*Halloween*

I LOVE Halloween!  My kids really anticipate Halloween all year.  They talk about what they want to be, and change their minds at least a few dozen times throughout the year. 

 Alex settled on being a black cat. 

I mean, with Charlie's crazy hair what else could we have her be but a clown!  She was the cutest clown ever!  Her costume was pretty easy to make and I must say it turned out pretty cute. 

I'm still not sure why Jake wanted to be Luke Skywalker, having never seen the movies, but he was insistent and it must just be in the male gene pool that at some point in your life you will want to be a Star Wars character.

I was pretty sure Charlie wouldn't understand the concept of trick or treating but after the first house she understood loud and clear that if you hold your bucket out, you WILL get a piece of candy. 

I tried to get pictures of the older two, but they were way too interested in getting their candy and moving on to the next house.  SO, I settled on taking more pics of my sweet little clown and her first Halloween trick or treating experience.  Who could tell that face no?

Every time we would get back in the car, she would hold up her bucket and jibber jabber with a huge smile on her face, like she was saying, "Mom, look at alllll this candy!!"



Fall Happenings.....

Our Fall has been quite the warm one.  We are finally out of the ninety degree weather but juuusstt barely.  Our little Alex became a girl scout and has had some fun adventures so far.  We went to a corn maze for one activity and I think Jake had more fun than anyone.  He was pretending to be our guide and was swinging corn stems all over the place. I would have taken more photos of Alex but she was off with her "daisy troop" friends. 

Mr. Guide

Alex is having the time of her life, learning about all sorts of new stuff. 

These are some of her good buddies in her troop.

For FHE we had some friends over for some pumpkin carving.  Some took it pretty seriously. 

As I was making my way to get a picture of Cameron and the older two kids carving our family pumpkin, Jake came out of nowhere with a HUGELY puffy eye from a serious allergic reaction to something when the kids were all playing in the back yard.  I didn't ever get a picture of our pumpkin but did get one of the poor boy that had to wear a pirate patch because he would not stop rubbing his ever swelling eye.  It didn't seem to slow him down much.   

Charlie, just having a good time!

Alex enjoyng the yummy treats....

Jake has an awesome preschool teacher who has some pretty cool craft ideas.  They made these spooky Halloween haunted houses for their Halloween party. 

Soccer has come to an end.  It was really fun to coach this season!  It was a bit warm some of those games, but we had a blast nonetheless.  My little Alex keeps asking me when the next season starts because she 'thinks' she might miss kicking the ball.  I must say she has improved a ton in the last year, it was great seeing the difference between the smaller kids games than these 7-8 year olds.  They really started to catch on and understand the game more. 

One year older and wiser too....

Oh man!! I'm going to have an eight yr old next year! Wow... it's all I can do not to wrap her up in a blanket and rock her to sleep at night.  Alex has grown up SO much in the last year.  First grade, teeth falling out, reading, writing, being smarter than mommy, growing like a weed, the list goes on and on.  Her birthday was last Saturday, we had a early soccer game, which yes, that is me as the coach this year.  I'm not sure how I got sucked into being the coach, but I do love it.

She was SO lucky to have Grandpa and Grandma come down for the big weekend.

All Alex wanted to do was go miniture golfing for her birthday, but with the forecast saying it was to be 107 that day, we found a better option in bowling.  I mostly videoed because of how hilarious it was to watch the kids bowl but ended up with this blurry beauty of me and Charlie.

All the players.....

We had a caketastorphie with Aunt Cris not being able to attend, but me and mom made it work.  Here's to next year Cris!  Happy Birthday Alex!

More Randoms.....

Jakey started preschool three times a week this year!  Yeah for all of us!! J/K, I really miss his crazy silliness when he's gone.  But me and Charlie get some one on one which is fun.

Like this day when I was weeding the yard and turned around and found this big mess to clean up.  Hilarious!  I still can't figure out how she got so much all over her face.

