Candy Making Week One

Me and Rob decided to try making Christmas candy this year. It was really fun!! Only a couple of burns from butter splattering but we'll do better next time.

 The boys LOVED decorating some sugar cookies, Tyler was with Grandma and Grandpa on his "Special Birthday lunch". He'll be here next week to do some candy.

 This was my favorite, its English Toffee. But I don't think we cooked it long enough so the bottom wasn't hard like normal toffee is. But I think that made it much better, I hate the feeling of breaking your teeth on toffee.

 Bryans favorite, nutty fudge!!

This was Robs project, its oreo cookies inside mixed with cream cheese and then dipped in chocolate. Way good!!

Gingerbread houses at Grandma and Grandpas

The boys LOVE this tradition that my parents do every year. Gingerbread house decorating!!

 Tyler picked a train to decorate this year, I think their whole goal was to put as much candy as possible onto their gingerbreads.

Peyton LOVED it! Last year he was a kindof small to really get to do his own or know what the point was. But this year he was just as involved as everyone else.

If you can't tell from this picture they all had a blast!! Side note: its ADORABLE how much Ava LOVES Bryan. She always wants to play with him and have him pick her up and carry her around. He loves it too of course!

Happy Birthday Tyler!!!

Wow!! I can't believe my Tyler is already four years old, how time flies. This is actually his 2nd birthday party. We had an earlier one with Nana and Papa. They bought him a TON of play dough and play dough toys. He loved it of course.

 Me and Rob bought him his very own DS this year. He was really excited that he didn't have to beg his older brothers to let him play with theirs anymore. Earlier today Grandma and Grandpa took him out for his special birthday lunch and took him shopping for his presents. They went to Five Guys burgers and then went to the store and bought his very own Super Mario Bros DS game.

 Aunt Maddy, Uncle Dustin, Mia and Ava bought him more play dough, he really likes play dough right now!

 Colby gave him a Whoppie Cushion... Daddy gave him a BIG jar of cherries, and Bryan gave him a dart gun. Not sure why I didn't get pictures of those, sorry!

Some of Tylers favorite things to do right now are play Wii and DS. He is getting really good too. He's just as good as his older brothers. He also loves playing play dough with Peyton when his older brothers are at school. He is such a good big brother and can't wait to have another little brother to show all his tricks too! One of my favorite things about Tyler is when he gets the giggles. He will just start giggling for no reason and won't stop for like 5 minutes. Its so cute!! We love you Tyler!!

Its a boy!!!

Apparently I'm only supposed to raise Priesthood holders, its another boy! I have to keep reminding myself how sad I was when I found out that Peyton was a boy. But now I look at him and can't imagine my life without his smiling face and it makes me feel a little bit better.

Family Pictures

 A friend from school, Kandi, took these family pictures for us a couple of weeks ago. She did an amazing job!!! Thanks again Kandi!!

Halloween Costumes

Black Island Farms

 Grandma and Grandpa took everyone to Black Island Farms again, its a tradition we do every year!! The boys LOVE it and look forward to it every time.

                             Of course they all had to pick the biggest, baddest pumpkin they could find...

    Afterwards we went back to their house and my mom had made dinner entirely "Halloween" themed. She had witched blood, mummies, grave yard bean dip, cat eyes and ghosts with cupcakes and bananas. The boys thought it was so cool!!

We decided to let the boys just paint theirs this year. It was such a pain trying to cut out 4 different pumpkins when they all wanted something extreme that could take hours to do. Peyton loved painting his though. He came back like 4 times to work on it some more. Eventually he started just pouring the paint directly onto the pumpkin. He thought it was easier that way!