Baby Burn

We have loved having a fireplace.

It makes me so relaxed seeing the flames and feeling the warmth.

It is the only way to heat our house too.

Sadly Dean is also attracted to the flames as well.

We have always turned the fire place off when he is awake.

But today we didn't get to it soon enough.

He touched the glass.

Here he is soon after it happened.

Here he is a few hours later.

See the blisters on his finger tips too.

It's so sad.

It was so hard to get him to go to bed.

Oh my poor baby bubba.

Moving On

Mark and I have been feeling like we need a change.

We are really getting to big for our misshapen basement.

We've been making it work but something just isn't sitting right.

Fate stepped in when we got notice from the people renting our house that they would be moving out at the end of the month.

So after a LOT of pondering we have decided to move back to our house in Salt Lake.

I have so many mixed emotions about this.

I have finally grown to love our ward.

Or rather love my calling in the ward.

I love my girls.

They are the biggest reason I don't want to go.

My calling and the leaders I work with have been one of the greatest blessings in my life right now.

They give me so much strength and support.

But in the end we have to do what is right for our family.

I'm worried about Scott and the people we will be living around and going to school with.

He is so influential.

I will now be on the hunt for a school for him to go to.

It's kinda strange moving back.

No it's really strange that we will be moving back.

I loved my house and I really like the ward we were in.

And I had such a hard time leaving.

But since I got used to the village I've trained myself to think negatively about it.

I'm so used to thinking of everything that is wrong with it and now I have to start thinking of the good stuff.

I'm excited to have the well divided space.

technically it's similar square footage as this basement but it's laid out so much better there.

The boys will have their own rooms and so will Mark and I.

I'm excited to have more then one bathroom and a bath tub again.

I'm excited to have a place for my sewing stuff to go and a place for the storage that isn't in the front room.

I've been telling Mark that I want to bring the green couches with us since we will have a nice place for a living room.

He thinks we should put the tread mill in there and I'm not ok with that idea.

So I told him if we can't have the green couches (which he hates) then we have to buy new couches for in there.

I think I've just about got him convinced.

See the more I think about it the more it grows on me.

It will be a good change.

There's a lot to do but it's fine cause I enjoy packing and even more then that I love unpacking.

I'm weird I know.

Halloween 2014

This year for Halloween I let Scott decide what he wanted to be.

So I looked up boy halloween costumes on pinterest and we both looked through the pictures.

Scotted enjoyed seeing all the different costumes but only one caught his eye.

He wanted to be a scuba diver.

A big breath of relief on my part came out.

I was worried he would want to be an animal or dinosaur and I kinda feel like he's too big for that.

But a scuba diver, that would be super easy to make and totally fits Scott's personality right now, not to mention my love for all things ocean.

So we went and bought a black sweats outfit, some green duck tape and a couple bottles of root beer.

My mom had goggles and a snorkel.

I also got some cheep tube and connector pieces at Lowes.

I don't really count the sweats into the prices since he'll be able to wear them long after Halloween so the price for this costume was very inexpensive and the time spent was maybe an hour.

As for Dean I knew right after Scott told me what he wanted to be what I wanted him to be.

Why a shark of course.

Last year for Christmas I got a Shark beany for Scott.

It was a bit big for Dean but it would be fine.

I went and got him a grey sweat suit (again something that can be worn all winter long not just that day) and he was done.

This whole not making things complicated thing is starting to grow on me.

And here is the finished product. 

Insanely cute right?!

I couldn't be more please with how cute they looked together.

We went over to a friends house for dinner and trick or treating.

Mark and Dean stayed behind with the guys and babies while Scott and I went out.

We wish we would have all gone out together as a family, Mark missed seeing Scott running from house to house and I missed Dean.

Next year I think we'll try to make it more family time instead of all about friends.

Every year Scott gets more and more excited over holidays and it makes me want to keep that magic alive and going.

I'm so excited to see that happen with Dean too.

Children make everything better.

9 Months Old

Weight: 20lbs  56%

Height: 28"  32%

Head: 18.25"  85%

Fun Fall Weekend

So we are trying to do more fun things with the kids to enjoy the season with them. 

Last year we went to Corn Belly's at Thanksgiving Point with friends and had so much fun that we decided to do it again.

I love doing kid stuff with my kids, maybe even more then I loved doing kid stuff while a kid.

Dean is still so tiny that he pretty much just stays in the stroller the whole time but Scott is so fun to experience things with.

Below is just a sweet pic of my boys.

I hated when my mom would dress me like my sisters but now I get it.

They are just so adorable together.

Gosh I love this forever family of mine.

Lunch Break

We still miss having daddy around during the day from back when he was going to school.

So we decided to go on a field trip up to downtown and have lunch with him.

We still had some money on our gift card to Cheese Cake Factory so that's where we went.

Scotty has been having a hard time lately in the mornings when Mark leaves to go to work and begs him to stay home with him all the time.

So Scott got so excited to ride trax even though you can't really tell by this picture, and have lunch with daddy.

Dean had no idea what was going on but loved hanging with his papa during the day.

I will do anything to go out for food.

And Mark was having a not so great day at work and was so happy we came.

So many happy and silly faces at this table.

We just love our daddy and all the hard work he does for his family.

Murder Mystery

I have always wanted to do a Murder Mystery Dinner.

It just sounds so fun.

So during one of our Beehive planning meetings I mentioned it and the girls loved the idea.

We had to do a lot of planning and preparing, especially us leaders.

We couldn't have done it without Soper,

She pretty much did everything but then again, she has everything.

We can't do much with out her.

She even found this awesome script for us to use that was based on a murder in the Book of Mormon.  The girls had no idea.

We had a 3 course dinner along with dessert and with each course the girls were given another clue as to who may have done it.

In the end they had to cast in their votes as to who they thought did it and then we read from the scriptures and told them the story.

The other classes were so impressed that us Beehives had such an awesome activity.

Yeah, we're pretty much the coolest Beehives around.