We are not dead

Okay, I promise I have not forgotten about this blog, I think about it all the time...  I just never have time to post.  Spending time on the computer is not one of my luxuries anymore!  But I promise to update with pictures in the near future...  But we are doing well.  Brandon is still loving his job, and school is going well for him.  The kids are growing like crazy, Jared especially.  He has finally started to roll around to get toys etc.  Now we just need to work on crawling...
Life is good!

School Photo

Here is Isaac's school picture for kindergarten.  I think he looks handsome, but I am a little biased...

Halloween

This year for Halloween, Isaac decided to be a dragon/dinasour.  I made the tail and the hat, and put the spikes along the back of his shirt.  He liked how it turned out, so I consider it a success. 

 This was his parade at school.  Of course he forgot his tail in his classroom. 

 Emily wanted to be a princess of course.  So we found the dress, crown and wand.  I didn't really make any of it.  But at least I put it together for under $10. 

 I also put her hair in rag the night before, and this is how it turned out.  It was really cute and she loved it.  All day she kept tossing it around and saying, "My hair is curly!"  Another success.

 Jared was a penguin.  This is the same costume that Isaac wore on his second Halloween.  (Though Isaac was too tall for it, and his feet stuck out the bottom.)  But Jared was the cutest penguin you ever did see!  At least in my own, completely unbiased opinion. 

 For dinner that night we had jack-o-lantern pizza.

 And then Dad took the kids trick or treating around our nieghborhood while I staid at home to pass out candy.  It was a perfect night too, really warm weather.  Emily didn't even wear a coat and she was fine. 

It was a good Halloween, and now of course the kids have a ton of candy.  Emily would eat it all in one day if I let her.  Isaac would forget he had it, and will probably still have some come next summer.  It's so funny to see the difference between the two of them.  At least it gives me a stash of candy to eat as well.  They are more than willing to share with my luckily.  :)

Pumpkins

This year, all of our pumpkins came from our very own garden!  The kids had a blast doing pumpkins.  Isaac did most of the cleaning out by himself.  Dad helped him carve it out. 

 

 Emily decided she wanted to paint her pumpkin again this year.  Though when she saw Isaac having so much fun, she was sad she painted it.  (For like 5 min)

Jared just chilled in his highchair, enjoying life.

This was a gift from the Garners.  We ran out of orange pumpkins though, so we had to use a green one that was still trying to grow.  We got a lot of comments on this pumpkin though.  Everyone thought it was pretty cool. 

The kids had a great time doing pumpkins this year. 

Isaac goes to kindergarten

Isaac is officially in school as of the end of August.  This was picking him up from his first day of school.  Note the sweaty head- it was very hot at recess.  But Isaac is loving school.  He has made lots of friends in his class, he is picking up on tons of things, his reading is taking off, and he loves his teacher.  He is growing up so fast. 

Random cute pictures

These are just a bunch of random cute pictures I have of the kids.

Apparently we are Rednecks

Disclaimer: That title is not meant to offend anyone...

 

Our fence was in poor shape when we bought the house, and this little section fell down a while ago.  Our neighbors did a temporary fix, but the problem was that they 4x4 snapped at the bottom, so it needed some serious attention.  And of course the day Brandon finally could get around to it, it was raining.  So Brandon and Brittany's husband Nathan (who was a huge help) rigged what they called a redneck solution.  Note the scrap wood, the shovel, and something, I'm guessing an old mop pole, used to prop up the tarp.  But it got the job done and the new fence looks great.  You can definitely tell the difference just because the new wood is so much nicer.  But it doesn't fall over in a windstorm! 

For all who are dying to know what they had to do, they had to chisel out the old cement that the old post was in, then pour new concrete around the new post and then put up the new slats.  Luckily a guy in our ward let them borrow a hammer drill, which made the whole chiseling process very much faster.  And who doesn't love playing with large, powerful tools?  (For all wondering, I don't.)  But they sure appreciated it.  Kudos to my handy husband and brother-in-law.

(The kids loved the makeshift tent)