New Camera

This year is my ten year anniversary at work. It was actually back in July but I didn't get my gift until October I think. Just because I couldn't decide what I wanted to get. I finally decided on a new digital camera. The one that I had was about 5 years old went through batteries like a kid through candy. So the camera I got is a Nikon Coolpix. It's an 8.0 megapixel and it takes pretty good pictures. The night I brought it home the boys wanted me to take their pictures so I did and I got some pretty funny ones. Here they are. Oh yeah and thanks IHG for a great 3 month summer job!

Halloween '08

Yes I am aware this is late. But better late than never or something like that. :) So this year Caden was a tiger, ah scary, and Zach was a cute little dalmatian. Here's a couple of pictures. We went Trunk or Treating with the ward, and as luck would have it they hold the trunk or treat on our street because it's a dead end. So all we had to do was back down our driveway. How nice is that? The boys had fun, dad walked around with them, while I sat in the trunk and handed out candy. We were all done and by in the house by 645. It was nice. Then Ashley and her friends were in and out of the house until about midnight when all the friends had to leave. Didn't get any pics of them, but they're teenagers so really who cares. LOL

Dad and the boys

Caden the scary tiger

Zach they shy dalmatian

Jack-O-Lantern

Guy just finished helping (okay he really did it all) the boys carve a pumpkin. They were pretty excited. They got to go yesterday and help dad pick the pumpkin out. Then tonight Caden told dad what kind of face he wanted and dad drew it on, and carved it. It looks pretty good I think anyway, I mean it's not professional or anything. Here's a few pictures and can I just tell you that it is harder to take a picture of something in the dark without the flash. I was having a very hard time holding still.

The first face Caden wanted

The second face Caden wanted


Outside with the flash


Outside with out the flash.

The boys seemed to have a really good time and are so excited to dress up tomorrow they can hardly stand it. This is the first time we have carved a pumpkin in years, at least since we had the boys. I know what bad parents. But I'm thinking now that Caden is old enough and wants to that it will become an annual thing.

Crazy Kids

This video isn't the best because it was taken with my phone. But this was too cute to pass up. We went to a birthday/Halloween party at my sister-in-laws house. Towards the end of the night when most everyone had gone home the little kids started playing with Guy. The birthday boy had received a set of "Hulk" hands and they make noise when you hit them. The kids would run into Guy and he would bonk them on the head with the Hulk hand, they would fall down and then get right back up and go back for more. It was hilarious. I didn't get the best parts because I was in the other room. Before I got in there after they hit the ground they would make someone in the room count to 10 before they would get back up. It sounded pretty funny. Pay attention to about 25 seconds, Caden gets whacked pretty good. It's hilarious.

Museum

Saturday afternoon my sister-in-law and I took our kids to the Hill Aerospace Museum. I don't think I had ever been there before. Pretty sad to say seeing as I've lived in Utah my whole life and I've lived 7 miles from the museum for the last 3 years. Between the two adults we had 7 kids with us. My two boys, my two nieces, and my sister-in-laws three nephews. The oldest two were 7, then two 5, two 3 and a 18 months. It was kind of fun. We saw some really cool planes there. Both of the boys had such a good time. And the best part was it's free! If you haven't seen the museum I suggest taking a trip up to Roy to see it. I'd like to go again with my Grandpa who served in the Airforce so that he can tell me what all the planes are.

Four of the 7 kids. Caden, Alexia, John, and Zach.


Caden in an ejector seat. I didn't get one of Zach because there was a dad with his kids standing by us and as soon as Caden got out of the seat one of his kids got in and wouldn't get out until he had his picture taken and the mom was in another building with the camera. The dad wouldn't even make his kid get out. I was annoyed.

Caden & Zach in front of "Blackout". Caden thought the helicopter behind them looked like the one from transformers. LOL

Interesting Find

So over the weekend Guy and I went down to his parents house. His dad is getting a wheel chair and we helped to clean so that he can get from one end of the house to the other. My in-laws are packrats to put it nicely. They throw nothing away. I love them to death, but their house is a mess. So as we were cleaning we came across this picture. It is from a photo-booth, it's Guy and his dad when Guy was about 9 I believe.

I can't believe how much Caden looks like his dad. This is a picture of Caden from Guy's family reunion in August. You can definitely see the resemblance.

First Day of Kindergarten

So today was Caden's first day of kindergarten. He was so excited, he couldn't hardly wait to go. In fact since back to school night a couple weeks ago, Caden has been asking me when he get's to go to school. So today I go and pick him up from the sitter's to take him to school. He wanted both Guy and I to drop him off so that's what we did. I think that he is going to be fine. He didn't even care when we left. He just was so happy to be at school. I hope that continues though-out his years in school. Here are a couple of pictures from the day. This was outside before we walked in. The other one, I swear he is not sticking his pencil up his nose, he is just thinking.

So when I picked him up from the daycare. I asked Caden how his day went. He said that he had lots of fun in school and the only name he remembered is his teacher Mrs. Cragun. I guess that' a good name to remember. ;) He's my little trooper I'm so proud of him.

Happy Belated Birthday to my Caden J.

Friday May 2nd was Caden's 5th birthday. I can't believe that my baby is 5. :( He is growing up so fast. We celebrated his birthday on Sunday May 4th. Anyway, we had Grandparents, Great-Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Brothers, Sisters and Friends over to share in the cake and homemade ice cream with us. Caden picked out a Cars cake. He loves Lightening McQueen. We also bought about a dozen cupcakes with little plastic rings on top. The kids all got to run around and play outside. We opened up the presents and he got lots of toys to play outside with. Here are some of his favorite things right now.

The movie Transformers & toys

Matchbox cars

Playing outside all day

Playing Nintendo (mostly Mario Kart)

Chasing Jake around the house

Chocolate pudding

The movie Short Circuit

His nerf dart gun

Talking to family on the phone

King Burger

Chocolate milk

We also went to Kindergarten round-up in April. He was pretty excited and came home and told me everything that he had learned. I came home with a huge stack of papers to go over. We just went to Caden's year check up and the little tyke weighs in at a whopping 38 pounds and is 43.5 inches tall. He has recently become much more inquisitive. He asks what everything means.

Caden "Mom was does 'I love you too' mean?" Me "It means that you love someone." Caden "oh ok"

Caden "Mom what does 'agree' mean?" Me "Well Caden agree means that you feel the same way. Like if you said I'm tired and I said I agree that would mean that I felt tired too." Caden "Oh ok so agree means that you are tired?" Me "Well not quite but close." (Which then lead into a discussion on what that meant.)

He really makes me laugh, and then drives me crazy at the same time. I do have pictures, I"ll have to post them later as they are on Guy's camera and I don't know where it is right now.