30th Birthday Party

So, I have lots of catching up to do, but I'll just do my birthday for tonight. November 24 was my 30th birthday. It's kind of weird. Last weekend Aden asked me how old I was and I started to say 20 something and then I just stopped talking. I don't feel older, but oh well. It's not bad. I was thinking that I'm grateful for getting older because it means that Heavenly Father has allowed me the opportunity to live on this Earth for this long. So, getting older is more years of happiness. Anyway, I was sick on my birthday. My kids had been throwing up all weekend and finally the night before my birthday I got sick and felt yucky all day. Sad thing was, was that everyone who visited me that day got sick also. My parents and sister came to visit which was really fun. Emily and Owen came for a bit also. My mom made a yummy breakfast and we had a nice day. I went to the store with my dad and we picked out some yummy food for lunch. We didn't go to town because the fog was terrible.

Here is a picture of Laura and I with our 30th Birthday crowns that she made for us.

My mom had the boys decorate the cake. They also drew us pictures. Even Keegan drew on one for us.

This is the card that Laura gave to me. As sadly true as it is. I thought it was kind of funny.

Haircuts, Cuties & Stuff

So, I decided that it was about time that I gave the boys all haircuts all by myself. I've been trying to learn for the longest time and I finally did it. I was pretty pleased with myself, I didn't have to shave anyones head. Their haircuts turned out pretty well, even Sterling's. I was glad he had enough faith in me to let me cut it. :)

Chase loves the leaves. He was hiding in the them and was quite the cutie.

Trey decided that it would be fun to draw on his face. What a funny kid!

Keegan likes to play in the cupboard. He just loves it. In this picture Chase wanted to come and play with him too.

Pipeline

So, the past week there has been a pipeline going in across the farm. There is a canal that zigzags across the place and almost the entire thing is being buried with some huge 30 inch pipe. Sterling took these pictures of one piece of pipe going in. They hauled each pipe with the stacker.

In this last picture you can see a bit of the canal that they are piping.

In this picture you can kind of tell how big the dirt pile is. It's pretty huge.

The kids just love all the dirt.

Halloween

Ok, so once again I have a bundle of catching up to do. On the Monday before Halloween the school in Adrian was having a Halloween carnival, so I took the kids to that. Below is a picture of the kids as I pulled up to the carnival...they were both sooo excited to be there. As you can tell they are both fast asleep.

At the carnival the kids both won a cake on the cake walk. I think we walked in circles for a half an hour, but it was worth it. The went to the duck pond and both won two really nice trucks. They threw a ring around some pumpkins and won lots of little random things in the football toss. They both got a pencil in the costume contest. For some reason, I decided to purchase some raffle tickets. Now, I can't leave if I know there is a possibility I may win something. So, long after we were done with everything, we sat there and waited in the cold to see if I had won something. Luckily I did. I won some free products from Arbonne. Pretty fun! We were a little frozen by the end of the night, but had a great time!

This is Chase's preschool class at their Halloween party. The mom's all got to go and watch the kids sing their songs. They are all pretty cute.While I carved the big pumpkins the boys colored their own little ones. They really enjoyed it.

These little pumpkin pizza's were our Halloween lunch. Chase saw a pumpkin pizza in the newspaper and wanted one so bad, so I decided that we could make some. The kids helped me and we ate them while we watched Disney's Halloween Treat.
I always take the kids into Homedale to go trick-or-treating to all the businesses there. Here are Chase the pilot and Trey - Bob the Builder.

Keegan was so pleasant going around to all the places. Some guy gave him a dollar because he figured he couldn't eat candy anyway. I thought that was nice. Someone else gave him a bag of skittles that he held and sucked on the rest of the time. When we opened that bag of skittles it wasn't a pretty site. Not edible at all. I didn't realize water could go through those bags.

Also that night while we were going around to neighbors someone gave Keegan a snickers to hold. I put him in his car seat and drove to the next house, by this time he was asleep. We brought him into the house and were talking for awhile when I noticed that he still had ahold of that snickers and he was not going to let go for anything. He was still asleep too. Pretty cute kid!

Here is a picture of Keegan and Grayson at the Owyhee Ward's trunk-or-treat.
For our Ward's trunk-or-treat we had a chili feed before and then the kids went around to all the cars in the parking lot. My kids kind of stopped up the line a bit. The are too indecisive. I started to tell people to just stick stuff in their bags.

