Happy Halloween

Since half of the sisters are having babies for the holidays, we decided to do our big family get together for the year for Halloween. Katie couldn't make it up but most of the grand kids all got to go trick-or-treating together! They were so cute and LOVED getting candy. I told the girls they could not be princesses this year so Jayc was a witch, Sis was spider girl, and Aynslee was a bee who was showing off her stinger that stuck out in back.


Here is the cutest kid in the universe! Little Roman was a cop and I was trying to get a pic of just him and Nickole said "Tell aunt Meggan to put her hands in the air" and cute as he is......he dropped his gun and put HIS hands in the air. It was so funny :)

After we gather too much candy around Rigby, we then hit the Boo and the Zoo! The kids had a blast!

To celebrate my mom's and Nickole's b-day (which is on the same day) we decided to do a spa morning with all the sisters and mom! No pics were taken cuz there was a lot of facials, massages, mani's, pedi's, and waxing. Afterwards we hit Olive Garden for lunch and then the mall for some much needed shopping minus the kiddos. Hooray for all the daddy's for taking the kids so the girls could have some pampering:) I did try to get a pic of the chubby, swollen, sparkly toes for you though.

Halloween Festivities

The fam had a fun filled day of super delicious treats and carving pumpkins!!!!! The girls actually helped clean out the pumpkins instead of saying......eeeww gross! They were good little helpers and we topped off the day with some caramel covered goodies that my mom whipped up.

Of course we had to have minnie for Aynslee. She is still her favorite Disney character!

Joldy gave up on snow white a little early so she is harder to tell who she is.....but this one was Sicilee's

I MADE my mom carve one pumpkin and she totally just free handed this and was done in like one minute flat. Cheater pants!

A couple of funny kid quotes of the day.

Jaycee was on the computer and she yells at me "Hey mom, what is my email address!?" Obviously she was trying to buy something but seriously what is this world coming to? She is in first grade for heavens sake!

Joldy is in so much trouble for this one. Let me explain further. Aynslee has this little raspberry birth mark right on the top of her foot (I claim it is from her kicking my rib so hard while still in my oven) and her newest "thing" is claiming that she is bleeding EVERY time she gets a teeny ow-ee. So every day she says she is bleeding. Joldy got tired of it and taught her that it is a freckle, YES A FRECKLE! Use your imagination of that word being said over and over by a 2-year old all day. It sounds like she has such a potty mouth between freckle and sh**. We are such bad parents I guess. My mom laughed pretty hard when she heard it so she has been trying to teach her that it is a polk-a-dot. Which she can say clearly, thank goodness.

We are down to single digits with our very active fetus. I actually feel pretty good. Sleep is...... well very interrupted by her moving and me not being able to breathe but that will only get worse over the next weeks so I will live for now. My weight has been much more managed with this one although I really do nothing different from any of the other pregnancies. So weird how each one is SO different. Went to the doc and measure 3 weeks big, so normal for my chubby newborns! She is sitting breech, however, I have never had one breech this far along. They have always been head down and in the birth canal by now so it scares me a little that she might not turn before she gets too big. Which also is a big part of my breathing problems. Her head is right against my diaphragm. Lil' stinker! I think time will actually fly over the next weeks until she arrives. My fabulous husband is scheduled for a vasectomy next week (yep...we are so done!), then the next week we head to Disneyland, the next day the girls have their first cheer competition, our 8 year anniversary is on the 6th, another cheer competition on Dec. 11 in Utah which is also Jaycers birthday,then I have to make it through graduation week for work sake, then bam the baby will be here! Usually the last months drag but as you can see life will be super busy clear up until she decides to arrive:)

Happy Birthday Sicilee!

My middle baby turned five! We celebrated by taking her to Red Robin (the kids' ultimate favorite place to eat) and then went home to have cake and ice cream. She is really into barbies.......so we added to her collection. My mom added by getting her a barbie bathtub toy that seems to lengthen bath time by at least a half an hour. And Poppy and MeMe sent their birthday card with birthday money to add a boy barbie to the collection. All in all it was a Barbie Fest!

Sicilee and Aynslee have been getting along so much better since all the have to play with is each other while Jayc is at school. Still fight like crazy but they seem to play well too. Sissy is my growing weed that I can't keep up with! She has now passed Jayc by a full size in shoe.....therefore already had to exchange her cheer shoes that she can't even get on her foot. And even though it seems the school year has just started, I had to go shopping to buy just her some new shoes that she could actually put her foot into. She is enjoying cheer and trying desperately to get her back kick-over before competitions start next month. I still call her my lost butterfly in everything that she does, her attention span is short. Especially when I ask her to help clean up of to do something.......weird. The sassy that I thought maybe passed this one child is entering her blood slowly:) DANG IT! I thought that I might not lose my mind if I had one sassy-less child! All in all we love her so much.......and her sassy too!

I was behind on Aynslee's shots and finally caught up this week. The doc got a good look into her terrible two tantrums. She screamed, kicked, and cried the WHOLE time we were in the building. No reason, just my JoJo. The doc asked me what I did when she did this and I said ignore her and walk away.....that seemed to be the right answer cuz he just smiled. She has however grown ALOT just this summer. She put on 4 1/2 inches putting her over 90 percentile for both height and weight. Each child seems to be getting taller as we go. Jayc is predicted to be 5' 2, Sissy 5' 4 and now Aynslee will be about 5' 8. Maybe the last two won't be cheerleaders!!!!!

Jaycee is loving school and once again top of her class. Homework is a breeze cuz the child basically outsmarts me. Has conquered her back handspring at cheer and seems to be growing out of some of her sassy. She is becoming more responsible and definitely fitting the role of the oldest. She has good instincts and is my biggest helper. So maybe there is light at the end of my tunnel and maybe as they get older the attitude will not shine through near as much. MAYBE JUST MAYBE!