Hold On - I'm almost done for the night

I have not had a spare minute to post the last few days so I'm getting caught up! Tonight our ward had a trunk or treat - so We got all vamped up and headed to the church for a fun night of getting treats from trunks, after our bags were filled with too many treats we headed into the church for some more sugar - donuts and hot chocolate - a fun night was had by all!

Carving Pumpkins with Cousins... What could be better?

We met at Grandma Olsen's house had dinner and then ripped the guts out of pumpkins- Dan even got into the carving spirit!

Londyn and Riley focusing way too much

oooh goooey guts were not being enjoyed by my brother Kyle and Reece


The finished products And Last but not Least Jean whipping the cream for the yummy
chocolate crock pot cake she made us!!
The only thing missing from the carving night were Ty, Kimmy, Alexa and Kade!

Kudos to Jamie!

You'll all be sad to know that I no longer have PINK hair - cute Jamie fixed my hair and I must say she out did herself!!
Too bad that since that day when she did my hair, it has never looked that cute - I can never do my hair as cute as the stylist - DANG!

Little Bit of Bread with dirty clothes...

The other day I was picking up the house after the kids had left for school and imagine my surprise when I found bread among dirty clothes that had been thrown into the laundry room. I bet no one has ever seen that before.

It's all about the kids....

I was talking on the phone to our neighbor Joanne yesterday and she said she had a cat balloon she wanted to give Preston, so after I got off the phone I sent Preston over to get his little balloon and this is what he came back with. I guess I don't know what a balloon is.


She is so nice! She probablly felt bad for my kids because we have no Halloween decor up this year, I just haven't wanted to pull it all out. I know I can be a real fun hater (according to my kids). While we have been tending Olie he has been out front tied on the porch, well we had to immediately move Olie to a new location so we could put these on the front porch, they are really cute.

Just Hangin Around....

Grandma and Preston just hangin at Lagoon! We took a picture of Preston and then I told my mom she needed to get her picture taken, it didn't even take very much coaxing to get her to do it.

Hip Hip Hooray for UEA!!!!

We had a mini vacation without leaving home, at least not going too far. We started Wednesday night by starting to paint Londyn's room, then Wednesday we went to Lagoon all day, Grandma Olsen came with us and Londyn's friend Katlyn from our old neighborhood(they were the best of friends when we lived in Kaysville and they haven't seen each other for quite awhile they had a great day together). We also tended Olie while Kyle, Jean and the kids went to Washington to visit her family. Friday we painted Londyn's room all day, then Grandma O came up and spent the night we went to Rubios for dinner and then played our favorite new game WIG OUT. Saturday morning we went to Preston's last soccer game of the season and the other team didn't show up(Bummer), then Dan had some great plans for us, you guessed it something to do with horses, we got to clean out horse stalls and put new road base in them to get ready for winter. Sunday night we watched Nim's Island and then tucked everyone in bed so they could get up early for school. We had a really fun weekend together!

Preston's favorite lagoon ride - "Odyssey"

The tilt O whirl

On my favorite ride - "Tidal Wave"

The only time we saw Londyn all day long - We were on the ride "Wicked" - Loved it!!



Olie all tucked in for the night

Londyn was suppose to be all tucked in for the night - Busted - but I didn't get mad because she was reading her scriptures.
Preston already in dream land.

The perfect ending to a great weekend!

What the devil?

Were we thinking? When we moved into our house 2 years ago, we told Londyn we would finish her a bedroom in the basement. As time has gone on we decided we like her being upstairs and having all of our bedrooms together. I told her we would paint her room whatever she wanted, so she has been after me for months to get it done, last night at 9:45 pm we started to prime the walls and at 11:30 we were done YEA! We rocked out to AC/DC and had a lot of fun.
This is us all giddy and happy as we were getting started

And here we are when we were finished....

I LOVE HANGING OUT WITH HER!

Cutest ever magnet boards!

This is for Jeannie so she can see the magnet board I purchased her for a gift she needed. One of my friends makes these, they are so dang cute if any one needs one I can hook you up!

What is a Pole Building??

Whenever someone asks what Dan does for a living, the next question is what is a pole building? So I decided to post a few of the buildings we have done so everyone will know what he does.
We sell them and install them. I'm so fortunate to have a hard working husband that works hard everyday so I am able to stay home and care for our family. Dan is awesome at what he does - so if you ever need a pole building, he's your man!

