great night, with only one little problem...now I've just got to figure out a way to keep my hands out of the pounds and pounds of chocolate floating around the house! Wish me luck!

Have you ever seen 2 cuter cheerleaders?


Look out BYU and UTE cheerleaders!


Sorry I had this on the wrong setting! Still cuties though!


Tyson smiling with his giant load! Get this candy out of my house!

You really can't get the idea of how much candy this really was because it is spread so far apart. It was 8.8 lbs of candy! Any takers?

I video recorded the girl's last swim meet from the camera, and I have been trying for days to figure out how to get it onto my computer. I can view it but can't save it to download onto my blog. Help anyone?