Lights at Temple Square

On saturday we took the kids out to see the lights on temple square. It was a lot of fun and the kids loved seeing all the lights esp Tory. She said Wow and Ohhh the entire time. She loved all the colors and lights. We then took them out for some yummy pizza. It was a fun night to quote Kelsi.

There is a light display at Layton Park that Tory does this too. We usually drive through it on our way home from the gym and we just love listening to Tory yell Wow at the top of her lungs over and over!

Sleepwalker

So the other night we were all nice and sound asleep when Jeff jumps out of bed. It took me a couple of minutes to realize there was a kid crying somewhere... so Jeff listens and thinks it is Kelsi and walks down the stairs. About half way down the stairs he realizes that the sound is behind him so he figures it must be Gabe. So he turns around and starts walking towards Gabe's room and then the crying was behind him again. So totally stumped he walks into the living room and nothing there so he makes his way into the kitchen. He finds Gabe shut in our pantry soaked from waist down. We still haven't decided what exactly the liquid is since it was clear and he was pretending he was water man the night before. So either he slept walked and locked himself in the panty and dumped water on himself so he could be waterman or slept walked and missed the bathroom directly across the hall from him room and got lost in the pantry and got scared... Either way haven't quite figured out why he ended up in the pantry and it was not fun to clean up. Gabe remembers nothing about it.

Updates

I guess it has been a while since I have done any updated on our blog. Life is good, we are all doing really well. Jeff is doing really well at work and just got a promotion... which is excellent news. The director of his dept and his supervisor both approached him at seperate times to tell him that he should apply for this job and that it would be a good move for him. He was at an associate level and this position was posted for a senior enginner, which is 3 levels higher then what he is, so he is excited they consider him ready for this.... and I am not to upset about the raise that will come with it. Jeff is also still plugging away at school. He has about a month left this semester and he will be done with 2 more classes.

I am staying at home and taking care of the kids and still working away. Still frustrated that the house cant stay clean for more then an hour and wondering how I make it through the day with as much whinning as I hear every day.

Kelsi is working hard at school and is doing really well. She likes her class and teacher. She is growing up so fast and and doing so good.

Gabe is doing well to... he has a play date with a friend he gets to see twice a week and we work at home with preschool work. He loves to do his homework to. He is still obsessed with Batman and Transformers.

Tory is doing good, she seems to be growing out of a lot of the seizures and holding breath. She has been a really happy child lately and seems to be growing into her huge personality. She is such a smart school, we even catch her doing things that Gabe dosent do himself yet! She did give herself her first black eye last night... poor thing.

Halloween

The kids had a fun time this halloween... Kelsi really got into and did not want to stop trick or treating at all. We started off the evening at the ward trunk or treat and then hit the neighboorhood. Jeff graciously offered to go home and hand out treats. He has always wanted to give out the full size candybars and when I got a coupon for them at Costco I thought why not. We did not get one trick or treater so on top of the box of candybars we have, we also have a big bag of candy from Costco left over to. So I guess it will go away for stocking stuffers. After me and the kids walked around for a while we then went to our friends the Moores for cake and hot chocolate. It was a fun night.

Here are a few pictures of the kids in their costumes

Gabe as Optimus Prime

Tory as a pioneer

Optimus, Pioneer Girl and Witch

The sorting of the candy

Vegas

We had a really nice family vacation. We went to go visit my brother Eric and his wife Kami for the weekend. We also went with some friends to the U2 concert and did some other fun acitivites with them on Friday.

The U2 concert was amazing. It I think is going to the top of my list for best concerts. The stage was great the seats were great and U2 did amazing. I forget my camera... I know stupid me, and tried to get some pictures on my phone, but they did not do it justice.

We did a little of the strip, lunch and the M & M factory other then that we stayed away. Jeff and Eric went mountain biking on saturday. We also went out to dinner and to a Halloween carnival saturday night.

The kids did really well on the drive, which really suprised us with Tory. I thought she would be much harder but I was very happy to see her being so good. The kids are totally attached to Eric and Kami. Kelsi asked us if we could buy their house because it was so pretty and Monday morning when we were leaving Gabe told us he did not want to go because he was going to miss Eric and Kami to much.

I'm glad we got a little vacation and away for a bit.

M & M World

While we were in Vegas we stopped by M & M world. It has 4 floors of M & M stuff. The kids had a lot of fun here and we did let them get some M & M's out of the masive dispensers they had..... however when I went to go pay for them I about had a heart attack $8.00 for .67 lbs of M & M's... I hoped they savored every one of those M & M's!

Hoover Dam

On our trip we stopped by the Hoover Dam. What an amazing site. It was really neat to see. Kelsi was just a little to short to see over the edge and instead of asking for help she took to jumping up. Gave us a heart attack every time.

Behind us is another bridge that they are making across the canyon, pretty cool!

We tried to get them to look up, but this is the sign showing it is one of the seven wonders of the world. Below it is a sign saying Arizona and Nevada. Kelsi had fun jumping between states for a while.