A Shout out

I just have to thank Londie Loo for making me a new header and putting new decor on my blog! It's awesome having her to do that stuff for me. Thanks Londie I love it!!

Say NO to Winter!!!

This is what we woke up to this morning! We hate winter! This snow wasn't too bad, by the time we were out of church it was all gone. Preston was upset because he wanted to come home and build a snowman, oh well I'm sure there will be plenty of opportunities for that in the months to come.

I'm afraid of heights........

BUT... Dan and Preston are not. During a wind storm we had a month or so ago some of our shingles flew off our roof. On Friday night pretty much in the dark a couple of the guys that work for us got up on the roof and fixed it. On Saturday morning Dan and Preston took a ride up in the high rider (don't know the name of it) to check out the roof. As of today it seems to be good no leaks yet! As I came out the door to see that Dan had taken Preston up with him I snapped some pics and Preston told me he had to wait in the basket all by himself while Dad walked on the roof, I was glad to learn he wasn't walking around on the roof too.

Stealing pumpkins???

Londyn and Preston jumped the fence into the neighbors yard to snag some pumpkins and this is Preston as they were returning. They didn't really steal them, JoAnne said they could come get some.

Precious!

Preston watching intently as he sits on the side line watching his team at their soccer game. After the game he said, "We kicked their butts", and they did but we had to remind him not to gloat especially in front of the other team that just lost. I'm sure as he gets older we'll let him gloat! Is gloat really a word??

Preston Preston Preston

Our cute little Preston is growing up way too fast! Last week he was in his first rodeo (I don't have pictures only video that's on camcorder that I can't connect to computer) (note to self need to get a new camcorder) he did the barrels, wants to be like his sister. I have to chuckle because I remember the day when we saw boys running the barrels and Dan said, "No son of mine will ever run barrels". Well Dan decided Preston running barrels would not be a bad thing because it would teach him to ride better, so needless to say Preston will be running barrels at the Jr Rodeos. Although for his first time he wasn't super speedy and he broke the barrel pattern so he got a no time, it was all worth it because he had so much fun and was all smiles!

FINALLY!!!!!

I have had a big dilema on my hands trying to find someone to do my hair how I like it-and it was to the point where I needed it done right now - So Jamie who is my Sister in Law's friend came to my rescue! I love the way she cut it! But the color must look kind of pink because three people asked me today if I meant for my hair to be pink - Oh well Jamie assured me that with a couple of washings my color would be just right!! She also cut Londyn's hair SUPER SUPER cute!

Why is Londyn's smile Shining?

She got BRACES yesterday! She has begged us for a few years to hurry and get her braces on, and now that we finally did it - she says oh no they are so ugly! But her teeth will be beautiful in a short 18 months. I had to beg and beg for her to smile and show her teeth so I could post her brace face. I think she looks really cute!!

Who is that in the Limo?

At the beginning of the year we gave the Young Women a challenge to complete an entire value in Personal Progress and if they did it we would have a huge party. Well nineteen of the girls did it, at least they said they did, I guess I'll find out when I check their books! We left the church in Limo's (Mia Maid advisor owns a Limo Service)(Sweet)!!

Delivered goodies to the Stake YW Presidency that was just released
Balie and Londyn inside the Limo

Our budget allowance dinner at Wendy's

Hannah, Katie, Londyn and Balie

To end the evening we came to my house and watched a short movie the "American Mormon" it was really funny! The whole night was super fun and the girls kept saying thanks for the best activity ever. Londyn told me I would never be able to top that activity and I think she might be right! I am so proud of all these girls for working so hard on their Personal Progress!!!

Even the young enjoy sniffin' scentsy

We had Dan's family over on Sunday for Dinner, we had yummy cafe rio pork burritos thanks to Dan's sister Jean for giving me the recipe. Those in attendance were Debbie (Dan's mom), Jean(sister), Michael(brother in law), Seth(nephew), Dalina(sister in law), JJ(nephew) and Mariah(niece). (That last sentence was for the benefit of my posperity, in case one day when I'm long gone and they are reading my blog journal, they will know who was at dinner eating yummy burritos.) Of course there is always a scentsy sniff fest when Jean comes with her handy scentsy scents. Mariah was so cute, if she didn't like the one she was smelling she would pull the funniest faces. One time I caught her trying to eat some, it must of been one that smelled like food.