Happy Halloween

Carving our Pumpkin

This year for Halloween we started the holiday off by having a Halloween playgroup at our house.

Will as the Red Ninja Turtle

Isabelle as a Witch Ballerina

This year our Couples Halloween Party was at Becca and Travis's house.

We brought Funeral Potatoes

 Drew and I didn't come up with our costumes until an hour before the party.  We went as Edward and Bella from the Twilight books.

Demery and Theo as a couch potato and remote

Kip and Bliss as Red Sox player and a witch

Natalie as Princess Leia and Liam as Yoda

The winners of the costume contest...Dj and Somer as the Munsters

Our hosts Travis and Becca as an Angel and Devil

Jen and Sam as Madona and Micheal Jackson

Jared and Katrina as E-Mail and Attatched Mail

After the ward Trunk or Treat

Kate Sleeping

Lately Kate will not take a regular nap.  She doesn't like laying down on her bed and gets up and just plays or just cries.  So as a result we have stopped trying to put her down for a specific nap time and just let her collapse wherever she wants.

It all started at Lopez Island while we were camping.  I checked on Kate and she was playing in the dirt.  Two minutes later...

Hands in the diaper?

Watching Dora on the computer.

Snack Time

On a chair

On a Box!

This time it looks like she stole Will's pillow and blanket from his room.   She also gathered some toys to join her for her nap.

With her favorite stuffed animals... Clifford and Bear

Snack Time again.

She found a couch cushion for this nap.

These next few pictures of Kate sleeping are at bedtime.

Where's Kate?
Not in her bed.

There she is!

On the floor

In bed with Isabelle.  We actually find Kate in bed with Isabelle a lot.  Sometimes she is at the foot of the bed and sometimes she is laying across Isabelle.  Isabelle complains every night and morning that Kate will not go to sleep and keeps her up talking.  It's the truth, most nights you can find Isabelle asleep with her pillow and blankets over her head and Kate still playing an hour after bedtime.

June 2010

June started out with the International Babywearing Conference I helped plan. It was a lot of fun and I got to meet a lot of really cool people. We had three families stay with us during the conference. The Pepin family, Jean, Diane, Ray Jean, Xcenedra, Rene (Little Bear) and Jean Paul from Canada came and stayed 10 days with us. Will soon became best friends with Jean Paul and Little Bear (Rene). They even made their own super hero movie entitled, Super Bears. Will and Little Bear rescued Isabelle from the bad guy Jean Paul. The Pepin family was so helpful and always offered to help make dinner and clean up. We had the Mason family from Virginia stay with us. We really enjoyed their 5 kids and the great conversation. Kelley Mason is the creator of the Kozy Baby Carrier and she gave me a beautiful new carrier. We also had Jan Andrea Heirtzler the creator of my favorite ring sling and her adorable daughter Susan stay with us. Jan gave me the most georgous ring slings. I now get sling envy where ever I go. Check out her slings here www.sleepingbaby.net You can read more about the conference at our Idaho Babywearers blog www.idahobabywearers.blogspot.com.


The last weekend in June was the Ball Family Reunion. We look forward to this reunion every year. Some of the highlights are Candy Mountain, horse back riding, races, snow cones, lamb chops, all of the great food and the great company. I always eat way to much! We also have a tradition to go up to the cabin with my family after the reunion. This year we went rafting and took the paddle boat out on Palasades Lake.

April and May 2010

My last post was at the end of March, so I have a lot of things to blog about.

April-
Not much happened in April, we did get to go down to St. George for Easter. We always have a great time with my family for Easter. The kids loved hunting for candy, swimming in the pool and playing with my parents dogs. My parents also do and adult egg hunt were money is hiding in the eggs. I think Drew and I found around $40.

May-
We started off May with Drew's B-Day, Happy 33rd! Next was Mother's Day, Kate's second birthday and I got to go with Will on his end of the school year field trip to Bear World.

Sleeping Pictures

For some reason I like to take pictures of my kids sleeping. Here are a few...

All three kids sleeping! This is the best.

One night I was checking on the kids before I went to bed and Isabelle wasn't in her room. I found her in the fort we had made earlier that day.
A dark pic but you can still see Kate's legs inbetween the crib bars.

Lots of new posts below

It has been a long time since I posted last so make sure to check out all of the posts below.

Snow Angels and New Years Resolutions

I have always bitten my fingernails. I know disgusting habit, but it was hard to break. A few months ago I commented to my friend Melissa that she had really pretty nails and that I wish I didn't bite my nails. She told me that she used to bite her nails when she was little and decided one day just to stop. So I said to myself "If she can do it, so can I" and stopped biting my fingernails. Here is the result. I actually snagged a few last week(I think I let them get too long) so right now my nails are short. I decided to trim them all so they would all grow at the same rate and to the same length. I was really surprised that my nails are actually pretty strong.(This pic was taken before I trimmed my nails)