Happy Halloween

We had a Happy Halloween at my parents house.  My mom always makes homemade donuts and I just can't resist them.  My kids love to trick-or-treat around their neighborhood and got some awesome treats from friends of my parents.  They also love to be with their Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins.

We had some fun costumes this year. 

My poor sweet little brother has a herniated disc and a pinched nerve in his back that is causing him a lot of pain.  I thought it was cute that Amberlee dressed up as his nurse. 

Em and Axel were cell mates.  :) 

So cute. 

Cute Cousins

Trav is such a good sport.  He puts up with a lot.  I love him.

Hope you had a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Halloween Weekend

The Friday before Halloween was full of a lot of fun. 

Kylee had to carve a pumpkin for pre-school.  I thought she did a great job.  She was very proud of it. 

Her class had a Halloween party and I got the chance to go and help out.  It was a lot of fun and Cannon was very excited to get to go to school with Ky. 

We all put our costumes on and headed out to the party.

After the party the kids lined up and marched in a Halloween parade by the school.  It was so fun to see all the cute kids in their costumes. 

I may be a little biased, but I think the crayons were the cutest of the bunch. 

After the school party we headed down to my work and trick-or-treated around my office.

Kylee and Cannon got a ton of candy and it was a lot of fun. 

THEN...we headed to the Maverick Center to watch the Grizzlies play the Alaska Aces. 

Gabby's school choir sang the National Anthem before the game. 

They did a great job and it was so fun to spend a night with my family watching some HOCKEY. 

I LOVE how much Cannon loves hockey. 

He is so much fun to watch a game with. 

Nothing better than my babies AND hockey.  :) 

I will say I was very sad with how empty the arena was.  It was game 7 of the World Series and BYU was playing TCU - so maybe that had something to do with it.  I encourage everyone out there to go to a game.  It's fun and inexpensive and I don't want hockey to leave Utah.  Even if it is the AHL - it's still hockey and the Grizzlies are actually having a pretty good season. 

If you need someone to go to a game with...you know where to find me. 

What a fun day we had. 

Farmington Canyon

One Saturday before heading to Frightmares, I thought it would be fun to take a drive up Farmington Canyon while the leaves are such beautiful colors.  Sadly, when we got there we found out that the road was closed.  :(  So we decided to check out the Farmington Pond.  It's right at the end of the canyon road and we had never been there. 

It was very beautiful with lots of fun trails to walk or ride bikes or horses on.  We walked along a trail down to the pond and saw many things along the way...

like this caterpillar...

this prying mantes...

the grasshopper...

and lots and lots of ducks. 

Of course we climbed rocks.

And took funny pictures.

Even though we didn't get to go up the canyon, we had a great time. 

Caramel Apples

My kids LOVE the caramel apples from Lagoon. They especially love the ones with candy toppings on them.  So I figured it would be a fun family night activity to make caramel apples. I thought - how hard can it be?!? You melt caramel and dip apples into it, right?

So we got some caramels and I got to melting them on the stove.

The hardest part for sure was trying to the get the darn caramels out of the wrappers. 

I was very proud of my kids for staying determined to get the candies out. 

Kylee unwrapped quite a few.

Cannon had a much harder time, and when he would finally get a caramel out...

he would just eat it.  :) 

But after much work and melting we were able to dip.  The apples turned out cute, but I quickly realized the caramel was not going to stay on the apple.  Blame it on gravity and probably having too thin of caramel sauce, but the caramel was just sliding right off the apple. 

I encouraged the kids to hurry and eat them and they happily agreed. 

They didn't look as pretty as the ones we get at Lagoon, but they did taste wonderful. 

Plus, we had a lot of fun making them together, and that's what really matters, right? 

WSU Homecoming Game

The best part of my never ending education is taking advantage of the very cheap sports events that go on throughout the year.  We always try to make it to at least one game of all the sports.  I love the Homecoming football game.  They have a fun carnival for the kids before hand and fireworks after the game, so its even more fun than usual. 

Grandpa Cosper loves WSU and got Kylee this cheerleader outfit a long time ago.  It is finally fitting her perfect.  Every time I told her to smile she struck a pose.  She cracks me up.

I wish we would have got a picture of all of us together in our WSU gear.  We looked so cute. 

We had great seats and my kids were both very good the whole game.  Weber kept us entertained and scored a lot of touchdowns against Idaho State. 

Kylee and Cannon love to chant "Weber State, Weber State, Great! Great! Great!" and really got into cheering for the team. 

The guy in front of us was an Idaho fan and he said he couldn't get mad at the fact that Weber kept scoring because my kids were so cute each time that they did. 

The team rang the victory bell as Weber totally kicked Idaho's butt. 

The fireworks after the game were fun to watch too. 

It was a great game. 

Adam's Canyon

This weekend the weather was PERFECT!  I couldn't stand the thought of being inside cleaning while outside was so gorgeous so the kids and I hurried and got our chores done and hit the road running.  We didn't have much time but wanted to hike so we decided to go to Adam's Canyon since it is so close to our house.  My kids love that hike (once we get past the switch backs) and love to hike to the lower falls.  It was absolutely perfect. 

We put our feet in the water and had a quick lunch by the waterfall.  I thought with it being such a gorgeous day more people would be there, but we had the place to ourselves the whole time. 

 Kylee took this cute picture of her feet. 

We climbed some rocks.  Cannon is SUCH a rock climber.  He has no fear - which scares the crap out of me.   

A gorgeous view. 

I love these little hikers.  They really are such good hikers and so fun to do things with. 

I took this picture of these flowers and then realized there were bee's all over them.  I won't lie - ever since I got attacked recently by those darn yellow jackets I have been a little nervous every time I see a bee.  (Stop laughing Liv).  The story is quite entertaining.  I should probably share it sometime.  I know my neighbor and I will forever remember it (poor guy).   

What a gorgeous time of year.