We are the KNIGHTS...

Boston's team made it into the semi finals last week and today we 

played against an amazing team who is undefeated, and we played hard!  

I love watching my boy play this game today, He has so much passion.  

He caught an interception in the first quarter and stopped two touchdowns from happening

 ALL in the first quarter!

 He played harder this game than any other one.  And played the WHOLE game! 

We wanted to really win. 

but we didn't,

we have LOVED watching boston and his team play together, they are

 incredible little football players and LOVE this sport!

The coach teared up at the end of the game telling these boys how proud he was of

 their hard work this season, and he couldn't wait until next year!

way to GO Lonepeak!  

at halftime we gave all the kids and parents balloons and as soon as the boys 

ran through their banner we let them all go.

i love how ivy was front and center before the team ran through... 

Where's that girls MOTHER?! ha

The game was early this morning, and all i can say is... Isn't UTAH ridiculously Beautiful?!  

Seriously look at these surroundings! and the weather was AMAZ-ing!!

birthday lunch

I have the best girlfriends in the world!! 

seriously, i do.

we all went to Malawi's {my favorite pizza place} in the riverwoods for my 

birthday lunch. Their dessert pizzas are

 to. die. for.

I {heart} these girlies. they also all spoiled me rotten. 

thanks besties.

susan/mckenna/jane/sela/daphne/becky/me/ivy/cynth/melanie/summer/caryn/kara

and my friend shannon showed up shortly after this pic. 

last week my california girlfriends took me out to "dear lizzie" 

I love that these are my childhood friends and we are still so close today.

so lucky to live by these girls.

i love it!

happy halloween...

we filled up our weekend with plenty of festivities! 

 Friday night we had our Hansen Trunk or Treat party, we ate pizza played fun games and then

 trunk or treated. Cory & Boston came straight from football practice 

so that night Boston was a football player~wink

on saturday morning the twins had a birthday/halloween carnival for one of their buddies Austin 

who turned "6" and were sent home with lots of treats to last a lifetime.

saturday afternoon Boston won his Football game!!  It was an awesome game, 

and now we are in the Semi finals! Woot Woot!

and then home for some Trick or Treating!  Phew~ i am exhausted!

my husband is a stud for dressing up with Hayes for Halloween, 

Sunday~ my cute family made me Crepes for my birthday!
i turned the big "36"  on halloween.

I was plenty spoiled with  treats, presents, texts and emails. I
was feeling all sorts of love. My kids even let me have a birthday nap.
{that usually never happens on halloween}
Thank you everyone.

  IT was a fabulous birthday!
we are all coming off our sugar high and I'm ready to detox!

Saturday's game... Boston scored the winning touchdown!!

love my baby girls expression!

we had to get the full effect with the fogger and all. ha

my kids loved trick or treating in the rain... NOT.

luckily i lured them into passing out the candy and they were all about that. 

 Boston went with his friends and came back soaked!

my sister jill got me a "Cold Stone" cake! Mmmmm

all Hallow's eve...

we had some extra dry ice so we had some more brew here at home!  My kids love making 

up stuff to throw into the pot. 

Ivy wanted in all of the action too, she loved throwing in the

 "mummy droppings" {marshmellows}

have a safe and "Happy Halloween"
 i think i am more excited to hand out candy,  because we  rarely had
 alot of trick or treaters at our old neighborhood.
 this will be fun.

the best part of "dry ice" is putting all the extra in my williams sonoma

 container and throw it in their bath!

they love this!

Sch'ooooo'l parties...

 I love school halloween parties...

all of the creative costumes,  the giggles from seeing their friends dressed up & especially loving that my twins get to experience it this year! 

SO. MUCH. FUN

it's always fun to sugar them all up and send them HOME!

seriously boston is such a nerd.  i love that he made his own sign that said 

"kick me!"

love him.

he has a gazillion friends with the same amount of energy that he has. 

 imagine that for a whole hour at the halloween party. ;)

his teacher is pretty amazing!

my cute little superhero's before the parade...

Boston's class party...

bingo/cookies/skittles game/popcorn hand

Hayes & Olivia's class party...

was thursday afternoon, because they had no school on friday.  

