Happy 7th Birthday Tanner!

Tanner just turned 7, we can remember this as the most missing teeth year. For his birthday he wanted Zoobooks, and some games. For a cake he said he wanted a store bought carrot cake. Todd is a huge homemade cake for your birthday guy and thought that was crazy for him to want store bought. But hey, it is his birthday and he can have his cake and eat it to . So needless to say easiest birthday cake I've never made. He got all his candles out in one blow.

We are so proud of Tanner he has really grown up this past year. He is a sweet boy always wanting to be positive and have fun. Last night I made waffles for dinner and when I handed him his plate he said "mom, you are the best mom I ever had." When he first started school he had a tough time sitting down to do homework. So I would promise him waffles the next morning if he would sit down and do his homework without a fuss, pretty soon thankfully we got into a good routine, and thankfully now he does his homework without the waffle promise. If he's had a bad day I just have to make waffles and the world is set right. Oh - if life could always be this easy!

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween!! Todd wanted me to show this picture because he is wearing shorts and its like the first halloween we've had that its really warm outside.

Tanner is Harry Potter and quite acting out the part - for weeks now really. Carter is Spider Man and has firing off webs down. They were headed out to score some major candy.

My little princess fairy.

The night before was our wards trunk-or-treat party. We all went and its was a ton of fun. It was our first one, and I wasn't aware that I was supposed to decorate the trunk along with handing out candy. So I sat there with Cali in the back and handed out 130 candy bars to the dressed up kids.

Todd is some kind of army/wild man.

Earlier that day the kids helped me make pumpkin, bat and ghost sugar cookies. The turned out really yummy. We ran out of time and I ran out of energy to make the frosting though. Next year!

Cali stayed home with me and we handed out candy to the kids. With her WWF wrestling brothers out of the house she really put in some zzzzz's. Ahhh peace and quite, I don't even try to keep the boys quite because I figure she's going to have to get used to sleeping with the background noise.

Visit to Mesa

My mom and I drove up to Mesa to see my aunt Pam and her family. Pam introduced my kids to her grandkids barbie four wheeler. At first they thought they were to macho to ride it but after she showed them the gas pedal and go, they were ready.

Ready to go go go, but when it came down to the know how they would go go go into anything close, walls, cars, people. This was harder than it looked.

We had to only let one in at a time because each would want to keep pressing on the gas.

Pam has a huge tree in her backyard with a rope, the boys really enjoyed swinging from it.

Kristyn with her son Logan and Cali and I. She has really motivated me to get going on my food storage.