Family photo shoot with Leah

We went to a park on Sunday and Leah (B.J.'s sister) took our family pictures. They turned out so freakin cute. Leah is an amazing photographer. She got great shots of my kiddos and having her in the family is such a blessing. I am hanging in there, I had a scratchy throat on wed. and by the end of the night I had lost my voice. I dont feel sick at all, but I do have a cough and I cant talk. The worst part is trying to yell at my kids or husband and not being able to. It so sucks. Major will yell "Mom" and I will answer him but he can't hear me so he asks 15 times and I have to go over to him and get right in his face so he can hear me. We are having Thanksgiving at my house for B.J.'s family it should be interesting our house is not that big. It should be fine. I better be over this crap by Thanksgiving, or I will be walking the Turkey trot.

Halloween

We went to my parents ward Halloween party it was a lot of fun! Major got to ride a horse and Dallas got to walk around in horse poop. Dallas is my BUSY BUSY boy. I tell people that if I can just keep him out of jail I did my job as a mother. He has a rader built in him that just attracts him to messes and danger. B.J. installed cabinent locks when Major was a baby and they worked great. He would try to open them a couple of times, realize it was no use and walk away. Dallas on the other hand puts his back into it and litterally grabs the cabinent with both hands and jerks it back and forth 20 times as hard as he can until it opens. I call him Dally-turd because he is a huge turd. I could not live without him.

Playing in the baby pool in October. What the crap is up with that?

Ok, these pictures were taken like 3 weeks ago I am ready to have cooler weather sick of swimming and all the pools are too cool but it is still hotter than two cats screwin in a wool sock. You can thank my brother Ethan for that lovely mental picture. Ethan has the best one liners ever we all wonder where he comes up with them . The other day we were at his house for Sunday dinner and he walked us out to the car and as we were there visiting he says out of the blue "Well, I'm hot I'm sweating like a petifile in chuck-e-cheese!" I'm still laughing out loud about that comment. Anyways, halloween was really fun Major was Batman and Dallas was Donald duck. I want to freeze my children so they never get big. It makes me sad to think how fast they are growing up. It blows my mind to think that someday they will be like me and I will be like my parents. The older I get the more I think we are all just young kids in older bodies. Kinda crazy.

Here is our fancy bike! We looked like high rollers.

Ethan and Jenn rented one and it looked pretty slick our bike was more of a cruiser and Ethan's was more like a crotch rocket. I know you are all surprised that Ethan would rent the fastest motercycle they rent, he was very safe and I was surprised he didn't do anything crazy.

We went to Village Inn and ate some breakfast that morning after picking up the Harley. Marla my mother-in-law was nice to come to our house and watch our kids so we could go on a ride to Canyon Lake.

This is Taylor, Kylie, Major and Dallas wearing the harley helments before the ride.

Dinner for B.J. birthday

K ,I know this isn't a good shot of the kids, but we had been at the resturant for an hour and they were spent. B.J. and I look pretty good in this picture though that is all that matters I guess.

