Happy Halloween!

How is it November already? I swear time is going by so fast! 

This year we were The Supers. I think our family costume are coming to an end.  It was hard to come up with something Jaycee and Wesley agreed on. First Jaycee wanted to be  a cat, then a witch. We bought her a witch costume, but when it came we were not impressed. I think she wanted it because it lit up, and it didn't lite up very well. Wesley saw superman at Walmart one day and that was it for him. There was no talking him out of it.  When Jaycee was that little she didn't get a choice, she was what I wanted her to be. Not so with Wesley. So I was able to talk Jaycee into being Supergirl. I took her to the store and let her try on the costume. She liked how sparkly it was so we were good.

Almost every year we have parties early in October.  This year our first party was on the 29th. Maybe that's why I felt like Halloween snuck up on me. October 29th was our Bailey Halloween party.

Some of the Bailey cousins, and Grandpa Max.

All the Bailey cousin's except for Colton.

We had fun, my mom got the train again. The kids love the train.  She did the haunted fishing hole, a ring toss, and a pinata. 

Here's Wesley and Brody.

And Jaycee and Paige.

With Grandma Carmae.

 Usually everyone dresses up, even the adults.  Not so this year, me and Jaime and my mom and dad were the only ones in costume. Katie did have some pretty cool glasses and Trevor had a scary mask, so I guess that counts. I made Amber put on my skeleton shirt from last year, and I pretty much had to force her. That was a little disappointing. I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with, and this year it was a little sad. 

Me, my mom and my sisters. I really love getting together with all of them.

We have a lot of fun.

I love that Mike goes along with me every year.  He is such a good sport and he never complains, another of the many reasons I love him.

I love my parents.

Jaime and Matt, aka Ursula and King Triton.

Wesley taking a crack at the pinata.

Jaycee having her turn.

Even some of the adults got in on the fun.

We start with the youngest and work our way up. Right after this picture was taken Spencer broke the bat and put a hole in the wall.

We didn't let that stop us.

Trevor finally just ripped it open.  I love the people in the back ground.

We had a pasta bar that was really good.  Katie made mummy dogs for the kids. Joy made a really good drink. Jaime made pumpkin bar. The rest of us helped with the pasta bar stuff. The food is always great.

On the 30th we had our neighborhood party. I'm not going to lie I didn't really want to dress up.  I guess I was kind of in a funk. I thought we were going to be the only ones dressed up. Luckily once we got there, there was a lot of people dressed up and it was a lot of fun.  We had a really good turn out, we didn't run out of food, which is always a plus, but we did run out of candy.

On Halloween Jaycee had a class party.  I was able to go and help, that was fun. Later that day was the Borgstrom party. We got all dressed up again. Mike's mom goes all out. The kids decorated cookies and she had cute cups full of candy.  We had Chili, mummy dogs, bread sticks, and she made a pretty awesome Halloween cake.

They played pin the nose on the pumpkin.

Then they went "Trick or Treating" with their cousins (Sarah's kids). They got really good candy, both me and Mike were impressed. 

We went back a little early and the littler kids were able to play the doughnut on a string game.  That was pretty funny. Jaycee was using Wesley's arm to keep hers steady.  He did not appreciate that very much, he got pretty sticky. In the end Jaycee won.

Then we went back to our neighborhood and went "Trick or Treating" to a couple of houses.  Jaycee was a little disappointed that we didn't get any trick or treaters, and I felt bad that we weren't home to answer the door. But our whole street was dark so I don't think we would have gotten very many anyway.
Anyway, we had a really good Halloween. And I had a good time pulling our costumes together. I can't wait to see what happens next year. Hopefully we can still do our family costumes. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

 

I love...

I was going to post my summer update post. When I went in I saw that this would be my 100th post, I thought I write something a little more special. I'm going to write about what I love.
I love my family, I am so lucky to have such a wonderful husband who takes care of us, and spoils me. :)

  I love my two beautiful kids, that at times I don't appreciate enough.

I love my Mom and Dad. Now I appreciate all that they sacrificed and do for me. They have always supported me in whatever I wanted to do.

I love Mike's Mom and Dad. I love that they accepted me from the very beginning. I've always felt like family.

