Halloween

I cant believe Halloween has already came and gone!! I thought since its thanksgiving this week I better hurry and get my Halloween pictures blogged so im not so far behind!! This year Taylor was set on being Cleopatra for Halloween. We couldn’t find a child size Cleopatra outfit so we went for the adult outfits and found one! Lucky for us Grandma Nana was able to fix it so it fit just right!!
Brooklyn was a witch but not just any witch she was a “magical princess witch”!! Isn't that cute! That girl makes me smile so much!!
Shaylee was a pirate but she was also not just any pirate she was a “princess pirate”!! And I have to say the cutest princess pirate ive seen!!!


We went to the school for the Halloween carnival for a couple of hours. They always have big blow up slides and jump houses. They even had a rock wall for the kids to climb!!!

Taylor got pretty far up the rock but every time I tried to take a picture of her when she was high I would miss her.

Brooklyn keep going head first down the slid over and over again. Fun times……….

This is about as brave as Shaylee got. At least she was having fun.
We usually go over to Fairview to trick or treat but this year we stayed in Ft. Green. This is also the first year we have went door to door trick or treating we have done trunker treating in the past. I'm not sure which way I like better but either way we all had a lot of fun!!!!

Carving Pumpkins
Carving Pumpkins is something the girls love to do with their dad. He is really into making cool faces on the pumpkins. This year we kind of ran out of time to do something really cool but it turned out to be a lot of fun. The girls usually clean the pumpkins out themselves and then me and Mike take over the carving but this year the girls carved their own all by themselves, well not Shaylee but she did help! I was pretty proud of how good the girls did with their pumpkins.



I cant believe Halloween is over but im ready to enjoy the holidays!!!

Science Project

This is the first year Taylor has been required to do the science fair. She has wanted to do it in years past but I never let her, science isn’t really my favorite subject!!! Needless to say I put Mike in charge of helping her and guess what………….. she won 3rd place in her class!!!!! She was so excited. Her project was on a potato powered clock. She had a lot of fun with Mike doing this project!!

Catch up time

I have so much I need to blog! I like to print my blog at the end of the year, for me my blog is like my journal/scrap book. I say that because from time to time I have some random pictures I like to post for memory sake. This entry is one of those random ones!!

Guess who's old enough to mow the law!!!!

 

Can you believe it. This was the first time she has ever mowed a lawn before. She was so proud of her self and I must say I was very happy she can help keep it mowed next summer!!!!

Wacky Hair day!!!

For Red Ribbon week the kids got to have a wacky hair day!! Of course all the girls cared about was what color they could spray their hair. We had some fun with it!!

Sometimes I wish we could do fun things like this every day because they are SO much easier to get up in the morning when they get to do stuff like this!!

Taylor could not wait for wacky hair day. She has been talking about what she is going to do for a very long time.

Brooklyn was a little worried  about going to school with her hair all crazy. I had to promise her that if she was the only one in her class with wacky hair she could call me and I would come and get her!

Shaylee is so funny, she never likes me to do her hair. And if I ever try to pull the back up she gets pretty mad at me but not  today! She wanted hair like her sisters!!

Back to School

The girls started school last month! I can’t believe how fast summer went this year. It didn’t seem near long enough. We had a lot of fun times through the summer though so I guess its time to get back to a schedule. Taylor is going to be in 3rd grade this year! She is so excited and ready for school. We got a knew 3rd grade teacher this year. Her name is Mrs. Blackham and so far Taylor is really liking her!

Can you believe how grown up she looks!! Also if you haven't seen her for awhile when we went to get a hair cut to go back to school she decided to cut her hair short!! I love it but it sure does make her look more grown up.

She was all smiles when I picked her up from school!!

 

Brooklyn started kindergarten this year!!! I cant believe she is really old enough to go to “the big kid school”! I'm not sure how I feel about it either. She has been on the count down ever since preschool got over so needless to say she was ready for school to start too.

She was so excited the whole morning. Two years ago I remember thinking I was going to have to go to kindergarten with her because she was so shy and now look at her!!

When I picked Brooklyn up from school she told me it was “the best day ever”!

 

Of course Shaylee had a hard morning, both of her sisters were off to school and she was stuck at home with me. But guess what………… a few weeks after the girls started school Shaylee did too!! Can we say tears, great big tears!! All three of my girls are in school! Isn't it crazy. For some reason I don’t feel old enough to have all of them in school :/ hehe But I cant even tell you  how happy Shaylee was to start! I'm so happy she finally gets to go.

 

She didn’t even want me to walk her to class. I had to wait until she was inside the building before I could go in and take pictures of her because every time I would  try to walk her to her class room she would tell me to go back to the car! And if you know Shaylee you know she can be very persistent so I waited at the car!!

She is SO happy!