THE BIGGEST LOSER

Yea ok so I win the biggest blog loser award. Can you all tell I am pretty much over the whole blogging every other day thing. I have been pretty much crazy these last couple of weeks. This time of year is so DAM BUSY (yes I know I spelled it wrong it makes me feel a lot less guilty if I dont spell it right.) Everybody needs their cracks filled in and their hair looking cute for their family pictures. I can not complain though I am so grateful I went to hair school and got a trade. I have stayed busy even In this VERY SCARY economy. I have some really cute pictures coming your way, B.J. turned 32 on Oct. 11. I rented a really nice Harley Davidson Motorcycle for us to ride the whole day. Ethan my brother and his wife rented one too and we had a freakin blast. We rode up to canyon lake and then drove to the resturant that night and then we took a night drive to Foutain Hills. I hope we buy one eventually. I would love to have a motorcycle. Did you know there is a special wave that you do when your on a bike? It was pretty impresive. Jenn and I are offically motor mamas. I swear every motorcycle that passed by us on the opposite side of the street waved. We also looked like HIGH ROLLERS driving around a 20,000 dollar bike. At the end of Sept. we went to Laughlin Nevada for two Miserable nights. I love to travel but I don't understand why I forget how crappy it is to travel with small children driving for four hours there, then the sleeping arrangements sucked donkey cause Major wanted to be in bed with me then when Dallas wakes up he wonders where the freak he is so he wants to sleep with me too and thank HEAVEN B.J. didn't come it till 3:00 that morning cause I dont know where he would have slept. After 3 hours of crappy sleep with Major I realized the floor would be much more comfortable then getting kicked 25 more times in the side. When B.J. came in that night and crawled in bed with Major, I thought to myself " Good luck with that one!" On about 41/2 hours of sucky sleep you can only imagine that we were ready to go out to the pool and live it up. Not really the whole trip ended up being a bust. I was a Royal Beyach to B.J. and he was Poopy darts back so it's not fun to be on vacation when your in a dissagreement. On the way home B.J. and I decided that we were not going to not travel until Dallas is 16. Somehow I think we will make it up to the snow come Jan. or Feb.

Forever Families Oh dear!

Tonight we went over to my mom and dads house to celebrate Kylies birthday. As we were driving home tonight I was thinking how much fun we had. Mindi had this GINORMOUS slip n slide that you put baby soap on and slide down it. HELL NO I did not participate! It was so fun watching the kids, B.J., Ethan, Matt, (Ethan and Jenns friend), and Dave my brother-in-law bust out down this slide. After we ate we had this pinyata and no way of holding it up, so of course you can always count on Ethan to rig something somehow. He hooked two dog leashes together and him and B.J held each side. It was so trailer trash. Half way through the pinyata my mom said "Someone spilled water or what the heck" Troy Mindi's youngest was still in his swimming suit and pee peed. His swimmer was full of water and Troy just let loose on my moms leg. After the candy went flying, Ethan went over to the pee spot and waved his hands over the spot and said" If anyone got candy in this area, it is contaminated."Oh my freakin funny.Yes the pee was cleaned up before the candy went flying. Our family has it's corks like everybodys, but man we have a ton of fun together. I'm very greatful for my family. We would do anything for eachother. I am even more greatful that we live so close together and our kids can grow up together, what a huge blessing. Spencer and Annie are not here right now, they are in Colorado and we miss them and their boys a ton. I feel it is very important to build happy memories with your imediet family and distant family as well. It has taken me a while to really appreciate my family. I thank the Lord often I was sent to my family. Below here I have put a picture of B.J.'s and my family. We love you guys!

Wootan family

Larsen family

Hello Hello

Well, we are doing super fantastic! I am greatful the weather is changing for the better B.J. and I have been taking the kids outside quite a bit to the park, the golf range, and the track. Major likes to run up and down the bleachers while I run the track. I say run, but what I really am doing is a slow jog. The Turkey Trot is held every year on Thanksgiving Day. I ran it 5 years in a row but this last year, Dallas was 8 weeks old and I wasn't sleeping or running enough to do it. This year I will be participating and anyone that would like to do it with me is more than welcome. It is not a competitive race at least I don't treat it like that. I just want to eat two extra pieces of pumpkin pie that day without gaining a pound. It is a 10k race that means 6.2 miles. Thousands of people run it every year and it is a whole lotta fun. Let me know if you also are a self masicust and want to join me.

Canyon lake trip

September 9th my brother Ethan and his wife Jenn took us out to the lake. Sorry I didnt post any pictures of me in my thong bikini I didnt want you all to get jealous.Yea. Anyways, we had a great time. It was the first time we had been out to the lake this summer. The weather was beautiful and on the way home we stopped at a really good Mexican resturant named Los Gringos.

Dallas turns 1!

For Dallas's first Birthday we went over to my parents house. We had the whole fam damley from both sides there so we were very greatful my parents let us use their house. It fits us all no problem.

Major turns 3!

For Majors 3rd Birthday we went to Chucky Cheese he had a ton of fun. BJ's parents were in town which was really nice and we ate a ton of piza, salad, cake and icecream.