Halloween Prep

We made our annual stop at Gardner Village to check-out the witches.

Went to the local pumpkin patch with Grammie.

Did the "trial run" at the Trunk or Treat with Amy's girls followed by some movie time. 

And we got our pumpkins carved last night. . .just in time. Eden was the judge.  

Weddings and Circumferences.

Téa set the table for dinner last night.  She also decorated the table for dinner last night.  So, here's the deal. . .she asked me to tell everyone that she is available to decorate for weddings.

So . . .you know. . .let me know.

Secondly - Ben asked Tay what she learned in school today and she said, "We learned about Men Conferences." 

It turns out, she meant to say they learned about "Sir Conferences. . . you know, where men all get together and go to Conference." . . . and how that all ties into math she will just have to figure out later, I guess.  

My life has been completely taken over by my girls.  I thought I was busy with two, but now I am spoiled with three.  Every night before I go to sleep, I walk from bed to bed, room to room kissing each one. It is one of my favorite moments of the day.  It seriously melts me.  I don't have time to get their favorite outfits clean fast enough, or much of a dinner every night.

But I don't care. They don't care.  

It's all going too fast.

For you, Josie. . .

Time with Téa

Jake was here this weekend with us. He hung out with Téa while I got Eden ready to go.

Foo Fighters and a Baptism, of course.

We went back to Las Vegas for Ben to catch the Foo Fighters concert with Emily. We had been planning on it for over a month when two days before we left we found out our niece Hayden was being baptized that weekend in Vegas as well. Perfect.  

The girls were more excited about swimming with their dad than anything else.  I loved spending time with my sister Megan and brother Jake, even though a lot of it was spent manning an 8-year-old birthday party stringing together Shrinky Dink charm bracelets and feeding 50 for the baptism luncheon at Megan's.  I seriously don't know how she does it, she never stops and is always happy doing it.  She always inspires me to do more. We did however take a much needed break and all piled into her bedroom to watch the season premiere of The Office.  

And again, thank you to Jake for taking 100% of the photos.  I brought my camera, but never charged it, at least that's a start.

"Uh, Did I Catch a Niner in There?"

Ok.  This is Téa, age 3 or 4.  I was at my friend Katie's house and we were trying to make Téa mad.  This was because she would have the most hilarious freak-outs. So funny.  So, I told her we were going home knowing she was going to lose it.  I didn't ever notice the "Damn It" until months -or even years - later when Katie told me. I seriously didn't believe her, but sure enough, there it was.  

If you know our Téa at all, you know she was just born on fire.   

(extra points if you know what movie "the title" is  from)

How do you beat a Friday night out with Beth, a fashion show in a downtown dry cleaning drive thru, a space craft DJ booth on a trailer, and top it off with people in white jumpsuits and head lamps sprawled across the sidewalk acting dead?  You don't.

Another Great Year at the Races

The 7th Annual Chili Party and Horse Race. Thanks again for another great year! We made it through any superstition of the 7 Year Itch.  Josie came all the way from San Francisco to be with us, and Jake down from Idaho.  I loved having them there.  

A few of those favored to win "choked," (you know who you are) leaving the door open for 1st time horse race winner, Kurt, to take the Grand Prize.  We couldn't have asked for a better night and loved having everyone over.  

Ben and Briar (aka Ricky Bobby and Hoarse)





Josie (Chill E) and Lori (Shade)




The Horse List

Kamikaze up against Ricky Bobby









The Reverend Rocco dying to get outside and take over the party.

Thank you to Jake for taking most of the pictures.

Eden's Blessing Day

Photos taken by Justin Hackworth

It's a Problem

I don't care if Ben is slammed at work, I don't care if I just had a baby, I don't care if it's been raining the whole week. . .we are going to the State Fair. We just are and I love it.
It is so perfect. Ben refuses to go on any ride that you can see how it folds into a semi-truck. I, on the other hand, do not care. So, the girls and I put Ben on baby patrol, and we rode rides the whole night. This was the first year they didn't do the baby rides. They did all of the adult ones. I've always prided myself in my ability to ride anything for any amount of time, but I have to tell you, they just about out-did me on the number of spinny rides. They went strong, and I couldn't be more proud.