New Baby's gender

Today we went to the doctor and found out if we are having a boy or a girl.  Here is a little snip of the kids reaction to the news.

90th Birthday!

Today is Grandma Allreds 90th Birthday!

 Grandpa Allred turned 90 earlier this year, I was in Hawaii, so I didn't get to go to his party.

 Grandma was always quilting. This is a quilt she made of all the flags of all the counties that her and Grandpa have been too...pretty amazing!

My Grandma taught me how to sew, and play Majong. She's always in a good mood. I always loved going to her house, especially on Christmas Eve.  We would always stop there on our way to Lake Powell and sleepover. I even got to go stay over for a couple of weekends. That's when Grandma taught me to sew.

I feel so blessed to have both my Grandparents in my life. They are so amazing, such good examples to me and my kids.

Happy Halloween!

Finally! 

 Grandma LouLou usually does her Halloween party on Halloween, this year was no different, except that Miriam and Quentin were here this year!

 The kids have never had Halloween with them before so they loved it.

We almost got a picture of all the Borgstrom cousins, we are missing Marlee this year.

 For the party we had pizza and put together a foam puzzle of sorts. 

 The kids, and some adult, got to throw darts at balloons and win prizes. They also played the doughnut game.

 Then they went Trick or Treating.  I was going to go answer the door at my house, but there were hardly any kids by my house. So I took my candy over to my Moms and she handed it out for me.  She always has a lot of trick or treaters.

 The kids got sooo much candy this year!

 They even had several people give them full size candy bars.

 Bensen didn't last as long as the older kids, but he still made out with a lot of candy!

I always love Halloween even though I was sick this year I still had a lot of fun.

Until next year, Happy Halloween!

More Halloween Fun

 For FHE the Monday before Halloween we decided to carve our pumpkins...the pumpkins out of our garden!

 Wesley started asking to carve them at the beginning of October. I kept telling him they would be really gross by Halloween if we carved them that early.

Bensen wanted in on the fun so he started off with coloring his pumpkin.

 That didn't last very long.  Once he saw what the older two were doing he wanted in on the fun.

 So he had fun poking holes in every body's pumpkins!

 It kept him entertained for a long time.

 They all did such a great job! 

I sure love these kids of mine.

 A couple days later we had our ward Halloween party. 

 There were a lot of yummy soups to chose from, salad, rolls and doughnuts. Yum. Then the kids got to go play games that the youth were running. They had all sorts of fun games set up for them.  The kids loved it!

 Then on Thursday the younger kids got to do a costume parade.

Brody even wore his skeleton costume.

 Wesley forgot to put his jacket on so he looks like a half skeleton...oh well, he had fun.

After the parade I got to go back to Wesley's class and help with their Halloween party! I played charades with the kids. It was fun, the kids were pretty creative.

Ok, know I'm ready for Halloween. :)

Bailey Halloween Party

We had our annual Halloween party at Joys house this year.

 We recycled our old skeleton costumes this year, like I've said in posts before I don't have much energy these days, so it was nice Wesley wanted to be a skeleton. Jaycee rebelled this year, she was a witch, but she let me put bones on her belt and she had a skeleton neckless and she carried around a skull. Compromise.

 They are pretty cute.

 It's always fun when we can all get together.  The kids kind of get lost at Joys house.  They go downstairs and we don't see them again until it is time to go.  We did gather them together long enough to eat and get a picture.  They also played a couple of game. The fish pond and the cake walk.

 I love that most of my family dresses up.  Heather was dressed up, but she didn't want to be in the picture.  Trevor and Katie were they only ones who didn't dress up this year.

 The kids also decorated a sugar cookie and took care of a couple pinatas.

 Bensen sat so patiently waiting for his turn.

 Looks like Wesley might hit left.  We will have to watch that.

The kids had a great time. We love getting together with our family. Good food, good times.