Uncle Jared

This past Tuesday Uncle Jared, Kyle's brother, came to visit all the way from New York. He has never been out west and was pretty impressed with the mountains. We already have him trained by getting up with the kids each morning, if only he changed diapers.
We have not been doing too much, there has been a lot of football watching, a few dart gun fights, and some wrestling with Dayton, but other then that just a lot of hanging out. I have used him a few times to watch the kids, but who can blame me, free babysitter!

Saturday night we all sat around with some friends watching the BYU/Utah game. It was fun watching it out here because there are some die hard fans. Though we enjoyed the game it was nice not having to sweat through this one; I have enough of that with the Yankees, Giants and Syracuse.

So far we have had a great time with Jared and are glad he is here for a couple more weeks. We love having family for holidays.

Like Father Like Son

Last night we were hanging out in the family room watching the Giants beat the Eagles. Dayton, who was upstairs watching cartoons, came down and sat by me on the couch. Kyle who was on the other couch took the blanket he was using, wadded it up and threw it at Dayton. I was reading, and this happens pretty much every night so I did not even look up, but then I heard Dayton say, "thanks dad". I looked over and burst out laughing.

Blinded by the hit, the blanket nailed Dayton in the face, but stayed in a ball and Dayton just put it behind him and thanked his dad for the great pillow.

Halloween Get Together

Some of my family came and hung out on Saturday. It had been a while so it was fun to get together and hang out eat and play.

The weather could not have been better so we spent a lot of time out side. The guys made up some sort of wiffle ball game. It got quite competitive as it went into extra innings. They kept breaking balls or losing them over the fence, but I know they had a good time and I am pretty sure they all felt it the next day.

The girls just sat around watching the guys and the kids.
The kids spent a lot of time on our neighbors trampoline, thank goodness for great neighbors.
They jumped and played games and tried jumping over Aunt Jenny, but she kept getting kicked so that game ended. Good times.

We could not have the babies together and not get a picture. They are getting so big so fast. Wish the other 2 could have been here so they could all be together. We love having babies around. We put them in their costume one more time for a quick picture. Camrie was by far the hardest one to work with, but they are still cute. Tayla was a fairy, Emery was a cow, and Camrie was a ballerina.

Trick-or-Treat

For Halloween Dayton was the Red Power Ranger and Camrie was a ballerina. Kyle stayed home to pass out the candy while Jaci, Mitch and I took the kids out. All was going great till it started to rain. That's when we lost Camrie, Jaci and Mitch, but nothing was going to stop Dayton. Even though he told me he was not happy about the rain. Luckily the rain stopped and we made it around half the neighborhood.
We went through 10 bags of candy and ran out. Dayton got so much candy he was dragging his bag, & towards the end I was carrying it in between houses. We had a great Halloween and Dayton is already asking when we can trick-or-treat again.

Dayton is showing you his Power Ranger moves.

Here is our ballerina. I was worried that she would not keep the headband on, but she was too busy eating the tutu to worry about the headband, so we were good.


Thanks to my sister Jaci and her husband Mitch, who came to visit for Halloween, we were able to get a family picture.

Here is the after with all our candy. Dayton, who trick-or-treated for almost 2 hours, walked into the family room and dumped all his candy out. Well, not all of it because he ate some right after he got it from the houses. I am not sure who was the most excited him, Camrie or Kyle. They all pretty much dove into it.

Camrie helped herself to all the candy she could get her hands on. Finally I had to pick it all up and put it away because the kids would not leave it alone. But how can they help it, their mom eats candy for breakfast and their dad takes it to bed.