The tallest snowman

We've ever made!

to bad it tipped over just hours later.

Oh, the tears that were shed. The sobbing,

the sobbing, sobbing, sobbing.

Poor, poor snowman!

HaPpY 4tH BiRtHdAy LoGaN!

Or should I say BEN 10!That was the theme for this little guys 4th birthday

"Ben 10 Alien Force".

This was also the first time for him to have a friend birthday party. So he was SUPER excited.

They first had a race to see who could drink Alien slim (Green Jello) the fastest.
Then they colored their spaceships (paper plates) so we could take them out on the driveway for a test run.
Then we opened presents and got ready for some cake and ice cream. He wanted an Omnitrix cake which is the watch that Ben 10 wears that turns him in different aliens so he can fight bad aliens. The figurine is, Swampfire, one of the many different aliens he turns into. My mom helped me, or should I say, my mom made this jacket for him at my request. It looks like the one Ben 10 is ALWAY wearing. He was SO excited, but it wasn't complete until he opened his very own omnitrix after dad got home from work. Justin can hardly wait until his birthday now, he is SO jealous of all the cool things Logan got. Luck for him, he's got such a nice little brother that shares everything he has with him, just so he'll play with him.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOGAN!
Or should I say BEN 10 !

Halloween 2009

Justin is always begging to do a craft or some project, so on Sunday afternoon when we came home from church we decided to make "Frankie," after having seen in on my cousins blog a couple of days prior. Thanks Tina for the idea! :)


Not only does Justin beg to do "projects", but he had also been begging since last Halloween to have a Halloween party. I think it was even just after Valentines Day that he started to make some invitations for it. Even though we didn't end up using the invitations he made 7-8 months ago, we did make some new ones, but that was just the beginning of the things still left to do
Justin wanted this party to be perfect. Each day after school he went over his "to-do list", well it was his "to-do" list for me to do, anyways. Anyways, he would just keep adding and adding things we needed to get and do. Our house needed to be haunted looking, bars on the windows, headstones out front, spiders w/webs, fake rats, grandmas skeleton w/the coffin, mist, strobe lights, THE WORKS! He was not going to be shamed with this party.... We we didn't get around to all of that, but we did decorate the basement living room to host this party in . Thankfully I have GREAT friend who came to help. We had games followed with candied apples, eye-ball cake and witches brew. There's NO WAY I could have wrangled 22 kids all by myself and probably not even with just Derricks help, so I am very grateful they jumped in to help.
We even made 2 nights of all this. We decided to leave it up and invited the Colovich Clan over the following evening for a spaghetti dinner.


Actually did I say 2 nights? It ended up being 4 nights of Halloween around our place. The Halloween party on Wed night. The Colovich party on Thur. nights. The ward Trunk-or-treat on Friday night (where Allie won the cutest costume award. Thanks Chambrae for letting us borrow it.) and then the REAL Halloween on sat night. BUSY, BUSY, BUSY! I sure am glad that week is over.

FHE - King Benjamin

Logan gave the lesson for FHE tonight on service, so we talked about King Benjamin and the things he taught his people before he died. They had alot of fun with the activity. We created the scene with King Benjamins tower and all the tents surrounding it so they could hear him speak. Logan and I built the tents, while dad and Justin came up with the tower. Justin decided that King Benjamin must have been pretty old since he died shortely after so he made him a wheelchair and the tower and an elevator for wheelchair convenince.

THS Homecoming

Logan was pretty excited when we told him we were going to go watch Uncle Cameron's homecoming football game for surprise Friday, but Justin, not so much. He would much rather be watching tv or playing the wii, which is all the more reason we make him do allthese extra curricular activities. We were a little dissappointed when Tooele lost, but we were even more so when Cameron didn't actually get any playing time this game like he had the previous game. We were out of town for. Darn it! Oh Well, it was still fun to go and be there as a family. The kids really liked the fireworks at half time and the treats from the concessions,

which I HATE buying!

Did anybody lose some kids?

I found these little munckin's up to no good, but

I guess I'll keep 'em if no one else is gonna claims 'em.

Can it be called "camping"

If the boys still get to watch the BYU game on ESPN?

Yes!

Because...

It wouldn't have been camping without

A camfire and marshmellows

A Treasure Hunt

complete with a map

an all day four-wheeler ridewith a few stops along the way rock painting or some craft provided by grandma and my FaVoRiTe

ThE DiRtY FaCes



We had a great Labor Day Campout with the Colovich Clan!