Happy Birthday Dad

Just wanted to make sure to let everyone know it's my Dad's birthday today! Happy Birthday Dad! I am so grateful for all that you have done for me and my little family. I love you and hope you have a great big birthday!

Sunday Night Fun

A few Sunday's ago Dad made Patty's birthday cake. They have this tradition were he makes her cake every year...this year it came a few weeks late....but better late then never I say....
The cute birthday girl getting ready to enjoy some yummy cake. Sariah Marie enjoying the yummy chocolate banana cake Pops made.

Thanks Pops for the yummy cake!

I love it when he does the dishes! He is such a wonderful husband!!!

Then we had a night of talents....which started off with lil' Miss dancing to the music the girls were using for their talents....she is awesome!

Laurel doing her little routine.

Menleigh mid back walk over.

Everyone was WOW'd by the fun evening we had.

Brynn was overjoyed, can you tell?

Help is needed!!

These cute kids belong to my friend Valerie. 5 kids under the age of 5 . That is a handful in and off itself. There is a set of triplets in there...2 boys and the one girl. Then there is her 2 cute boys that her little family adopted in 2007. Right now they are trying to raise money to bring 2 more cute little kids into their family. I thought I had it rough with my 2...she is going to have 7!! Please Please Please visit this blog!!!! She is having a silent auction on her blog to raise money to bring 2 more cute kids to her forever family for her to love. There are lots of cute items to purchase that can be given as presents for Christmas or Baby Showers. I have bid on lots of them and will continue to bid....I just need some people to bid against. Please go check it out and if there is something that catches your eye bid! The auction ends on Sunday, November 15th.

8 is my favorite number

eight things i did today - not in order:

1. Biked with Justin to and from school today....about 8 miles all together.

2. Attended a school band concert.

3. Took a really nice nap with my little girl and watched some good ol' sesame street.

4. Made "Pink" cookies from Otis Spunkmeyer....have to love those school fundraisers with cookie dough.

5. Laundry....seriously it feels like I am always doing laundry.

6. Nursed my baby girl....yes she is 17 months and yes I still nurse her 2 times a day, once at nap time and once a bedtime.

7. Looked for kitchen appliances and a washer and dryer for our new house.....if we are lucky will close on the 30th of this month.

8. Bathed a little munchkin


eight things i'm looking forward to:

1. Being in my own home

2. Decorating my own home for Christmas

3. Seeing family over the holidays

4. Christmas

5. Justin's soccer game tomorrow

6. Sariah being weened.

7. Bedtime for the munchkins.

8. Tallie having her baby.


eight favorite shows:

1. So You Think You Can Dance

2. Mentalist

3. Numbers

4. Lie to Me

5. Burn Notice

6. Heros


eight favorite restaurants:

1. Cheesecake Factory

2. Cafe Rio

3. Chipotle

4. Salt Grass Steak House

5. Applebees

I can't think of any more....but I love to go out and eat.

now i am tagging a 8 people I think will read this post:

1. Tallie my adorable pregnant sister who I love a whole heap.

2 Rachel my sister who I also love a whole heap and bunch.

3 Anna the cuteness who now lives in Kansas.

4 Jamie Stansfield who is about to birth another beauty.

5. Jenn Wheeler who lives in the land of cold

6 Sarah Palmer my bestest friend from college.

7 January the amazing mom of 4 who is livin it up in Texas

8 Lindsey in Oakley, UT who is super model!

Halloween Day...the way we celebrated

Halloween landed on a Saturday this year which is super fun. Saturday's at are house during the Fall are dedicated to Soccer games. Sariah and I thought it would be fun to dress up for Justin's game since his team's color is burnt orange. I might have gone a little overboard but it was Halloween and I don't do this every day.

Cute Sariah in her Halloween shirt and cute hair clip from CherryBlossoms. I used the orange color hairspray on my hair and had a matching hair pretty to Sariah. I put a little orange in Sariah's hair as well....not a lot just a little, can you see it? Here we are together....I love this picture....she is slowly starting to learn that you need to smile for the camera.

Sariah with Laurel before we left for the game....could she give any more attitude?

Up and Close you can sort of see the orange hair and the spider on the hair pretty. Her hair is getting so long and those little clear plastic hair rubber bands work so great on her super thin hair. The easiest way to get those rubber bands out is in the tub after I get her hair super wet. It saves her the pain and less hair falls out. Wahoo!

She climbed up on the bench all by herself. We might just have a piano player in our family.

Here are a few action shots from the game. No matter how much I begged Justin, he would not let me color his hair orange. I even offered bribes but to no avail.

Me with the kiddos after the game. Aren't they the cutest?

I really love this picture of the two of us. James took it and I think we look great together. I really do love this guy he is so handsome and so wonderful to me!!!

