William's birthday

William had a whole weekend of parties for his birthday... lucky boy. On Friday we went up to my sister's place, went on a witch hunt at Gardner's Village (pictures below) and hung out at her place. That night he picked out popcorn shrimp for dinner and a cake made out of donuts.


The next day on Saturday we woke up and had a birthday breakfast for my little guy. We had cinnamon roll pancakes. SUPER yummy pancakes. William usually out eats all of us at breakfast no matter what we are eating. When we are eating pancakes a small breakfast for him is at least 5 pancakes and he always requests having "2 on top" to start out with. This morning I told him he could have as many "on top" as he wanted because it was his birthday so he requested 4. Well, these are really good, but super rich and that was the first time he left pancakes on his plate. You should try these pancakes (no syrup needed). They would probably be great for desert. Search for them on pinterest.


Later that day we went to grandma's and grandpa's house for our annual harvest party which is always so much fun. There we had a little scavenger hunt for William's birthday. I love birthdays.

Why do I love William?...
I love his smile and how his brown eyes light up when he smiles.
I love how nice he is to all of his sisters and loves to play with them.
He shares a room with Katie, and I love how at bed time he stays up and sings to her or reads her stories when she is crying or won't go to sleep.
At night he always calls Jake and I back in to tell us, to "sleep good and have good dreams".
When I drop him off at school, I tell him to have fun at school, he tells me "I hope you have fun at home".
I love that he enjoys cleaning toilets.
I love that when he really wants to learn something he will focus on it until he figures it out.
He loves to read and do his homework, he loves hot wheels, but most of all he love Mario Bros on the Wii. He would probably play it all day if I let him.
I love my little boy, who is not so little anymore. He is the same size as Hannah and I have been asked before if they were twins.
He is just so sweet and I love him so much!!

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Our witch hunt at Gardner Village

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Hee Haw Farms

Corn kernel box... the kids loved this.




The corn maze... the kids loved figuring out this corn maze.








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Well...

Most of you probably know this by now, but we are expecting baby #5, and we are so excited. We found out that it is going to be a little girl!! William was again a little sad to not be getting a little brother, but he is going to be one special brother to all his sisters!
I am about 27 weeks and feeling so much better. I think morning sickness is the pits, and I am glad that something good comes from feeling so sick, but that doesn't make me feel any better when I am throwing up. I can't complain to much though because so far this pregnancy as been a lot easier than my others. I did discover how helpful my kids where. Before I was sick my kids had their traditional jobs that they was do each day, but while I was sick and not able to do most everything I discovered that William loves to clean the toilet, and does pretty good, Brooklyn loves to clean the bathroom sinks, and both William and Hannah love to do the dishes and clean the kitchen sink. They would do a great job and my kitchen would always be smelling of soap after they were done, which is so much better than left over food. I did notice once when they were cleaning the kitchen exactly how much soap they used, it was about a half of a bottle, but at the time I was just glad that the kitchen was smelling good and was clean. My kids were such a great help during those few months, and so was Jake, and everyone else who helped out with food and my kids. Thanks a ton!!

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Farewell to Jared!!

On September 28th Jake's brother went into the MTC, soon to head to the Philippines. He is going to be such a great missionary. We are all going to miss him, but the kids will especially. He is a really fun uncle!!


You can only take one vehicle into the MTC to drop off your missionary, so we all parked nearby and squished into the Astro Van. We fit 20 people in there. It was a little squishy but so worth it to see Jared off, and see all the missionaries and feel of the excitement and the spirit that is at the MTC. (Even in the parking lot)




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Bear River Lodge

The last week in September my family had a little reunion together and birthday celebration for my dad up at Bear River Lodge. It was so nice to be up there with everyone and the cabins we stayed in were super nice and lots of fun.


It was the perfect time to go up with all of the leaves changing colors. We went on a ATV ride up in the mountains that was filled with beautiful views.



Brooklyn's helmet was so big that most of the time it was just hanging off her head in her face, but she was a trooper. All the kids loved the ride. Micah was our navigator so I wasn't surprised when we ended up on the hardest trail we could have gone up, which later we found out was called "Dead man's Traverse". After a few very steep and rocky hills Hannah was not quite sure she wanted to finish the ride. Especially after the part where we tried to cross a bridge that was not made for a 6 passenger ATV. We were close to sliding down the embankment into a little stream and Hannah's side was the closest. After that it took her a little convincing to continue, but we did and I think she enjoyed herself for the rest of the ride.

We even got pretty close to a few moose. Can you spot it in the picture?


There was lots of good food, great company and the kids loved playing with their cousins. We had a great time.
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Work Party

Jake's company had a summer party at the beginning of September. The food was great and the entertainment was fascinating. The kids LOVED it. They had a reptile guy come and he brought a few little, and big, critters. He first brought out a big tortoise that weighed about 75 pounds. It was huge. He had little tortoises, he brought out some lizards, scorpions, tarantulas, boas, and pythons. I was so surprised that the kids were brave enough to hold each one, especially surprising for Hannah. William was in heaven! Brooklyn wasn't sure what to think. As for me, well I came away that night with 40 mosquito on each foot! My kids didn't get a single bite. I did take pictures of my feet because they looked so bad but the picture didn't turn out. It looked like I had some sort of disease, and they itched like crazy for about a week!







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