October 2019

My brother, Trevor and his wife, Sandee are expecting!! We are so excited for them and can’t wait for another cousin to play with!


Desert Star
We got 6 season tickets to Desert Star for Rem doing some prop work for their stage.  The kids love going and sometimes we let them invite a friend.  We took my Grandma Moss and Graham brought Zoey to the Halloween show.


Sorenson family Halloween party
When your house is all decked out for Halloween, you must throw a party!  We have made it a tradition to have Sorensons over for a Sunday dinner in October with costumes required.  The kids love having their cousins over!


Girls witches night out at Gardner Village
There are so many great ladies that live in my neighborhood.  My good friend had the idea to go to Gardner Village for a Witches Night Out dinner.  We had so much fun being out with all the ladies, enjoying good food and good conversation.



This cute girl loves her baths!  She had slid sideways in her tub and it was so cute to see her lounging with her feet sticking up.

Wheeler Farm
We went to Wheeler Farm with Erika and Joelle to take some pictures in all the pumpkins.  I had Harper dressed all cute and just as we were about to start taking pictures I noticed that she had had a blowout.  So all the pictures you see in her cute outfit, just know that she had poop going up her back.  But I wanted those pictures and I didn't have another cute outfit.  So after I got all the pictures I wanted I went and changed her into some pajamas.  Then Erika had to leave and the kids and I walked around and explored Wheeler Farm some more.  Zoey was with us and it was perfect weather.  We didn't want to leave.




The Aquarium at Halloween Time



Paxton‘s flag football
Pax loves playing flag football!  He had lots of friends on his team this year.  Rem coached his team with one other dad helping out.  It was fun watching them play, they had an awesome team!


Halloween Fun Day
We let the kids each invite a friend and we did a Halloween day.  We made a yarn craft, had a black and orange dinner and pumpkin cookies, played Nightmare Before Christmas Monopoly and watched the movie Nightmare Before Christmas.  It was a great day and we all had a blast!

Meeting cousin baby Peter
Randy and Kelsey had their 3rd baby, Peter Dan Sorenson.  Harper didn't look so small anymore next to Peter.  It was fun holding a little newborn again.


Last day of Scouts
The Church has made many changes and the scouting program is one of them.  They are ending the scouting program and starting their own program.  We are sad that it's changing, Paxton loved going to Scouts every week and seeing his buddies.  But we are looking forward to new beginnings!


Paxton and his best friend, Kai.

My birthday 
My sisters took me out to lunch for my birthday (Erika had to leave early so we didn't get her in the picture).  I loved spending time with them and we got to eat at one of my favorite places, Vessel Kitchen!  Later I went to a movie with my family then out to dinner and Pumpkin Nights.  It was such a great birthday!  Rem surprised me with adding some birthday decorations to our Halloween display in the front yard.  He also got me a pebble ice machine!  I was super excited for that!  It was a great day and Pumpkin Nights was super fun, love spending time with my family!








Trick or Treating at Dad's office
The kids always love going to their dads office to do some trick or treating, 1. because they get TONS of candy and 2. because some of the workers go all out and decorate the office space super fun!  Harper got lots of compliments on her cute Spider-pig costume that her Grandma Sorenson made the hat for it.  She looked so dang cute!



GG Moss Annual Halloween Party
I love seeing my cousins and everyone in their costumes at my Grandma's Halloween party.  It's so fun that my sisters and I all have babies around the same age.  They are so stinkin' cute!  We had dinner and then carved pumpkins.






We wanted to get all three babies in carved out pumpkins, but Jamie went home early.  Erika and I carved out pumpkins for Harper and Joelle.  We put a paper towel down first so it wouldn't be so cold to sit in.  Harper sure didn't mind sitting in it, at one point she was even trying to eat the pumpkin.  Joelle on the other hand did not like sitting in the pumpkin at all!  She cried and cried until they took her out.



School Parade and Class Parties
This year the Halloween parade and class parties were not on Halloween.  The kids didn't mind though.  I love going to the school and seeing all the kids dressed up in costumes, there are some creative costumes!  Paxton's teacher looked awesome in her Maleficent costume!

I helped organize Graham's party, but could only go to one of their parties.  I went to Paxton's party and did a Roll a Monster game/art drawing.  It was cute to see the kids monster drawings, we even named them silly names.



Happy Halloween!
On Halloween we had my whole family except Jamie's family came over for chili and trick or treating.  Our house is always fun on Halloween night with our singing pumpkins, lots of lights, noises and a fog machine.  People love all the yard decoration.  My dad, Rem and my boys like to get in on trying to scare people.  It's fun watching them enjoy.  It was getting to walk around with cousins and my siblings to go trick-or-treating. 




