Happy Birthday Park!

7 years old! Next year he will be baptized, we can hardly believe it. The week between Park and Annicka's birthdays we went to Jump On It for some trampoline birthday fun. Any excuse for dad to take a day off of work, right? Park got to choose a new bike, as his old one was a hand me down from a neighbor and the wheels wore out and we couldn't find replacement tires for that size. And since Park doesn't love cake we made cake pops instead! We stuck a couple of candles in the bottom and called it good.

 YUM!

Happy Birthday Park! We love you and are so grateful for the happy, silly, sweet personality that you bring to our family.

 

2013 Family Pics

 Here are this year's family pictures, taken while in New Harmony...this is kind of a big deal for me since I hate having my picture taken while pregnant, let alone doing family pictures that are going up on our wall for the next year! Not too shabby! Though our couple picture might not make it to the wall...Scott and I both like the previous one better.

 

 

Happy Birthday, Annicka!

Seriously? 9?!? Where does the time go!

 What a delicious Strawberry Cake it was!

 The kids laughing at a wonderful rendition of "Happy Birthday," by Scott and I.

 Make a wish!

Happy Birthday to the greatest big sister around! We sure love you, girl!

It is finished!

The day before Annicka's Birthday I submitted my portfolio for my last class! Barring failure on any of my submitted assignments, I am a BYU graduate! My diploma should come sometime after Christmas and I'll get the chance to walk in April. I AM DONE!

Halloween

Trick-or-treating at dad's work, plus later that night equals lots of candy! We had loads of fun!

 Superman was so funny about his candy. His bag got so full he could barely carry it, but he wouldn't let us help. If we so much as touched his bag he would yell, "Don't! Mine!" He had a death grip on the handles and ended up dragging it all over the office.

 Miss Scarecrow was a great help opening Superman's bag so he could put more candy in it. She came up with her own costume this year and we had a great time sewing patches all over her clothes and hat.

 The Red Ninja loves trick-or-treating, but not enough to eat his dinner to be able to go out again that night. He and I had a good time handing out candy by our fire-pit out front.

 And anytime this guy was asked what he was dressed as he responded with, "My name is Pirate!" I think he probably ate 20 pieces of candy after he got home Halloween night.