Christmas 2010 Pictures

We got a late start getting our yearly pictures done. Usually we do it the weekend after Halloween. This year I put it off almost too long to use Fall as our background. A lot of trees have all ready turned brown and the leaves were gone on a bunch. But we managed a few good shots. Here are a few of them.

Heading to the park today...

...in search of a new wavier person for Canyon. Actually met a lady yesterday at the office, she and I and the kids are going to the park today to get to know each other better. She will have to go through training first so it wont be till December until she can work with him. By then, we might be switched over to a different service anyway and have to start interviewing again.

Happy early Christmas!

As an early Christmas present to myself...I found this website (and there are a few out there I guess) that takes your blog and turns it into a hard or soft cover book. I did one for 2008 and one for 2009. I'm excited to do 2010 soon!! They look great and you can customize them in lots of different ways. The only customizing I did was to pick the hard cover, the pictures to put on the front and back, the title, the cover design, the dedication page and to 'make it fit' so the least amount of pages will be created. But you can do tons more.

I love them!! I went to: http://blog2print.sharedbook.com/blogworld/printmyblog/index.html

Halloween

Living in the South and Halloween falling on a Sunday (as The 4th Of July did) the holiday was 'moved' to Saturday.

After the Fall Fest downtown....and then a little down time....we got dressed and headed out for trick-or-treating.

Had a good time in the hoods. The kids sat on the tailgate and I drove from house to house (seeing that only 3 houses on this block and 4 on this block participated) Most houses are out of candy and have their lights off by 8. The reason is because they are in 'good' neighborhoods and everyone flocks to them. My friend Dawn lives in one of these hoods and has 200 kids from 6:30-8. We got to her house at 7:50. Her light was out so I called. She was expecting us so she saved some for Canyon.

I put a candle in the baby pumpkin and fixed the big pumpkin's eyes. I like!!!

Downtown Fall Fest

We went as we always do, but got there a little later then we planned. We weren't planning on entering Malaki in the dog show but should have. They only had 30 enter and were taking the 1st 35. Maybe next year! Everyone thought he was adorable.

He's a pirate!

Canyon had a few cars he loved and had to have pictures with.

He is obsessed with firetrucks these days!

The car show is 10 times bigger then it was a few years ago. From maybe 15 cars to well over 100 now.

Pumpkin Carving Party

This was so much fun!!

It was round 3 of Canyon's b-day. I know. It's totally out of control. What happened is that we were going to put off Canyon's b-day per the request of friends who were going to be out of town. But Canyon knew it was his b-day so we had to go ahead and do something before. Now, we had the friends, had to carve our pumpkins Thursday because of high school football Friday and so much going on Saturday. So I decided we will have a pumpkin carving party and a cake and call it good.

I THINK WE JUST FOUND A NEW TRADITION!!!

IT WAS GREAT!!!

Sascha and Malaki even dressed up for the occasion :)

Just a pumpkin sweater (that is actually too small but is all the store had left)

Malaki is a pirate :)

Party table set up

Sahara and I moved the couches out to the carport to make room for lots of carving and people.

So it begins :) Rylan and Melanie think about Rylan's design and Mila and Hannah get busy on theirs.

We had Mila and Zach

Paula, John, Kristy and Hannah

Rusty, Melanie, Zane, Rylan and Addylin

Me, Jared, Sahara and Canyon

Zach and Canyon dig in. I think this is only Canyon's 2nd time actually wanting to get his hands in the goo.

Can't keep Mila away from the babies. She got to hold Addy for awhile. I haven't even held her yet!!!

Jared takes the first stab into his very first pumpkin ever. Yes, he has never carved a pumpkin before. I love that he gets to do new stuff like this with us :)

Canyon looks like he is having a great time!

Rusty helps Zane with his pumpkin. This is also a first. Rusty has never carved a pumpkin before either. He does not like the goo so he chose never to carve before.

It was funny to watch Jared and Rusty. They took the most time, were the most careful, and were the most serious carvers of the group.

Melanie decorates Addy's pumpkin with a marker.

Sahara tries to be very careful and actually her pumpkin this year looks the best ever!

Here is the groups efforts (- Zach's pumpkin which I think was on the back of my truck and I didn't realize it till after pictures were done)

This household's masterpieces :)

I told everyone we eat our babies here. Maybe that's why they kept Addy away from me. hahaha

Jared's Superman

Misty's Monster

Canyon's Crazyhead

Sahara's Goofballhead

It was a lot of fun. I think if the Buddy Walk b-day thing doesn't work out, Canyon's b-day will just be moved to the end of the month for this. Or we will just do this anyway for Halloween.

All too soon, Basketball ends :(

Shooting for Success is only an October program....then the regular basketball session starts. He LOVES it. Lots of excitement running up and down the court.

This is one of the 3 baskets he made this game:

The cake for all the players

Everyone got pizza and bread sticks too.

He went up with his team for awards. They got a medal, draw string back pack, team and individual pictures, and a graphic novel style bible.

This was the girl who was his one-on-one for the practices and games. Unfortunately, I do not know her name :(

Next up will be baseball in the spring.

Growing.......a little

Measured Canyon and he grew 2 1/2 inches this year. That's great! He is now a hair shorter then Sahara was at 10 years old. hahaha. My little guy!

Basketball

Basketball is way too short. Only the month of October. Canyon is on the red team this year. Because they have so many kids this year, it's also been broken into 2 groups. 4 teams from 6-7 and 4 teams from 7-8. He's the early session which is fine with me!

Better pictures coming soon!

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Like a Duracell....Canyon's b-day just keeps going and going and...

Canyon's birthdays always seem to come in stages.

We went to Hog Wild for phase 2 of Canyon's b-day. Since today is actually his b-day we thought we better do something. Jared and Jordan came along. Canyon loves the boys and looks to them as older brothers so he was very happy.

Jordan playing Canyon on air hockey.

Canyon ~ Jared ~ Jordan

Sahara didn't play much of anything

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Jared and Jordan really like the shooting games. Yes, they hunt too.

Jared doing some more hunting.

Jordan at Guitar Hero.

Sahara helping Canyon drive a log truck.

Jared and Canyon did what Canyon loves best. In fact he runs over to the bumper cars as soon as we enter the building....but I always try to save it for last since it's his favorite.

Well, had a video but I tried 3 times and it would not load :(

Thank you Aunt Kristy, Uncle Rodd, Caleb and Emily!! Your gifts arrived today :)

Thank you Uncle Brian, Aunt Mel, Jason, Parker, Tobey and Zoey for the card money and gold coin!!