Halloween Parties and Such

I know Halloween is tomorrow, but who knows when I'll get to that. I have time today, so here goes. Be forewarned this is a long post.

 I love Halloween.  It gets more fun every year as the kids get older and have more fun with it. This year we were all Mummy's, except Mike who is a Deady.

 I love doing our theme family costumes, but I think this might be the last year for them.  The kids are starting to rebel. Since when did they get so opinionated? I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens next year. We had our first Halloween party on October 21.  It was the Bailey Party.

 My mom recently had hip replacement surgery (I think it was Sep 25th) so we (Girls) had to help out a little more this year. She still arranged to have the train come, which the kids love! The kids played some games, doughnut on a string, monster bean bag toss, octopus toss, and a piñata.

 Jaycee is the most scary mummy! She is so funny, she loves to make crazy faces for the camera. It's not very often anymore that we get a nice sweet picture like this one.

 This is more like it.  She is so funny!

 I don't even know how she does that with her eyes! She is talented.

 Wesley loves to smile for the camera now.  I love his little under bite.

Here are some pictures with all the Bailey cousins.

 Here is another perfect example of Jaycee's crazy eyes!

 Mummy and Deady

 Notice the little eyes on my belly.  When I put them on Wesley asked if the baby could see now.

 Me, my mom, and my sista's, minus Joy who was in Vegas.

 Scary bunch.

 Choo choo.

While the kids were on the train we got some pictures of the adults.

The Doughnut game.

 Pinata fun

We had a lot of fun. We love getting together with family.  We had lasagna, mac and cheese, bread, salad and pumpkin bars and cupcakes. Yum.

Now on to the Borgstrom party. Oct 26th.  The party started off with coloring picture frames from Grandma.

 We had a mummy sandwich which was delicious, mummy dogs, spicy goulash chili, chips and pumpkin cupcakes.

 My cute little mummies.

We got some nice group shots.

 Most of the Borgstrom cousins. We are missing Miriam and Quentin.

 Once again with Jaycee's eyes.

 And the whole group.

 At this party they got a lot of cute little things from Grandma LouLou. They played the doughnut game, pin the nose on the pumpkin and monster bean bag toss.

We had a blast. Being so close to family is truly a blessing.

We also went to our ward party, it was after Jaycee and Wesley's soccer game and right before Jaycee's first basketball game.  So they went as soccer players to that party.

On Monday the Elementary had a skate night at Classic Fun Center.  The kids loved it. Jaycee did pretty good on her skates. Wesley spent most of the time on a scooter, but he did pretty good on his skates also.  Much better then I expected.

Tomorrow Jaycee's school is doing a costume parade.

What a busy holiday. It's a good thing I love it. But I'm ready to be done.

Jaycee is loving soccer! She is getting pretty good too. Wesley pretty much hates it.  I wasn't going to sign him up, but he begged me, so I gave in. Now I have to force him go.

Jaycee just started basketball.  She is liking it.  She is on a team with all boys.  She cried the first game because she was so scared.  She only touched the ball once in the first game(a pass that hit her hand and went out of bounds). In the second game she got to dribble the ball down the court once and she made a pretty good pass.  She loves to practice basketball, shooting and dribbling, not so much passing.

It is so fun watching them play.  I hope they continue to try new things.

Last thing, today I went to the Dr. and had a ultrasound.  It looks like we have a thumb sucker! She was pushing my stomach trying to get him to take his thumb out of his mouth so she could get a picture.  He finally took it out for about 3 seconds, then he found it again. That could be interesting. It was so cute. As cute as a skeleton sucking his thumb can be. :) Everything else looked good.  He was measuring at 29 week and 2 day. So he is about two weeks ahead of my due date! Unfortunately the Dr. says that doesn't change my due date.

Happy Birthday Wesley!

Wesley is 4! I can hardly believe it.

 We are so lucky to have him in our family. He will always be my miracle baby. He had a rough start, but he's been going strong ever since. Wesley is turning into a pretty big tease, just like Jaycee. It takes him a while to warm up to people. He is pretty shy. He does seem to be getting less shy as he gets older. Wesley loves to ride his bike, play with bugs,  color and cut everything. Oh, and he loves to read books, and play with his cousins. He is so smart. He loves to help everybody, with anything.  If he sees someone working he is right there asking if he can help. It's so cute.

Wesley got two parties this year. Since we don't have a house of our own we did a Bailey party at my parents and a Borgstrom party at Mikes parents. We did his party on Sunday, September 29th.

 He is so lucky to have such good friends on both sides of the family.  We love our cousins. :)

 Wesley loves pulling this face.

 He got almost everything he asked for. He wanted blue skates and a blue jump rope and a little pumpkin.  His skates are red and black, and he didn't get a pumpkin. But Aunt Heather did give him one a couple days before his birthday.

 More awesome cousins.

 On his birthday, the one thing he wanted to do was go to the park. So we picked up some friends and went to not one, but two parks. They had a blast!

 Later we went and picked Jaycee up from school and went to Toads Fun Center.

