christmas pictures and funny hair

I am trying to get outfits together for my own families annual family pictures. I didn't know what I wanted for our outfits but since I am the hardest one out of all of us to dress I decided to start with me. I found a fabulous top at dirt cheap for just $5, it looks awesome on me and is black and white, so easy to match. So this is my outfit for the pictures (thanks ella for taking the picture)


I then started to look for Wes and Ella. I found a great white skirt at Dirt Cheap for $1 and a nice black top but the top didn't fit. I didn't find anything for Wes though. Today after MOPS Wes and I went to Khols to look for more clothes. I found the perfect black and white stripped top for ella and a nice grey top for wes. Now I just have to get jon somthing and we will be ready for our closeups!

I don't have a picture of Wes, but here is Ella



today was "Funny Hair Day" at school, this is what ella and I came up with.

Angry Birds

Today Mom and I stole an hour or so away to work on the Halloween Costumes. WE managed to get the faces for Ella's black bird costume done, the face for my White bird costume done and most of the face for Wesley's Piggie done (he didn't want to be a bird, he wanted to be a piggie)

HALLOWEEN!!

I LOVE Halloween! It is my very favorite holiday. This year my family is going to be dressing up as the birds from "Angry Birds". Mom is helping me with the costumes. This year Mom and Dad are going to dress up with us, they are going to be the evil piggies. Today while mom made a pattern for the bird costumes I made piggie shirts for them to wear. I think they turned out great! Since dad wasn't there, I modeled his shirt for the picture.

family portrait

by Ella

Marble Castle!

I seem to often forget that you can't take video in "portrait" mode. So this video is sideways, but it is still cool


Yesterday Jon and Wesley were playing in the kids room. I came in to see what they were up to and Wes jumped up and said, this is my marble castle, Daddy built it for me! I love their Marble castle.

Maverick MIle!

Today was the big fundraiser for Ella's school, the Maverick mile. Each kid was supposed to find sponsors who pay them per lap to raise money for the school, the Goal was $50,000 and last I heard they were less than $7500 from that goal! Today was the run, so Wes and I went to cheer on Ella, who completed all 30 laps for the school.



Ella was hilarious, she mugged for the camera every time she passed by, it was so cute! Wes was no into the whole thing and kept complaining about the loud music. He sat in the stroller and played leapster the whole time.

I love Bowling!

Soaking in the last of summer

The weather is starting to head towards fall. The temps are down in the 80's and the rain has come in. We are so glad to have nicer weather to play outside in. The kids had great fun in our local puddle the other day.

Father Daughter Campout

This spring Ella was watching a new show called "Bubble Guppies" and the episode was about camping. She fell in love with the idea of going on a campout, sleeping out under the stars and eating s'mores, cuz really, what is camping without s'mores! I am not a huge fan of camping, so I kept telling her to ask her daddy to take her camping, and he told her that someday he would, so all summer she bugged him about camping and all summer he said later, but finally, a few weeks ago the stake announced a Stake Father-daughter campout and I decided that this was the time, Jon had the time to take her, Dad and mom had the camping gear, and it wasn't too hot OR too cold. Ella was THRILLED!!! They just got back from their campout and Ella was so excited to tell me that she got to sleep under the stars and see the stars in her sleeping bag, she even told me that she saw a shooting star. She was also thrilled that Daddy let her have some s'mores for breakfast! I don't know what all they did, but from the pictures it looks like they definitely had a great time. Jon is already talking about taking the whole family up there soon, so he must have also had fun. Ella chose to wear one of her favorite shirts for the campout, and i think that they slogan on it says it all " My Dad rocks!"