I love my sisters and brothers (in-laws included), and all of my nieces and nephews, we are up to 17 now the Bailey side and 7 almost 8 on the Borgstrom side.

I love that my kids get to play with there cousins every week, if not several times a week.

I love where we live and all the friends we have made here.

I love watching my kids play together (nicely).

I love food! Especially if I don't have to make it. :)

I love Halloween, pretty much fall in general.

I love playing soccer, and it's even more fun that I get to play with my sisters Joy, Amber, and Jaime.

I love being outside, watching the kids ride there bikes, going on hikes, gardening. I would much rather do any chore outside then clean my house.

I love to read. Which goes along nicely with getting in the bath.

I love soaking in the bath. :)

I love going on dates with my husband. Who wouldn't though?

I love the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I love Jesus Christ.

I love my calling in the church. I get to work with all of the amazing young women, and leaders.

I love watching my kids learn new things and I love to watch them sleep.

At times I love crafting. I go through spurts. I have a love hate relationship with crafts. Some crafts I love are painting ceramics, cross stitching, crocheting. I would love to learn to sew.

I love camping, boating and swimming with my family.

I love the mountains. Not just any mountains, my mountains. I miss not living so close to them, that is one reason I want to move back to So. Weber. They are pretty any time of year.

I love being surprised! However, it doesn't happen very often because I am very nosy. 

I love playing games, board, card, Nintendo. You name it I love it. Except for maybe Candyland, but that's only because I've played it about a million times.  I do have to say Jaycee is really good to play with, even when she loses she still has fun.

There is more, these are a few of my favorite things.:)

 

Happy Birthday to Wesley!

Wesley turned 3 on the 1st of October! I can't believe he is three! He has been pretty excited.  I've always done some sort of Halloween theme, Mike thinks that's silly, so this year I switched it up a little and did a Monster theme.  We went to the movie "Hotel Transylvania" and to lunch at Chic-fil-a, then home to get ready for the big family party.

I made his invitation with my scrapbook factory. Jaime swears it is easy to use, I disagree. It took me over 3 hours! I'm not sure it was worth it.  I do like how it turned out.

 We looked online for cake ideas. Wesley loved the monster cake. The one online looked better, but I did my best. Those little cake pops were harder then I thought they were going to be. I couldn't get them to stay on the sticks, they kept sliding off.

 We made a little bean bag throw to try and keep the kids entertained. It worked pretty well.

 Here's my handsome birthday boy.

 He liked his new monster hat.

 He got a new helmet from my parents to go with his new bike, that didn't come until the next day. And was a potty reward/birthday present.  No he is not potty trained, but he did finish his potty chart. We are a little more strict with the new potty chart. :) Which will earn him a trip to Chuck-E-Cheese.

 Mike's mom made him a Super Hero blanket.  He loves it and sleeps with it every night.

 He blew all the candles out.

 We had a really good day.

We are so blessed to have Wesley in our family.

He loves to ride his bike. He has started to draw pictures, that you can actually kind of tell what they are, usually spiders or Mike. :) He loves to play with our iPod touch. He likes trains and superheros. He really wants to go to school, he is sad when Jaycee leaves. He is super ticklish, and has the best laugh. He loves to read books, he sneaks several to bed with him every night. He is a tease. Every now and then he likes to cuddle, usually when Jaycee is at school, he will let me rock him. I love that! He is very observant. If I change something in the house, he is the first to notice. He has a really good sniffer. He is always saying "I smell something." Usually followed by "I smell something disgusting."Almost always it's about something I am cooking for dinner. :) He hates to have his picture taken, and to get his ears wet.

He is a blessing and we would be incomplete without him.

 

Fall!

If there is anything I like more then rain, it's fall! Especially fall leaves. Yesterday for FHE we took the kids up to Snow Basin., then to Applebees. It was so beautiful.

Since we were going up to the mountains I thought it would be a good idea to take some pictures of Wes because he turns 3 next week! He took a nap and everything, I thought we were golden...NOT! :) As I have mentioned before Wesley is not the easiest subject to take pictures of.  The backgrounds are beautiful and he's still pretty cute, even if he's not smiling. Oh and I haven't had time to edit any of these.  With that said, here they are.

