Trunk or Treat

(**Mental note to me- we went to Disneyland last week, and I need to post pictures from our trip!**)

Now onto Halloween-

I tried to have the girls be different fairies- Silver Mist (she wears blue), Vidia (purple), etc... but they fought over who could be Tinkerbell... SO guess what?  To make my life easier, everyone's Tinkerbell this year!!!

 Family shot...

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention with the girls being Tinkerbell that meant that Matthew was Peter Pan!

The trunk or treat at church was awesome.  I didn't get a chance to take too many pictures, but the girls did get oodles of candy and had a blast at the cake walk and got quite a few cupcakes... the haunted house wasn't the highlight for them.  Kylie was the only one who went and she stayed behind my dad the whole time, although he said it was pretty impressive.

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And one of sweet Kloey.  It's definitely different, the first child to the fourth.  Poor baby, we have so few pictures of her.  I need to try to be better.  She's nearly 3 months old, getting SO big, she giggles and smiles.  Such a preciousness!

Sunday Morning Pictures

And so starts the dresses in 4's...

That's a whole lot of argyle...

Check out all our boots!

See this is why I had 4 girls, nothing could put a bigger smile on my face :)

Tinkerbells and the Homecoming Game

SO!  Apparently we have some fun connections with Legacy High School, and Matthew was asked to drive a fancy vehicle for the Homecoming Court.... AND the school theme this year (which they decorated their floats all with) was Disney movies and Disney princesses... SO our said connections let us dress the girls up and be in the Homecoming Parade at the high school football game on Friday night!

Us gearing up to go!

 Did not plan on it being so cold.  Kylie and Kacey were gone getting ready to be a part of the parade, I had Kloey bundled in my arms, guarding my purse with the hoodlums to either side of me (ready to tell them to watch their language), with camera in hand... poor Kadyn was struggling.  It was late, naptime wasn't too good that day, but James stepped up to the plate and filled in and kept Kadyn warm.  Matthew's less than thrilled, but me and his mom are good friends so it's okay... for now :)

The vehicle line up... Ferrari, Prowler, and Lamborghini

It's hard to see, but the girls are in the front seat waving to the crowd... Matthew's driving.  AND James' dad announces at the games and gave a huge SHOUT OUT to the girls... super cool! :)

Matthew's coveted vehicle... but Andrew owned the shop, so he gets the fanciest car... only fair :)

Fun night, gotta say I was exhausted by the time we got home.  AND it made me feel old.  No details, but looking around while I was there... I'm getting old.  Not cool.

Sunday Morning Pictures

Finally back up and running again!

We woke up at 7:30 (yes we have 9 am church).  Matthew didn't have meetings this morning, it threw me off.  Usually I sleep while hearing him shower and knowing I need to get up soon.  Not today, all of a sudden it was late.  We recouped on time though, amazing how much faster things get going in the morning with another adult on my side!

I keep saying that I need to grab my camera and just take pictures of Kloey, otherwise I'll have gaps in my pictures and I'll miss all her cute stages.  Love this picture though, notice the dress pulled up so you can see all those rolley polley thighs.

 All 4, I didn't have matching for Kloey but it's brown and polka dot so I considered it a success.  No worries, I have dresses in 4's.  Just not fitting Kloey this young, they grow so fast right now.  Wait until she's about a year, you'll see matching in 4's I promise... I REALLY look forward to it.

 Silly!

Kadyn's facial expressions crack me up.

FAMILY UPDATE:  Need to take Kloey in soon for another ultrasound on her kidneys.  Both were enlarged, and we're monitoring it.  They keep asking me if she has good wet diapers, and she does.  She has no problems at all, hopefully we'll be done with this soon.  Next item, Disneyland is very soon in our future... we are VERY excited!  Personally, I'm just thrilled to go and NOT be pregnant.   I got a new calling, Primary Secretary... I'm thrilled to be doing it, we have a wonderful group of girls in the presidency and I could not be happier.  We get together for meetings and just have a blast!  AND one last final update, Halloween is soon and the family theme is Tinkerbell.  I tried to do variations, but all the girls wanted to be Tinkerbell so that's what we did.  On that note, Matthew will be dressing up as Peter Pan.  Stay tuned for the tights :)

GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN... and daddy was there too!

