Monday, October 31, 2011

This is HALLOWEEN!

Wouldn't be Halloween, if we didn't carve us some pumpkins

Or go to the pumpkin patch

All dressed up! Me and my boys

This picture might look a little familiar. I have one with Talan and Chase both in this costume in this exact pose. All of my boys have wore this costume now. I guess it's a tradition of some sort for us. I absolutely love it.

Talan's preschool party

School Halloween parade

Talan and Easton peeking into Taylor's classroom after the parade

Chase at the parade. When I asked him where the best part of his costume was, (well besides himself) his hat? He said it itched, so I took it off..

Chase's class had a pumpkin carving party with the dads. So fun for both Chase and Cort.

Taylor bobbing for doughnuts at her class party

Frankenstein aka Chase

Family photo

Trick or treat! Our neighborhood really knows how to celebrate Halloween. There were parties going on all over the place tonight. We hit up two of them. After we ate at one of them, the kids took off trick or treating with some friends. I snapped a quick picture of them when they came to our house to trick or treat. I love how Taylor has no problem having Chase "tag along" with her and her friends. If there was an award for best big sister I would give it to her!

Trick or treat

Spooky greetings from our family to yours! Happy Halloween!

Sunday, October 23, 2011

VEGNO!

VanEpps Girls Night Out

SO much fun! My favorite time of year, with good food, great people and lots of laughs. Does it get any better than that??? I think not. Love my Arizona family.

flag football



A friend from Chase's class asked us if Chase wanted to play flag football this fall with him. Chase was so excited and couldn't say YES he wanted to fast enough. So even though he's still only 5, (you are suppose to be 6...sadly though he will be soon enough!) and the youngest one on the team, we signed him up. He is loving it! He is so competitive and aggressive by nature when it comes to sports. And in true Chase fashion he smiles the entire time he is on the field. He is really in his element out there.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

St George and Conference weekend

Last weekend we headed north, so Cort could run the St. George marathon. We also spent the weekend watching conference, shopping at some of my favorite Utah stores, met up with a dear friend, and just enjoyed being together. It was a wonderful weekend.

My little monsters our first night there. Love these kids in these jammies! Seriously it's my favorite! Absolutely love this time of year.

Before we left that Saturday morning to meet Cort at the finish line, Chase and Talan were writing him little love notes. I couldn't find the bulk of them, but I found these three. The first one of Chase's was torn up. He probably thought he messed up on one of his letters. He is such a perfectionist!

The kids anxiously awaiting for Cort to come in. They were so cute! Talan and Easton started to get a little restless, but Taylor was the first one that spotted Cort coming in. He ran all 26.2 miles (can't forget the .2!) in 3 hours 41 minutes. And it has to be said, he did it without really training. Are you kidding me! I couldn't run that fast if my life depended on it.

Just finished! Sooo proud of you Cort! You are amazing. He now wants to run a Ultra Marathon. I know, I know he is out of control!

At the finish line. Cort with his very own personal cheering squad

After the race we headed back to our room and watched conference. I love conference weekend. I look forward to it for weeks before it happens. Every session, there is always a couple talks that stick out to me and I tend to think those were the best ones and everyone must totally agree, that those were the best! But then as I look around at other people's blogs and talk to others about what their favorite talks were, I realize that everyone else's favorites are totally different than mine and are based on what they needed to hear at the moment. Just like mine are. President Monson talk was definitely a favorite for me, as was President Uchtdorf's, and Elder Anderson. Can I have too many favorites?? It was all so good and as I listened to each of the talks I knew they were inspired and my testimony on the importance of conference was strenghtened.

Love this picture. Love this kid. Love this talk.

During conference, Taylor and Chase turned over The poster they had made for their dad and colored the entire Saturday afternoon session. No lie. Who knew one poster paper could provide so much entertainment. I think I will go buy a stack of them to keep on hand!

Conference bingo. Always a must.

It just so happened that my cute friend Ang happened to be in St. George that weekend too. What are the odds! We met up with them at the Tabernacle there, which to my surprise had a carousel, that Easton kept trying to escape too, and the coolest Red rock water feature for the kids to run around on. They loved it and I loved seeing Ang and catching up with her a bit. Ang is the type of person who just makes you feel good when your around her. Wish we could of hung out a bit more.

Me and Ang

Easton trying to get a drink. Gross. Where is this child's mother??