Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving day was spent with lots of family! We had lunch with Aarons sisters and mom and grandparents at Amys house. The food was wonderful, and everyone had a great time! The twins even learned how to ride a bike without training wheels while we were there!

We headed home in the evening, changed clothes real quick and headed out to my grandparents house.
Colton again found his buddy!

Carlie was so tired!  She fell asleep on my dad while waiting for dinner to be done.

Nana always does a great job of setting the table for us! Of course dinner was fabulous as well.

I am so thankful to have so much family that lives near by. We enjoy spending time with all of them!

November

Another month in review post. I hope next year I will be better with picture taking, and regular blog posts...

 I love that the twins still think its cool to hold my hand while walking!

Colton likes to be around me at all times. I was taking a bath, and Colton had to be right on the ledge watching me. Most of the time I think its super annoying, and other times its really cute.

Colton has a ton of play phones. He likes to try to text or call Papa!

I voted! (So did Aaron)

Colton playing with the cars at Grandpa and Grandma Olds house. 

Claire

Carlie and Colton!

Strep throat finally hit Claire. I think I was at the Dr's office once or twice a week for almost an entire month. Glad thats over with!

I ran the Color Me Rad run with Alysia and Raina! It was a LOT of fun! I look forward to doing another 5K soon!

Basketball season has started! We have season tickets this year!! yay!

Colton and his buddy Joey! We had everyone over for David and my dads birthdays. Colton snuggled up to Joey to watch a show on the ipad.

Carlie came out of her room wearing one of Coltons church shirts. She thought it was pretty dang funny!

Happy 10 Year Anniversary!

I say this every year, but I cant believe we have been married for TEN years. That's a LONG time!!
We went to the Bellagio for dinner, and it was probably the best dinner I have ever had. 

Aaron knows a lot of the people that work at FIX, and we were treated like VIP! It was pretty much amazing. The chef sent out just about everything on the menu. All of the food was SO good. We had a great time out!

Twin Love

Both of the girls have missed a few days of school while they were sick. While Carlie was home sick, Claire painted this picture for Carlie, during her "Fun Friday" at school.

On the same day, Carlie made this picture for Claire! It says " I love you Claire, you are a good sister. We are not going to leave each other."

I love the special bond that they have!

Coltonisms

Colton has been talking a ton lately. He says some pretty funny things. For example:

While holding his hand out to me (like talk to the hand sort of way) he said "relax mom, ok"

When something doesn't go quite right, he shouts "seriously?!"

When I tell Colton not to do something, like jump off the couch, or stand in the table, he just shouts "why?!" Over and over.

He's going to be a fun one!




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Halloween!

I love this time of year, I just dont love Halloween. I do love carving pumpkins though!  This year we planted some pumpkins in Parowan, and they grew to be about 75lbs each! HUGE right?! We invited Keri and Joey to come carve pumpkins with us.

Tuesday night we had our ward Trunk or Treat. Claire went as a Cat, Carlie pulled a last minute switch on me, and decided she didnt want to wear her witch costume, so she was Jasmine, Colton went as a hunter.

The girls had a blast walking with their friends from school! We were done with Trunk or Treating in less than an hour, and got home for bed at a reasonable time!

Our school doesnt allow kids to wear their costumes to school (thank goodness!) But they were able to wear Halloween colors!

Claire stayed in her Cat costume for Halloween night, sadly, Carlie started to not feel well at school, and was really not feeling well when it came time to go Trick or Treating.

Carlie, Colton and I stayed home. Carlie looked and felt so sick! (I ended up taking Carlie and Colton to the Dr, Colton has an ear infection, and Carlie and I both have strep throat!)

Earlier in October I saw an idea on Pinterest, called "The Switch Witch"! Basically, you chose a few pieces of candy to keep, and you put the rest in your bucket, and the Switch Witch comes, collects your candy, and gives you a new toy!  I thought this was awesome, so I got the kids on board, and they LOVED it!!!! It was a huge success! And we have NO candy left in the house! woohoo!

October

Another long update post.  


Colton is usually hard to keep entertained at church, but he was really good this Sunday! He just sat on the floor and played with his cars!I didnt have to take him out in to the hallway at all!

Carlie, Abigail and Claire! Abi kept telling the girls to "sit down" so they could take a picture!

These are 2 of the HUGE pumpkins we grew in the garden in Parowan! They each weighed 75lbs!

Colton had a cough that just sounded awful, so I took him to the doctor, and found out he had bronchiolitis. He ended up needing a breathing treatment right in the office. He had been sleeping so horribly and was super tired, he ended up falling asleep DURING his breathing treatment! I thought that was crazy because the nebulizer is loud! He had to have 2 breathing treatments a day for a few weeks.

The twins had soccer pictures, and I snapped this one behind their photographer.

And I just took these screen shots from the website of the pictures I ordered! I think they turned out super cute!

Oh man. One afternoon after I got home from work, Colton was sitting on the floor playing with something, then a few minutes later he kept saying "help! help"  He stuck something up his nose, and couldnt breath out of that nostril! So, I called up his pediatricians office, and scheduled a quick visit. (seriously, I called, had an appointment for 15 minutes later, and was in and out of the office in 15 minutes!)  he stuck part of a sticky hand thingy up his nose. Little stinker!

Colton wanted to ride on Carlie's back, I told him no, but Carlie said her back had been "lazy" and it needed the workout! Ha! That girl says some of the funniest stuff!

Basketball season is almost here!! The Rebels had their "First Look" and we took the kids!

Dessert at Yogurtland!

Carlie and Claire have been begging to put up Halloween decorations, so we got some spiderwebs for our bushes out front.

Tuesday we didnt have school, so we went to the Barlow's to make Spooky houses!

Colton got new footsie jammies! So cute! And that look he's giving me? It happens all the time!

We needed a few things from Bass Pro shops, so we all went, and of course we had to stop and look at the fish!

Grandpa Olds is in the hospital, so since we are all finally feeling better, we headed out to go visit grandma, and Aaron went and saw grandpa in the hospital.