Some people call Harper "Dewey baby" because she looks a lot like her grandpa Moss.

September 2019

Harper-6 months old







My sister Jamie came over and did a photo shoot for me with Harper in a milk bath.  It was so dang cute and she was just loving it and trying to eat the flowers. 



Camping
My parents got a camp site for Labor Day weekend in Midway and invited anyone to come use it.  The first night Harper and I slept over with my mom and then we went and spent the day shopping at Swiss Day.  The next evening my whole family came up for dinner and s'mores and then just my little family stayed the night.  Harper and I slept in the RV with my parents and Rem and the boys slept out in a tent.  It looked cozy and fun, but they said it got really cold at night.  The next day we packed up and went to the cabin for a ride on the four-wheelers.  It was a great weekend!







Piano
Paxton started piano lessons.  He does not love the idea, but I know how much he loves music.  I feel like if we can give him some piano lessons to begin with then he can take it a different direction later on.  Most days he hates it, but once he learns a song I barely even have to remind him to practice because he will just sit at the piano and start playing.  I hope we can get him to stick with it for a while.



Graham
Graham is my kid that loves sugar the most, but he also is my healthiest eater and loves fruits and most vegetables.  One day for a snack he asked for lettuce with Ranch dressing.



Graham and his buddy Sloan at Back to School BBQ lunch.   Graham loves to catch bugs!  He wanted me to take it home for him.


Fan X (aka Comic Con)

The boys love going to Comic con every year with their dad.  This year we planned ahead and got our Halloween costumes ready so they could wear them to Comic con.  We did characters from the movie Spider-Man into the Spider Verse.  Paxton was Miles Morales, Rem was Peter B. Parker (aka fat Spider-Man) and Graham was the bad guy, The Prowler.  Rem made Graham's costume and it turned out awesome!  Graham loved it and he was really good at getting into the character when he was dressed up.



This is what Graham wanted to wear for picture day at school.  He looked so handsome, I just love my Graham and the ideas he has.

Lagoon
This was the first time we took the kids to Lagoon and we ended up going when it was Frightmares.  We went with our next door neighbor friends, the Suprises.  We had so much fun!  We mostly just hung out in the kiddie area and did all the little kid rides.  There were a few Halloween walk through things for the kids to collect some candy and small toys.  I had a hard time getting my kids to want to go on any bigger rides, but I finally talked Paxton into a few.  There were some tears and some bribes, but he ended up loving all but one ride that I talked him into going on.  Rem ended up going home early with Annie, Zoey, Graham and Harper and I stayed back with the big kids Paityn, Kai and Paxton.  It was fun hanging out with them, we had a good time!





Disneyland
We took a last minute trip to Disneyland with our friends, the Coons.  They had planned a trip a couple weeks out and invited us. We originally told them no because we had a trip planned to Disney World in May.  But then the day before the trip we thought "how often do you get to travel with friends?" and "what the heck, let's go make some memories".  We are so glad we did it!  We had so much fun!

We spent one day at Disneyland, one day at California Adventure and one day at the beach.  Everything was decorated for Halloween, our favorite time of the year to go.  It was nice having Harper with us.  We took advantage of having the stroller swap pass so most everyone in our group could ride the rides twice.  I liked having my one on one time with Harper while everyone else stood in line and then we would switch and I got to go through the fast pass line, it was great!  Harper did really well and I loved having her with us.






The new Star Wars land was pretty cool!  I'm not a big fan of Star Wars, but it was fun to watch my boys enjoy it.  When we first entered we saw Chewbacca and Rey and and Chewy came up to the stroller that Harper was asleep in and started shaking it, it was pretty funny.  Ray kept telling him to stop and then he started pointing at Rem's beard and rocking his arms like he was his baby.  Then Chewy made his call and pointed to Rem to do the same so Rem did it and Chewy liked it.  It was pretty funny.


Rem really wanted to meet Jack and Sally.  Harper was wearing a red bow and Jack said, "Sally, look they brought us a present."


The Coons went to Universal Studios, but we decided that three parks in a row was too much for the kids, especially Harper.  Also I really wanted to see the beach since we were all the way in California.  The beach was a great idea and we're really glad we went.  It was relaxing, it was fun to watch the kids jump the waves and play with the heaps of seaweed, and we loved watching Harper enjoy the sand in her toes and the water rush up on her feet.  I sure love this family of mine and love spending time with them!

