Pumpkins

Every year we go to my friend Emily's grandparent's house to carve pumpkins before Halloween. Emily's son Tanner is 15 months younger than Jackson and at least 15 inches taller. We just don't have the right tall genes in our family. If Jackson is anything like Eric, he will go through puberty and grow 8 inches on his mission.

Emily was patient enough to help Olivia carve her pumpkin.

I guess I failed to take a single picture of Carter that day. Emily's Garret was done with the carving and found a spot on the garage floor.

It is hard to tell from this picture, but you can kind of see Olivia in the background. She got herself dressed for the party. She is wearing bright pink shorts with argyle leg warmers and a yellow shirt. What kind of mother lets their daughter wear outfits like that?

Emily's brother Jon

Hayden's Harry Potter 8th Birthday

I'm pretty sure Hayden is the cutest 8 year old ever! On October 25th (Hayden's actual birthday) Aunt Carol threw an awesome Harry Potter party in her dungeon basement. This is where I sat to cut the cake.

Jackson was a lovely house elf.

Olivia and our friend Tori

Eric was the bar tender

Uncle Brian made a great Snape!

My neice Kimberly ran the station where the students got their pet.

This was the wand making station.

Eric gave everyone their butter beer.

Each student (party guest) sat in the chair to find out what house they were going to be in. Ofcourse our Harry was in Griffendor.

I Can't Believe I'm 5!

For some crazy reason, my baby girl is 5 years old. I'm not sure how it happened that time has passed so quickly. On October 24th we had a party for Olivia and Carter at Jump and Bounce. It was 2 weeks after Carter's b-day, but he didn't care. Olivia's b-day wasn't until the 28th, but I couldn't convince her that the day of her party wasn't her real birthday. I decided to just run with it. Eric was going to be out of town on the 28th, so it made it easier to just have her birthday 4 day's early.

Olivia was so cute that day. She kept on saying, "I can't believe I'm 5 years old today!" and "Now my thumb gets to go up!" I didn't know what she was talking about, and then I realized she was saying that when she held up her fingers to say how old she was she got to put her thumb up, too. She threw some sort of temper tantrum and when I sent her to time out she started sobbing. She cried, "Can I still be 5 years old?" I guess she thought I might take away her birthday.

At the party, Olivia was very excited to open all her gifts. Carter, on the other hand, was very excited about about the spinning helicopter sucker on top of one of his gifts. He couldn't be bothered to open anything when he was so busy playing with his helicopter sucker.

The Terrible 2 and Greenbluff

I know that I have some people that look down on me for my serious blog slacking, so I decided to try to get a little updated today. I know there is no good excuse, but my life has been seriously chaotic this past few months. I'm having a girl's breakfast at my house in the morning, and I really should have cleaned my filthy house. Instead I decided to finally blog. There is always something I feel like I should be doing more than blogging, so it gets pushed to the side. Hopefully soon I will get time to read everyone's blogs. Just get me through these next few weeks of Enrichment night, Super Saturday, 3 more kids birthdays, soccer games and Halloween! Hopefully my life will slow down a bit during November before Thanksgiving and Hayden's baptism. Probably not, but I can dream.








October 10th, Carter turned 2!!!!! I can't believe my baby is 2 already. It is so sad that he is growing up. It is not sad enough to go for a 5th kid, but it is very sad. Eric was on a scout campout on his birthday, so we celebrated on Sunday at my mom's house with the whole family. He was so excited for his "tate." He can't say the K sound. He replaces his ks with ts. I love the little monkey to death, but he is seriously going to put me over the edge. He is going to destroy the entire house. He swings on everything. The boys bathroom towel bar and the powder bath toilet paper holder are currently ripped out of the wall. As soon as I fix them I'm sure he will do it again. I'm pretty sure the pendant lights over the island will get ripped out of the ceiling soon. Anytime I do anything (unless he is asleep) he pushes a chair over next to me, so he can climb up. He is constantly getting in trouble. Let me tell you, the discipline is not what it used to be. I'm a little tired now, and he gets away with way more than the older boys ever did. Olivia is a whole other story.

The kids had school off on Carter's actual birthday. We went up to Greenbluff, which is one of my very favorite fall tradition. Unfortunately my camera battery ran out before I took any good pictures in the pumpkin patch or the corn maze. I also wish that a picture could let you taste the amazing hot pumpkin donuts. They are the best things in the world!