Pirate Island

Quincy had to wait ALL day long to open presents.  When dad got home in the afternoon, he got to open presents!

Dad made a HUGE card. (with Cheetos and Skittles attached, of course)

He wanted a firestation lego set, so all of the grandparents chipped in to buy it for him.  He got collage paper/colored pencils/coloring books and Book of Mormon Hero action figures from mom and dad.  He got an awesome Joker van from Aunt Brenda and family. He got 4 dollars from his cousin Drevan.  He was shaking with excitement as he opened.  So fun!

Batman Cake!  yummy!

He wanted to go to Pirate Island for dinner and playing!  It's a really fun place.  Dinner, arcade kind of games, pirates, oh my!  

Porter stayed entertained as long as he was on the Choo Choo train, or stealing balls from the basketball game.  Miles played basketball almost the whole time.  Quincy loved the Batman game the best.  Mom liked air hockey and shooting the targets the best.  It was super fun.  Our waitress even talked to us in pirate language.  They had a balloon guy making swords for the kids, and there is even a play land with slides and such.  

Happy Birthday Quincy!

Quincy Bradford

My baby boy, Kiki turned 4 yesterday.  One of my favorite things about the boys' birthdays is going through all of the old photo files and remembering.  I can't believe it's been 4 years since Q was born.  He was by FAR my easiest baby but boy has he made up for that!  He is such a joy or terror depending on the moment.  I have been putting 2009 into our family book and I decided to do a page for each of the boys with just 4 words that describe each of them.  Quincy's are

SMILEY PHYSICAL TENDER COLLECTOR

That's him for sure.  What a smile!  He can tackle kids or adults to the ground.  He is a tender hearted little guy.  and he loves to collect.  He would sleep with 50 toys around his head if I'd let him.  He cuts and glues into his collage book all the time and carries it around.  He sometimes puts on a back pack and carries around his prized possessions.  He is so much fun. 

WE LOVE YOU, KIKI BUG!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

WHAT A BIG BOY YOU ARE!

The "Force" was with us: Halloween 2009

The boys had such fun for Halloween!  We had a Star Wars theme going on this year at our house.  

Here they are...

Miles as Obi Wan

(Thanks to Aunt Brenda for making the robe!)

Quincy as Darth Vader. 

Porter as R2-D2....

isn't he cute?

Here's our 2 scary bad guys....Darth and our porch scary man that talked to our trick or treaters.  BOOOOO!

We had LOTS of Star Wars friends....

Porter's buddy from across the street was Yoda.  Cute little guys!

I think I am going to make these a yearly tradition.  We love Oreo truffles at our house, but i've never thought of making them into bloody eyeballs.  Thanks Allen for the wonderful idea for the faculty party.  Fun fun.  We also made mummy dogs for dinner with pear spiders!  

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Carving our Pumpkins

Miles was so excited to carve pumpkins.  I picked him up from school and that's the first thing he said. " I am so excited that we are carving pumpkins for FHE." 

Okay, so none of the boys wanted to touch the "guts".  Miles used a spoon the whole time.

Quincy was our "courageous" boy this time.  He wanted to wash hands as soon as it was done!

And Porter would have nothing to do with the "Ewwwww..."

Here are the boys in front of the finished products!  Miles did the smiley face, Quincy did the scary face (he will be the head of our scary man to sit on the porch on Halloween), I did stars, and Allen did the Jordan logo.  Of course we had to have that one!

Courage Month: missionary week

We are still on our "courage" month and I am really proud of all that has happened.  The boys are learning a lot and we have lots of talks about what they did that day that was courageous.  We have talked to Daniel and Moses (visits to our house....lucky aren't we)heehee and this week we focused on being missionaries and how that takes courage.  We talked about Ammon and Samuel and how they were courageous.  We talked about how the boys can be missionaries now and also prepare for their future missions.  They loved getting their very own pretend missionary name tags.  Quincy already has his on his shirt for church on Sunday.  He is really soaking in these values we have been working on.  I am really pleased, and the boys are having fun and learning!  Yipee!

I want to be a missionary now, mom!

Fall break and the pumpkin patch!

We had a wonderful fall break.  We stayed home and just relaxed.  

I absolutely love having trees in our new yard.  The boys have really enjoyed playing in the leaves.  It's so beautiful!

We took the boys to the South Ridge Farms in Santaquin for pumpkin picking.  The boys had tons of fun picking their own pumpkins.  Porter could've run around in the fields forever!  You show up at the red barn and they take you in a wagon to where the pumpkins are.  We had lots of fun.

Miles' choice

Quincy's choice

Our latest FAVs!

PORTER

He's into pumpkins and getting the Sports Illustrated magazines in the mail.

Oh yeah....and getting into mom's drawer in her bathroom.  this lipstick has finally died.  Don't be too impressed that he knew where that lipstick went (lips) because believe me, the pic didn't do his artwork justice.

MILES

Miles is all about baseball.  He wants to constantly play ball with us in the back yard or watch the games on TV.  The Rockies have been his favorite and he cried when they lost!

QUINCY

Quincy is our collage maniac!  He can't wait for the Sunday paper to look for things to cut out. 

He has 3 of these huge sheets of paper in his room now, and I finally bought him and spiral "collage" book with blank paper so all of his treasures could be carried around in one book.