November 2018

Graham's Art

I love that Graham loves to draw.  This was just a napkin sitting on the table that he decided to draw our family.

Baby Jackson Duane Tervort

Jack was born on November 6.  I was planning on being at the hospital to see him born, but ended up being about 5 minutes too late.  Jamie was induced and everything seemed so slow moving that I didn't want to spend hours sitting in the hospital after I had just worked and being pregnant, I was extremely tired.  So I thought I'd wait until she was dilated to about a 7 before I headed all the way to Orem.  But about a half hour from hearing she was at a 5, the next text was that he was on his way!  I jumped in the car so fast and drove as fast yet safely as I could and then I missed it.  I was bummed, but I was so excited for Jamie and came in to take lots of pictures for her.  Such a cute baby boy!  He was so awake and alert too!

Food Bank Shopping

Another year of shopping at Sam's Club for the Food Bank.  We gather together with my Dad's side of the family and have about 10 carts or more and fill them full!  I'm so blessed to be a part of this family that is fortunate enough to do service like this to help those in need.  I love being able to teach my kids to serve.

Baby Joelle Ruth Latimer

Joelle was born on November 6.  I was determined to not miss the birth of Joelle, so I spent about 10 hours at the hospital, yikes!  This is Erika's first baby so I knew it could take a while, but when she went in for her 39th week check up she was already dilated to a 4 so I thought things would go quickly.  It was fun sitting and talking with her at the beginning and then as things progressed we gave her some privacy and sat in the waiting room.  Well we made it just in time when they called us back to the room and I saw Jo slip right out as I walked through the door.  She is such a beautiful baby that definitely had some lungs on her!  She had a hard time calming down for a bit, the nurses made a comment about her being a mad baby.  I was so glad I got to be there to see this precious moment of Erika holding her baby for the first time.

Pie Party

Rem's Aunt Kennie is so cute to have everyone over every year the night before Thanksgiving for a fun pie party where we get to try lots of different pies.  She also buys everyone a mug each year (every couple years I have to pick out our favorites and donate the rest because we have too many).  It's always fun to get to see Rem's cousins that we don't get to see too often.

Paxton's favorite cousin, Taylor Kimball.

Happy Thanksgiving

This year we had Thanksgiving with the Sorenson side.  With Rem's parents living in St. George now, we had Thanksgiving at Rachael's house.  She is so cute and had coloring or game books for every kid.  The food was delicious and we just hung around talking for a bit after dinner.  It's fun to get these cute cousins together, they all get along so well!

October 2018

The Ranch
We LOVE going to the Ranch, it's our favorite!  We didn't think we'd be able to go this year, a lot of the dates were getting filled up and we can only schedule it 60 days in advance to get the family discount.  Then one day I checked the calendar and someone must've canceled their trip because there was an opening!  We snatched it up with only 3 weeks until we left so we just started inviting pretty much everyone we knew.  It ended up being some of Rem's family; his parents, brother Russ and brother Randy and my sister in law Sandee with her kids (my brother couldn't come) and also some neighborhood friends; the Coons family, the Gonzalez family and the Westenskow family.

Going in the fall time is so pretty!  We had pretty decent weather while we were there.  It was a little chilly but it was perfect for swimming in the warm pool and bundling up for rides, going for walks, shooting guns, feeding the horses and touring the town.  We also spent lots of time just relaxing, chatting and one of my favorites, playing games.  We can't wait to go again!

Paxton's flag football
Paxton had a fun flag football season with some of his friends from school.  He loves it when family comes to his game to support him.

Leaves!
We get so many leaves from our trees and Graham loves to jump and play in them!  Such a fun and beautiful time of year!

Our Halloween House
Rem has made our house so fun for Halloween!  I do have to admit that I don't like the time and money spent on it, but I do love the end product.  And the boys absolutely love it and go outside almost every night before bed to listen to the music and look around.  We also get people daily driving by the house to see it.  It was listed in the news again as one of the houses to go see this Halloween.

Scarecrow Festival
We went to Thanksgiving Points Scarecrow Festival with the Tervorts.  It was nice just to get outside and go for a walk while being entertained by some cool scarecrows.  There were all different kinds from movies and such, my favorite was the Michael Jackson one.

Paxton is such a good cousin to his younger cousins, they just adore him.

Go Utes!

My dad had some extra tickets and invited me and the boys to a Utes Football game.  I love going to one football game per season as long as it's good weather and at a decent time of day.  I had fun getting the boys ready for the game and doing some face paint.

Sorenson Halloween Party

We invited Rems family over for Sunday dinner and had all the kids wear their Halloween costumes.  The Kimballs forgot their costumes so luckily we had some masks they could wear.  It was fun to see the kids in their costumes.

Happy Birthday to Me and Dan!

With my sisters husbands birthday being on the same day as mine, sometimes we celebrate together.  We tried going to Top Golf but they had an event going on so we went out to dinner first, tried Top Golf again when their event was over but then it was too busy so we went bowling instead.  We had a lot of fun!  Dan and Rem are holding bowling balls while Jamie and I are holding our baby bellies.

Trick or Treat at Dad's Work

Every year I take the kids to Rems office to go Trick or Treating.  His work does a competition on who has the best decorations.  Some of the teams go all out and it's a lot of fun for the kids and adults to see what they come up with.  Rem normally would love to be a part of this, but his team isn't really into it all that much and he doesn't want to do it alone.  So he didn't even try this year.

Witches Night Out

I love doing girls night with my friends.  We had a blast at Gardner Village!  It was fun to see everyone dressed up, do some shopping and watch a few of my friends compete in the best witch cackle.  They were awesome!

