my little toothpaste monster

First off, Hayden has been challenging me in every way she can lately. She has colored on the walls, climbed counters and ran away from me when we go places. I know a lot of it is getting attention since Zander has come, and she all of a sudden had to share Mom and dad. And it does not help that Jt isn't home during the week due to school and work.

Any way she has definitely pushed my buttons and one way she has is by playing with the toothpaste. About two weeks ago she came up to me (while I was feeding Zander) with blue stuff all over her hands and face, growling, saying she was a monster. And the blue stuff was her toothpaste. She of course got in trouble for wasting the toothpaste and making a mess. And of course I hoped she wouldn't do it again. However I was wrong, a couple days later , while I was feeding Zander I heard crying, and screaming "it hot in my eyes." So I got up and found her in the bathroom with MY (mint) toothpaste all over her face and some had gotten in her eyes. And of course I was upset and she was punished and I hoped she learned her lesson.

Well tonight she was upstairs playing in her room, or so I thought. I went and checked on her and this is what I found...

(excuse my voice I'm sick)

Hayden had learned her lesson not to put it on her face... And I was upset but I couldn't stay mad at her because she was so proud of her picture so I grabbed the camera.

A BABIES SMILE

MAKES IT ALL WORTH IT

isn't he adorable???

Just some Cute pictures

Zander one month old

Hayden loves holding her baby brother!

Hayden also loves taking pictures with my camera, and loves taking pictures of zander's feet

Playing in the leaves after church

bedtime

such a cute little boy!

In Memory of my Secret Grandpa

Back when I was in young women, we did a fun activity where we had a "secret Grandpa." Through out the holiday season each of us had a name that we drew out of a hat, and every week we secretly delivered a little something toour grandpa. One year I had the opportunity do deliver to Ron Centoni. In delivering some of the gifts I would park my car down the road and walk up to his house in hopes he wouldn't see me. His house is surrounded by trees, making it dark and spooky and he had a dog with a mean sounding bark. I was sure that dog was going give me away or was going to get me one night. At the end of the activity all of the young women and there Secret Grandpas got together and had dinner, and we revealed ourselves to them. and I found out that Ron didn't ever see me. And even though we never talked through this activity, it made us closer friends and neighbors.

Ron passed away, November 4th 2010. Ron was such a great man! I loved running into him at the store and seeing him at ward parties. He was always so cheerful and had a smile that could always brighten your day! He will definitely be missed.

My CUTE Kids

HALLOWEEN FUN

This years Halloween was great! We decorated pumpkins. We were going to carve all of them but by the time I went to get the pumpkin carving kit, everyone was sold out, including Wal-mart. So Jt went ahead and did an old school carving, and I helped Hayden decorate hers with some monster face pieces.

Both Jt and Hayden was proud of Jt's pumpkin.

I think they turned out pretty cute!

Zander wasn't to thrilled though.

Jt and I went to a Halloween party on Friday night, and had lots of fun. It was a night out with out the kids (hardly ever happens), with lots of fun people and fun games and yummy food!

This is my new friend Hannah, (she hosted the party) and her cousin Cody, who is definitely a funny guy.

I dressed up as a Fairy and Jt, a Banana for the party. Jt was a hit!

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And of course we went trick or treating. We hit a couple houses early in the day here in town, mainly to show off Zander. Then we headed to my small home town of Swan Lake to go Trick or Treating. I love going there to see everyone, and everyone is so nice and invites us in to visit for a minute and they are very generous with there candy and hand out the "good stuff." We had fun seeing everyone and Hayden made out with a ton of candy, so there fore mom and dad got a lot of candy. And Hayden loved being able to pet every ones cats and dogs.

She was the cutest Dinosaur.

It was a great month for us and ended with a perfect Halloween.