August 2019

Camping with Grandpa
My dad loves his grand kids and he loves to go camping and fishing.  So he took Paxton, Graham and Jake camping in his RV in Manti.  They went on UTV rides, fishing, swimming and more.  These boys got spoiled with new fishing rods and hammocks!  They had such a blast and grandpa said he can't wait to do it again!  These boys sure do have the best grandpa around!




Harper 5 months old






I love those little chunker thighs!


Doesn't she look just like me?

She sure loves Paxton!  Paxton is so cute with her!  Anytime I ask him to watch her or get her from her crib or something, he is right on it and loves to do it!

Hike to Donut Falls
My sister, Erika and I took our kids for a hike up to Donut Falls.  I hadn't been there since I was a kid.  The kids kept getting distracted along the way, like climbing up these cool roots from the trees.  It was pretty crowded once we got to where we could see the falls and lots of people were climbing up them. but we decided not to because we had the babies with us and it was super crowded.  It was a fun little hike and nice to be up in the mountains.

Backstreet Boys Concert
My sister-in-law, Sandee was able to get 4 tickets at a discount price in a suite for the Backstreet Boys concert.  So I went with her and my two sisters. It was such a blast (from the past)!  It brought back so many memories and I LOVED it!!!!



Cutest baby cousins




I love that my sisters and I had babies all around the same time!  I told them we should continue pictures like this all the way until they are teenagers!

Activity Days- day camp
I love my church calling!  I get to hangout and teach these cute girls.  In the summer we decided to do a 2 day Day Camp instead of monthly activities.  On the first day we went up the canyon for a few hours and played games, made bracelets, shoot bow and arrows, ate lunch and sang girls camp songs.  It was way fun and we should have planned to stay for several more hours!




The second day we had a pizza pool party.  Harper got to come with on both days.  My boys even got to come to the pool party.  We all had a ton of fun!

This is the Place Heritage Park
While Paxton and Rem were in Bear Lake for Young Mens high adventure, I took Graham and Harper to This is the Place with Liana and his cousins Keladry, Owen and Lucy.  I love watching Graham and how excited he gets for things.  He was most excited to go find more tiny rocks!



Girls day out
My mom and sisters and Sandee planned a girls day.  We went and got pedicures, did some shopping and went out to dinner.  It was fun being with the girls!



First day of School


Graham was so excited to start first grade and be able to eat lunch at school.  He has two teachers, Mrs. Jessop and Mrs. Gardner, they are splitting the day so one teaches in the morning and one in the afternoon.  It was fun to take him school clothes shopping and we decked him out in all puma, I even made his shirt, he was so excited!


Paxton was kind of excited to go back to school.  He was excited to see his friends, but not as excited to be going back to school.  He had a great first day though and seemed more excited about it when he got home.  He got the new teacher, Ms. Athens, she's on her 4th year of teaching.  Paxton did not want to go back to school clothes shopping so we will do it later in the year when he actually needs new clothes.




Sometimes I go walking in the mornings and walk over to the school with the kids.  One morning I was a little behind and when I got over to the school I noticed a bunch of kids all surrounding Graham.  They had found a grass hopper and of course Graham was the one that was picking it up and it even jumped up on his shoulder at one point.  Graham loves bugs and isn't afraid to pick them up.  He was loving all the attention!






Happy 60th dad!


It was my dad's 60th birthday!  He also sold the Chuck-a-Rama business back in December last year so we had a big retirement party for him (although he is still working for Chuck, but just part time and only because of the health insurance).  So because he had a big retirement party he didn't want a big birthday party so we just went to dinner with the whole family.  We got him a U of U sign for his yard and everyone went in on a pebble ice machine for his house.  Dad loves his ice! 

Go T-Wolves!
We went to go watch one of Uncle Dan's football games.  I was bummed to not stay for very long because my mom, Harper and I were going camping in Midway that night and to Swiss Days the next day.  So we didn't want to be out too late.  It was such the perfect weather and so nice to be outside.  Unfortunately the T-Wolves didn't win their game, but the boys had fun hanging out with their cousins.


Camping and Swiss Days
Swiss Days is a big event they put on in Midway, I like to go for the shopping, there are a ton of cute vendors.  It has become a very popular event and is super crowded, but I had to go this year because I finally have my little girl that I can shop for! 

My dad had a camping spot in Midway and he went and parked his RV there and said any of us could use it.  So my mom and I went and stayed the night and went shopping the next day.  It was a lot of fun hanging out just the 3 of us and I found some cute girly things to buy at Swiss Days for my little Harper.  She did so good camping and shopping in the heat, it was a hot day!