First big snow fall of the season

Friday night it snowed a ton.  When we woke up Saturday morning, Darin and I knew we would have to shovel but wanted to have Tanner help.  I asked Savannah if she wanted to stay inside and take care of Micah or if she wanted to go outside and help shovel the snow and watch Spencer.  Surprisingly, she chose to go outside!  So while Darin, Tanner, Savannah and Spencer were all outside in the cold working hard, Micah and I were nice and warm watching them work hard and putting away Halloween decorations the rest of the way.  I was tempted to pull out Christmas decorations.

Spencer loves to help out with everything so he was really loving to shovel all the snow.  Once all the snow was off the sidewalks/driveway he thought he had to go onto the grass and shovel the snow back onto the sidewalks!

Savannah was doing a great job of watching Spencer and shoveling.  She would brush his bum off when he fell and she helped keep his gloves on and clear of snow.

Darin and Tanner did a great job also.  I do have to admit that I am glad I didn't have to shovel because my back would have hated me afterwards but I really do like being out in the snow.

When they came back in I had hot cocoa ready for them to warm them up!  Spencer is excited to shovel again.  I wonder what Savannah will choose next time.

Halloween 2012

We had a lot of fun this year for Halloween.  Tanner and Savannah had fun getting Spencer excited to go by telling him all the things he has to do to get candy.  All day long he just kept asking if it was time to get candy yet.  For the costumes we were trying to come up with a theme that we all could go as but Tanner and Savannah couldn't agree on anything plus Tanner really wanted to be a Pokemon trainer,which was a nice cheap and easy costume!

We went to Tanner and Savannahs school Halloween parade. Since Tanner wanted to be a Pokemon trainer there really wasn't a costume to buy, so he had to wear normal clothes. But he did make some badges for his jacket and hat.  At the last minute, he wanted to be a "dark" pokemon trainer so we put some makeup under his eyes to make him look meaner. 

Tanner is trying to show off his hat in the above picture..... didn't quite work because the photographer (me) sucks  at taking pictures :)

Savannah wanted to be a cheerleader since she went to cheer for some summer classes.  But the only one we could find was a "dark" cheerleader.  She really liked the idea of wearing dark make-up!

Spencer got to be Batman.  It was a fight at first to get him into his costume, but once he remembered that would get candy he was all for it.

Micah got to be a cute little tiger.  But earlier for the parade he was dressed in his skeleton shirt.

Darin had to dress up for work so we had a Scream mask and a long black robe.....the one with my dad's initials on it (so I called it the Really Freakin' Mean costume!).  The worried picture of Micah in his car seat above is in reaction to Darin looking down out him with his mask on.  He wasn't too sure about this holiday...

Tanner went trick or treating with his friends.  Savannah had one of her friends come with us, which meant it soon turned into Darin pushing Micah walking with the girls and me walking ever so slowly with Spencer because he had to keep looking in his bag and naming off all the candy he got.  Spencer got to about 15 houses before he was done.

My favorite part of the night was when we went to Darin's parents' house.  Since Darin was all dressed up he took one of the kids bags had us all hide and he went and rang their doorbell.  He shouted "Trick or treat!" and held out his bag.  There was a moment of silence until his mom realized it was him! 

Pumpkin Carving

Along with most everyone, a few nights before Halloween we carve our pumpkins.  This year we grew all our pumpkins  In years past we have grown some but always ended up buying a couple because ours didn't grow big enough or enough of them.  We also usually do these cool designs on our pumpkins but this year we kept it simple.  Keeping it simple, I think, is the key to keeping my sanity!  Usually there are a few fights or tears each year of who is doing what pumpkin or picture etc.  So this year I warned them that if they fought or cried at all there will be NO pumpkins next year to carve.  It seemed to of worked well with Tanner and Savannah but we also just did your typical carvings, nothing fancy smancy :)

On the night of the 30th Savannah wanted me to paint her nails and curl her hair for her costume.  Micah was cute (like always) so I took a few pictures of him :)

Kids school carnival

Yesterday the kids had their school carnival.  Usually they have a bunch of bouncy house type things to do but this year they just had games, a haunted house and a dunk tank.  Tanner had fun watching his teacher get dunked over and over again and his principal.  Micah just chilled in his stroller, only cried when it was time to feed.  Savannah spent most of her time waiting in the long line to get her face painted and Spencer had fun fishing and getting his face painted as well.  We didn't bring our camera but we did have our phones. 

Savannahs room

When we found out that baby Micah was a boy we told Savannah that we would have to move her out of her room and into Spencers and then move Spencer into her room.  She was worried that Spencer and Micah would both break all her toys.  After she realized all her stuff would come with her to her "new" room she was ok with it but then asked if we would finally paint her room.  We have been promising her that we would paint her room ever since we moved in but we never got around to it.  Thankfully we waited or poor Spencer and Micah would either A) be sharing a pretty small room together or B) be sharing a pretty girly room! 

So labor day weekend we went and got the paint and got busy.  She had requested a pink, purple, yellow, green and blue room.  I had once seen a room with 4 different colors on it in a magazine and thought it was adorable so I tried to recreate it for Savannahs room.  She loves butterflies and flowers also so we put those on her wall. 

We forgot to get before pictures so we took a picture after 2 of the walls were painted.  It was a little tricky for me to help all the time since I had to nurse Micah or pay attention to him (which I love doing!).  So it took us a little longer then I had thought it would.  We worked on Saturday night for about 4-5 hours.  Then again on Sunday night for 3-4 hours.  And then spent most of the day on Monday doing touch-ups.  Darin took a break with the 3 older kids and took them to a movie (the kids get free movie passes from school to the dollar theater in Spanish Fork).  While they were gone I did more touch ups took down the tape and got ready to put the butterflies and flowers up.  We had originally wanted to do a stencil boarder but when I put it up on one of the walls I didn't like it so we painted over it and did something different.  Once the kids went to sleep we got busy and again and spent another 2-3 hours stamping and putting her room back together.

I think we did a pretty good job and it turned out pretty cute.  When Savannah woke up on Tuesday morning she was so thrilled to see that it was all finished.  Now I need to find out how to refinish old furniture.  A few years ago my Uncle gave me a pair of dressers that belonged to my Great Grandma.  I was pregnant at the time with Spencer so I didn't want to do it then and well.... 3 years later I still haven't gotten around to it!  Oh well it still looks ok in Savannahs room.  Spencer is now asking us to paint his room.....  I told him I would paint it white!  No one day we will get around to Spencer's and Micah's room.

Littlest Pet Shop stolen by a Squirrel

Here is the picture I promised of the littlest pet shop that was stolen by a squirrel while camping.  Once he realized it wasn't any good he dropped it