Emmie's Costume

Emmie always wants to be something "cowgirl" related for Halloween. 

This year she was dying to be "Jessie" from Toy Story.

The costumes you buy at the store are so expensive (if you want a cute one from the Disney store)

or pretty lame if you get the cheap Walmart version.

We came up with this little number for $0

She already had the pants, shirt, and boots

I had the cow fabric

We found some yellow fabric in my stash

...along with some red trim

The red hat was Maddie's when she was in the 3rd grade from an old dance recital.

The white tassels are left over from one of Talbie's school play costumes

The yellow arm bands are made with plastic cups with fabric glued to them.

And we had the red yarn for the braid :)

Another costume DONE!

 

Pumpkins

We carved our home-grown pumpkins tonight and had lots of fun!

 Emmie refuses to smile!

 My cute family!

13 Years...

This handsome guy is 13 today!

This is his school picture this year.

He hates this picture but I kinda like it ;)

 Bronson is growing up to be such a wonderful boy!  I'm so proud of him.

One of my favorite sights is seeing him go places with his dad.  

I tried to get a picture of them before they left for the Priesthood Session

this last weekend but they were being too goofy!

 Bronson made us these delicious cinnamon rolls on Sunday morning

before Conference that he'd made at school.  They were yummy!

We love you Bronson!

Harvest

We've had fun picking our fruits and veggies this year.  

We've put my mom's old dehydrator to good use from the hundreds of apples

we got off our tree this year.

 Our pumpkin patch did AWESOME this year!

 Pumpkins make a front porch look so good in the fall :)

End of the Soccer Season - for now

Emmie had her last soccer game last night until spring.

She ended her season last night by scoring an awesome goal!  Way to go Emmie!

Crazy Hair Day 2011

Emmie is our only elementary school girl these days so this year

crazy hair day was much easier.  It's today and we did the good old standby

of putting cups in her hair.

Here she is in 2007 (kindergarten :)

 Talbie would have been in the 4th grade in this picture - same age as Emmie today!

 

and here is Emmie and Bronson last year...

Maddie the Hair Stylist

Maddie is cruising through her education at AVEDA and is loving

every minute of it.  She has needed "models" during some of her phases at school

and I volunteered to have my hair colored by her this week.

I can't believe how naturally talented she is at this.  It must be in our genes.

My Grandma V owned a "beauty shop" on 500 West in Provo for years and years and I would come every summer and help in her shop - taking curlers out of ladies hair, cleaning the brushes, getting drinks for the ladies - and my very favorite chore was stamping the backs of all her checks that were ready to deposit :)

 We tried an experiment and we colored my hair darker.  It's never been

this dark in my life so I'm not sure how I like it but Maddie did a great job on the color!

Talbie's Bug Collection

For Talbie's Biology class, she had to put together a bug collection.

I think it's so nasty but thankfully she had a wonderful brother, dad, and grandma Pat

who helped her in collecting bugs!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

We have the best daddy in the world and it's his birthday today!

I found some fun pictures of him that remind me of his personality...

Scaring his poor mom in 2006 on his Harley.

Dave LOVES motorcycles and

I love riding on them with him (as long as he not going too fast!)

 The night we came home from Martin's Cove 2006.

Maddie and I only survived it because he was there to take care of us :)

 

 Father's Day 2006

We sure love you daddy!

Fall Festival 2011

The Fall Festival is upon us.  It's the event that

every parent dreads (I do anyway) but every kid looks forward to all year!

One thing I like that our school does is that each kid decorates a pop bottle

and they win them that night doing a "cake walk" like game.  The reason I like this

is because the bottle are sealed and it doesn't matter what you do to the outside, they're still edible.

I HATE the cake walk and we don't do it because I end up throwing the cake

away that the kids win because I don't know who made it.  Mean - I know!

This is what Emmie and I came up with this year :)

This year the theme is a "cowboy" theme because it's in September instead of October.

Look at these cute ones from 2006
Talbie's witch (during her "Wicked" obsession stage)
5th grade

 Bronson 2nd grade - a rocket!