a little more trouble

just in case anyone was wondering what coop was doing all by himself during the day,while all the other sibling are in school…here is a little peak. 

making a holy mess in the kitchen

 

making a mess in the front room

feeling pretty proud of all his accomplishments

 

lots and lots of running around the house in BIG shoes.  we have to shut doors and closets or we find shoes everywhere.

  

playing on his brothers bed

  

sneaking a turn with his brothers toys

  

and a little pillow wrestling.

 

it is a super good thing that this boy takes really long naps.

halloween party…part 3

party time:)  we started with a little pumpkin bowling.

 

loving that cute little daphne from scooby doo.

all the kiddos.

do you see the one skeleton in the middle of all those pretty ladies?  he was the only boy there, except for his baby brother.

 

we stopped the games for a little pizza and punch

 

then we made us some mummies

 

  

   

we had a blast:)  i hope we can go visit again soon.

halloween party…part 2

after we got the decorations done, we started making large quantaties of treats.  we had great help, they loved all the dipping and sprinkling and snacking.

this little one really wanted some oreos.

 

putrid punch.

the spread, we ALL really overate that night. so yummy

halloween party…part 1

  aaron had to spend all day saturday and sunday taking some continuing ed classes, so the kids and i decided to take a trip to see some cousins.  we decided it would be fun to have a halloween party for all the kids.

we started by getting the kids working on some decorations.

 

carson and brinley made some of my favorites:)

sweet little emmy.

she was having fun trying to grab the tissue paper so she could eat it.  my daughters and i could not get enough of this sweet little lady.

first snow

it was nice that some of us were excited for the first snow fall.  these boys played and played all day outside.  they made snow angels, stock piled snowballs, and shoveled.  they were sopping wet when they finally came inside for hot chocolate.

wes, owen, and carson.

i love that these boys have each other to play with almost everyday:)

the rest of us were really happy when it melted a few days later.

weekend in jackson…watching the elk

that evening we went to listen to the elk.  it was such a pretty night and we saw quite a few elk, we even saw a few of the boys get in a little antler fight.   the sunset was beautiful, and i still feel a little guilty that my dad missed most of it, because my son had a bit of a bathroom emergency.

          

the next day we headed into the town of jackson to take the kids swimming.  they love to go to the rec center there:)  aaron and i LOVED that the kids were old enough to ride the slide all by themselves, so we didn’t have to climb those stairs all evening.

weekend in jackson…more rocks

i don’t understand how this can be comfortable, but i thought it was pretty funny.  coop must have thought so too, because he came for a little visit.

 

 

 

i didn’t get any pictures, but later that afternoon we decided to ride the tram to the top of teton village.  that thing makes me a little nervous, but i decided to be brave for the sake of the children.  they were all excited to ride it, but after we got to the top we had some mixed feelings. paige was a little worried we would miss the tram and have to walk down, and carson just wanted to “get off that mountain!”  the rest of us enjoyed the view and our picnic way up high.