For Labor day we went up to St. George for Cam's sister's little Maddox's baby blessing.  I didn't take any pictures other than me, the kids and grandpa fishing at one of the golf courses ponds.  Don't tell my dad, but when he said we were fishing at a golf course I thought to myself that this was going to be the lamest fishing adventure ever.  It turned out EVERY cast we caught a fish!  It was a ton of fun and the kids loved it.  My dad did know what he was talking about :)

Jake wanted everything to do with reeling the fish in but NOTHING to do with the fish afterwards.  He would NOT touch them.

Charlie is always grabbing someones backpack and running around with it on her back.  I finally got a picture of the girl in crime.

First Grade?!

Now that I've somewhat caught up from summer pictures (I still have wedding pics to go through) I will debut my cute first grader!  I know everyone says that they can't believe they have a kid old enough to go to school but seriously, I still feel like "goobs" was born yesterday.  I miss her SO much during the day.  Not only is she an AMAZING helper, she's just fun to have around.  She is getting into the stage of constantly chatting your ear off at any given moment.  Although being in first grade comes with alot more responsibility she is having alot of fun.  Her kinder teacher looped up with them so her teacher is the same and all the kids are the same.  It has helped with the nerves and scary first week of getting to know yous.  We are so proud of Alex in every way!

Charlie saw that the two olders were putting on backpacks and grabbed Alex's old one and walked towards the car.  Unfortunatley I ran to get the camera and she had taken it off when I got back.  This picture was an attempt to get all of them together.  Alex was whining about the sun being to bright, Jake thought he was going to school that day as well, he didn't have preschool for another week, but you couldn't talk him out of it, and Charlie was a little confused to what was going on with all the crazines. I think it's just perfect, real life :)

In first grade you get your own desk.  Boy were the kids all excited!  I'm not so sure her teacher was when it was all they could do to keep their sticky fingers out of the desks all day.  

Randoms...

We had a Roth family reunion while in Utah.  We went to our old stomping grounds Seven Peaks.  It's where Grandma Millie always took us.  It was good to see cousins and aunts and uncles that we hadn't seen in awhile. 

3 beach babes.  Kate, Kerri and Cris.

My mom just HAD to have one all together.  It was the end of the day, let's just say we were all really worn out and tired from a long day.

We stayed at Niki and Brians house and had some time to kill while Cris was making the wedding cake.  Charlie saw Grandma wearing her glasses and found some Mr. Potatohead glasses and thought she would be like Grandma.  She seriously wore them around all day! 

Crust is going to be mad that I put this picture up, but I just wanted to say how awesome of a job she did and how beautiful the cake turned out.  I will post pics of the cake when I get them from my sister.

We hit up the movie theater and saw Toy Story 3, which is mine and Cameron's favorite kid movie!  It really was one of the best movies I've seen.

Katie, Cris and I were shopping the Nordy's sale and while getting the strollers out of the car a bird did it's nasty business ALL over the car and some landed on Kates shoulder.  We were on the ground laughing because of how fast it all happened!  Way to take one for the team Kate!

These two will most definetly be the BEST of friends when they grow up, if their mom's have anything to say about it :)  We had like 5 matching outfits for them to wear throughout the trip.  I used to hate it when my mom did that to me and my sisters!  What goes around comes around I guess.

Hogle Zoo

While in Utah in between the Fourth of July and Mat's wedding we had a week of time to do some fun things.  My kids LOVE the zoo, so anytime we get the chance to go, we go.  We had SO much fun, I hadn't been to the Hogle Zoo since I was a little kid.  Why does everything seem so much more fantastic and big when your little? 

Crazy Aunt Kate

At the end of the day everyone said what their favorite animal was, pretty much everyone said this guy.  Isn't he just hilarious?

We had to hit the carousel ride.....I think this is Mill's first time!

We paid like $2 per person for this train ride thinking it would take us ALL around the zoo.  Um, no.  It took us maybe a hundred yards to show us some stuffed up people in mines and then brought us back.  No animals.  What? 

These two didn't care, they just got to sit by Grandpa.