So Saturday morning, I woke up and decided I wanted to do something fun... something out of the ordinary, something on a day which we had NO plans.  I was thinking, "Well we live in VEGAS... let's go downtown, maybe do Circus Circus, the AdventureDome, go see the Lions at MGM, hit the M&M factory, get some lunch and be home for naps."  So I give my plan to Matthew, who one ups me!  "Let's go up to St. George!"  I think it's a bad joke, "Hmmm, where to Las Vegans go to vacation... Utah."  :)  Haha.  Anyway, we packed up our Traverse and traversed ourselves out of NV, through AZ and to UT.

Surprisingly, it's a quick drive.  Our family theme song played on the radio, yes GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN is the family theme song (sorry dear to out us...) when Cyndi Lauper comes on we all get very excited!!!

So we're driving, and Kylie's fascinated with rocks... she's fascinated with science in general (so not my child) and she wants to be a scientist.  She even gives them names, not like Betty or John, but calls them by their scientific name... I don't even know or remember what she calls them, but she's a smartie.  So we stopped the car and got out and took pictures of the canyon.

 Hop, skip, and a jump away and we were in St. George.  We went to the Wildlife Museum, which was fun.  Not the highlight for Matthew and I, but when I ask the girls what their favorite part of the day was... they say the animals... so I'm glad we went!

 This one was on purpose, someone is in denial about his bald spot.  He doesn't seem to think it exists.  His response to this picture when he reads the blog is that his hair is cut short.  Ummm, yeah... so next picture :)

 It's a bit dark, every so often the lights go out and you hear thunder... but they are standing in front of a waterfall. 

 Up we go....

 They had a little kiddy area, for the girls to climb and touch stuff which was fun for them.

 So we finished with the Museum and went to lunch... we parked, got out of the car and yes... this is what kids from Las Vegas do when they see grass.  We have rocks, concrete, and a pool in our backyard.  Grass is foreign to us.

 Oh, did I forget to mention where we went for lunch?!?!?  Holy cow, this was worth the drive alone.  And secretly, this was Matthew and my favorite part of the whole day!!!!  CRACKER BARREL, surprisingly there aren't any in Vegas.

I mean, do you see those desserts!?!?  I'm pouring hot carmelly goodness onto mine.  Notice Kadyn's face, she's just as excited as I am intent to get it perfect!  Yeah, best part about the day....

Then, we went to the St. George Temple.  We've passed it so many times on the road from here to Salt Lake, but we've never stopped.

 We went into the Visitor's Center, which was lots of fun.  The girls enjoyed it, we saw a nice movie, and they took home cotton and Kylie got a special white rock from Elder Sheffeld.  She LOVES it, apparently it's gypsum which was used in building the Temple.

 Beautiful day, gorgeous weather to be on Temple Grounds.

 And we learned that upon completion of building the Temple, President Brigham Young was not satisfied with the tower and dome on the very top.  He thought it looked too much like a government building, but the Saints were so excited to have a Temple he didn't push for them to rebuild it.  A few months I think after he died, a lightning bolt struck the very top... only the top, and the Saints had to reconstruct it.  They did it making it taller and less "squatty" the way Brigham Young had preferred... interesting :)

After that, we hit Deseret Book (since they all closed here in Vegas) and got the girls new scripture bags.  Then we went to the outlets but found the 3 younger girls all asleep when we pulled in.  So I ran into Down East (fun fun!!!) and we decided to head home since it was getting dark.

SUCH a fun day!!!!  It was so fun to pick up and just go.  Amazing how we had no plans, no clue what the day would hold for us, and it was such a fun day that I know the girls will remember... and look forward to the next time we say, "Hey... wanna spend the day (and maybe even night) in St. George!!!?!" :) 

Kloey's Blessing

On September 19th, we blessed Kloey.

