While Mom Is Away.....

I was gone for a couple of hours today so I left dad in charge. It was kind of quiet so he went looking for Crew and this is where he found him, taking a nap on the sink. Probably not the most comfortable place to sleep but I guess he was tired enough.

He loves to climb up onto my bathroom counter and get into all kinds of trouble, it's become his favorite spot lately.

Notice the mess on the floor, nothing more fun than cotton balls and Q-tips. He also loves to go through my makeup bag and put a lot of Q-tips in his mouth. He was awake when I got home so Billy showed me the pictures on the camera.

Happy Halloween

Here are some pictures of the kids in their Halloween costumes.

Our cute little Cheerleader.

Koye is the Black Spikerman. You should see some of his moves, pretty awesome!

Here is our little Batman. He actually wore the mask for a little while but it didn't last too long.

Halloween was also my dad's birthday. I wish we could have been there with him to celebrate! Growing up as kids he always had to take us to the annual carnival they had at the Pomerene School, which you know you loved it dad deep down somewhere, right?! Glad you had a good birthday dad, we love you.

Best Surprise Ever!

Shelley, my sister-in-law, decided that she wanted to come up and surprise me for a visit. Chris told her to come on up so she invited my other sister-in-law Brooke and my mom. Bill was obviously in on it but I was clueless. On Thursday Bill told me he was going out of town for work and would be home late. Well, 7:30 rolls around and I get a phone call from Shelley so I'm talking to her explaining that I'm waiting for Bill to get home (she's in my garage) and the next thing I know Billy comes walking in with Braelyn, her little girl. I let out this scream, hang up on Shelley because I know she is here at this point. I was thinking that her and Chris came so I run to the garage and I see Shelley, my mom and Brooke. I was so happy I was crying! It was so much fun to see them, especially Braelyn. We left AZ right when she was born and only saw her a couple of times. She's so cute and so much fun. She loved being right down on the floor and playing cars with the boys. I'm also so happy my mom got to come. I'm not sure how she got away without my dad but she did and we loved every minute of it.

Here she is with Aunt Brooke. Her mom had her dressed in the cutest outfits everyday!

I thought this was a fun picture of her mother doing her hair.

Here she is again playing with the boys. I was very tempted to send them, especially Crew, home on the plane with them to keep Braelyn entertained. Crew has been a little hard lately with being a mommas boy which has been so hard for me because he has been so easy up to this point. I threatened him several times that I was going to send him back to Arizona.

I love this picture. Brazer is wearing a coon skin cap. The very same one Crew loves to stuff the tail up his nose! We had so much fun while they were here and I couldn't have asked for a better 4 days. Thanks girls for coming, we miss not having family around and this was such a treat for us!

Portland Temple

We took everybody to see the Multnomah Falls. It was pretty up there. We stopped to take a picture of the kids on this log. You should have heard all the people ohh and ahhh over these four.

Here is Brooke, Mom and me.

We stuffed Madi and Koye in this old tree log.

This was the funniest picture. Koye wanted to "pose" for this picture and this is what he came up with?! Notice the crossed legs and arms. Braelyn was just having fun hanging out.

Beautiful Day At The Park

We decided to take advantage of the nice weather and take food to the park and eat. Shelley made some yummy chicken tacos, Bill made salsa and guacamole and then we had home made ice cream waiting for us at home. Grandma made us all get together for this picture.

Can you tell that Madisen just loves this little girl. She couldn't get enough of her. Poor Braelyn.

Koye thought she was pretty cute, too. He would keep saying "she's so cute"!