my little big girl

Camiron loves having things of her own that she is doing. she started gymnastics and dance about 2 months ago and thinks she is a rock star. She love love loves them.  It was about impossible to take pictures of either one. He class stays to the far wall in gymnastics and their is a mommy- me class on the floor. So every time i tried to get a pic of her someone stepped in the way, or there was half the gym in the way. so here are a few that are as good as it gets :)

Her dance class is just as hard. the teacher doesn't like the parents watching because it distracts the kids- so there are windows we can watch through.  Just little high windows- so here are few through the window of her in her ballet and tap class.  She gets so excited to show me what she learned, she loves to practice at home and has been checking out ballet books and movies at the library.  funny

end of a season

he loved every minute of it.  we will miss the "gold" team.  (and something to do every saturday!)

amazing what kids will do for a sucker

I bribed the kids to take their fall pictures with some giant suckers.  We used them in the pics

and they could eat them.  they were great sports about it.  

It is fun to have "fall" pictures for one.  Weird to not take their pictures on the beach though.

I have a few favs in here, but thought I would add a few with all of their outfit changes

(some picked by me- some not so much :) )

the first 2 on my very favorites....

this last one cam was throwing out poses- and one after another 

looked like this. i was laughing so hard at this pose.  I have about 10 different

versions of it on my film.   she was soo proud and she loves this picture.

i might have peed a little

there is a chance i might have peed my pants a little when i found

these in the store.  

I had an inner debate- share the knowledge of these two amazing

items with the others in the aisle?  

Or keep it to myself for fear these limited edition items would 

run out before the end of the holidays???  

what to do? 

I think the screaming and crying with joy led others to the purchase.

hopefully I made their holiday season just a little more minty.

halloween

Trunk or Treat

As our wards activity committee chair I was in charge of putting on

churches trunk or treat.  It turned out great- but man was I exhausted

We teamed up with the other ward who shares our building for this event

(unfortunately their chair showed in the middle of dinner for a few min- so it 

turned into our ward putting on an event for their ward- ok enough complaining

i'm a little bitter on being the pregnant lady stuck with allllll the work!)

but it was a lot of fun- we kicked it off with a chili cookoff for dinner.  We had enough

chili for an army.  Troy and I will be eating chili a lot this week I guess. 

Then we had carnival games for the kids, and finally the trunk or treat.  

this is what a cold ninja turtle looks like...

And then we also headed to our neighborhood  party.  They had crafts and food and 

the kids favorite was a little geo cashing event.  they had hidden some boxes around the woods 

and the kids could pick something out of a box, but had to also leave something behind.

one kids treasure is anothers discard!  love it.  

my princess looking for treasures in the woods.  

the ninja can't be bothered. 

*so it may seem that there are a lot of pictures with only my kids.  I have to laugh because 

we just don't know enough people to take pictures with any of them.  It feels weird to have your kid 

pose with a kid they barely know, after being with kids they knew for 5 years. 

so i am sure one of these days we will again have others in our posts.... one of these days :)  for the time being- this really is braders and camers blog I guess! 

fall- real fall!

We haven't "experienced" fall with the kids umm ever.  so it has been fun to be in some

cool crisp weather for the fall festivities.  

We kicked it off with a trip to the pumpkin patch with our neighborhood. 

we didn't know any of the neighbors who came yet- but slowly slowly we are getting to know them.

here is braden really into the farm man teaching about the crops on our hayride.  funny

how into he is.

the kids checking out the animals on the farm

And of course picking out the perfect pumpkin.  

It is an art to find the perfect one- and they were going to make sure

they found that perfect one. 

When we got home it was still too soon to carve them and have them last

so the next best thing- paint them.  a few times. 

we finally got around to carving a few weeks later for our family home evening. 

the kids usually shy away from scooping out their pumpkins, but they were all over it

this year.  they worked hard and both loved their pumpkins.

cam really loved hers.  a little too much.

this is bradens scary face, just like his pumpkin. 

and I was able to leave cam with a friend and help out on Bradens 

schools pumpkin patch trip.  This is where we will be headed next year, it was much 

more fun than the one we went to with the neighborhood!  

on the hayride

they had this big blow up bouncer that the kids just went wild on.  the sides

just tipped down in to a big sand box.  thankfully braden made it out with all of his

teeth intact this time.  

the playground had a homemade race track, a wooden train to play on

wooden pirate ship, and a wooden castle to climb in.  every kids dream playground

loved it.  

by the time we made it to the corn maze the kids were a little hot, tired

and hungry. but they were good sports and braden claimed this was his favorite part.  

kind of surprising since he was stttarrrvviiing, sooo thhiiirrrsssty,  and tired.  

i love how kids think. they can complain and then that was the best part.  

braders kindergarten class!  Go graduating class of 2023!

picking out their mini pumpkins.