The Young and the Restless

What is wrong with these pictures?

I'll tell you what's wrong with these pictures---it's OCTOBER!! (by the way, don't you love Jayden's goggles? He can not get within a 50 foot vicinity of water without them) Fall is always the hardest season for me here, pretty much because it is non-existant. I loved fall in Utah, where you drive through the mountains to see the leaves changing, snuggle up in sweaters and blankets, eat warm soup on chilly days and just get excited for the holiday season. It's hard to start thinking about Thanksgiving, Christmas or let alone Halloween when it is still freaking 100 degrees! I would gladly give up the cold snowy winters, but just give me my Fall!! Atleast in the summer I expect the triple digits so I can't complain, but come October it's a whole other story....

Enough of that tangent. It's the so called "Fall break" (more like the-summer-that-never-ends-break) for the kids right now. They have Oct. 1-17th off and it has been so fun to hang out and do things that we haven't had a chance to do since school has started. I was a little nervous that the kids would be bored (and a little nervous that I would go crazy, especially since the first day of break Jayden managed to have a stabbing war with a pen on the table, which the table lost by a long shot, and put a nice big eight inch scratch in the front of our fridge. uggg.), but we have managed to fill the time with trips to the library, picnics in the park, Barbies and trains, going to the movies, lunch with Jason, building forts, going to the infamous "Dewper" show, play dates with friends we haven't seen a while and other things like that. It's been a lot of fun and it made me realize how much I miss having my kids around! Kylie has been begging me to let her have sleepovers with Jayden and so I told her that she could during the break. I didn't plan for EVERY night, but they both beg and plead and get so excited when I let them. It's really cute, but the only problem is that they wake each other up ridiculously early (we're talking anywhere between 5-6:30!). One morning they even came in at 2:30 ready and rarin' to go, that was not happening. Atleast they are really cute and happy when they wake up (come 4:00 pm it's usually a different story). They've been playing so cute together and haven't even watched as much TV as I thought they would want to, it's been nice. I can gage how much tv they've been watching by how clean the house is. It's definately been very cluttered lately, but I guess that's a good sign. We've still got another week of break. We all may be ready for school to start by then, but for now we are just enjoying hanging out and having fun!

The kids really wanted to decorate sugar cookies. The only cookie cutters I own are Christmas ones, nothing like decorating snow men in 100 degree weather to set the mood.

The kids spent hours one day building and playing in their "houses". They topped off the whole "worker" ensemble with work belts and hats.

My friend and I went to this incredibly awesome Fall festival, or so we thought. Apparently the whole state of Arizona thought that this free festival put on by a local church would be totally awesome too. They did have cool stuff like monster trucks, pro-skateboarders, BMX bikers, rides, food etc. The only problem was that there were so many dang people there that in a matter of 2 hrs. we managed to get one ride down a bouncy slide and a chance to stick their hands through the fence at the petting zoo because we weren't about to wait another hour to get up close and personal with the animals. Good times.

Kylie decided to open up a tatoo parlor and ink up herself along with Jayden and her friend. I got a kick out of her twist on the classic "mom" tatoo. I asked her if she did it so that I wouldn't get mad at her and she innocently replied, "no, I did it because I love you so much and want to always remember you". Nice try.

So the other day Kylie brought me the newspaper and said, "look how cool, mom, it's a picture of the inside of your ear". I thought it was kind of fascinating until I read the headlines: "Alternative Methods to Invasive Colonoscopy". It was definately a picture of the inside of something....just not an ear. Happy Tuesday!