Boys like blue pumpkins

Cooper looked everywhere saying "boys like blue pumpkins." He was determined he was going to find a blue pumpkin at the pumpkin patched. He finally settled for a small orange one. On the drive home i told him we could paint it blue. Say hello to Coops blue pumpkin.



At first Coop put his pumpkin with some decorations we had in the house but then decided he would rather play with his blue pumpkin in his playroom. So today Coops best friend was his pumpkin blue.

(Pumpkin Patch)

How to find the perfect pumpkin.
1. Find two energetic, handsome boys who have a eye for pumpkin picking.

2. You have to have a lot of patience.

3. You must be very strong.

4. Even stronger to push the wheel barrel.

5. Better idea let dad do it while you sit in it.

6. Last rule, Family photo taken by uncle Gunner

We had a great time! My little boy didn't want a orange pumpkin and wished it was blue. Stay tuned for pumpkin blue.

{I survived}

I'm still alive! I survived all my test and feel pretty good about them. I also survived babysitting for my uncle Tom and aunt Angie. They have 4 beautiful children that Cooper loves to play with. I was watching 5 kids under the age of 4 and the youngest were twins and they are about to be one, they were all over the place. It was CRAZY! But i did enjoy it. They all have their own little personalities and Cooper had the best time with Gavin.

All 5 kids in one place at one time, i think this is the only time they stayed together. I was usually chasing them around the house.

The Jeep! It was a big hit!

Baby Marlee was adorable! So cute and stayed by my side the whole time. She loved sitting in the toy baskets and would just play in them forever. She stole my heart! I can't wait to spend the rest of the week with my boys:)

I'm a school girl again

Josh captured a pic of me studying. Yes I'm studying. I went back to school. I dropped out of college when Josh and i got married. I know i should of never stopped and I'm mad at myself for doing it. So this semester i went back to school. Mostly i just needed electives and so I'm taking 3 history classes. Josh loves history and wants to be a history teacher someday when he retires from nursing is what he's planning. So he's helping me and its been fun taking some classes together. I'm also taking a writing class, which i had to have or i wouldn't of taken it. Since as you can tell my writing skills are horrible but i think I'm learning something. Its been quite a challenge juggling my cleaning job, babysitting, keeping the house up and of course Cooper time but its working. I already feel smarter going back. Haha! I really don't know what i want to go into but i just think its important to have a degree in case something happen to Josh and i had to support us. Wish me luck i have 3 test this week.

For Misti

I miss you.
I miss you especially tonight.
Tonight is girls night out.
We sent the boys to priesthood session and its time for the girls to party.
But it won't be the same without you.
We will miss your humor.
We will miss the way you make us cry with laughter.
We will miss your beauty.
We will miss your thoughts.
I will miss my sister.
Mom will miss her daughter.
We will be thinking about you and did i forget to mention we miss you.
We miss you.
Love you tons.

What we had for dinner

Today we were going to take a drive up to Greer for a picnic, a long walk, exploring the great out doors and admire the leaves changing color. But did that happen? No! We woke up to a water leak and our day of family time and the beautiful outdoors was gone. We live in a house that is more then a hundred years old. It has so much charm and i love everything about it, but i can honestly say i dislike the plumbing. Josh and I looked all morning for a crawl space we tore out carpet, searched in closest and looked everywhere outside the house. We even called the last owner and found out nothing. So we called a plumber, thanks to Josh's cousin Justin. He saved our life today and found the water leak, which wasn't even under the house it was the sprinkler system that we've been looking for since we moved in. I guess you could say the sprinkler system found us. With all the hard work on tearing our house apart, digging for the water leak and then putting our house back together. We decided we needed something really good for dinner. So it was Banana Split night and we enjoyed our splits relaxing on the coach watching Iron Man!

Its starting to feel spooky

Every year since Coop has been born we have stuffed plastic pumpkin bags with newspapers. I guess the bags are supposed to be stuffed with leaves but since there's very few leaves at the beginning of October i just use newspapers. We turn on Halloween music and we stuff. Its a big hit with Cooper. Plus there super cute, cheap, and something fun to do with kids!

After we were done Coop said, "its starting to feel spooky!"