Carving Pumpkins

Last night I decided to carve pumpkins with the kids. It was so much fun, especially with Jena this year. She was so excited about it. Drey was ok with it at first. He liked looking inside it at all the seeds and guts, but he decided to taste some and found out that it didn't taste good, and then he was done.

It took a little bit of convincing, but I finally got Jena to stick her hand in and pull out all the "guts." I loved her face while she did this! It was hilarious. But she liked doing it after she tried it. She cleaned out 3 of our 4 pumpkins almost all by herself.

The finished product

My latest purchase...

Kevin and I have been talking about putting a salon in our basement for me, just to have a place to do family and friends. We have even been working on organizing our basement and getting it in order so that we could put one in. It's a slow process though, with Kevin working and in school, and when I try to organize the basement, I get to take 2 kids down there with me. More things get pulled out than put away when the kids are down there. My neighbor across the street has had a salon in her home for the past 2 years and just took it out to make another room after she had another baby this summer. She put her salon equiptment up for sale, and it was such a good deal, there was no way I could pass it up. Even better....no shipping charges! Kevin and her husband just carried it across the street to our house. So, even though our house is not even close to having a salon, I have the equipment when we're ready!

My kids now think this is their new playground.

College GameDay!

My husband is the luckiest guy I know. He has a knack for winning things on the radio. Here's a few things he has won in the past:

- 6 ski passes to the Canyons. He won 2 tickets each day for 3 days IN A ROW! The station was doing random trivia questions and he just happened to know (or guess) things like the longest recorded flight of a chicken, and the year the Rubik's cube was invented.

-BYU vs.Utah football tickets

-Board games

-Concert tickets

On Saturday, Kevin and his friends were already planning on going down to Provo where ESPN's College GameDay was being held. He had heard that the radio station 1280 The Zone said that they would give away a bunch of free stuff if anyone could get a 1280 poster on College GameDay. He made a 1280 The Zone poster and decided to give it a try. Kevin and his friends were in the best spot, right on the front row, and they even made friends with one of the camera guys. He got on TV a ton! Click here to see some pictures of him on College GameDay. Needless to say, my husband wins again....over $300 in free stuff just for getting his poster on TV!

Random pictures

Jena loves to "read" stories to Dreyson. It's usually a story or a book with a song in it that she has memorized, but she pretends to read it to him. It's super cute.


What a cute boy! I think there is a picture of my husband just like this when he was little.

Jena came running one day to show me the "socks" she had found. She was wearing the covers to Kevin's golf clubs on her feet like socks. So cute! (She had also dressed herself in her pj's that day and if you look closely, you can see how well she did the buttons, even if they don't match up... :) )

Kevin came home from work looking like this one day. I totally started cracking up, it was SO funny! He was black from head to toe! See how black his hands are?? ....he even had gloves on! And had washed his hands about 4 times throughout the day.

Aquarium

Last week we went to the Living Planet Aquarium. My kids and I had never been there and we had a lot of fun. Here we are trying to touch the sting rays. Drey was happy just to splash in the water.

Jena wanted to touch one so bad. She was trying to be so brave, but everytime they would come close enough, she would back away or they were too deep that her little arm couldn't reach far enough.

We finally got her to touch one and she was so proud of herself. She was soaking wet when we got done. (Its hard to see in this picture, but one whole side of her shirt is wet and all up her sleeve...and it was even rolled up)

This is what happens when you leave 2 kids alone to eat their dinner while you run upstairs for 30 seconds. This is exactly how I found them....including Drey sitting on the table.