After a little rest we got dressed to go out trick or treating.

Sariah and her favorite Brynn.

The first house we went to was a friends house and they had a bubble machine going. It was awesome. I made James and the kids stand there so I could take a picture. Justin is super anxious to get going to get more treats.

I loved the bubbles.

Cute Patty and Papa Moore in the bubbles.

On Halloween night we put the pumpkins out before we left for trick or treating and they were still there when we got back so I snapped a picture.

My cute and tough Ninja with his pumpkin.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Trunk or Treat on Friday Night

Our ward celebrated Halloween this year with a Trunk or Treat. We all dressed up and had lots of fun.
Here is cute Patty in her Jailbird outfit. I love Sariah's outfit, she looked so darn cute. She was Elmo!

I really hate this picture of me but it's the only one with all of us in our costumes. I dressed up as Abby Cadabby and had James dress up as Oscar the Grouch. Sariah is Elmo. Can you tell that we watch too much Sesame Street at our house? Cute Justin is a Ninja...he was a Ninja last year but a different costume....this one has muscles!!

Here are the kiddos Menleigh is Lucille Ball, Laruel a cute little Southern Belle and Brynn is a Jailbird like her Mama.

Our Ninja with Muscles, Justin.

Sariah made out with a whole bunch of candy....here she is with all her loot.

Checking it out....

After she made sure she had all her loot she started running around the parking lot. Seriously the cutest Elmo I know!

Oscar the Grouch was in charge of the trunk and here he is with Elmo.

I loved dressing up and getting my hair all colored up. You can't tell but it's purple and pink with sparkles. I loved it!! Sariah is clapping in this one.

I got my hair cut about a month ago and added bangs. I love the bangs. It works with the costume too, since Abby Cadabby has them too. Elmo and Abby are great friends on Sesame Street.

Elmo loves hanging out with the Jailbird too. She kept trying to figure out what was going with the Trunk. It was funny.

Pumpkin Carving!!

Last week for FHE we carved the pumpkins we got at the pumpkin patch. Here are some pictures of our night of pumpkins.

Brynn working hard on her pumpkin. Dad and Menleigh worked on a pumpkin together.

Patty and Laurel worked together on another one.

Laurel showing us the guts.

Justin and James worked on this one together.

Eyes and Nose are done.

Looks like something good is happening here.

Dad relaxing after all of his hard work.

And what is a blog without a cute shot of the photographer who did not carve one pumpkin.

Cute Brynn with her finished project.

Menleigh and her cutie pumpkin.

Justin's finished masterpiece.

Silent Auction

I have a friend from college who is very inspiring to me. She describes herself on her blog as a "Wife to my amazing husband Richard, mother to Evan (4.5), adopted from Ukraine in December 2007; Maren, Lukas and Jacob (4), biological triplets; and Joshua (2), adopted from Uzbekistan in October 2007. We are now working to bring two beautiful little girls from Bulgaria into our family! Join us as we experience all of the ups, downs and in betweens of the roller coaster of raising a family and adopting internationally!"

For the next 2 weeks she is running a silent auction on her blog to raise money to adopt 2 more children. Please go check out her blog, there are amazing items to bid on and all the money goes to help a family adopt some cute kids with special needs!! I bid on a whole bunch of stuff...I couldn't just pick one item. Go check it out! Please help this cute family!!!

GOAL!!!!!

What an awesome game last weekend was for Justin and his team. Not only was it their first win of the season but our cute little Justin scored his very first goal. WAHOO!! When he scored the goal I of course went a little crazy with the cheering and then realized that I was so busy cheering I forgot to take a picture of his goal shot. Hopefully tomorrows game I'll get a shot of him scoring. He actually attempted two other goals this game but only scored once.

Here is our little man throwing in the ball down the line. Here he is running after the ball. I am sitting across the field taking these shots with my awesome camera!!

3 cheers for Copperheads!!! Way to go on winning your game.

Relaxing after the game with some juice.

Justin with some of his friends on the team.

James packing up our canopy and chairs.

Little Miss Sariah running away with the juice box.

Too cute for wards.

Discovering the Camera

James got me the Sony DSC-H20 Cyber shot camera last week and I love it. I set it all up the night I got it but didn't take pictures till the morning. Here are the first test shots from the camera. The kids are watching Sesame Street...we are huge fans...just wait till you see Sariah's Halloween Costume this year.

Sariah intently watching her favorite show.

Close up using by 10x optical zoom.

A close up of Justin...isn't he just so handsome? The morning light was coming through the window and the camera magically adjusted for me. I do not claim to know how to use all the technical stuff on cameras....I totally suck at it. This camera adjusts everything for me and I love it!

Cutie Laurel

The Saturday morning group