It was really great because our Bishop let us do it on the same day as the Primary Program so that worked out wonderful.  Matthew's parents were able to fly out for the weekend and visit! :)

 Kloey's dress was the dress all my girls wore for their blessings, which was actually the dress I wore when I was 2 months old and baptized into the lutheran church.  Oh, and I do have the pink dress with the white flower for Kloey also.  You should see my girls' closets, it's AWESOME!  I probably have 50 different matching outfits for all 4 of them!!!!  Yes, it's called obsessive complusive.  I know, their clothes is my weakness....

 The whole group... thanks Dudley for taking our picture! :)
Gotta give a shout out to my mom- standing right next to me... she's lost nearly 100 pounds.  Yes, one hundred as in 1-0-0.  How amazing, and on top of that... no surgery, no fad diets, no secrets... just regularly eating healthy and she's kept it off.  So proud of her, she looks great! 

 This has got to be my favorite picture from the weekend, sorry Grandpa don't be mad! :)  Kloey LOVED Grandpa's squishy, comfy tummy.  She slept on him for hours and hours.  It was precious!

Finger crossed Grandma and Grandpa come back out again soon.  Our weekend went by so fast, we're hopeful to get them out here for a Disney trip before Christmas.

Kadyn's 2nd Birthday!

Yeah, so I'm behind... what can you do!?!?!

The end of the summer has turned into whirlwind rush for us, many things going on and lots to do.  We start August with Kloey and Matthew's birthdays... we gear up for fall with our last minute school shopping and have our first days of school... just to have Kacey, Yaya, and Kadyn's birthday all within the first 2 weeks of Sept.  I'm still recovering from new schedules with homework and girl scouts (did I mention that somehow I became an assistant leader- thank goodness Missy knows what's going on!!), not to mention the start of PTA, the end of Matthew's fiscal year (loooooong late nights) plus he started school back up which means he's not home until 10:30 pm on Thursday nights... it's a crazy life!  But our sweet little Kadyn turned 2 on the 14th of September!  Had to document her special day...

 I think this is actually the Sunday prior to the Tuesday of Kadyn's birthday, but it was cute nonetheless... Kloey's having a bit of a fit.  4th child, she'll get over it :)

 So on Kadyn's birthday, she got a bunch of fun presents including a Pluto pup, she adores Pluto!

 This is the point in the year when Matthew spends his evenings putting up and taking down birthday decorations!  Kadyn got a pretty crown to wear all day on her birthday, new tradition and I think it's going to stick.  Can't get the picture to be the right way.  Honestly, too much effort to figure it out, so tilt your head.  We ask her how old she is and she says, "2" and puts up both pointer fingers to make two. 

 Happy Girl!

 This HAS GOT to be my most favorite birthday picture ever, you go girl... blow your heart out!

This is also the point in the year where we are so tired of birthday cake, my efforts are slacking... but she's at that great age where if it has icing, she's thrilled.  It's a simple life, but a good life! :)
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Kadyn, our little firecracker!  She is the most lovable, precious, cutest little bug ever... she has an amazing vocabulary.  She's speaking in complete sentences that actually make sense.  Look out Kylie and Kacey, because she can full on tattle on you- WITH details!  She can count past 10, not sure where to exactly... it changes.  She knows her colors, knows the alphabet... yeah, she's only two!  I'd like to take the credit... I don't sleep at night, getting her preschool lessons prepared... BUT it's all she's absorbed from her sisters.  She looks to them and really thinks she's a big girl too!  She's a singer, always singing some random song that we've never heard of before.  AND from what we can tell, she's left-handed which we think is kinda special... none of us are lefties.
But does she have an attitude.  She folds her arms, scrunches her eyebrows and pouts... cutest thing EVER!  I should discipline her but it's so dang cute.  Kadyn has her Daddy wrapped around her little finger, no matter how terrible two's she's being he always finds the patience for her to get her out of her mood.  (if only he had that skill with all of them, but for her it works)  He hides around the corner in the house and jumps out at her, she loves it!!!  She's got the most infectious laugh, and when she does you can't help but smile at her.  Love her soft curls, love her long eyelashes, love her rose colored cheeks, love the way she says: "I no go to Nursery, I no like it, I stay witch you..."  LOVE that little bug!!!