It is so much fun watching them grow up and learn new things. They remind me all the time how the little things in life really end up being the things that matter! I love them so much!!!!

Girls 2011 Pictures

I had Jammie Hansen take pictures of the girls this summer. They all turned out so cute!! I had a very hard time deciding on what ones to put on my wall :/ Here are some of my favorites!!!!

 

Taylor 2011, 8 years old

Brooklyn 2011, 5 years old (almost, just a week shy of 5)

Shaylee 2011, 3 years old

Sisterly Love!!!

Sorry I put so many but like I said they are so cute I couldn’t pick just one favorite!

Boy am I behind :/

I have so many things to blog about! Its been a busy summer and I haven't had time to blog so im playing catch up. It might get kind of get long…………… sorry.

Tuacahn
This summer us girls went to Tuacahn in June. We seen Grease and The Little Mermaid. This is something we have been doing for the last few years and I hope its something we continue to do for a very long time. My girls look forward to it all year long!!!
My girls, me and my sister Alesha all rode in my car. When we first got to St. George we thought it would be fun to take the girls to the temple grounds. We didn’t stay to long but we did walk around and take a few pictures.




It was so pretty and green. I love all of the flowers everywhere. After we got to our hotel we had pizza and then got everyone ready for Grease!! Now im sure most of you know that Grease is one of my VERY favorite movies ever. I couldn’t wait to see the play!

Taylor and her cousin Paige. They do not get to see each other very often so it is so fun when they get together!!

Brooklyn with my sister Nicole.

This was Shaylees favorite place to hang out. She loved sitting by the water!

Payton and Brooklyn finally together!!!

We didn’t have pictures taken with the Grease cast because the kids were very ready to get back to the hotel and go to bed and to be honest so was I! It was a very cute play I wasn't disappointed at all! The next day we got up and went swimming had lunch and swam some more!!! When it was getting time for dinner we all got ready again and went to dinner and then off we went to see the Little Mermaid! This is the one my girls could not wait to see and ill tell ya what it was amazing!!!! I wish I could go see it again.

It was a fun vacation. Its always kind of hard taking the kids with out Mike but I love going and making memories with just us girls!!!!


July 4th!!!!
Every year we go to my grandma and grandpas for the fourth of July. We have the parade, a yummy lunch, slip n slid, and fire works!!!! Here are a few pictures of the day.

Shaylee thought the fan felt great to set in front of, I had to have a picture!

Shaylee playing in the pool with all of her little cousins!

I love the look on her face

Shaylee was having a water fight with her cousin Nicholas and every time he would throw water on her face she would come show me.

Mike feel asleep while we were outside visiting and the girls thought it would be funny to throw water on him to wake him up,

Needless to say he wasn’t as asleep as we thought and I think the girls lost the water fight!!

She loves her daddy

Brooklyn was taking good care of Ethan fanning him off so he wasn’t to hot

Just chilling out with family!

Lamb Day

Lamb day for us is more like Lamb week now that the girls show sheep in the sheep show.  All summer long the girls walked their sheep to get them ready for the show. The day before the show they get to wash the sheep so they are all clean for the big day. Here are some pictures of them cleaning their sheep.

Fun times………………..

This is the first year Taylor has been old enough to compete in the show. She was very excited. She did very good she took 4th place her sheep's weight class and 11th over all. We were very proud of her!!

This is the judge asking her questions about her sheep making sure she knows all of the things she is suppose to know about her sheep.

Brooklyn and Shaylee aren't old enough to compete in the show but they have the little kids show their sheep and then they all get a ribbon for participating.

I didn’t get any good pictures of the girls because their backs were always to me but here is what I have.

The judge asking Brooklyn what she named her sheep.

The judge asked Shaylee her sheep's name but she wouldn’t tell him so Brooklyn had to. It was so cute the way Brooklyn took care of her little sister!

I tried really hard to get a picture of Shaylee with her sheep but as you can see it wasn’t going to happen, this is what I got. I guess its better than nothing!

The day after the sheep show (Lamb Day) is when they auction of the sheep. Taylors sheep went for $450.00!! Talk about a happy little girl! Here she is auctioning off her sheep.

Now for the Lamb Day parade. Taylor and Brooklyn rode through with their softball team on the fire truck.

My grandpa Burke has been hauling sheep for over 50 years!! He retired this year but a guy in town (Jess Bailey) wanted to do a tribute to him for all of the years he has hauled sheep. He loaded up a lot of sheep in a truck and pulled them through he parade as a tribute to grandpa. It was really neat!!




We had a very fun Lamb Day! We got to see Mikes family for a few days while they were here and that’s always tonz of fun!! We’ve been having an awesome summer, im not at all ready for school to start again. Sorry this post was forever long ill try to do better at updating one thing at a time!