Trip to Utah

We just got back from our trip to Utah a few days ago. If any of my friends from Utah are reading this don't be mad I didn't call you. We were jam packed with family stuff that my mom had planned and we did not have enough time to even see any friends.
We had such an eventful, fun trip! I felt like we never stopped, and I am totally feeling it now! I am so amazed with myself that I did everything that we did as pregnant as I am =)
I just want to spend the next 2 weeks in bed. Anybody want to come be my housekeeper for a little while? =)
Beware this is a VERY LARGE post with LOTS of pictures. In no particular order.....
Thanksgiving was great. We went to my aunt and uncles house and had all of our family there. I didn't get very many pics on this day, but there was a ton of yummy food, some football, some guitar hero, and my 12 year old cousin put on an amazing piano recital for us. It was a lot of fun!


This is my cute cousin Emme playing with the boys and my grandpa loving the dog.



This is my brother Chance playing some guitar hero. Eli insisted on joining in on the fun =)

Football!

My little Sister Mollie brought her friend along to Utah. They had never been snowboarding before so Kenta, My brother Chance and his wife Jessica took them up along with with my cousin Mitch who had also never been and taught them how to snowboard. Of course me being super pregnant got to stay home and take care of the kiddos.

Mollie and her friend Leighana. Chance teaching mollie.

My sister in law Jessica, my cousin mitch, kenta, leighana, mollie and Chance just leaving to go up.

My brother Chance lives in St. George, so we decided we would take a couple days and take the few hour drive to go stay with him. While we were there we went to Zions National Park. It was so beautiful and just perfect weather right now. We also went to a little dinosaur museum in St. George.

Las Vegas is about 2 hours away from Chance and Jessicas house in St. George and my dad has a sister, my aunt Caty who lives there. So we decided to go to Las Vegas for a day. I am bummed I did not get any pictures of her and her cute kids.

There was a fun little festival going on at a park near her house, so we decided to stop and play there for a while with Caty and her family.

After the park and a nap, we drove to the Las Vegas Strip to show Mollie and Leighana. They had never been to Las Vegas before. We did not have a lot of time, but I wanted to take the kids the m&m factory since we were right there. That is such a fun place to go. I love the m&m rainbow wall. So pretty and YUMMY =)

Here is grandpa helping the boys fill bags of m&m's.......

This guy was so weird and fun to watch. Chance took Noah up to give him a dollar.

The last thing we did while we were at Chance's was we went and saw his work studio.

He is a news anchor/reporter. It was so fun to see it how it all works. All his work people were so nice and they turned everything on so the kids could check it all out and see themselves on t.v.

Future weather men or news anchors?

My favorite part of the trip was just hanging out with my grandparents and letting my kids get some bonding time in with their great granparents. We stayed at my grandparents ( my moms parents) house most of our stay. We also got to see my dads parents for a little while.

Eli and grandma Tarbox(My moms mom) and then the boys with grandpa and grandma Walser (my dads parents)


Grandpa Tarbox even took Noah and Eli for a little wagon ride.

While we were in Utah there was the big rivalry football game between University of Utah and BYU. This picture did not turn out good but I thought it was funny and I had to share. This is 2 houses (next door neighbors) that live by my grandparents house. They put lights on their roofs. Obviously rooting for different teams. I wonder what happened happened with those neighbors after BYU lost. I know my family were not the happiest of campers.

Now the main reason for our trip was to see my brother Jackson off to the MTC for his Mission to California. He is the my 3rd sibling in less than 2 years to go on a mission. My parents are supporting 3 missionaries right now, although my brother spencer comes home at the end of December.

These pictures were all taken at my granparents house right before they left to the MTC.

Good Luck Jackson! We will miss you but I know you will be great =)

Okay, was that a long enough post! I guess it makes up for my lack of posting this month.

Only 2 more weeks till baby boy #3. I have a scheduled c-section on december 15th! SOON =)

Happy Birthday Noah!

Noah turned 4 on November 3rd!! He had a really fun birthday party at Chuck E Cheese's a few days before his birthday.

I have been so busy doing a million other things and I just have not had the time or energy to plan and put on a birthday party. So I thought going somewhere where I dont really have to entertain or clean up was the perfect plan =). So Noah got to choose some friends that he wanted to invite and we had a fun afternoon.

On Noah's real birthday we had a fun family day. Kenta took the day off and we went to the zoo. It was 70 degrees outside so it was the PERFECT day for the zoo. I only snapped a few pictures though.Later in the afternoon we went to Graeters icecream and played. Then on his birthday evening we went to grandmas house for dinner.

Overall It was a really fun birthday weekend =)

Noah's 4 year old stats.

Height -43 inches.

weight -40 lbs.

Favorite color- Blue

Favorite food- chicken nuggets, ravioli and peaches

Likes- Trains, cars, playing in the sandbox,swimming and Preschool

Dislikes- snakes, spiders, bugs, and clothes that dont fit just right. (very annoying!) =)

Noah I am so proud of the little boy you are. You are so smart and thoughtful of others peoples feelings. You have a sensitive little heart and such an excitement for life.I love that you are such a good big brother to Eli and I know from your excitement for a new little brother that you are going to be a big helper with the new baby. We love you so much Noah and are SO happy you are a part of our family. Happy Birthday big boy! =)

October's Card Club

As promised I am posting projects and cards from Octobers club a few weeks ago.

Club project #1 A fall colored card

Club project #2 A paper cup turned into a turkey treat.
Kristen's card
mollie's mine Amy's

Kristi's Danielle's

October Festivities

What a busy month we have had! There are so many things I have been wanting to blog about, so I am going to try and condense some of our halloween fun all in to one BIG post.

During the month of October we did many fun Halloween things. I love October!

One day when uncle Jackson was over we decided to make our Haunted gingerbread house.

We took a little trip to Devine farms and picked up some pumpkins and did a fun few things they had going on there. This is the 2nd year that we have gone there and it is definately a yearly tradition that we will be doing as long as we are in Ohio.

That is such a fun place to go!


This is the fun barel train ride.
Noah going through the hay maze







After all the activities we picked out our pumpkins
Of course we had to do some pumpkin carving with our pumpkins. Aunt Mollie came over to join in on the mess =)

Eli would not touch the seeds with his hands so he had to use a spoon. What kind of little boy does not like to get messy? =)

The finished products

Now for the big night....HALLOWEEN!!!! We had such a fun time trick or treating with grandma, mollie and her friends and our friends the Mcquivey's. We have a 2 year supply of candy now!

Aren't my little Indians SOOOO CUTE!!