Later that night when we were going to the houses of our neighbors we had the kids sing a song. Chase really sang loud to everyone. I was so pleased. He sure is growing up. They sang Halloween's Coming.
Here are our Jack-O-Lanterns. They turned out pretty fun! Trey does not like them at all. The day after Halloween we were coming in from the car and he stopped in the grass and started crying. I couldn't figure out what the problem was, but then he said "punkims scary" Poor kid. He would not walk past them at all. We got rid of them pretty fast.

This is Sterling and his bales of straw. He put all these on here by hand. There are over a hundred on there. I was pretty impressed.

We're getting two more pivots this Fall and they poured the pads for them, so we decided to go stick our hands in the cement. It took a lot of coaxing to get the kids to stick their hands in the stuff. It was easy for Trey to stick his foot in it though. Leave it to kids to stick the things you don't want in there. :)

November 1st was Garold's birthday. Annette was not at home. She was helping Sterling's sister with a new baby, so we had the party for Grandpa. He was nice and let the kids blow the candles out on his cake.

Our Month

I haven't written forever and my month has just flown by. We went to Rexburg the second weekend of the month, but my camera died, so I have no pictures yet. It was such a cold weekend. There was snow everywhere. It was Winter, it seriously felt like Christmas with all of our family getting together. While over there Garold, Sterling's dad, was in a tractor driving contest. Saturday night Oct. 11th we had a family party. The kids all dressed up in their Halloween costumes and they played games. It was a lot of fun. Keegan got his first haircut that night too. The next morning we had the baby blessing for Elise. I hope to get pictures of this all at some point. Hopefully I can post them.

We went to the pumpkin patch with Chase's pre-school class and the kids were able to go on a hay ride and pick out a pumpkin. It was so much fun. The one Chase is sitting on is the one he picked out. Trey couldn't figure out which one he wanted. It had to be tiny, but he couldn't find one small enough, so we came in to buy stuff and Trey finally found a little white one.

My mom, my Aunt and my Grandma Penrod came to our house for a short visit on Oct 17. They had been on the Oregon Coast for a week and they came to my place on the way home. We had dinner and chatted. They spent the night and then left in the morning. It was very nice to see them and have them come to our home. The picture above is Keegan and my Grandma.

I thought this was a really cute picture of the two boys. They were holding hands and walking to Grandma Johnston's house.

I love this little picture of Keegan. I really like his little pj's and his little smile is just cute. I can't believe how big he is getting. The poor little guy hurt his shoulder this past week. He fell off our bed. We took him to the doctor, and they said that it wasn't out of place and they didn't think it was broken. They thought it may be sprained. He is using it a bit more but the poor kid still favors it and doesn't use it very much.

Utah & Visitors

So, we've had an eventful week this week. On Monday the 29th of September, I flew with Keegan down to Utah for my Grandma Penrod's 70th birthday party. My sis picked me up and we made it a surprise. Nobody knew that I was coming. It was really nice to see my Grandmother and family. It's been too long, and I never get to spend enough time with them.

Here is a picture of Keegan on his first plane ride.

Me, Keegan and my sis at The Gateway.

I just thought this was a way cute picture of my dad and Keegan at the party.

My Grandma Karma Penrod blowing out the candles to her 70th birthday cake.

Laura drove us home from Utah and then stayed to play for a few days. We had lots of fun with her here. Chase had fun having slumber parties in the frot room with her. He did have a little accident with his window. He got mad and kicked the window just above his bed and broke it. He's been sleeping in the front room for the past couple days until we can get everything fixed. (Kids, what can ya do?) :)

I thought this was pretty cute. This summer I've really enjoyed taking the kids around in the wagon. Chase holds Keegan so nicely for me. We go on Nature hunts and roll on over to grandma's house for some fun.

The other day Chase wanted to roast some marshmallows, so he got some spaghetti noodles and stuck the marshmallows on them and we had a nice roast in our front room. (Pretend fire of course) :)

This conference weekend Roxy and Jonathan went down to Salt Lake and left the kids with Grandma and Grandpa, so Chase and Trey had a lot of fun playing with the cousins. They jumped on the trampoline and tried to run away from the dog. They were pretty good buds. Grandma took them to see fish and some real stuffed animals in Marsing. She then took them all to the dollar store to find a little something fun. This picture is dinner Sunday afternoon. Sterling, Keegan and Roxy.