Pumpkin Carving

For those of you who don't know, my husband is a pumpkin carving fiend.  Hence the reason why we are already carving and its only October 5th.  The kids love it though.  He has a collection of pumpkin stencils on our computer and adds more and more each year.  I think the first year he got into it he carved about 20 pumpkins in about 3 days.  ( He's very passionate about his hobbies.)

So this is Josh carving a Cinderella pumpkin.  The first of the season.  The pumpkin carving might be tricky around Halloween this year seeing as we will be in the hospital having the new baby on the 29th of October.  The kids will get to Trick-or-Treat in SLC this year.  

You can see the kids better than the pumpkin in this picture so I took another one below that you can't see the kids, but can see the pumpkin pretty good.
Its Cinderella, if you can't tell.  The pattern chosen by the princesses in our house of course. 
This was Mr. Incredible that Josh did a couple years ago.
This is kind of a bad picture, but this is Sponge Bob.  This is one of the favorites every year.  He's even made a custom stencil for my face and his, but for some reason I don't have those pictures saved on my computer.  Its pretty cool though.  

Happy Birthday Presley

Presley turned 3 on October 3rd.  We had a party with her little friends, which was interesting, and then we had cake and ice cream with Grandma and Grandpa Mackey, Bridger and Ali, Aunt Jan, and Bart, Melissa and Bailey.  Presley is a very sweet little girl who gets very shy sometimes.  Very often during her party she wouldn't look at the camera or anyone else.  We love her so much and very grateful that she is in our family.  

This is brand new baby Presley with Kenady cheesing out!

This is Presley at about 8 months old.  She's always had this huge smile.  You can't help but smile when you see that face.

Presley is helping Mom make cupcakes for her birthday party.  

Present time, by far the favorite part of the party for Presley and her friends.

This is Presley being shy.  She was actually on the verge of tears when this picture was taken.  She was too shy to blow out her candles in front of all the adults.  Kenady had to do it for her.  We hope you had a happy birthday Presley!

Dressing up!

My kids love to dress up ( if you didn't know that already).  They are always wearing some sort of princess dress or dance outfit.  This is just another episode.  Usually Kenady will say, "Mom, and then you see a beautiful girl, (herself, of course) walking, and you say, 'Oh my goodness, who is that beautiful girl?'"  So Presley will then say, "Mom, you be the prince." Then she'll take my hand to dance with her.  Its very entertaining.

This is Presley dancing "like a princess," as she puts it.

This is Kenady's version.  Very lovely.
Kids these days are so lucky.  If had even one princess dress at their age I would have been in heaven.  My kids have a whole box full and usually get another one for every special occasion, (Thanks to grandmas and grandpas).

First Day of School

This is Kenady on her first day of school.  She was so excited to ride on the bus.  I barely got this picture before she bolted down the sidewalk. 

This was the second day of school.  She loves it.  It it a very long day though.  She gets on the bus at 8:53am and doesn't get home off the bus until 4:10 pm.  Its long for her and long for her mother.  I've picked her up a couple of days so that we have time to go do something before dinner.  Its so fun to see her getting so old.  

 This is our fish tank finished (well almost).  It turned out beautifully.  Josh is still trying to get everything situated.  We did have some bass in the tank, but we came home from SLC to the smell of 5 dead fish.  It was awful.  I almost lost my lunch and I wasn't even the one that had to stink my head real close to the tank to get them out.  

That's one tricky thing about having such a large fish tank,  We have to keep an 8 ft ladder in the basement at all times.  Josh is constantly on the ladder reaching down in the tank doing stuff.  I think we will end up getting some more types of bass or freshwater fish to put in it. 

I would say that besides getting some furniture, our house is about 97% done.  We have most of our cabinet doors.  Still missing a few important ones, but hopefully by next week we will be all done.  Hallelujah!

Rough House!

This is what usually happens after dinner. I can't imagine what it will be like when we have a boy in the house.

Home Sweet Home

For those of you who haven't seen, this is our new house.  We are so pleased with the way it turned out.  There are still some things that are not quite finished, (the cabinet doors) which I'm about ready to strangle my cabinet guy.  So I won't put any pictures of the interior quite yet.  I want you to get the full finished effect.  

If any of you happen to be in or around Rock Springs, stop buy and see!