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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Super Halloween

Our family dressed up like super heroes this Halloween! Sorry that the pictures are sort of horrible. Apparently cameras do not like to be dropped. Who would've thought? So, Santa, if you read my blog, we need a new camera please!!! Anyway, here are some photos. By the way we had an extra fun time with our family that came over! We loved having you guys! I wanted to post a picuture of all of us together, but the photo I have is so blury. Send me one of yours if it turned out....

Our Super Family: Shawn was Clark Kent, I am Super Mom (my shirt reads 'It's hard to be humble when you're Super Mom', Claire is Captain America Girl, Will is Batman, Vivi is Super Girl!

Our pumpkins all lit up!

Our pumpkins!

Vivi was Bat Girl for about a minute, but it was too cold to keep her in this costume. Isn't she cute though. Will thought she was extra awesome for that minute, and now one of Will's friends keeps saying that he's going to make his baby sister dress up at Bat Girl next Halloween 'cause it's so cool!

Apparently you have too many costumes in your home if your kids can dress up like something different for a week before Halloween. Here is take two for Halloween Sunday when we visited Shawn's Grandma. Will is Iron Man, Claire is a Witch and Vivi is a bunny!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Family Pictures!

We had a friend of ours from our ward take our pictures recently. Here is her website http://www.ashleystilsonphotography.blogspot.com/ ! She is great!
Here are pictures of us!

Will's school field trip!

Will had a school field trip at the end of September! We got to go with him and my niece Liddy and nephew David got to come with us too! Here are some pictures!

Will's Friends at Preschool!

Big slide they have at the farm! This is Liddy going down.

Will going down the big slide!

They had this great corn kernell box (like a sandbox) the kids LOVED it!

They had cute tire horses too! Everyone loved them. Even Vivi!

The Cousins with the pumpkins they got to choose!

David going down another slide!

Fireball!

Claire's school had a big party the other day and we got to go! One of the big things that night was that the school was unveiling Fireball their Dragon Mascot! Claire was so excited to meet him. Here is a picture of her and Fireball at school!

Will's first day of Preschool!

Here is a picture of Will on his first day of preschool. This year he is going to a neighborhood preschool! We love that it is so close, and the friends in our neighborhood go to it! His teacher is Miss Nichole!

Claire's First Day of 2nd Grade

Can it be that we are well into the school year? Here is a picture of Claire on her first day of 2nd Grade. Her teacher is Mrs. Dailey.

Summer 2010 re-cap

Since I didn't do much blogging this summer I figured I'd do a quick summer recap before Halloween comes this weekend. Where does the time go???
We had a great summer! I really can't believe it's over. Here are some pictures!

We spent a lot of time going to different lakes around Utah this last summer.

We took the waverunner out a few times this last summer! It's always fun! Except for the one time my brother tipped Claire and my sister into the water.... not a good feeling for a mom to see an empty waverunner floating without her oldest daughter on top of it :) Claire thought it was fun though. I think it scared my brother and sister more than anything. Anyway, normally we love the waverunner, and we are glad to have it!

We went hiking. It's always fun to go up in the mountains when no matter how hot it is down in the valley the mountains are nice and cool!

Shawn taught Claire and Will to fish! They grew impatient though and kept asking "when are we going to catch a fish?"

We got to go to Cowabunga Bay one day with my niece Cassie!

Cowabung Bay!

We made homemade icecream on our porch! The kids thought that was awesome! It was so yummy too! We also went swimming at the neighborhood pool nearly every day, and we went biking all of the time too! Our whole family has bikes now, so we've gone around the lake a lot! So much fun. I will miss you summer! I can't wait to see you next year.

Out Of The Mouth of My Kids

On Easter this year Will had his easter basket full of the little plastic eggs when he accidentally tripped and dropped his basket. When he dropped his basket the plastic egss broke open to reveal the candy inside. Will, in the most excited voice I've ever heard him use said "The eggs open!!!!!!" He couldn't believe there was candy inside- it was the coolest thing to him!
(Easter 2009)

I asked Will one day where the new baby was going to sleep. He said: " in a cage". I guess we now know what he thought of his crib.
(Winter 2009)

I was playing with Will one day. He was pretending to be a robot, so I decided to be a robot too, but he said:
"no you can't be a robot you are a princess"
I said:
"what do princesses do?"
He said:
"they just dance"
(Winter 2009)

We drove by a horse pasture the other day and Claire said:
"I really want a horse. If you don't get me a horse mom I will fire you... ... I mean I will fire Daddy!"
(Winter 2009)

We were talking about where we should go out for dinner one night and Shawn mentioned a new Terriakyi Sushi place. Claire got very excited and said, "Yes! Sushi! Shushi! Please! Please! Please! I love Sushi!" We soon found out she meant a Slushee (like a fruit drink) not Sushi. She does not like Sushi.

Claire: "Mom, I can't make my bed. Will is making me have too much fun." (July 2008)

Will's newest fixation is robots. Yes, we saw WALLE, and that's about when it started. Will can't quite say ROBOT though, so he says "Beebot" instead. It took us awhile to figure out what he meant, but now it's very cute - beebot! (Summer 2008)

William at age 2 still doesn't say too much, but some times he gets on a kick and repeats things over and over, and recently he has found bird poo very interesting. I don't know why, but when we go on walks lately he stops at every white spot on the side walk and says "bird poo- ewwww yuck" this happens over and over and over and over on our walks. I never realized there was so much bird poo in the world! (Summer 2008)

I recently walked in on Claire singing a song she made up to her brother. This is a rare occurance, so I thought I'd better write it here to remember that even though they fight they still love each other. Here is the gist of the song imagine in a very high drawn out soprano:
"I love youuuuuuuuu. You are my frieeeeend because you love to play with meeeeeee and you love to go outside with meeee. I love YOUUUUUU!"
She repeated this over and over and Will just sat there listening seeming to know the song was just for him. I will have to show her this when she is mad at her brother for playing with her "stuff". (Summer 2008)

Claire: "Mom, when I stretch my nose up my nostrils look like bunny ears." (Spring 2008)

Claire had a cough one morning. When she woke up she said:
"My voice is crooked" (Winter 2008)

Claire toes aren't just toes. They are "Weeny Toes" because they are so small compared to everything else. (Winter 2008)

Claire: "Mom, don't step on the cracks or you will get boy slime." (Spring 2008)

Claire (in disgust after we had a carpenter ant problem): "Why did Heavenly Father have to make ants on the Earth?" (Summer 2008)

Claire: "I want to be a cowgirl and a mama when I grow up, and I will have 6 babies and they will all be girls." (2008)

Claire (smiling): "Mom, I can't stand it, I'm so NERVOUS for Christmas" I asked why she was "nervous" and she explains how she can't wait to see what Santa brings for her. I finally figured out that she meant excited not nervous and couldn't wait for Chritmas . (Winter 2007)