Hanging Out

Random moment from this month:

A couple of Sundays ago Cambrie was craving chocolate cake, we we decided to make one!  The goal was a triple layer chocolate cake with ganache frosting.  Last time I tried this recipe it looked horrible, but tasted delicious.  This bake worked like a charm.  Can you guess what Daxton's favorite part of helping mom in the kitchen is?

We have quite the growing collection of Halloween costumes at the house.  I'm not exactly sure what look McKenzie was going for with this wig, but I think the bubblegum pink lipstick is the perfect compliment to that crazy hair!

Jeremy and I are making an effort to go out on more date nights.  I love BBQ, but the kids aren't sold.  So when it was just the adults it was time to get some brisket!  

Oh Sundays, the perfect baking day.  It's hard to tell the scale from this picture, but those pancakes are each the size of a dinner plate.  They were huge and gorgeous!  The kids were slightly disappointed they didn't each get a stack that large for themselves, but as it was, they could barely finish one of those suckers.

The girls joined me in watching the women's session of General Conference this year.  Now while they pick on each other and occasionally get on each other's nerves, sometimes they really do like each other.  I just love this picture of the two of them!

Daxton's preschool craft game is strong this year!  He loves bringing home his projects.  I'm super impressed by this hippo.

True, it's about an hour past bedtime, but that means it's the perfect time to try to walk with your feet in the arms of your sweatshirt!

The skies here lately have been wild.  Colorado has beautiful sunrises and sunsets naturally, but add in some wildfire smoke and the skies are unreal.

I went to wake the boys up for school, and wasn't exactly sure where I should look: in that giant pile on the floor or in their beds!  Apparently they had tried to sleep in there but it wasn't very comfortable.

Handstand contest!

The fall colors look especially vibrant this year.  I love it.

Meet Daxton the robot!

After preschool one afternoon, Daxton and I decided to go on a bike ride around the neighborhood looking at everyone's Halloween decorations.  We rode all over our neighborhood and found pumpkins, ghosts, spiders, and skeletons galore.  The weather was perfect and we were out there for nearly an hour.  Luckily I had Daxton to keep me safe, because Halloween decorations totally give me the heebee jeebees.

These boys!  Towards the end of quarantine they were getting on each other's nerves and fighting a lot.  Once they started school, all of that stopped.  They are currently best buddies and do absolutely everything together.  I can't believe that brothers can be such good friends.