 Wesley was big enough this time to ride on the Go Carts. Both the kids loved mini golf.

 This was probably the fastest game of mini golf ever!

 The kids loved it, and really they did pretty good.

 

For FHE this week we went for a hike up at Snow Basin.

 The kids did so good.

 I love the fall. I love the weather, the colors, the food. Really there isn't a better season.

 Jaycee is so silly, it is getting hard to get a real picture of her, she is always pulling some funny face.

 My sister in law Emily pointed out that she hadn't seen any pregnant pictures of me, probably because we don't have any.  So here's one. Six months and counting.

 We sure love these two!

 Here, Wesley is being the Statue of Liverty (Liberty).

We are so blessed to have these two in our lives, and we are so excited to bring another into the family. We had our big ultrasound in September, everything looked good and was within normal limits. :)

We haven't decided on a name yet, but I think we have narrowed it down to Bensen, Thomas, Brigham or James. Coming up with a name is so hard!

School!

Wow, summer is over! Sad. We had so much fun, I can't complain. In the last couple of weeks we had a Borgstrom Family reunion, and went camping a couple of times. Once to Coalville, and then to Anderson Cove.

Our reunion this year was on Saturday, August 17.  Here is a group picture.

 Every year we try to make something for the reunion. Mike comes up with really brilliant ideas, then I get to create them. He is the brains behind everything.

This is a picture of Mikes Great Grands and family. This is the family "Saving Private Ryan" was based on.  5 went to WWII and only on came back, Mikes Grandpa.  There is a monument in Tremonton that President Monson dedicated.

 Here is a picture of his Grandma, in the hearts is her handwriting.

 In this one, is a picture of his Grandparents, in the other picture is his dad and siblings. On the bottom under his grandparents is more of his Grandma's handwriting.

 I wish I had taken pictures of them before I wrapped them up and sold them. Opps.

Here are the cute Borgstrom cousins minus Logan and Quentin.

 I love getting together with family.  We went to the Brigham City Community pool and park. It really was a lot of fun. Andrew and Cheryl even made it down for the reunion.

The next day we headed off to Coalville for some camping.

We bought the kids new fishing poles.  They loved them.

 Wesley just wanted to catch crawdads with his pole.

 Jaycee loved fishing! She didn't want to give up until she had caught a fish to eat! Lucky for me she didn't end up catching anything.  In this pond they can't use bait, so she was fishing with just a hook.

 She loved it. 

 We had a fun week with Andrew and Cheryl being here.  The kids loved having their cousins here to play with.

The next weekend we went with my family to Anderson Cove up at Pineview. My dad even patched up the old water weenie!  On Friday, it was a little stormy so we had the lake to ourselves.  Parson and Tyson got to try shore starting!  Amber and Spencer skied, and Amber wake boarded! We haven't done that for a long time.  We usually just tub.  Not very often are you the only boat and have such good water conditions at Pineview. It was pretty awesome.  I was a little jealous that I couldn't try.

On Saturday everyone (young and old) rode the water weenie!  Spencer, Tyson, Amber and Jaime had the first ride, insisting they need to show the little kids how it was done.  It looked so fun.  I have a lot of good memories of being out in the water on the water weenie.  My dad dumped them a couple of times, then it was the kids turn.  He drove much more gently for them.  I did finally talk him into dumping them.  It was the softest fall I have ever seen...my dad has some major skills! I even ended up riding with Wesley. He liked it!

A big storm blew in around 5.  We were all safe in our campers or trailers, except Amber and my Dad.  They got stuck in the storm getting the boat out. Amber said the waves were up to her chest. She had to help some people get their boat on, the waves had broke their trailer!  Once again my dad has mad skills and was able to make a perfect landing even with the storm.  We had a great time.

On Monday the 26th, Jaycee started first grade!  She was pretty excited, and shed no tears.  And she loves her Hello Kitty backpack.

 It is so weird having her gone all day.  Wesley asks everyday if he gets to go to school too.  Poor guy still has two years!  I think he will like being home better once Bear gets here. That's what he told me he is going to call the baby. 

 Mae is in Jaycee's class this year. I'm glad they have each other.

 They even get to sit kind of close...their teacher, Mrs Toomey, says maybe a little to close. :)

 When we went to get Jaycee off the bus on Tuesday Wesley found some friends.  He had both of his hands full of them! He brought them home and played with them for days...I'm pretty sure none of them survived. :( But, it was fun while it lasted.

 Jaycee loved playing with them also, but she would only touch their shells. She spent most of her time lining them up.  They would move a little and she would line them up another way.  She lines everything up. It's kind of funny.

 Oh to be young again. 

 While Jaycee was lining them up Wesley was carrying one around putting it on everything.  The rock, the bricks, in that little bird cage, on the solar lights.  They are both so different.

 Both are so cute! I'm a pretty luck Mom.

 

Now we are trying to get back in the school routine.  Waking up early, reading, homework, and going to bed early. Here's to an awesome school year!