 They are funny.

 This is right after my camera hit him in the head. There was a bike coming and I went to get him out of the way and my camera got him.

 The funny thing is he really is trying to smile.

 He's given up at this point.

 I still thought I'd try for a couple more.

 This one is so close.  Whoever thought it was a good idea to say "cheese" was crazy.

I wish I had Jaycee ready for pictures, she's always in the mood for some pictures.

 She was a really good helper. She tried her best to get Wesley to smile.

 I did catch a few smiles from him.

 He smiled really good when Mike was holding him.

 Jaycee is so funny, she loves getting her picture taken.

The leaves were so pretty.  We are hoping to get back up there this week and take some family photos. We'll see how that turns out.  Happy Fall everybody!

 

Summer Catch Up

We did so much this summer it was hard for me to keep up with everything. So this is my everything we did this summer post. My garden grew really good this year. I haven't canned really anything. I tried and failed twice. I forgot to put lemon juice in with my tomatoes. So I didn't dare keep them. I just used them in other things. And I tried to pickle peppers and murdered them, i just threw them out. I still want to try to make chili sauce, more tomatoes, and pepper jelly. We took the kids to Lagoon. Me and Jaycee went with Trevor, Katie, Max, Paige, and Mae. Jaycee loved it, we went on everything we could. We even snuck the girls on a couple they weren't tall enough for. Jaycee loved the Dragon, Lady Bug Drop, and Rattle Snake Rapids. We started at 11 and I had to drag her out a little after 9 because I had a soccer game at 10. I felt bad that we left Wesley home so I was going to take him with our bounce back tickets. Mike was out of town so I would have had to take him by myself. I didn't think he would want to ride the little rides by himself, and I couldn't take Jaycee and Wesley because then we couldn't ride any of the fun rides. We decided to wait until Mike got home. Mike gets motion sickness and Lagoon is not his favorite thing. But he was a good sport. We picked him up from the airport(he was in Chicago for work) and went straight to Lagoon. Wesley pretty much hated it! We was scared on most of the rides. He did like the one where you sit in the car and go around a little track. The bumper cars were ok. However Jaycee didn't love the bumper cars. We had a Borgstrom family reunion. It was at Stansbury Park, at the Country Club. That was fun. They had Panda Express deliver and there was a pool. It was funny Jaycee was jumping off of the diving board, so Wesley follows her up there. I went to catch him fully expecting him to not jump, jump he did, right on top of me and sunk me! I wasn't planning on getting my hair wet! So much for that plan. He loved it. We had a lot of fun. We went with my parents to Anderson Cove at Pineview and went boating. The kids love being at the lake. I don't think they would even care if there was a boat there. Wesley loves playing in the sand. Jaycee loves riding in the tube and swimming. She would stay in the water all day if we let her. A lot of their cousins were there so that's fun. Amber had baby Colton on the 27th of August. He was 7 lbs and 1 oz. He has blond hair and looks just like Tyson. And he came so fast. And he is so cute. We were going to see him, but I had to run to Walmart to get Jaycee's school supplies. While we shopping Wesley said "We go to the hospital and get a baby?" I wish it was that easy! We got to Amber's house and Wes wanted to "pet" the baby. So funny. He was more interested in him then Jaycee was, which surprised me. We went with Mike's parent to Las Vegas to help Mike's brother Andrew with some project in their new home. They put ceiling fans in most the bedrooms. Tore out some doorways. Put in a new kitchen faucet. Added some bookshelves in Miriam's room. While they were working the kids played. One day we went to an Aquatic center and swam. My kids love going to play with Miriam and Quentin. We spent a lot of our summer days over at my parents house. My mom bought a blow up water slide. She would have all the kids come over and play and eat watermelon, and jump. They would spend hours out there. It doesn't get better then free entertainment! My dad also is adding a porch in the back of his house so we spent a lot of time over there helping him with that. We had a busy summer and we had so much fun, but I'm looking forward to staying home a little bit more, and just relaxing. Maybe cleaning my house. Not that I'm looking forward to cleaning it, but that it has been neglected. Bring on the Fall!