Jeff's Birthday

Jeff's Birthday is always one week before Christmas - so it was fun this year because it was on Sunday! We had him all day. We made him his favourite foods all day. For breakfast it was of course - sugar cereal, pop tarts and orange juice. Lunch was frankfurter stew (hotdog stew) and dinner was pizza and pop! Angel Food Cake for dessert. He got a bunch of treats, movies, games, and books. Saturday night Jeff's parents took us to a Sherlock Holmes. It was a great movie - I laughed quite a bit!

Always a favorite - Jelly Bellies




We love you!!

Chloe's 9th Birthday Bash

Splish! Splash! Chloe is having her 9th Birthday Bash! There is something going on Under the Sea - crabs, fish and mermaids there shall be!

Chloe had an under the sea birthday. Here is some of the decorations. My friend lent me this awesome material and sea shells.


When the guests arrived we made a cool sand, candle craft.


We played a fishing game. There were two teams and they needed to fish for all different sizes of fish worth different points. The smaller ones were worth more points. Then we played pinned the neckalace on the mermaid. We had a treasure hunt. In the treasuer box I had made green noodles for seaweed and had hard past shells. In the bottom were gold chocolates coins, jewerely, crowns, and lipstick. The girls had to dig through the fake seaweed and hard past shells. Some of them thought it was pretty gross!

This was the cake I made. Cute hey? The girls ate the hair so that I could save the mermaid for her party in the evening. I just iced more cupcakes so she wasn't bald!
All the girls she invited!


It's hard to believe that my little girl is now 9! Wow where did the time go? She is growing up so fast.

Halloween!!

Halloween is always a blast. We had lots of parties and fun treats. We had our annual Carter party, Activity Day girls had a party for all their siblings, Chloe and Logan were invited to a friend's Halloween party, school parties and then our party at home. Now we are loaded with a ton of treats at home that are constantly calling for me to eat them. Yikes - I need to have self control. Especially from all the yummy chocolate. Here are our costumes and pictures of Halloween:

Introducing,,,,,,
Ginny Weasly:

Zombie

Ballerina

Diego



Vampire

My marbled orange and black nails

Hawiian girl and vampire

Carter Party

The boys pumpkin - Green Lantern

Chloe's pumpkin she carved her self - Gloomy

Logan's pumpkin he also carved himself

Girls pumpkin - Rapunzel from Tangled

Trick or Treating at the Retirement Center

and at Grandma and Grandpa's house. It was so much fun seeing the kids run from house to house. Jensen was very distressed when his bag was getting to heavy and we poured his treats in another bag for Jeff to carry. He kept begging for his treats back and was very upset that his bag was empty. When he started getting more treats he was much happier. Chelsa did a couple of face plants and had some tears. Overall - the kids had a great time.

Decorating and sewing for Halloween

I really love Halloween and look forward to it every year. Jensen really wanted to be Diego and you cannot find that costume anywhere. So I put it together and sewed him a rescue pack and a label for his vest. He was so excited when he put the costume on. He was running around the house pretending to be Diego. Jensen doesn't prenounce the D on Diego so it sounds like Eggo. So when people were asking him what he wanted to be for Halloween he would say "Eggo" They would think it was the Eggo you eat for Breakfast and not Diego! Pretty cute.

This is what Jensen says..

This is who he really means "Diego"...

Here is the costume I made and put together

I got some new decorations this year and even made a cute wreath for our door.

I spray painted some sticks black to make a spooky tree.

The scary guy hanging in our front entrance

Our creepy mantel

Highlights

I thought I would highlight some of the things I have missed posting on my blog, since I'm a bit (yikes) behind.


Chelsa's 4th Birthday

She had a dance party and this is where we are stretching

We had to get our dance outfits on, before entering the disco, dancing room

Logan played soccor in the spring and loved it.

Logan and his 1st grade teacher Ms. Brosh

Chloe and her 3rd grade teacher Mrs. Brewis

Chloe also played and loved it.

Having fun on Canada day with our cousins.

Young Women's Camp. Queensland Ward.

I taught a hair class at the camp and put hair extentions on Dad!

Loved having Dad there.

Also loved having my nieces there as well!!

Eden's Baptism in Red Deer. How neat for Eden to have so many cousins there!

Missing one - Spencer. He came later on in the Summer.

Shortly after girls camp and Eden's baptism, I had surgery. This was taken from Jeff's phone. Thanks to everyone for such love and support through this time.

The Calgary Temple in progress. We are getting excited!

This is from Logan and Jensen's friend birthday party. We had two bouncers set up and it was such a blast!

mmmmm... cupcakes

Fun to celebrate together

Logan's iron man cake

Jensen's Birthday - loving the froot loops!

Celebrating Elijah's birthday with a huge smore!

Chelsa's first day of pre-school. She is loving it!

Having fun walking through the leaves with Grandpa and Grandma.

In September - Jeff took the boys to Man's Camp in our ward. Jensen had a bit of a harder time and missed me during the night. But overall they had a blast!