Pumpkin carving

Last night we finally got around to carving pumpkins. Man, we have been slow on celebrating this year. Thats ok this is how the night went. Brandon cut the tops off the pumpkins but doesn't like to stick his hand into the gooey pumpkin so I got to yank out all the gooey stuff.

Bran is ok with sticking a BIG spnoon, as my son would call it, into the pumpkin to clean it out. Well sort of as you can tell by the picture:

Then Vaughn thought he needed to clean out the pumpkins with the big spnoon.

Finally we get started on our design for our pumpkins. Bran took this very seriously.

So seriously that I had to wait till he was done with his before I even got to start. So I took a cookie break.

Vaughn gave up after we put the big spnoon away and decided to run around and get into trouble.

Bran still concentrating very hard on his work of art.

I finally got to work on Vaughns pumpkin and got it done pretty fast. Here's his:

Bran's pumpkin:

And finally at 11pm I finished my pumpkin:

Not to shabby carvings! That was a pretty fun family event! Next year maybe we need to get 2 carving kits so we can finish at the same time! Oh well live and learn eh?

5 years!!

Friday Oct. 23rd was me and Brandon's 5 year anniversary!! Man I can't belive its been 5 years!! We had a pretty great anniversary. We went up to Park City for the weekend. We went to dinner and a movie. Then did some shopping. And got A LOT of good sleep that we were needing!! It was great!! Well HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to the best husband a girl could ever wish for! I love you Brandon Brooks!!

In memory of...

We lost 2 really special great people this year. Back in March we lost Bran's cute grandma. Oh how she loved Vaughn so much. She was such a great lady! Then this last weekend we lost Brandon's Grandpa. I guess he was missing his lovely wife. He was such a great guy with a good sense of humor that will be greatly missed!

We will miss both of these wonderful people! Thanks for all the good times! We love you two!

Vaughn is going to be...

In case you can't read his shirt it says: this little monkey is going to be a BIG BROTHER!! Yep me and Bran are expecting bundle of joy number 2!! Were pretty darn excited. Vaughn doesn't quite get it yet but I think he'll be a great BIG brother! I am about 13 weeks along!

Oh, isn't our baby cute?

Fun with Blocks!

I was entertaining Vaughn during General Conference so that others could listen to the talks and we were playing with blocks. Vaughn wanted me to make a tall guy so he could knock it over, which Brandon usually helps him with as he is better at building things than I am. :-) I ended up experimenting on making a face and made a mommy face and a Vaughn face. Cute huh?