Family Pictures

We got our family pictures back! They turned out really good! I can't wait to get some of them printed and hanging on my wall.

Night Out

We have decided that once a month one of the kids get to pick an activity that they want to do and mom or dad to do it with. Reagan was the first one to choose and she chose to go take me and go see the movie "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs". We had a great time! The movie wasn't too bad either. Reagan really liked it and it was fun watching and listening to her enjoy it. I think this is going to be a great family tradition. We are so used to doing everything together that to be able to have some one-on-one time with each of our kids will be good for them and us.

Halloween 2009

The kids, mostly Reagan and Kairi, had been looking forward to Halloween several weeks before it came and even had a count down. It took the girls a long time to decide what they wanted to dress up as. Reagan decided to be Hannah Montana, Kairi was a Barbie Princess, Camden was a soccer player (that one was easy!), and Tahlia was a lady bug. Alan ended up having an RSL soccer game to go to with his family, so I got the job of taking the kids trick-or-treating. I decided to go around 5:30. This has proven to be a good time for us. It's not too cold, still have light, and we are done before the kids get too tired. We started getting dressed at about five and we were out the door a little after 5:30. I took the wagon and Camden and Tahlia rode it in until the realized what this trick-or-treating thing was. They just rode and ate candy! The girls had a great time going door to door. It was nice not having a baby to take this year! About half way through a man was trick-or-treating with his son and he had a pretty scary mask on and all but Reagan freaked out! I had kids in tears! I was wishing he would take off his mask to show the kids everything was Ok, but he didn't. I just moved on as quickly as I could. We saw some great costumes this year. Hopefully we can remember some of them to use for next year. Around 7 we had a few houses left. The kids were ready to be done... at that moment Alan got home from his soccer game. We finished going to the last few houses and then loaded in our van and went to Dustin's house to watch the Utah football game. All the kids were on a sugar high... they were going strong until about 10 and then they died. The sugar high was gone, so we packed up and headed home!

Dressing Herself

Tahlia has been trying on clothes lately... and most of the time they aren't hers! A few weeks ago I was doing laundry and had clothes on my bed that needed folding. I went down stairs for something and got distracted. Tahlia saw the clothes and found some of Reagan's underwear to try on and came down stairs to show us! She is our last one to do these cute things... we are sure glad we have her!