Monster cupcakes

A few weeks before Halloween my sister Devri came up to visit with her kids. It's always a lot of fun when family comes to Grandma's house! All the cousins have a blast.  Since it was the Halloween season we decided to make monster cupcakes. 7 kids under 10 decorating cupcakes = sticky monster mess. It was still a lot of fun, and they turned out.......scary, as all monsters are ;)

 

Thomas is allergic to a few things so Devri brought up a special cupcake that he could decorate and eat. Well he got his hands on it a little early so no cupcake for him to decorate. But he didn't care ha ha. A rice cake and whip cream with a little food coloring was good enough to him.

Pretty sure he would have been just as happy with just the bowl of whip cream

The finished product. Yummy huh?.....

This foot stool looks comfy, yup here I shall take my nap.

Weenie roasts at Grandma & Grandpa's are the best!

I love this one. Carter giving Hank the stare down!

 

Long overdue date!

Back before any of us girls came into the picture these three boys used to spend a lot of time together in college, one by one each of the the boys met a girl and got hitched.  So life is a little different now then it used to be when they would hang out, but I think it was still a lot of fun. A few years ago all 6 of us decided we would do a annual Christmas temple square trip because the first time we went it was so much fun. Well......the annual ended at the first year. Life gets busy and things get put on the back burner. So we had a very over due date night! It started out at the CSI corn maze.....lets just say we had to make it worth our 2 bucks a piece we paid to get in, so there may have been a few intentional wrong turns. It was a lot of fun and we had some good laughs. The night main coarse was at the old time eat out spot Sherry's. We ate our dinner (eventually after Stew finally made up his mind on what to order ;) then we headed to Kiwi Loco. I sure had a fun time with everyone! Lets try not to push the next date off so long!

On Sunday my brother Ranley was able to bless their beautiful baby girl Carli.  Once again I am reminded of how blessed I am. I am so grateful I have the opportunity to be with my family forever.  I sure love all my nieces and nephews! There is no greater/funner job then being a aunt ( we don't have kids yet so I can say that ;)  When you have babies in your family this cute it's pretty easy to LOVE being a aunt!

 

 

"Only an Aunt... can give hugs like a mother, can keep secrets like a sister, and share love like a friend."

 

 

 

Bingham Wood Chopping Trip 2012

 

I'm a little late on this post but eh oh well. Back in Sept we had our annual Bingham wood cutting day. Last year my sister in law spoke up and decided if our father in law Dwight was going to make us girls work all day.....well we just better plan on making it a camping trip. Last year was the FIRST year I actually enjoyed this trip. Yes that was only my second year, but if you had asked me the previous year....I was wondering what I had married in to. Yuck, just thinking about that first year makes me cringe. I was so pooped! But anywhoo, this was the second year we decided to camp. We went up the night before ate a yummy dinner (thanks Jami) and hit the sack. We had a early start in hopes we would not be getting home late and be splitting wood into the wee hours of the morning. I sure miss Whit (my brother in law who is serving on a mission) when this time comes around. We always miss the extra muscles when it's time for the heavy lifting.
                                                      But we still had pretty good help

Zayne and Brooke (my niece and nephew) sure were good help! Zayne was really good at filling all of our whole in the trailer, he was not about to waste any space.

I love this picture. Zayne and  Hank

Yup we are home wreckers. That  right there is woody the wood peckers home.
Whoopsie-daisy!!!

 Brooke was sure a hard worker

 

 

After eating lunch the kids wanted to go down to the stream......but we were all beat. Grandpa Bingham volunteered to take them down. Such a good grandpa.

My favorite part about going to get wood. Look at this view!

Got to love the makeupless/tired/dirty/showerless look that comes from cutting wood all day:) But hey........ its the memories that matter right ;)

Sure love this family!

Before taking off we had to snap a few family photo's. Dwight and Christine had already taken off by the time this idea popped into anybody head so we never got a group picture.

 

We had this trailer filled to the max, plus the back of a pickup truck. I think Jami and I actually impressed Dwight with our stacking skills this year. Them stacks were tall. Jami had to help out on the top stuff. Tall sister in laws sure come in handy ;)

 

I am grateful for the family I married into, even if I don't consider wooding chopping day as Hank would put it "fun" but the time I am able to spend with my family sure makes it worth the day of hard work!