{just the school parade}

witch's brew/cookie decorating/ghost craft/spiderweb game

i think they LOVED that i was the only mom who dressed up! ~wink wink

{sisters~ don't make fun of me}

some halloween goods...

caramel apples,
 homeade chicken noodle soup in a bread bowl,
 caramel corn, pumpkin pie

 mummy pizzas and pretty much anything i make normal, we just add a 

spider or witch spell to it and that has been our dinners this passed week. haha

we are big fans of this halloween book.

we've been reading all sorts of books lately but this one has always been our fav...

i love this blog...

i printed some darling halloween lunch sacks and  also found cute little 

printables Jokes to put in the lunches this week. 

did i mention

 I LOVE HALLOWEEN?

it's pumpkin time...

around here.

ivy loved decorating her elmo pumpkin.  

Olivia was totally into  doing it all by herself, 

boston only likes to carve it {not all the yucky inside stuff} and 

Hayes loved helping dad clean out all the guck from the pumpkins.

thank goodness dad does the cleaning out of the pumpkins.

so much fun!

i always love trying to figure out how to use my night setting but at the same time show 

off the lit up pumpkins. ~sigh...  

one day i will figure it out, but until then, i think it looks kinda spooky. 

on to the PLAYOFFS!!

football is NOT over for our lonepeak team!

 yahoo...

 Boston and his team made it into the playoffs starting on saturday.  Our game yesterday was  

pretty intense, rain and all, it was our first COLD game!

Boston played the whole game, we needed him bad!

 he loved it but is definitely sore today.

we have had so much fun watching his games, and love all the support of his fans at all these games!  i'm pretty sure boston loves all that extra attention on the side lines.

this game we played was the AF 5th grade team, who rock!  Cade plays for AF but came to support his cousin and i love how he is covering up the "knights" on boston's jersey... that kid cracks us up.

Ivory Ridge halloween party

saturday we went with tasha and jill to another Halloween party!!  We played lots of games, painted pumpkins, and went on a hayride.  Right when we got done with the hayride it started raining! perfect timing...

i think that Tasha won the best adult dressed costume, she looked awesome!  

The treats were yummy and why not dress up for another party!

livi/hayes/camden/carson

hayes wanted a spiderman pumpkin.

HAPPY SATURDAY!!

we've been laughing so hard at these funny Jib Jabs!

be sure to press pause on the bottom of my playlist before watching...

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

We are Drug Free...

this week at school it was "red ribbon week" where they talked about being drug free all week!  Today they got to all wear red, to show their support against drugs.  I love that my kids were so proud to wear their red ribbon on their shirts all week.

we had some good talks about it, especially with the twins.  Imagine my sweet livi 

with her sweet high voice  "mom what are drugs?" ha   

it's never too young to talk to them about it, i guess! 

we had a door decorating contest to see who's door was best!!  Today we found out that our cousins Cam & Coop's class won first place! {they get a pizza party}  but Boston's class door came in 2nd!

i didn't even take a picture of livi's and hayes' class~ oops, i didn't help out with it. haha

it was fun to check out all the doors at the school, they were very creative!

dinner in a pumpkin

my pictures don't quite look as good as how it tasted! 

we loved it.

this is our second year of trying it out... and we are becoming big fans of this meal.

we also made yummy witch finger bread sticks to go with it.{not pictured} 

but the kids loved making it and we laughed when they 

came out of the oven. they were awesome!

Dinner in a pumpkin

1 medium pumpkin
1 chopped onion
2 pounds ground beef
4 Tbsp soy sauce
4 Tbsp brown sugar
2can cream of chicken soup
4cups cooked BROWN rice (or you can use white…I prefer brown since it’s healthier)
2 can sliced water chestnuts drained(optional)
2 can slice mushrooms(optional)

Cut off top of pumpkin and thoroughly clean out seeds and pulp. If desired draw a face on outside of pumpkin with permanent marker or acrylic paint. (This is a great thing to let kids help you with)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large skillet cook onions and hamburger until hamburger is cooked and onions are tender.
Drain drippings. Add soy sauce, brown sugar, and soup.
Simmer 10 minutes stirring occasionally. Add cooked rice and water chestnut, and mushrooms.
Spoon mixture into cleaned out pumpkin shell.
Replace pumpkin top and place entire pumpkin with filling on a baking sheet.

Bake 1-2 hours (depending upon the size of the pumpkin) It will be done when the inside of pumpkin is tender. Put pumpkin on a plate. Remove pumpkin lid and serve meat and some of
the cooked pumpkin.

this is a picture from rhodes rolls where you can find how to make them! 

enjoy!