Pumpkin Patch

We took the kids and some of their friends, the Goodmans, to the pumpkin patch to pick out some pumpkins to carve and some to decorate the yard with.  I love this time of year and seeing all the pumpkins!  We even got to go through a cornstalk maze!

Friend Halloween Party

The Goodmans always have a fun Halloween party with a ton of friends from the ward/neighborhood.  This year for the game they did a 2 truths and a lie and we had to guess everyone's lie.

GG Soderberg

We made a quick trip to visit GG Soderberg just before going to GG Moss' Halloween Party so the boys were already dressed up.  She just finishing up her dinner when we came in.  A lot of the residents loved seeing the kids in their costumes so I walked around the tables with them to say hi to some of them.  Hopefully we cheered some of them up.  GG sure loved seeing us there!

GG Moss' Halloween Party
Another family fun Halloween party in the books.  This year we chose to dress up as The Nightmare Before Christmas.  Graham is Jack Skellington (I found his costume a couple years ago at a thrift store and had to use it this year or he would've grown out of it), Paxton and I and my pregnant belly are Lock, Shock and Barrel (Jack's sidekicks) and Rem is Santy Clause being captured.

It was a lot of fun being with family and seeing all my cousins.  My grandma is so awesome to still be doing this party.

After dinner we carved pumpkins.  I usually gut them all and Rem carves them.  I try to get our kids to pull out the pumpkin guts and they don't like the slime feeling.  

Happy Halloween!
Halloween night is always super fun!  It's always a toss up on whether it's more fun to take the kids trick or treating or stay home and pass out candy at our super fun Halloween house.  This year my parents came over and passed out candy while Rem and I both took the kids out.  We joined up with our neighbors, the Suprises.  It was a lot of fun and of course we had to go check out our friends house, the Goodmans, they put on a pretty good haunted walk through in their garage.

After a while I decided to go back and be with my parents.  Rem had made this big wooden scare box this year that when you push a button it would open and close quickly making a slamming noise.  My dad was having such a great time scaring all these kids!  He asked me if I wanted to take over handing out the candy and I said no, I just wanted to watch him do it, he was getting a kick out of it which was making me laugh.

When the kids got home from trick or treating, they joined in on all the fun.  Paxton hid in the bushes and loved jumping out to scare people.  He was sweet to not scare the young kids.

Graham and Zoey

Paxton and Kai

September 2018

Cabin Day

One day we decided to go spend some time at the cabin.  The boys had fun going for a ride and shooting guns with there dad while I relaxed in a swing on the deck watching my boys bond with their dad.  I love seeing them together having fun!

It's a GIRL!!!

My friend Mel (also my boss) has a friend that does ultrasounds.  She did an early one for us when I was pregnant with Graham so we asked her again and she was happy to do it again!  So we found out when I was 15 weeks along.  Only Rem and I went, the kids were in school.  Rem so sure it was a girl and that's what he was wanting for the longest time.  I think I was trying to prepare myself for another boy so I was saying that I would be fine either way, but when we found out it was a girl I was so excited!  I really wanted a girl deep down, I was just afraid to admit it.  Of course Rem had the biggest smile on his face!

After the ultrasound we went to the donut shop and asked for 2 pink filled donuts.  When the boys got home we gave them the donuts and I think they were way more interested in eating that donut than finding out they were getting a sister, but they did have smiles on their faces.

Then a couple days later we announced to our families.  For the Sorenson side we took a pink dessert to family dinner.  I taped the donut boxed closed so no one would sneak a peek.  But I caught Grandpa Sorenson trying to get in and I had to get after him so we called everyone in and announced, they were all cheering and so excited for us.  Then we went to the end of the Moss side dinner and gave my parents a gift.  It was a toy pink baby stroller to keep in their playroom.  My mom opened it and there was cheering and even some tears, everyone was so thrilled for us to have a girl!

I always love getting an ultrasound, it's so fun to see the baby moving around inside.  When we went to check out the gender, her legs were crossed and not leaving much room to be able to tell so I was told to go empty my bladder, do some jumps, bend over to get that baby to move.  Thank goodness she did!  We are so happy to be getting our baby girl!

Graham- Kindergarten

School pictures.  Yes that's food on his face, luckily my sister is a photographer and was able to edit that out for me so I didn't have to do retakes.  My friend watches him one day a week when I go to work and feeds him lunch, she must've forgotten to check his face.

Graham has Mrs. Tovey in the afternoon Kindergarten class.  His good friend Elly Goodman is in his class.

Paxton- 3rd Grade

This year Paxton  has Ms. Ogrin in a 3rd/4th split.  I wasn't too sure about the split, but he was lucky and got two of his good friends that are 4th graders in his class.  I was worried about them making trouble for the teacher, but they are all good kids and have been good students.

Comicon

Rem has started the tradition of taking his boys to Comicon every year.  They sure love getting dressed up and going with their dad!  They always come home with a prize and a huge smile!

This is the Place

We went with Jamie, Lucy and Lincoln to This is the Place.  We got to go on a train ride to the top of the park, make a necklace, dig for rocks, do some leather stamping, ride a pony and much much more.  The kids had a blast and we wish we would've had more time to see everything.

Tae Kwon Do

Paxton passed his next test and earned his blue black belt.  I'm so proud of him for learning his formations.  It was cool to see all the moves he's learned and how far he has come.

The Zoo

We went to the Zoo with Jamie, Lucy and Lincoln (we had a pass together that we were trying to use up before Jamie had her baby).  We always love coming to the Zoo and seeing all the animals!

Erika's baby shower

My youngest sister Erika is pregnant with her first baby.  So Jamie, Sandee, my mom and I threw her a family baby shower.  It's been so fun to be pregnant with my sisters and I'm so excited for Erika to become a mom!  Jamie is having a boy and Erika and I are both having girls.