From Mess to Man

We've been waiting until after Halloween to cut Jonah's hair. (He needed the long hair for his Sonic the hedgehog look.) Well, the next morning Aaron cut Jonah's hair. Here are the before and during pictures...I didn't get a good after shot of him. He did pretty well for his first haircut.

His face looks chubbier now that his long slenderizing hair is gone. Such is life! He is still the cutest little boy around! I think his hair is still going to be strawberry blonde. I was worried it might just be blonde after the haircut. We'll see.

8 is Great

Tyson turned 8 years old in September but had to wait until the end of October to get baptized. Actually, it was on Halloween day. It was a great experience for all of us...except maybe Tyson's cousin, Sean, (he got his head stuck in the backing of a chair and had to be dragged out of the room like that.) It was hilarious and certainly a memory maker...thanks Sean.

Aaron got to baptize and confirm Tyson. Tyson asked his grandma, Arleen, to give a talk on the Holy Ghost, his uncle, Gavin, to sing a song, and his cousin, Sam, to say the closing prayer. They all did a great job, thanks!

Tyson is such an awesome person, a huge blessing in our home, and I am so happy he has chosen to be baptized. What a great example he is to his younger brothers.

Whoa Nellie!

So after months and months of waiting, I THINK we've decided on a name for our little girl. Her name will be

Nellie Elizabeth Wright.

Elizabeth is my middle name and my grandma's. Nellie is not from anything in particular, we just like it. Aaron came up with it. However,....this is cheesy so watch out, I thought of this the other night in bed.....If you take the last part of my name, Danielle, and move the "i" to after the "l l 's", it spells Nellie! So cute!

H-A-double L-O-W- double E-N that spells halloween!

This was on Halloween night. Everyone's ready for some good old fashion trick or treating. We went out with some of the Alger cousins. Nate, Drew, Sara, Timmy, and Daniel. We had a lot of fun!

We did Halloween stuff on three different nights. Tyson's Indiana Jones costume change a little each time, but here's one of the nights.

Lucas was Alvin from Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Wilson wanted to be Theodore, as my Mom put it...he was Theodorable!

At our ward party...Cleopatra, Sonic (no one knew what he was, they all guessed Teletubbies, or trolls) and the Doctor. Someone asked if Aaron was Dr. Cullen, no he wasn't but he's hot enough to be!!!

We had a great Halloween!

Sea the World

We recently went to Sea World in San Diego. We took all the boys, except Jonah. He doesn't like being in the car and wouldn't have had much fun anyway. Jessi watched him instead and he and Gwen had a blast together. Here are a few pictures from our exciting trip....

Our kids are really into the "slug bug" game, so when we saw this one, we had to get a picture with it! Don't you love how I am so washed out in the picture because of the white, reflective skin that I have. "A talent that I always have possesed!" What is that quote from?

They rode the "Journey to Atlantis" ride over and over because there was no line. They were soaked. Wilson and I couldn't ride it. He was too short and I'm prego.

So, Wilson just stood in the splash zone and let every single boat splash him. He had a blast!

Tyson and the Walrus! He is waaaaayyyy into sea animals and reads all kinds of books about them. He was teaching us what some of the animals names were before we got to the signs.
Like this one...he said, "Mom, that's a commerson dolphin!" Sure enough, it was.

We went through the fun shark tunnel.

Here the boys got to touch bat rays. The felt really slippery. That was fun!

Lucas with the starfish and sea urchins. They don't do much, but it was neat.

Of course, we had to see the famous Shamu! That was so fun and my favorite part of the day. We were in the splash zone for that and got pretty wet.

Angels and Demons

I just wanted to be all gushy for a second and say how much I love all my boys. They are so fun and exciting. It'll be strange to not be able to just say, "my boys" for everything in a few months. We are all excited though. Anyways, each and everyone of them is so different from the others and I wouldn't have it any other way. That's all. I love my boys!!!

Happy Birthday's

In our family, we have one family birthday party a month. This month we combined August and September birthdays, since Gavin wasn't home yet from his mission. It was my turn to be in charge of the birthdays. We had Navajo tacos and lots of other yummy stuff for dinner. It was a really fun time. Here are the cakes I made with help from my boys and Aaron did the yellow part on Picachu. We told Gavin that we got him a blind date for his birthday and then gave him the cake. Funny? Maybe you had to be there.My Mom requested a swedish nut cake, a recipe from her friend. Not exciting to look at, but it was yummy!