Dress Up for Chase

Chase has been wearing Mason's football clothes when he is gone...............

The boys love to play football amd get tackled even though I don't like the rough play and balls in the house.

The boys went to a pirate birthday party and got these awesome pirate accessories.....

We went to a pumpkin festival and Mason got his face painted as Spider-Man..

Chase got a whistle that he calls his train whistle......

Mason has been trying to play tricks on us ever since he got this spider at a birthday party....

PuMpKiN TiMe

This year we did sticker faces and then Carved Pumpkins.....

I am not sure what he is doing but this was the only one I had of him drawing his face on his pumpkin.

OUT of AFRICA

Today we decided to take the kids to OUT OF AFRICA by Camp Verde because we had free tickets and then realized that we hadn't been since we had Chase. The Boys loved it and Chase was so excited to feed the Giraffe the carrot and to touch the snake. On our way to the park Chase would say,"I touch big snake"so when we got there he could hardly wait. He LOVED riding on the bus to see the animals. When it was over he just wanted to stay on the bus. Here is the pictures from our trip.......

Cooling off and waiting for tiger splash to start

Tiger splash, only one tiger wanted to join the fun today, her friend didn't want to get in the cage

Chase waiting for Mason to get to feed the tiger..... Lots of Rocks and Dirt for boys to play in

We paid $5.00 to let Mason feed the Tiger.... Which he thought was pretty cool

Mason and Darren got asked to help move the snake out of the cage.........

Chase not wanting to wait in the line to pet the snake....He wanted to go NOW.....

They had the Hyena's in the arena so that they could talk about them and get them to do some tricks...

It was time to leave after being at the park all day. It was nice to be able to do something that was fun for the boys and spend the time as a family.

Put Your Hands UP

The boys have been playing cops and getting the bad guys out of our house! I have been very surprised at how well the boys have gotten along during Fall break. Mason and Chase have been playing alot better that I think Chase is going to miss Mason when he goes back to school. But until then they will continue to play cops and hopefully continue to get along.

Halloween Decorating

This week is fall break and so we have been doing things to entertain. One of the entertainment was to make a treat that was suppose to be a spooky forest. Mason making his forest.... Chase making his forest with the frosting........

Taking a break to taste the frosting..............

This is what he looked like when he was finished............

This is one of the crafts that turned out that I was happy with..........

Other crafts that we made were; spiders out of balls and paper, pumpkins, and a haunted house.

Remi's Baptism weekend

On Saturday 10-9-10 we went to St. Johns to see Cousin Remi get Baptized. It was a 3 1/2 hr drive for us and the kids did great! Chase told us everytime he needed to stop to go to the bathroom which was AWESOME!
At the baptizm Chase loved to sing the songs and kept telling us the whole time,"Remi get baptized." They had asked my grandpa Howard to talk on Baptizm and then they asked Darren to talk on the Holy Ghost. Mason was asked to say the closing prayer. We asked Mason if he would like to practice the prayer and he told us no. But when he gave the prayer it was really good and was about a couple of minutes long. Afterwards people told him he did a good job and did better than some adults do. Here is Shane and Remi- Remi is the oldest cousin and so it was good example for Mason and Chase to see there cousin get baptized.

Great Grandpa & Great Grandma Howard

Grandpa and Grandma Norton

The cousins- Remi's sisters and brother hadn't made it yet when we took the pictures

While we were in St. Johns we went to there park and it was really nice and green-

Mason holding Ruger - Remi's baby brother

On the way to St. Johns there is a place you can stop and look at Dinosaur statues and then look at the petrified wood.

This one piece of petrified wood cost $1500.00 and then the shop that Mason wanted to buy something in had a sign that said you break it you bought it. So we had to keep Chase outside because he wouldn't let us hold him. Mason wanted to buy something and so Darren took him in first. Well he was in there for 15min and couldn't decide on what to get so then I took him in and he looked and looked and then saw a knife and I said no. We are at the petrified wood gift shop get some petrified wood. He didn't want to so I took him out to leave and Darren went in and told him that he had 10 seconds to get something and he chose 3 rocks that are blue which look like I found them in my yard and then shined them up. They were $5.00. Next time we are going to just get the souvenir that goes with the place we are stopped at and not let the kids go in to choose something because we ended up being there for 1 hour.

But over all the kids enjoyed the little time away and want to go back to visit.