November 2016

Went and saw Moana with the boys, it was a cute movie.

Teaching him young ;)  It only lasted a couple days, but he did a good job washing everything off the dishes.  I love those tippy toes!

Loving the snow!  One night when we got home kind of late from a party, there was lots of snow.  The boys were super excited about it and Rem went out and helped them build a snowman!

Paxton went to a Harry Potter birthday party, we threw this outfit together last minute.  He now loves Harry Potter and we have read the first book together and watched the first movie!

Proof of Rem supporting the Utes and wearing a Utes shirt on game day! 

Getting ready for Christmas and pulling out the decorations.  (The day after Thanksgiving)

Graham and I went to Gardner Village one afternoon to visit a friend that works at the salon and then we walked around to see the elves and had lunch at the bakery.  I love hanging out with this cute boy!

Our Stake did a 24 hour Road Show.  So our Ward had 24 hours to throw this together and their theme was the 40's.  It was about a 7 minute production.  Rem helped make props for it and the kids performed.  I had to work during the day so I got to come and enjoy the show.  The boys were broomsticks in the Fantasia part.  Everyone did a really good job! 

Leaves!

Playing in the leaves is so much fun!  We made a huge pile for the kids in the backyard, they had a blast!  This is our friend and neighbor, Elly.

Food Bank Shopping

Every year we go shopping with my entire Dad's side of the family for food to donate to the food bank.  We went to Sam's club and as we were walking around Graham got hurt and I found this flat bed cart so I put him on it so I didn't have to carry him.  

At the end when everyone was checking out and we had a huge line of carts, the kids get a little restless.  So I gathered a bunch of them up and we went for a ride around the store.  Here they are cuddling some soft sleeping bags.  At one point I had about 6-7 kids on there and I guess some guy made a comment to my cousin that was down the isle "Well I guess that's the only way to do it when you have that many kids".  Haha, he thought they were all mine.

First Grade Feast

Paxton's first grade class did a big feast.  The kids dressed up like Pilgrims and the parents like Indians.  It was fun to go see Pax at school, have lunch with him and watch the kids play some arm and leg wrestling games and then we went outside and we all had a race.

Happy Thanksgiving

This year we did Thanksgiving with the Sorenson side.  We started out with the kids doing some coloring pages while we finished getting dinner ready and eating appetizers.  I love seeing all these kids hanging out, there are 18 grand kids now!

After dinner they made turkey pumpkins.

I'm so grateful for this little family of mine!  Sure love them!

Ice skating!

We took the boys ice skating for the first time (well it was Paxton's second, but it's been a couple years).  It was a little rough at first and there were some tears from Pax.  We made it our goal to leave on a high note or else we knew Pax would never want to come back again.  So he finally started liking it a little more and more.  We still did the wall pretty much the whole time, but because he liked it so much we have been back 3-4 more times and now he is really getting the hang of it!

I can't believe they make skates small enough to fit Graham, they are the cutest things!

October 2016

Rem and I have always loved Halloween and we love the music from 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'.  So Rem got some ideas and went to work!  My only concern is where are we going to store all this stuff.  He is super creative and I love how it all turned out, although I was glad to get my husband back from working on these projects day and night.  

We had lots of people on Halloween night taking pictures with the characters.

Paxton was super excited for fall time and couldn't wait to make a pile of leaves to jump in.  This was only the beginning of our leaves falling, we get TONS more.

Jack Skellington sat in our house a lot while Rem was finishing him up.  There were several times that I would catch the boys sitting with him, looking up to him.

Graham showing me his drawings.

Lilo dressed up as Pikachu.

This was the Sorenson Halloween party.  By the time we thought to get a picture of all the kids, they had already taken their costumes off.

One day after school I had to meet my sister Jamie to pick up Lilo from her (she was watching her).  I asked the boys what they wanted to do since we were already out and about and Paxton wanted to so a hike!  I'm so glad he did, it was a lot of fun even though I didn't have the best shoes on.

It was show and tell at school for Graham, starting with the letter 'D'.  He wanted to wear his dinosaur shirt and bring his huge dinosaur!  It was so cute to see him carry it around as it was almost as big as him.

Gardner Village

We invited my parents to come to dinner one night at Archibald's and then walk around and see all the witches.

Pumpkin Patch

We needed some pumpkins for our yard so we went out to this place in Draper and picked out a bunch of pumpkins and then the kids got to play on some jump houses/slides and in a corn pit.

They had a lot of fun!  

Preschool Fieldtrip

Zoo

Went to the zoo with my friend, Kimberlee and her cute boys Jack and Mick.

Zoo again

Went to the zoo with cousin Jake and Paxton got to come this time!

Grandma's Annual Halloween Party

I love going to my Grandma's Halloween party.  Pretty much all the cousins dress up and it's fun to see everyone's costumes.  It's fun to get together for dinner, catching up and carving pumpkins!

Ben and Erika

The Moss Crew with Alex, Syd and Lizzie and their other halves.

We did a Pokemon theme this year at Paxton's request.  I wasn't quite done with Paxton's costume, just a few more spikes to add and Grahams costume hadn't come in the mail yet (from China), so thank goodness Rems mom had a pikachu hat on hand that we borrowed for the night.  

Sandee and Jake

The Richardson Crew...Troy, Melissa, Aliyah, Gavin and Logan

We let the boys draw on their pumpkins and then we tried to carve it, it was quite interesting to say the least.

After we are done carving we line the pumpkins up and put candles in them and turn the lights out.  I love seeing every ones creations.

The very next day after the party Graham's costume came in the mail!   He makes one cute Charmander and he's SUPER soft!

Trick or Treat

at GG's assisted living place.  The kids love any chance to put on their costumes and get candy!

Trunk or Treat

This was our ward Trunk or Treat on the same night as GG's Trick or Treat.  Lots of candy that day!  Rem was so proud of his creations (which he should be) that he made the effort to get them to the church parking lot for everyone to see.

Preschool Halloween Parade

These kids are so dang cute.  They paraded down the sidewalk and back and then they lined up by the house and sung a couple Halloween songs.

Trick or Treat at Dad's office

Another day of trick or treating.  Rems office buildings do trick or treating through all the cubicles so the kids load up on lots of candy!  They also do a contest of the best decorated cubicles.  Rem and his team went all out this year and of course they did The Nightmare before Christmas and Rem brought all of his creations.  It looked amazing and they won first place!

These faces were projected onto the pumpkins and they were moving to make them look like they were singing.

Lock, Shock and Barrel

Oogie boogie and Jack Skellington

Cabin and Park City

We stayed the night at the cabin with Trev and Sandee and then the next day we met up with Jamie and Dan in Park City at this free Halloween event where the kids got to paint pumpkins and play some games to win prizes.  I wanted to see my cute Lucy and Lincoln in their Halloween costumes since they weren't at my Grandma's Halloween party.  They sure looked cute, it was especially fun to see Lincoln rocking the spider costume that I made for Graham last year.

Paxton's school Halloween parade

It sure was fun to see Paxton walking through in his costume, he sure was pretty proud to be wearing that awesome costume.  It definitely made me happy to see how much he loved it since it was a labor of love making that thing!  He got some comments of being a dinosaur or a hedge hog.  But Paxton was sure to correct them and let them know he was a Pokemon named Sand Slash.

And finally... Trick or Treating on Halloween Night!

We had a full house on Halloween night.  My parents, Erika & Ben and Trev, Sandee & Jake all came over to join us.  My mom and Sandee stayed back at the house to pass out candy while the rest of us went out with the kids to Trick or Treat.  Even Lilo came with us!