Long over due...

Sorry everyone I have been so lame at updating my blog. It a busy time of year for ALL... We have been busy with Christmas gifts, callings, football, growing babies, and lots and lots of family fun.
I will start with Christmas gifts:
We like to give homemade gifts and they usually take all year to make them all as we have a large family. I felt this year that instead of asking all the guys one thing an all he girls another we would try to be more personal, this ended up being a harder task then I thought. BUT I am happy to report I AM DONE!!

New Calling:
I am now the "Week day relief society meeting planner" (formerly known as Enrichment leader). I am nervous about this calling as I am not the best organizer in the world, I am very excited to rise to the challenge but nervous for sure. We just had our Christmas Program and I thought it went well, could have gone smoother...but I will get the hang of it. (pray for me :)

Football:

I am not a big sports watcher, but I always love watching family play. It is Jeff's senior year and it has been WONDERFUL to watch him play. They had a great season!! They made it o the STATE playoffs, the score was 14 to 7. (We lost) But pretty amazing to be second in football in the whole state (for 2A football)!! The above picture is Jeff carrying the ball (I don't remember how many yards he got on this play)He is #33

A pretty cool picture I think (not taken by me :)....He made the tackle in case you were wondering.

It is wonderful to have Jeff and Dad with us, and Mom not to far behind. My boys are loving their Papa. Now if we could only get the rest of our family close by life would be perfect.

Tomorrow is Jeremiah's birthday. My old man is 29. I love how wonderful he is to me and the father he is to our boys. I wont be to mushy and make you gag lol but...Life is pretty wonderful with my man :) Happy Birthday Jer!!!

4th Annual Barkley Halloween Murder Mystery

Oscar Night In Hollywood: The Oscars are shinning almost as much as the stars arriving on the red carpet.
The decorations are hung.

Tables are set with the finest linens

Only the best of the best will attend.

All the stars have high hopes for the night ahead.

Joan Rivers is excited to see all the fashions of the evening.

Sister Mary Clarence (Sister Act)

Cruella De Vil (101Dalmatians)

William Wallace (Brave Heart)

Master Yoda (Star Wars)

Winnifred Sanderson (Hocus Pocus)

Indiana Jones (Indiana Jonas and the raiders of the lost ark)

Captain Hook (Hook)
Elle Woods (Legally Blond)

The murderer: YODA! And the darling Joan Rivers!

The Arrogant, William Wallace and the Dog loathing Cruella De Vil

The infamous Winnifred Sanderson, The squeamish Indiana Jones, and The Lady waitress.

The flirtatious Captain Hook, and The Really Smart Blond Elle Woods.

It was another fun year! Cant wait for next year..Four Possible themes to choose from:

-Halloween

-Star Trek

-Medieval

-Adams Family

CRAZY OCTOBER

October was a busy busy month for our family, birthdays, parties, Halloween, family visiting and our annual murder mystery. Mom, Lahia and Jaxon came to Oregon to visit this weekend. It was wonderful! I gave Jaxon a hair cut and he was such a big boy he stayed so still and looked so handsome!
Kohen loves Jaxon so much, I hope they are able to grow up and be great friends.

The other night we got the boys to sleep (or so we thought) then we heard a bunch of noise and GIGGLES. When I went in to check Jonas was buried in his crib under EVERYTHING in the boy's room. Kohen had taken EVERYTHING from the dresser all the toys and put them in his brothers crib. Now normally I would have been really upset, but they were having such a good time I couldn't get after them. I just pulled everything out of his crib put it in a LARGE pile on the other side of the room to be cleaned up in the morning. I laid them both back down and luckily didn't hear another peep the rest of the night. :) I love my troublemakers!

Jer and I were watching a movie together and I got a little bored so I decided to doodle on Jer's leg...I think it turned out neat lol. He was kinda upset that it was SO big. But it was washable ink so no harm done.

I was cleaning up the house and Kohen said "Help you Mommy" So I let them help. They cleaned the same 2 ft of the window for 10 min :)

Jer always does such great pumpkins. I love his patience with such intricate design...I am not posting my pumpkin this year cause my family made fun of mine lol. I could just tell you it was Kohen's and you would probably believe me.

Kohen LOVES his papa. They build forts together or as Kohen calls them "Hides". It is so great to have Papa and Uncle Jeffy here cant wait until Nana is here with us too.

Jonas loves Puppets, stuffed animals and ANYTHING snuggly. When ever he walks by them he will pick them up give them a great hug and say "AWWW". He is such a blessing to our family.

Day in the park...

We just got family pictures. We are very happy with them (thanks Lisa)....Enjoy!

If you enjoy her creative eye as much as we do check out more of her art at: http://www.lisamariephotographystudio.blogspot.com

Halloween is on its way!

I think you all know that my family has a tradition of murder mysteries each halloween. We all take turns writting and hosting them. I had the BRILLIANT idea of sharing a few them with you all. Follow the link on the "things we do" section of my blog to "Murder Mysteries" I am going to post 1 act a week untill halloween. And then each month I will try to add a mystery. Hope you enjoy them as much as we have.

Football, Troublemakers, and Homemade gifts.

It has been so great to see Jeff play football. Jer and I have missed it and now his senior year we get to see him play and have a really great season. This is the football game 3 weeks ago against Regis...They WON! Regis is Kennedy's long time rival.
8 to 51!! Great game. I personally like close games that keep me on my toes till the end. BUT it felt good to CRUSH Regis. An interesting fact Kennedy beat Regis Jason's senior year, my senior year and now Jeff's.

Kohen LOVES his uncle Jeffy! He follows him around and does everything Uncle Jeff does. If Uncle Jeffy has a glass of milk Kohen needs a glass of milk. If Uncle Jeffy goes to take a nap, Kohen needs a nap. It makes me so happy to see he loves his Uncle.

Little boys are another word for TROUBLE! Ive met some little girls that are mischievous, but I think my boy's have some stories for the record books! After changing Jonas it is nearly impossible to get him dressed he LOVES to be naked. And Kohen (SIGH) last Friday while being watched at a friends he had 2 minutes alone to find a sharpie and write on their furniture and ALL over there walls! I spent two hours shampooing their couch and Ottoman. Scrubbing the walls and priming them. We now have to buy paint for their living room. Some people think it is cute when their kids do things like this...Let it be known to the WORLD I DO NOT think it is cute it is so embarrassing when my children do things like this.

We had Super Saturday this weekend and I was able to work on a few of my Christmas presents. I love homemade gifts. They are so meaningful. O wish I could show you all the fund craft I did, but there are those of you who read my blog who will be receiving some of the fruits of my labor. One of the classes was a pie making class. We made a delicious apple pie (above) isn't it beautiful! (No worries I'm not saving the pie for Christmas lol) IT was just a fun class since I am not real super comfortable with pie making. I have made two more apple pies since Saturday :)