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Watching:  the new season of The Amazing Race.

 Preparing to volunteer in Kaden's classroom tomorrow.

Paying attention to all of the great things Kaden is doing, both at home and at school.

Listening to Bosten ask me to play a game a million times a day and his giggles when he informs me that he wants to be red (knowing that red is my favorite color).

 Cooking Grandma Barbara's cheeseball recipe, at the boys' request.

Celebrating big wins this weekend by my BYU Cougars and OSU Beavers.

Waiting for that one email or phone call that will change everything.

Planning for and dreaming about paint colors and fabrics and decorating.

Working on potty training. Still.

Loving fall in Utah.  The leaves are changing colors, the mornings and evenings are cool, we've decorated for fall, love making pumpkin treats, etc.

Reading not one thing at the moment.  I need to find a good book that I can't put down.

Anticipating fun fall activities, family pictures, Bosten's 4th birthday.

lil' pumpkins

You may or may not know that my sister is expecting twin girls, who probably will arrive within the next month.  So to celebrate, I helped plan a shower for her and the girls, which was Saturday.

We decided the theme would be lil' pumpkins, given the fact that there are TWO babies and that its fall.

Here's the party favors.  I made the tag.  It says, "grow your own pumpkins, baby"

We covered pumpkins with fabric and added ribbon with glitter.

I made the banner that went below the railing:

 

Dipped pretzels.

 

Veggie cups with dip in the bottom (thanks Pinterest)

 

Made labels for the water bottles.

The lighting isn't that great, but you get the idea.

 

We had fruit skewers,.

 

 a couple of pumpkin treats,

and veggies/dip.

 

It was fun, and she got some cute stuff.  

funny kid

Bosten is a funny kid.  We find ourselves laughing pretty much every day at some of the things he says. 

"ho-TELL" is hotel

"Can we stay in a ho-TELL again?"

"ca-splode" is explode

"Run, Kaden!  Its going to ca-splode!"

"grill" is girl

 "I'm not a grill.  You are, Mama."

"ba-tacked" is attacked

"My base is getting ba-tacked"

"sniddle" is skittles

"Mom, if I eat my lunch can I have a sniddle?"

The other day he was really mad at me about something and said:

"Mom, you're.....you're such an adult!"

If he doesn't get something he wants or needs on his timetable (which is 2 minutes ago) then he says in a very funny voice, "I'm gonna die."

We have started using that same voice and say

"I'm gonna cry!"

"I'm gonna lie!"

"I'm gonna spy."

etc.  

He does not think we are funny.

If he doesn't want to play any more or he's done with something, its

"I'm out."

Every day he asks me

"Mom, wanna have a date with me?"

Usually at random times

"What's everybody looking at me for?"

And, one of our favorites:

"Oh, my acorns!"

Its hilarious because he has no idea what he's saying or what it means, however, he usually says it when it sounds like he knows exactly what it means.

Never a dull moment around here!

smartie pants

We started practicing yesterday, and he's got it today.  

Smartie pants.

more instagram

I really like Instagram.  So fun.  

Here's a few more recent pictures:

One day the boys played with balloons all afternoon.  Who knew that blowing up balloons and then letting them fly around would provide hours of entertainment.

My dad, Lindz, and I went to the BYU home opener vs. Washington State.  So fun!

So loud under the new scoreboard.

 

We went to Red Robin one night.  We hardly go to Red Robin any more (sad).

 

Spiderman, aka Bosten, was showing me his muscles one day.

Bos and I made cookies.

We've been going to the park in the evenings after dinner.

You've seen this one, but its worth repeating.  Cute little beaver believer!

Are you on Instagram?  I want to follow you if you are!

in case you missed it

What a fun college football weekend:

-The Utah State Aggies beat the University of Utah Utes in overtime.

-BYU crushed Weber State, and is now ranked #25 in the national polls.

-The Oregon State Beavers upset #13 Wisconsin in Corvallis.

That all gets a thumbs up for sure!

(p.s....have I mentioned we love college football??!!)

first day of first grade

Today was the first day of school.  I have been both excited for him and dreading it for days.

Last week we went in and met his new teacher, and checked out his new classroom.  We also got to go visit his Kindergarten teacher, which was fun too.  I remember doing that every summer as a kid, and I think its important for the boys too.

Kaden picked out his new t-shirt, and we decided that we loved his Army backpack so much that we'd use it again.

Here he is in his new class.  

We adore this kid.

sno-cones

As crazy as it is to say this, we haven't had any sno-cones this summer.   Maybe we had one at the very beginning, but that was months ago.

Anyway, we decided we'd better have one before the end of the season.  We loaded up the boys, along with Bayz, and went to our favorite shack.

Kaden had half bug juice, half tiger's blood.

Bosten had blueberry.

Bayz had grape.

I had lime.

Fun afternoon treat!