So it has been a long time since I have blogged. I actually really enjoy sharing pictures of things that we have done but the only time I have to blog is at night and by that time I don't want to do anything, I just want to sit on the couch and watch my tv shows. So here I am back, and I have a whole lot of pictures on this one. I put pictures up here all the way back to when the kids started school. So we have the most recent pictures first and then the older ones that I should have blogged about a long time ago. So here we go.

Well our most recent thing that happned to us was that Madison turned 9 on the 2nd of November. I can not believe that she is 9 already. I sometimes can't believe that I have a 9 year old or even three kids for that matter. So for Madison's birthday we had went to Red Robin(her favorite restaurant, because they sing to you on your birthday) and invited Carlee and Jason and the girls and my dad and then Larry invited the missionaries to come with us because he invited them over to our house for dinner forgetting that we were going out for Madison's birthday, it was all good though. So we went and celebrated her birthday and she got some good toys, she got more later on but this is what she got at the restaurant.

She got an American Girl doll that she has been wanting for quite some time. This is the Carissa, well I think that is her name.

More Littlest pet shops.
And of course she got to be sung to and was so happy about.

This was her birthday cake that we got for her.

Madison has started piano lessons this year and she loves it. I am so glad that she is doing this. she has been asking me for quite some time and we found a great teacher and she loves it. I hope that she keeps going through out her life playing the piano. She had her first piano recital on Halloween. It was an official recital it was just something that her teacher does for people at a rest home. It was optional and they didn't have to do it if they didn't want to, it was just so the kids could get used to playing the piano in front of people. I thought that madison would get a little nervous but she didn't she did a great job. I did a video on my camera but I don't know how to download it on to my blog. So anyway because they had their recital on Halloween they played halloween songs and got to be in their costumes. Everyone had a good time.

Here she is at the piano. Madison was a butterfly fairy or something like that.

The week before Halloween Larry's dad and step mom came and stayed the night with us and so I thought that it would be a great opportunity to do pumpkins with the kids that night. Larry's dad and step mom hopefully had a good time doing it with the kids. Well it was really Larry and his dad that did the work on the pumpkins.

Here they are getting their designs ready on their pumpkins.

Madison got really into getting the guts out of the pumpkins. She thought it was the coolest thing.

Zach on the other had did not like the pumpkin guts getting all over his hands. He was not impressed by it at all.

Madison went with a traditional face and loved it.

Zach wanted something more difficult. He had wolverine on his. Larry did a really good job on this one.

In the middle of October I got to go and visit my very best friend Beth. Her and I have been friends since middle school. Beth lives in Arizona now we try to see each other as often as we can but now that we have kids and husbands it doesn't always work out. I had a great time visiting with her and just hanging out. We finished Zach's blanket that she was working on for him and we went to a dessert museum, and then her and I got to go and get pedicures and go and out for dinner, her husband was nice and watched all the kids for us. I took Zach and Carson with me because Larry had to work and he wouldn't have been able to make sure Zach got on the bus at noon, and well Carson he is a handful and Larry wounldn't get much done at work if he took him to the store with him. So it was nice that they got to come with me. Beth has four kids, Josh, Bailey, Jenni and Zane. Zach and Jenni are the same age just a couple of months apart. They got along so good and well all the kids got along good which was nice.

Here is Jenni and Zach playing with the Lego's, they played so well together.

This is what we were working on while the kids were playing. We were getting ready to tie Zach's quilt. It was fun trying to get it all organized. We had to move a few things but we got it done and Zach was so happy to have it. He kept on asking when it was going to be done. Unfortunately I didn't take a picture of the end result, so sorry you don't get to see what it looks like. It is a super hero blanket and it has the hulk and batman and spider man on it. It is really cute. I will have to take a picture of it so everyone can see it.

Here is Zach and Carson at the dessert museum. Zach was in his element in Arizona it was in the high 80's when we were there and so he got to be in his shorts and tank top. Zach would wear his shorts and tank top all year long it I let him.

The dessert museum is like a zoo kind of but it is for all the animals that are in the dessert in Arizona. So I bet you can guess what we saw alot of, except they were behind glass, thank goodness.

Here are all the kids except for the babies. Left to right. Josh, Jenni, Zach, and Bailey.

They got to dig for fossils as well.

I love this picture because it looks like a huge snake to me and it is just a piece of wood.

Here is Zane. Beth got his hair wet and made it go all crazy.

Carson got to hold his first ice cream cone all by himself. He has had ice cream before but I never let him hold it himself so i let him this time and I bet you can guess how it went by the way that he was holding it.

Beth and Carson with their ice cream faces.

At the begining of October we went to the pumpkin patch with our great friends and neighbors the Shevitz. The Conlins usually come with us but since they are in Colorado we have had to go the last couple of years with out them. We missed you Conlins. It just doesn't seem the same with out you.

We had a good time at the pumpkin patch and this was Carson's first time going and walking around. Last year he was being carried and wasn't old enough to really enjoy it and now I am glad that he was.

Here are the older kids out in the field. They just kind of took off and went and looked by themselves. They stuck together which was good.

