Sacramento Trip

On Wednesday, my mom, the boys and I took a roadtrip to Sacramento to visit her family up there! We jam-packed our trip by going to the Zoo, Fairy Tale Town, and lots of family visits!

My Grandpa Boucher reading to Tyler- they have served a few missions for our church in Africa, so they have lots of African animal books and toys. Tyler was in heaven!

This is my Great-Grandma Mimi's home:

My great grandma is 95 years old!! Her husband, Grandpa Austin passed away before Tyler was born. He gave me my patriarchal blessing and they will always be very special to me! I remember Grandma Mimi used to throw big birthday parties for us each summer we went up there. We'd play old fashioned party games and sing songs and she'd wrap up used presents for us that we loved!! It was so nice to see her again and to get this 5 generation photo (that was like pulling teeth for my boys!)

Me- Jack- Great Grandma Mimi- My mom- Grandma Boucher!

And here is us with my mom's aunt Karen! I remember she used to plan a special date with me each time we'd go up in the summer as a kid. She would take me to the craft store to make bracelets, or to the music store for some piano books. She is a very talented piano player!

We had a blast! Zoo and Fairy Tale Town pictures coming soon!

Halloween Night

We had lots of fun on Halloween night. Jeff worked until close, which gave us enough time to play with buddy Olivia and my girlfriend Alissa before we had some family time.

Here are the cute kids (I mean superheros and princess Barbie) getting ready to walk the neighborhood!

We went half way around the block and then boldly stated they were done by sitting down.

We went home and they watched Scooby Doo's Batman and Robin episode and SpongeBob Scaredy Pants. (oh yes, we did!)

This was our next door neighbor's yard- that morning Tyler asked him if he was having a yard sale!! AHAHAHA! The neighbor on my other side was also decked out with spiderwebs and tombstones, so I bought some spider lights in an attempt to fit in the neighborhood and not look like a halloween grinch!

My mom helped me with the flower pots!

After the boys got their second wind, we headed over to my grandparent's and parent's house.

Lanie & Papa, Robin and Batman, I mean Tiger... he decided to wear last year's costume for the rest of the night... ok, whatever! :)

My mom and I wore our matching jackolantern shirts and...

you better believe I wore these stockings too. I love them :) I secretly wish I could wear them everyday.

The next day when I was packing up all the Halloween stuff, Jackson found the face painting sticks. He gave himself a "batman mustache"!!

Jackson Jokes

Well it looks like Tyler has some competition in the funny department. Jackson has been cracking me up lately!

This morning, Jackson climbed in bed with me to cuddle. He already earned his big boy bed fairy prize for staying in bed or getting back in his bed when he wakes up durin the night. The fairy brought him a pack of 3 cars. He was counting and counted all the way to 15! His numbers were so darling- eleben, twelb, tirteen, borteen, bibteen! Started my happy day :)

After that I told him we were going to Target after his gymnastics class (while Tyler was at preschool) and he would get a special present. It was Cars 2, but I wanted him to try to guess. He started guessing, "sponge bob square pants toy?" and said each word slowly and clearly. It was so funny to hear him guess that.

Immediately after that, Ringo ran in our room and started jumping at himself in the mirror. Jackson started cracking up and said, "It's you, Ringo!"

The other day I was helping Jackson on the potty. I was doing whatever I could to keep him sitting there and entertained. My mom gave him a cars sticker book one of the days he was sick and we were stuck in the house. I pulled it out and we were doing stickers, matching colors and shapes. Then he pointed to himself and said, "Jackson Cwark" I said, yes, that's right- you are Jackson Clark... Then he said, "Ty'yer Cwark, Mommy Cwark, Daddy Cwark." Yay, that's right! Then he pointed to the book and said, "Book Cwark!"

It's so fun to have 2 little boys who can talk to me and make me smile all day long!!

Tyler Funnies and Wisdom

Our neighbor's dogs bark off and on during the day. We know the mailman is coming when they really get loud... One day during a barking fest, Tyler turned to me and said, "Mom, those dogs hate us."

We had eggs for breakfast. We were done and I was cleaning off the table and I didn't really notice Tyler was back and forth from table (to take a bite) to the couch. He came over and said, "Mom, we have a problem... I bless you'd and my eggs got on the wall." I was laughing way too hard to be mad at him!

Our next door neighbor was going all out for halloween. Every square inch was covered in something spooky! He started pulling everything out of the garage and onto his lawn on Halloween morning. We were leaving to do some errands since Jeff had the morning off. His garage was open and he was pulling out boxes and had a few things setting out on the lawn for him to hang up. Tyler walked over excitedly and asked, "Are you having a garage sale?" I was cracking up, but my neighbor didn't think it was very funny.

We were watching Terra Nova as a family (one of the boys' favorites) and on commercial Tyler said, "If I forget what this show is called, I just think Tyler. Cuz it starts with a T, and then I know Nova. So then I remember Terra Nova." I thought that was so smart of him to think of a way to remember what it's called. He has asked me a few times the last couple weeks "what that show is called again", and this time he thought of a way to remember on his own. He is brilliant!! :)