Dad's homemade pancakes (Halloween style)

So I gave my sister a little bit of a hard time this last week when she called me to tell me of these pumpkin rolls that she had made. I'm not talking about the yummy cream cheese filled ones I'm talking about a roll colored orange, and a green top. I told her wow you have way to much time on your hands. Well after I thought about it for a while I thought of the breakfasts my dad had made for us as kids. Just the little things like smiley face pancakes, or mickey mouse pancakes, or food coloring in our oatmeal. Silly little extra time consuming things that as a kid were the best most amazing breakfasts ever. So I thought why not? Why not take the few extra minutes to make my kids day that much more special. Today was my kids Halloween parade, so I woke up a few minutes early to make my dads buttermilk pancakes with a Halloween twist. I think they turned out pretty cute they not only made my kids smile, but I couldn't help but smile at what I had done for them and how happy they were. Now I thank my dad for the few extra minutes he spent on us kids to make our breakfasts special. Happy Halloween!!

Thanks Lisa for the motivation.

Avery is a genie

Yes Jaedens costume looks crazy, that's what happens when you lose your real costumes mask the week of, so the night before end up at Wal-Mart. Yes the selection is not very great for those that wait last minute he is supposed to be a skeleton lord

(don't ask me what that is. The picture looked way cooler on the package.)

Panguitch weekend

 CJ took Friday off so we could go up to Panguitch as a family. My mom and aunt Melanie came up Thursday night, and on Friday morning CJ took the kids up hunting while we cleaned out my grandma's storage room in her basement. It was a lot of work but so worth it when it was all done, and we had a good time doing it. My family also had a great time playing in the mountains. They of course didn't see anything, I didn't think they would especially with my 3 kids going along. Other then that we spent a lot of time relaxing, watching movies, and hanging out. A well needed break from everything. This is a new face Treyson has started doing it was so funny we were getting kids ready for bed and he kept doing this face. We were laughing at him and he just kept doing it over and over again. Silly boy I just love my kids so much!

Photo Shoot Giveaway

So one of my friends I play bunco with is doing an awesome giveaway for a family photo shoot with her! So check out her blog, and sign up maybe you'll be lucky and win. But hopefully not because Ireally want to win myself! Check out her work she is awesome.kelliestilsonphoto.blogspot.com

These are just a couple she took of my friend's kids

so cute huh!

School Time (I know I'm late)

I think I am always late at posting things. I'm just not a great blogger. But I really wanted to have pictures to remember their first days of school it wasn't the same days but I guess that the good thing about being late is I can post them together! They were both really excited to start school and are loving their teachers. I'm really glad they have made some good friends already this year. I can't believe I have two kids in school already!

My 1st grader

His desk

All ready for Kindergarten

Avery and her friend Jaxon.

Tubing

We took our boat out to let the kids go tubing. It was so much fun we even let Tinkerbell come along on our boating trip. We have had such a great summer at the lake. We sure are going to be sad when it's to cold to go anymore. I didn't get pictures of C.J. but he told me I couldn't get him off the tube, well I showed him. I would floor the boat and then all of a sudden turn. The tube would be clear up on its side. The rope actually broke, and he went rolling over the water it was so funny I wish I could have taken pictures and drove the boat at the same time!

The boys

Avery and mom (she was really nervous)

Mom and Treyson

Jaeden

Tink was not quite sure what to think!

Lake Powell 2010

So it has been 2 yrs since we got to go to Lake Powell. Last year when CJ's family went Jaeden had a broken hand, and Treyson was just little so we decided it would be easier to just skip out that year. Well we were really excited that we got to go this year because a couple weeks before CJ picked up a little boat he worked so hard on it so we could take it. We had such a great time and the weather was perfect nice and warm during the days and it would rain at night so it cooled off enough to make sleeping nice. Thanks Somerville family and all of our other friends that came, and made our trip so much fun! Can't wait until next year...

My baby couldn't get enough of the bikes he would put this helmet on and try to climb on the bikes.

Luckily Papa Jae was willing to take him for rides!

(CJ and Tova jumping)
We had a blast cliff jumping even Jaeden got brave and tried it.
After the first time I couldn't get him to stop!

talking him into jumping...
He did it!

 What a fun group of friends and family everyone made it so much fun!

Great reminder to mom's

I saw this on another blog and thought it was just perfect for me today, and thought every mom should watch it!