November 2019

Harper- 8 months old



At the park with cousin Jack.



Haunted House
This is a new haunted house in Murray.  Rem knows the owner and did some work for him so he lets him in for free.  Rem hasn't really wanted to go in during business hours because of the people in there that scare you.  So at the end of the season they had certain hours you could go in with no one to scare you.  We took some friends with us.  I was looking forward to going in although I was unsure what Harper would do.  But then we ended up having 2 friends too scared to go in so I stayed out in the car with them.  My boys had fun, I'm not sure they'd do it again though.



Food Bank Shopping
Our annual trip to Sams Club to shop for the food bank is always fun.  It's a little chaotic with all the cousins, but it's fun to see everyone.  I love this tradition and I'm so grateful to my parents who are such a great example to us to be so generous and giving to those in need.




Love these cute babies!

Zoo
Erika and I and our little baby girls went to the Zoo on a free zoo day.  I don't think I'll do that again, it was super crowded and we had to park pretty far away.  We didn't spend too much time at the zoo.  I guess it was a good walk for the day.



Lucy and Lincoln
My sister and her husband went on vacation so we got to have Lucy and Lincoln for a little bit.  They were all excited about having a sleepover together so we made a fort for them to sleep in.  We were planning on taking them to church with us, but with 9:00 church and a baby that didn't sleep well the night before, we didn't make it.



Graham's Gymnastics
I'm proud of this kid for passing everything off to move to the next level and earn some trophies!  He was super excited!



Graham Lost a Tooth
Graham finally lost his first tooth as a 1st grader.  He has had so many friends loose teeth at a younger age and he's been wanting this for a while.  This tooth was pretty wiggly and definitely ready to come out.  Rem tried tying floss around it to pull it out, but it kept slipping off.  We finally got some thread and after Rem attempted way too many times, I decided to take a try.  First try, I got it and the tooth went flying!  Luckily we found it and the tooth fairy brought Graham a $2 bill that night.



Happy Thanksgiving
I love getting together with family and enjoying good food.  I brought homemade rolls and a yummy peanut butter chocolate pie.  Graham had his eyes set on a huge turkey leg and he got lucky that grandpa gave it to him.  The 3 dogs even got lucky to eat some leftovers.  After dinner we played games and talked.  It was a good day and I sure am thankful for my WHOLE family, but especially my husband and 3 cute kiddos!


Getting ready for Christmas
We always start decorating for Christmas on Thanksgiving weekend.  We were especially excited to get started this year because Thanksgiving was so late in the month.  And we were excited because we had Harper to share all the fun with.  It was fun to watch her enjoy the lights and the train go around the track.




Graham being silly

New Jammies!
With Christmas coming out it means that Buddy the elf comes back and he always seems to find the jammies that I buy the kids before I even have a chance to give it to them.  The kids woke up the next morning to find their new jammies hanging on the tree.  The boys were super excited to get these awesome one piece Christmas tree pajamas!

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!