Family Halloween Party

This past weekend, I headed to the valley to see my Uncle Mark and his family. He is in the military and being transfered to San Diego so he stopped here for a few days. It was great to see him again. We also had our family Halloween Dinner. It's so much fun. All the kids dress up and we have a dinner where they are given a menu with things like witches brew, goblins eyes etc. and they order off of it and are given real food. This has been a tradition since I was a kid. Then they end the evening with a little trick-or-treating inside the house in all the doors down stairs.

I was way excited about finally breaking out the costumes and figured since Cambree couldn't stop talking about hers, that she would be excited as well. I think a lack of sleep added to the drama of the night and just made me extremely frustrated. We put on her costume and then attempted to try and take pictures-my first major mistake. She was being such a diva. These were only a few of the pictures I got of her being a stinker.

This is my sweet, gorgeous 7 year old cousin Olivia. She was so cute with Cambree and Brecklynn.

Here's part of the trick-or-treating. Notice Ridge is without costume....and so goes my luck of the night.

Here's my Uncle Mark with Brecklynn. He was so great with her. She was constantly smiling with him.

Here's the great dinner. This is the youngest kids of the group.

Here are some of the kids of the family. Notice Cambree is MIA along with Ridge.

Ridge did make it into this one.

Brecklynn being a cute pumpkin

Here is what Ridge's costume is supposed to look like. It was a construction worker. He hasn't wanted to put this all on since first getting it. We'll see what Halloween brings but I guess I at least got one picture of him before he took it off.

Fire Station Field Trip

Last Friday, my preschool took a field trip to the local Thatcher Fire Station. The kids had been looking forward to this for a couple weeks. Ridge was so excited when we got there. He had never seen so many fire trucks that close.

Here is most of the group. Of course my kids refused to join in the picture and we're missing two other kids from the class.

Each kid got to ring the bell in one of the fire trucks.

Fire Fighter Mike tried on his uniform for us and then let each kid put on some of the uniform. It took a bit of convincing at first, but eventually most of them tried the boots on.

It was a lot of fun, and the kids loved sharing what they knew about fire safety.

Fun Times

First let me start off, I am trying to learn my camera better so my picture quality isn't the best, but its what they are of, that makes them worth sharing.

Anyways, last week we had the county fair in town. Oh, the joys of living in a small town. You get to enjoy small things like this. Friday, we didn't have preschool and went to the county fair parade. I was thinking it would just be a small nothing parade. Boy was I wrong!! There were so many people there, and the parade lasted about 45 minutes. Ridge was in hog heaven. He got to see rhinos, tractors, horses and last but not least fire trucks. He was constantly yelling about what he was seeing. Cambree enjoyed her cousins and getting TONS of candy. Every float threw out candy and it was like an early Halloween for them.

My last trip to the valley I found these outfits at Costco. I was so excited. I have been looking for matching outfits but couldn't find something as small as Brecklynn and as large as Cambree. This was my lucky find, and I love them. So here is some cute pics of my girls together.

Again- they are way over-exposed pictures but they are still fun to see. This is the kids at the parade.

Brecklynn in her cute little outfit...

For preschool, I sent home pumpkins with the kids to decorate and bring back. Their creativity blew me away. You can see the one on top made out to be a mad scientist. There are balloons on his arms for gloves, and a little trick-or-treat bag and everything. I love seeing everyone's version of projects like this. Cambree and Ridge made one too. Cambree's is on top as well just the other side- its a princess. Ridge's is below Cambree's with the fireman hat on. Just fun things for the holiday.

Ridge's Other Party!!!

This past weekend, as part of Conference Weekend- we went to my parents' house for Ridge's birthday as well. Ridge was in heaven once again.

My sister Chelsie made this cake for Ridge. Totally out did mine :) It turned out super cute and Ridge was having a hard time waiting to get the tractors off. It was his focus for the afternoon.

This picture is out of focus but it was just a cute picture of them both...

My sister Kayla came down for the birthday as well. It was only her second time seeing Brecklynn.

The little birthday set up

Cambree sporting the sunglasses

Ridge got several gifts- most tractors (go figure) but this one was the ultimate for him. It moves back and forth, up and down and best of all, it came with a little construction hat.

He is such a cutie

After opening his gifts, he no longer was interested in cake...until he understood what the cake meant. Then he was all for it.

Chelsie put on her 'lovely' trick candles again. So he's having a hard time blowing out the 20 candles on the cake. Eventually we had all the kids blowing them out and Curtis even took a wet paper towel to get the flames out.

Great-Grandma Meikle

Brecklynn showing off her familiar and frequent smile.

Great-Grandpa Meikle

My sister Tesia had Homecoming that night as well. She got dressed up super cute. I took some other pictures of her but they were taking forever to upload so I will try a bit later. But here is Ridge giving her a super cute kiss.

My mom gave Brecklynn a bath and she just kept smiling. She's getting more fun with her personality. She is talking a lot more and smiling ALL THE TIME!! I absolutely love it.

3 kids photo shoot

I have been wanting to take pictures of all three kids. It wasn't easy and frankly it wasn't my favorite photo shoot by far. I got a couple pics that I sort of like but I want to try to do it again and see if I can't make it any better. So enjoy these at least.

Ridge is 2!!

I am so amazed!! Ridge is now 2!!! CRAZY!!!

So we all know he loves tractors- so what do you think we did for his birthday theme....TRACTORS of course!!!

So we made his tractor cake. I was first going to make a 3-D tractor cake but after thinking about it I just figured I was being too ambitious. So I just went with a simple cake with tractors on it. I think it actually turned out pretty cute.

This is Ridge finding it Sunday morning. Of course he wanted all the tractors immediately.

Here is my little 2 year old Ridge. He is so stink'n cute!!!

Sunday night we had Ridge's birthday at Nana and Papa's house. He wasn't as excited about the whole idea of a birthday but the little details of blowing out the candles and actually getting the presents he was very happy with.

He knew exactly what to do when we sang Happy Birthday.

He loves the movie Cars so we had to get him something else besides tractors- so he got...

I am not sure exactly why he was crying at this point but behind him is a tractor blanket.

It became hilarious with the rest of the gifts. They were ALL tractors. The best part was no matter how many tractors he got, he was just as excited about each one.

So here is Ridge's new collection of tractors. He loves each one and he can't stop putting them all on the tv stand playing with them. So stink'n cute.

Notice his smile here too. You don't say smile- but show me your teeth. So cute.

So now he's 2. I can't believe it!! He is actually getting one more birthday party this coming weekend at my mom's house. I'm excited for that too.