Madison posing for her picture.

Zach found his pumpkin.

Carson saw everyone else picking up pumpkins so he wanted to try himself.

Can he get any cuter.

This guys too.

Unfortunately Larry wasn't able to come with us because he had to work due to the fact that he had some people call in sick which means he had to stay until close because they were short handed by alot so it was just me and the kids. We missed having Larry with us though.

Carson was wanting to push the wagon.

My kiddo's

In september we surprised the kids and took them out of school early and went to the Puyallup Fair. I don't have alot of pictures because I just didn't take alot of pictures while we were there.

They had a neat thing there at the fair where you could go fishing and actually catch a fish. So madison and Zach went fishing and thought that it was so cool how they each caught a fish and then they let it go.

He was so happy that he caught a fish.

Madison was happy as well.

Carson being Carson.

Well at the beining of September the kids started School. Madison is now in 3rd grade and Zach is in Kindergarten. Zach was so excited to start Kindergarten and Madison was excited to start third grade. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get Zach into Morning Kindergarten so he goes to school in the afternoon. I think that he was a little dissapointed at first that he was the only one on our street that was going in the afternoon but I told him that he gets to ride the bus home with his friends and he was o.k. with that. So here are some pictures of the kids on their first day of school.

Zach

Getting ready to catch the bus.

Zach in his class room. Do you think he is excited.

Madison and Carson waiting for the bus.

I get a picture of the kids every year in the same spot, to see how much they have changed each year.

More Famous then Michael Jackson

So on Saturday we went to larry's brother's and sister in laws house to see there son Jake, and them as well, for Jakes birthday. Well we were sitting around and Stephanie had to go and get some stuff for Jakes party, so I went with her and Madison wanted to go as well so she came with us. Well we were got the stuff and were getting ready to check out and well you know at the register how they have all the magazines and well now that Madison reads she reads everything she see's. So she was looking at the magazine's that were sitting there and she saw a magazine that had Michael Jackson's picture and it said something on it about him. So Madison says to me and my sister in law "What is the big deal with Michael Jackson why are they still talking about him." My sister in law responds to her and says that he was a really famous person and that is why we keep on seeing and hearing things about him. So Madison says to her "You mean more famous then Hannah Montana" and so of course my sister in law responded back and said "yes more famous then Hannah Montana, it is hard to believe isn't it." So my sister in law got a good chuckle out of that because to Madison I guess no one is as famous as Hannah Montana. I love hearing the things that kids say. I just had to share this with everybody it was to cute to not share.

Quading

So one of our last camping trips we went on was a quading trip, well they call it riders camp because you go and ride your quads there. Well it all started that Madison and Larry were just going to go with our neighbors and then our neighbors couldn't go so at the last minute I decided that me and Zach and Carson would go with. It was actually alot funner then I thought it was going to be. So thank you so much to Carlee and Jason for letting us tag along. This is usually something that Carlee and Jason do with their friends so it was nice that we got to go. I know that Carlee doesn't mind us going but you know we see each other all the time, we are in the same ward we are in the same family and well you get where I am going with this. So it was fun and it was a good chance for us to see if this is something that the kids would really like to do. I know that I would really like to get my own quad now. To tell you the truth I was jelous that Larry got to go on the rides and I wasn't able to go with, it is just so much fun. The kids had a blast as well. Carlee and Jason's friends were very kind and and let the kids ride on there littler quads, the kids loved it. So guess what the kids want now. So here are a few pictures of our quad trip.

Larry putting on a little seat thing for the kids so that when they ride with him they don't fall off. Carson had to get involved in this as well.

On the way up the mountain this is what we had to wait for. Yes a sheep crossing. This is the kind of road we had to go up to get to riders camp except it was mostly up hill.

more sheep

Larry getting ready for one of his rides. I love the way he looks on a quad.

Zach riding a little quad and he had to stop and ask me if he could go faster. He did this alot of times and I just had to tell him not to go to fast. He is my dare devil.

Carson wanted so bad to go for a ride. Don't worry everyone this one is not turned on and the key was not in, he was just sitting on one that no one was using at the time. He loves the quads too.

Zach lovin his ride.

Here he comes

There he goes

Can you tell that Carson is making the noise of a quad.

Off Zach goes again.

Here is Madison, she has really come out of her shell this year and tried some new things and she loved this.

She probably could have used a bigger quad but this was good for her to learn on this one.

Here are some pictures of our drive down the mountain. It was very different from the drive up the mountain. It was smoother going down and and when we went up it was really bumpy and had alot of turns and stuff, but on the way down I would have to say was a little bit scarier. This is what we had to drive down. Can you see that there really isn't anything to the side of us but a cliff and we are pulling the trailer.

This is the cliff and don't worry I zoomed in so we weren't that close.

Here is a picture of the truck pulling the trailer. When we got home we washed both the truck and the trailer because it was so dusty.

More of the road that we drove down.

This is what happens to Carson when we drive on a bumpy road.

Oh my gosh we made it to a real road, thank heavens. It was alot more smooth from here on out because we were at the bottom of the mountain I think.