Halloween fun 2010

This year it was so much fun doing all the Halloween stuff with Mylee she was excited for everything we did and really got it. I have been so excited to start all the holidays this year because she is at such a good age. She loved all the activities we did.

Every year in the fall my mom and sisters come up and we take the kids to Gardiner Village it is so fun because they have it all decorated for Halloween, we cruise through the shops, look at all the witches, let the kids have pony rides, and have lunch. This year it was really crowded so we didn't stay as long but it was still a lot of fun.

While Jesse was out of town to a Broncos game Mylee and I went to corn belly's at thanksgiving point with Beau, Jill, and Lexi. They girls had so much fun. They jumped on the big pillows, got pulled from tractor in little cows, went down the slides, ate Carmel apples, and we did the corn maze. Mylee loved the corn maze we bought them some flashlights and she thought it was so fun thinking that we were lost and had to find our way out. They had some little kids corn mazes to that were really small she loved playing in. I would say that was probably her favorite thing there. We had so much fun that will definitely be something we do every year.

We had a lot of fun carving pumpkins this year. Mylee even helped Jesse clean the pumpkins out, helped poke holes in the pumpkins, and put stickers on them. She loved when we got the candles in them and got to see them light up.

We decided one night to make some homemade Halloween sugar cookies, Mylee had so much fun using the cookie cutters and mixing the food coloring in the frosting. Luckily she had a lot of fun doing it because the end result didn't turn out the greatest...they weren't very good.

I take Mylee to story time at the library every week. Her story time teacher let all the kids come dressed up in there Halloween costumes which was a lot of fun. They danced to some Halloween music, she told a Halloween story, and they also got to trick or treat around the library.

This year for Halloween Mylee wanted to be a bumble bee...she was so cute and loved dressing up. Beau, Jill, and Lexi came over so Mylee and Lexi could trick or treat together. Jill made some yummy soup to eat and then we took the girls trick or treating, they only went to a few homes because the weather was so crappy it was raining and was really cold. Luckily we had taken Mylee to our ward trunk or treat the night before so she was able to get the majority of her candy there.

Swing Set

We decided to get Mylee a swing set even though it is the end of the summer. Which she loves, she loved helping her dad put it together. Jesse put many hours into putting this swing set together, I would say around 30 hour. While doing it he said he never wanted to do this again but I think after seeing how excited and happy Mylee was about it it made it all worth it. She was so excited to have her two little friends Deni and Lexi come and play on it with her. A couple of days after it was put together she had woke up one morning and said told me I can't eat breakfast I have to go to my slide. She has loved it!

Labor Day Camping Trip

We haven't been camping for along time so we went over Labor Day with Jesse's family. We had a lot of fun and Mylee was so excited. We did the usual stuff you do camping which makes it so enjoyable. Hang out and do nothing, one of my favorite things about the mountains is just to get away from everything. We made yummy meals, played games, sat by the campfire, road four-wheelers, went fishing, and just hung out. Mylee didn't know quite what to think about sleeping in the tent, on the way to bed she kept telling me she wanted to go home but we made it through even though that night was a little rough and she did much better the next night. It was really cold during the nights and the coyotes howled all night and were really close to us. Mylee had never been fishing so we had her so excited to go, we went and bought her her own fishing pole which she picked and wanted Dora the Explorer fishing pole. Luckily she had a little fish at the end of the line that you could practice with because that was the only fish we had luck catching. I wanted her to be able to catch at least one fish but we didn't have any luck so fishing lost her interest pretty quick. I guess next time she needs to go with Grandpa Rick and then maybe she'll have better luck!

Terel and Julie put together a Grandma and Grandpa camp for the kids. Then talked to them about things that they liked to do when they were little and different kinds of candies that they ate. They had fun activities like play-do, bubble snake, and mud pies. They then went on a hike and while they did that Jett stepped in a cactus and got hurt so for the rest of the trip Mylee wanted to here the story about Jett getting hurt. She gets so worried its so cute.

All in all we had a really fun weekend with everyone!