Haunted Gingerbread Houses!

So for Young Women's a couple of

weeks ago we made some haunted gingerbread houses out of graham crackers and the kids came until Brett got off of work. They were very disappointed that they didn't get to do one, so I brought home the opened leftovers and they had a blast making their own houses. They had a hard time eating them and ust picked at them until they were falling down and they are now on their way to the dump! But they had fun while they lasted!

Beater Time!

So Dallin was bugging me while I was cooking last week, so I gave him the beaters to the mashed potatoes and he loved it as you can see!

Our Big Boy!

So on Wednesday the 15th of October, our little baby grew up a little bit faster!
He took his very first steps on his OWN!!
YEAH! HE FINALLY DID IT!
He's been holding onto stuff for a long time now but hasn't ventured off on his own. The other day he walked in front of me from our bedroom clear out to the family room! I was so proud of him!
Brett keeps saying we are in trouble now, but I think he will be a lot happier now that he can do things on his own. But then that brings what kind of "things" he's doing on his own!

Our little TINK!

So Tepaynga is really into fairies right now. She wanted Tinkerbell on her birthday cake and loves going to the fairy's website to "make her own fairy"! Well I found a website that does a survey of what fairy you are most like and these are Tepaynga's results:

You are most like Tink.
She’s sassy and brave and loves to fix things!
She is a true friend with a kind heart,
bit of a temper,
fiercely loyal,
and will go out of her way for those she loves.

Doesn't that sounds just like our little precious girl! I thought it was great and wanted to share! Sad thing is that I can't find that website again to see who Mekayla is like! Oh, well at least we got these results!

Make-up for lost time...

So we have a lot to catch up on! We've had two birthdays last month and no camera so we've had to do our pictures through our families' cameras! I hope we can get all of them to work for us!

Dallin turned one and is getting bigger every day! He is still not walking without help, but gets excited when he figures out he is standing up by himself! He so much fun!

Tepaynga had a birthday as well and is now 5 years old! I can't believe how fast she has seemed to grow up because she has been my little girl for so long! She got her ears pierced for her birthday and is loving being even more beautiful with her sparkly earrings! She keeps us laughing that's for sure!

The kids and I went to Monticello this last weekend! Mekayla didn't have school because of a teacher day and so we left after she got out of school on Thursday! We got there after 11:00 and the kids couldn't believe how dark it was outside! They love not having to travel for 2 days to get to Nana and Grandaddy's house! It it is a lot nicer to be able to go down for a weekend and not spend the whole trip driving!

We took a drive/4-wheeler trip up to Elk Ridge while we were there and ended up getting poured on! It was nice to be able to enjoy the beautiful colors and listen to Conference on the radio too! Dallin kept looking out the window and going "WHOA!" It was pretty cute! He does have a temper though! He threw a good 5 minute temper tamtrum to get out of the car when we were driving and then he was fine to sit there! Mekayla rode with mom and Dallin and I and while Tepaynga rode with Grandaddy, Curtis, Jen, and Yawny(the dog)! Mekayla enjoyed stopping as we went to pick the "Most Beautiful" leaves (One for her and one for her sister-she's so thoughful)! They made rubbings of them at nana's house! When Elder Oaks was talking, we had to pick an oak leaf to remember his talk!

We did a lot of canning and lots of eating apple things this last weekend too! We made applesauce-(wow, what a lot of work!) and dried apples and apple macaroon! It was fun to know we were doing it for our storage. Then we got them home and they came unsealed, so I'm going to have to get more lids and do it again! You win some and lose some!