Monday, September 30, 2013

September Randoms

Claire loves to do what I do - I was ironing some clothes one morning and she brought her little ironing board and iron and set it up right next to mine.  She's such a fun little friend :)


Emma recently discovered the joys of Scrabble - this entertained her and her friend Maryn for a long time - I love that my Emma loves reading and playing scrabble.  :)  I should sign her up for the chess team next (she would actually love that)


Ben took Emma and Becca golfing on a Saturday morning - Ben sent me this video... I think it's so cute watching the girls golf.  :)  They love golfing with dad - and Ben loves to take them!  Win Win


September was full of painting projects - one of which was painting our coffee table a boisterous blue... we've been trying our best to bring more color into our very brownish home.  :)  I'll post pictures soon of the completed room - we love it!


Emma requested getting her hair cut short - I really love it!


Jake decided to take matters into his own hands and cut his own hair - he took out a large chunk of his precious spike...


Thankfully, with boys, this was easily remedied with a buzz cut - but I was sad to see his cute hair go :(  To add to this, he also banged up his face again, this time falling off of a stool - poor kid.  For a while there, he was looking like a felon.


But even without his awesome hair and with a banged up eye, he's still the same old Jake.  Here's evidence...

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Family Outings

I love when we go on fun outings as a family.  Ben and I have such a great time with our crazy kids - they are all so unique and entertaining... and sometimes a little wild.  :)  

In September we took the kids to the Phoenix art museum - beforehand we went to Potbelly's for dinner...


I told Jake to smile for the camera and he opted to shoot me with his finger guns instead :)


We went to the museum for the main purpose of seeing the video game exhibit - it was really cool!  And it brought back memories of playing games with my siblings on the old Playstation :)


We took the kids to see the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movie - we had a gift card from Ben's parents and free kids combo coupons for all the kids... so they felt spoiled and we didn't have to spend a dime.  :)


The last couple of weeks that the water park was open, Jake was finally tall enough to ride some of the big slides!  He was very excited!  After coming off of Mammoth Falls, he came running up to me to tell me it was "awesome!!"


We went to the waterpark the last weekend it would be open for the season, so they all got some ice cream to celebrate the end of an awesome summer.  :)