Family Pictures

We had our family pictures taken at the beginning of October.  I was so happy with how they turned out!  The rest of this post is just pictures, so enjoy!

Fall Break

Yet again, I am sorry for the delay in my blogging.  I kept trying to add pictures to my blog, but Google said I had exceeded my picture storage.  Apparently the "free blog" is not really free if you use too many pictures.  They wanted me to pay to store more pictures.  Well, me being cheap, I wasn't about to do that! So I was reading another blog and the blogger mentioned that she was going to blog as her husband for a while because Google said she had used all her photo storage.*Lightbulb moment!*  I created a new contributer to my blog named Heather and not Heather B, and now I'm back in business!  Take that Google!

Anyway, clear back in October the kids had their fall break.  We headed up to the cabin for a night and spent some time on the four wheelers.  We went to the same spot we did last year during fall break.  It might be our new fall break tradition.  Although I would like to see what it looks like in the spring and summer, too.

Jensen took this picture for Reflections and won third place at his school.

Silly Bubs.  He LOVES four wheeler rides!

We came around a corner and there were people on the one lane trail coming the other way.  We watched as the guy rolled his wheeler trying to avoid a collision.  He was just fine, but made for a tense few minutes!

We headed back and met up with Brian Rose and his family in Logan.  We went to Firehouse Pizza and then ate, and ate, and ate!  Brian had a coupon for $50 off of a $100 purchase.  We had salads and sandwiches, bread, dessert, and a 3 foot round pizza!  Yes, THREE FOOT!  It was huge and it took two people to carry out.  We have pictures on our phones I'll try to upload later. :)

We went to the Pumpkin Walk and Ally met up with an old friend.  Or should I say alter-ego?  They had some of the set from Willy Wonka in one of the displays.

I liked the "Hunger Games" display.  It's amazing how realistic they can make the pumpkins look!

Holden the Builder.

Jensen Potter.

Logan Incredible.

Allyrella.

It was a fun weekend and we were glad we got to share it with friends.

Party Time!

I never know what to get my kids for their birthday.  So I kept hearing from people how fun the plasma cars are, so I went ahead and got one for Holden. I was going to buy one online but I didn't want to pay shipping, so instead I drove to 8 different stores before I finally found one.  I definately should have just paid the shipping.  Lesson learned.

They are fun, though.  I may or may not have given it a try...

We kept asking Holden what kind of presents he wanted.  Every time he would say "green".  So I made sure he had green presents.

He's just a little excited to open presents.

I made him an "Alphabet" book with pictures of him in it and he loved it so much.  I didn't think he would get so excited about it. :)

The only thing he consistently asked for was a "Dream Light".  He was pretty excited to get it from G-Ma and G-Pa Naylor.

Madagascar 3-he loves to sing the "Afro Circus" song.

A fun winter hat.

And a pumpkin cake. 

Happy Birthday, Holden!  We love you!

A Happy Birthday Boy

Holden had his 4th birthday and once I got past the sadness of my "baby" turning four, I knew I wanted him to have a great day.  So we hopped in the car and headed to Toads.

He just opened his card from Aunt Gloria.  "Whoa" he said when the money fell out.  Too cute!

Riding the motorcycle game.  Toads gives $25 cards to people on their birthday.  I like that.  Logan and Jensen spent their own money on season passes, so all the activities (except for the arcade) were paid for.  So I only had to pay for Ally-nice.

Logan won 100 tickets on the plinko game.  The kids decided to give Holden all their tickets so he could get something for his birthday.  They are such good kids. :)

Holden liked riding the merry-go-round.

Ally like it too.

The roller coaster game.

The kids were finally tall enough to drive the go-carts for the first time!  They were pretty excited about that!

Holden loved it!

He also loved laser tag.  It was fun to see him in the giant gun outfit.  He would just stand in the same place and get hit over and over, but he had fun.

Then we tried mini-golf.  Jensen wasn't happy about how his game was going...

Green ball and a green club of course.

Holden and his prizes.  He had so much fun and talks about going back every day.  It was fun to see him enjoy his day so much.

Teenager in the House!

That's right.  I am now the mother of a teenager!  So weird, but she's a good one, so I'm okay with it.  The only thing I don't like is how old it makes me feel to SAY I have a teenager!

She really liked it when I gave her a new shirt on the morning of her birthday last year, so I did the same thing this year.  The blue shirt made her eyes look so pretty!

 

Birthday girl with her birthday gifts.

I thought the look on Holden's face was sweet.  He was pretty excited for her to open her presents.

 

We usually take the kids somewhere fun to eat on their birthday, so we asked Ally where she wanted to go.  She said Pizza Plus...but can I please invite a couple friends to eat with us?  It wasn't a "friend party" year, but we have a hard time resisting those blue eyes so we invited them to come with us.

 

Of course, since it was a Friday night, having her friends come to dinner with us turned into "Can I please have a late night...and go to the corn maze?" 

So off I went with three giggly girls to the haunted corn maze.  We made it through the haunted swamp without getting scared too badly and then made our way into the corn maze.  We didn't know if the maze was hauted or not, but after a while, decided it wasn't.  I think we took every wrong turn possible, but we finally got on the right track.  And that's when the guy with the chain saw appeared!  The girls ended up on the ground, in the corn.  Such screaming! It was pretty funny!

Then we made it out.  They were pretty happy about that!

Ally and her cake.

Then the late night turned into a sleep over...

She says it was her favorite birthday ever, though.  We love you, Ally!