More TrEaTs!

I had Gina come over so we could make some Halloween treats. It was crazy because we had so many different things going on at once and the kids were eating/throwing/smearing chocolate everywhere! Somehow we did end up with some spooky looking Halloween goodies though. Here are the spider cupcakes:

Can you tell what these are? It's my attempt at spiders in a spider web. Matt kept saying they looked like little egg sacks...:)

Gina made the candy apples. They turned out even with holding baby Eme the whole time!

The "helpers".

By the time we were finished the house was destroyed, the kids were covered in chocolate, and Gina and I were ready for a nap! But we will totally be doing this again!

I LOVE traditions!

Every year we decorate Halloween cookies at my grandparents house. It is always fun and always a HUGE mess! This year was especially fun because we had lots of cousins there:

Just look at the concentration....

There was a lot of tasting going on...

Showing off her finished product.

Syd and Ella are best buds!

Julia and Madeline are little artists! They were the last ones at the table hard at work!

Even the simplest of traditions is so fun and I love that they will always remember things like this.

Staheli Farm

Staheli Farm was tons of fun for the kids. They LOVED this horse swing, they went on it a ton and could have stayed there all night.

The slides were hilarious because the kids went FLYING down them! They went super fast and landed into a pit of corn.

Kash was especially excited to go on the train! Gina even took baby Eme for a ride.

Kar and Ella checking out the animals. Kash actually got bit by a turkey...I guess thats what happens when you choose to ignore everyone telling you to NOT put your fingers in the cage!

Before I knew it Kash climbed up here to go on the rope swing! Luckily I talked him down before he tried it.

Adam, Ella, Kash

Once again Ella surprised me with wanting to go on the horse. We asked her if she wanted Dad or Kash to go with her but she insisted she wanted to go by herself! As soon as she got on there she said, "yee-haw" with one hand in the air. Her Papa would be proud of his little cowgirl!

Baby #3!

I really thought our next big purchase would be a house. It's what I've been hoping and praying for. And we have been working really hard at finding "the one." Well when Matt gets an idea in his head he just goes for it. He isn't one of those people that researches every product before buying, he is one of those people that goes with their gut! So he came home the other day with this in the driveway:

The only discussion we have had on a new vehicle has been that when we decide to have a third baby, we will have to make an upgrade. We were not going to fit 3 car seats in the back of my car, so yes, when we decide to get pregnant we would start looking at bigger cars. Well as far as I know I am NOT pregnant. Hmmm I guess my Denali will be my baby #3 for now.

First day of dance...

Ella had her first dance class and she had to be the cutest thing ever! She was so excited and LOVED wearing her dance clothes! She kept spinning around the house saying, "look at me, Mom!" I can't wait for their Christmas recital so I can check her out in action!

Kash didnt want to be left out...

Fall is here!

It is really starting to feel like Fall and I love it! We have picked out our pumpkins and Ella and Kash get so excited when they see anything related to Halloween. If we are in the store and we pass Halloween decorations Ella screams and says, "It's almost Halloween! It's coming!" I have really been wanting to get in the kitchen and bake pumpkin bread and pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. As soon as it starts cooling off I immediately want to make Soup which has been so yummy on cooler nights. Anyways my sister Karlee came into town and we made caramel apples! It was so fun and they were SO good and turned out really cute. I had never made them before so it was a learning process but a way fun fall activity!

I ended up wrapping these up and taking them visiting teaching...fun little treat to give away!

Betime ritual

Once the kids are bathed and pjs are put on and teeth are brushed its story time. Kash, Ella and I all climb into Ella's little toddler bed and read books. This particular night I told them to go pick out a book and I would be right there. When I got to her room I found them reading together! I thought it was the cutest thing so I grabbed my camera to take some pictures. They didn't seem to mind that I wasn't reading to them, they were totally involved in reading to each other.

It was pretty funny to watch them as Kash would point to the pictures and Ella would explain what everything was. Every now and then there was complete silence because they were both too enthralled in their books to speak.

They have their moments...

Kash was walking around like this so Ella quickly stripped down to join him! Sometimes they are pretty cute:)

Ella an actress?

While we were at the park, Ella slipped and hit her forehead on the cement. I was close enough to hear that sickening "thud" but quickly realized she was going to be fine. Once we got home and she was over the trauma I took some pictures of her nice sized goose egg. Most of the time Ella is difficult to take pictures of, and I have the hardest time getting her to LOOK at the camera and SMILE at the same time. But when I informed her I was going to take some pictures of her big bump, she turned into quite the actress! It was hard not to laugh at her serious face, and her eyes were just full of sadness and heartache! I felt like I was taking pictures of a true victim!

L.A County Fair

We went to the fair while we were in California and we had so much fun that we decided to make it an annual trip. It is so fun now that Ella and Kash are getting old enough to really enjoy stuff like this. I can't wait for next year, I know they will love it even more! The fair is right by the race track so my dad took us in the back way and we got to see a race and then walked across the track and into the fair. This first collage is mostly of the petting zoo. They loved seeing all of the animals and suprisingly didn't get scared.


After we saw all of the animals we tried to find the pirate show but got a little lost. We ended up going on some rides instead, and I'm so glad we did! Both kids saw the giant slide and could not wait to go on it. The second they got to the bottom they ran up the stairs to go again. Then we went to the "bee ride" and we put Ella and Kash in together and Kash wanted no part of it! I could not believe that Ella wanted to go and Kash didn't. So Whitney ended up going with Ella and she absolutely loved it. I thought once they got up high she would start to get scared but she just waved at us with the biggest smile! Then I took her on a roller coaster that I screamed my head off on but she just kept saying, "its okay mom, its fun."
We ended up going on the bee ride again before we left but when we got in line the guy said he didn't think Ella was tall enough. I told him she had already been on it and she met the height requirement. I turned to show him and we both saw Ella on her tippy toes! This sneaky little girl really wanted on that ride! Look at that face! We only had enough tickets for her to go on it by herself and she was totally fine with it. I still cannot believe how brave she was!

If only Karlee would have been with us we would have had all 5 sisters!

The kids thought this was pretty funny:

Here we are. Look at that sunset! We love the fair!

Kash A.K.A The HULK

As most of you know my little Kashy man is quite large! He really isn't fat at all, he is just BIG. And extremely STRONG. He is also fearless, especially when it comes to the swimming pool. I am positive he will be swimming before Ella! He jumps into the pool and goes under and thinks its hilarious. He purposely jumps AWAY from you so you can't catch him. Matt was teaching him to hold onto the side and he quickly figured out how to "walk" along the edge with his hands. Matt told him to do "chin ups" so as they went Matt would say, "chin up" and Kash would say "up up" and pop out of the pool. They did this around the entire pool. I thought for sure Kash's little muscles were going to be sore!