Grandma's Sugar Cookies!

My mom makes the BEST sugar cookies and as kids we always made holiday sugar cookies with my her. So this year we started the tradition with the kiddos!

Sienna, Maddie, and James

Sienna loved the spinkles and emptied more than one bottle!

The naughty cookie decorators!!


Sienna stealing a taste-- every time I looked over she was popping a chocolate chip in her mouth-- mommy's little girl!

me and the kiddos-- poor Mac couldn't even pretend to help because of his allergies!!

after cookies the table was turned into a fort-- Sienna played on her cell phone and Malachi would not stop laughing!!

Random cuteness missed in my absence!!

I'M BACK!!!

Things have been crazy lately but now that I am getting e-mails from my father-in-law about being a blogging slacker, I am back and committed!!

how cute are my kiddos??

Is that where a Bakagun goes?

Lovin the kitchen


third eye??

LOVING elmo!! Omar will not love this when he sees it- he hates her face plastered against the screen!

a peaceful moment!

she is not a baby anymore!

wee witches

Last weekend we kicked off October by going to Gardner Village for Wee Witches Weekend.

the cousins-- and yes they actually had fun even though this picture gives NO proof!

our little fam

Sienna is getting so big she just marched around and checked it all out-- she would talk to the witches but did not want to be touched!

there was a cute little petting zoo, Sienna liked the caged pigs

she thought it was cool that Malachi was into petting but...


when she got up close she was the victim of a goat attack!! Poor girl is slightly wussy when it comes to live animals so this was traumatic for her :)

just had to add this picture of my cute boys!


and here is a less than fabulous picture for proof that we were at a witch festival

bliss...

Three years ago today this was us outside the Salt Lake temple just after our sealing...

three years for us=

3 states

2 kiddos (so glad not 3 :))

1 fun, challenging, rewarding, happy adventure

and here we are today outside the Salt Lake temple-- what a great place to celebrate and remember!!

I love you babe, I am so glad you will be my companion through it ALL!

the GREATEST show on earth

Our life is kind of like a circus so when the circus came to town why wouldn't we be there??

the attempted family shot-- Mac looks frightened, Sienna is clapping and I am not sure what O is doing!

mommy squashing her baby in the bjorn all for a picture!

Sienna was 100% entertained- we were so glad!!

Malachi on the other hand was not! Yes that is him sitting on THE GROUND!! I know... I am a bad mom but it was the only thing that made him happy!!

Sienna would not cooperate for a picture so this is the best we got-- don't you love Sienna's acrobatic move to get off my shoulders??

the lighting is horrible in this picture but it had to be added purely because Sienna looks hilarious standing so seriously against the wall!

here is the "better lighting" shot of Grandma Vawdrey with her great-grandkids!!

Thanks Mom for taking us all to the circus-- we loved it!!!

home...

is where our real life takes place! So here is the summary, as of late!

Sienna thinks Grandma is around just to read to her!

We spend plenty of time on the lovesac-- Mikey causes the most trouble on it!


Playdough is a new favorite!!

Sienna loves to unload the toy basket onto the ottoman

and my cute baby always seems to be in the pink stroller-- and his dad can be thanked for the mis-matched outfit!

Mac is the kid that breaks and eats pretty much everything he touches-- yes that is the chair legs on the floor behind him!!

Sienna has adopted James' spiderman slippers and will not give up her towel after baths, even being dressed-- this girl KNOWS what she wants!

Malachi sporting his new Chargers' jersey from Grandma Maria and getting all around doing his cute little army crawl!


Here is how playing together goes at our house...

everything is mellow when Sienna sees Malachi making his way to mommy!

so she comes to join the floor love fest

and the loving gets a little more intense


then baby brother is squished to tears-- oh the love!!

for now the lovesac is strategically placed by the stairs for jumping pleasure-- and no not just for the kids!


Here is Sienna spider busting a move!

and Mac loves to be a part of the action!

Here is Sienna propping her doll up, telling her say cheese, all while sporting her dad's vans!!

Mac says BYE BYE on command!!

Go USA!!!

My great friend Dawn, from San Diego, came to our neck of the woods for the big US qualifier soccer game. She made some connections and scored Omar a free ticket in one of the first few rows and she even got one of his soccer balls signed by the US players!

Omar and Dawn

Doesn't he look stoked about his great seat!

Dawn with someone cool (she is going to die that I do not know who he is!)!


Omar was close but Dawn got this close :)

THANKS DAWN!!