Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Anniversary/Birthday

Last week was our busy week of the year with Steve and I's anniversary and Makenna's Birthday. It's always a fun week. I can't believe it's been 8 years since we got married! The day of our anniversary I try and make dinner fun with the kids. I make something nice and have a candlelight dinner. It hasn't been a relaxing dinner yet. The kids are whining that they can't see their food, Makenna is rearranging the candles constantly and Chase just wants to blow them out. So we end up blowing them out and turning the lights back on like any other night! Ah well... maybe in a few years. We did end up going out on Saturday to the temple and out to eat.

Then my baby turned 5! She has been so excited for her birthday. She woke up to presents, had both Grandmas come with more presents, pizza for dinner and donuts for dessert. The only pictures I got of the day were her opening her presents in the morning. When I went to take her picture while she was blowing out her candles on her donut, she blew them out before we had even sung 3 words to "Happy Birthday!" We all started laughing and then she got embarrassed and went to her room. That was the end of that.
The next day we took her swimming and she was in heaven.
Happy Birthday my baby girl! We love you!

Monday, November 4, 2013

Halloween

Last week for family home evening we carved pumpkins, well one pumpkin. We had intentions of doing more but Steve and I were good with just doing the one. Makenna was completely grossed out by the insides again this year and I think Chase would have liked it if he wasn't so easily influenced by his older sister. So I cleaned it out and Steve carved while Makenna directed Steve in what kind of face to put on the pumpkin.



Costumes this year were pretty low key. Makenna wanted to be a ballerina. Perfect, she already has a ballerina dress-up so we just dolled  her up a bit more and she loved it! I wanted Chase to be Buzz Lightyear since he loves Buzz so much. There was a full out Buzz costume but I knew he wouldn't like wearing it so I did find just some Buzz wings which was perfect.


They loved getting candy and being out but Makenna was excited to come home and pass it out! Funny kids! What a good Halloween!