UGH!!!!! I am so irritated. My blog has reached it maximum number of posts and now it wont let me do anymore. So I am having to do a wierd round about sort of blogging. I am going to start doing it under my husbands account since he never uses his. But now everything is different. They updated it all and I am to lazy and stuck in my ways to try to relearn anything. So it isn't going to be pretty and cutsey like last time. SO here is the address and this will be the last post I make to this  blog. Good bye blog, you have been such a good friend!!

http://oliventurescontinue.blogspot.com/

COLOR ME RAD! Holy cow, holy woah, Holy Rad. This is the color me rad run. It is a 5k run, you wear all white, and as the run goes on people pelt you with colors the whole way. By the end of the run your whites are a rainbow. And nothing is offlimits. We were getting it in our hair, faces, backs, legs, everywhere.  We were spitting rainbows. But it was so worth it. There was such a excited spirit going in the air. Everyone was happy to be there and ready to play. It was Brian, Andrea, my Dad and I and we ran the whole way! I am so proud that we ran the whole way! We are totally going to do this next year and every year that they come. WAHOO!!!

This is just a really cute snap shot of cowboy Jude on the trampoline.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2012!!!

Derek and I have had a child in our bedroom for over 2 years. Alice was born and she stayed with us until about a year. Then she started waking up at night and seeing us and wanting to be with us. It didn't matter if it was 10 at night or 2 in the morning, if she saw us she was up for the day. So naturally room switching was in order. We tried moving Alice and Jude into the same room but that didn't work either. Jude was a little binky theif and would steal her binky at all hours of the night, waking her up. So that didn't work either. We tried moving Jude into our room and that worked really well. He was excited to be having a sleepover with Mom and Dad, and Alice was able to sleep uninteruptted. Jude has been our room mate for about a year now. Alice just turned two and no longer has a sippy or a binky. Nothing to steal. We figured it was time to try both kids in the same room again. We usually ease on into these things but tonight we just went for it. We moved Judes bed (which he wasn't happy with at first) into Alice's room.  We tried to make it as much of a party as we could and Jude turned around. He was getting excited. But Alice was a tough customer, she wanted the room to herself and kept asking Jude to leave. When it finally came time to turn off the ight and shut the door she was very upset. She was crying and crying, but Derek and I were going to give it a couple days of before we threw inthe towel. We kept hearing "it's ok, ALie don't cry, here" coming from the room. And after about 1/2 an hour Alice calmed down and the room was quiet. About an hour later we went to check on the kids and they were both conked out. Jude had given Alice every book he had access to and a huge stuffed dog. Somehow she had still managed to fall asleep. We fished out all the books, and set both the kids up comfy. I'm glad to say that now they love it. The adore being roomates, I can hear giggles well into the night. I think they are bonding over being "naughty" mom and dad say it's time for bed, but they are still up laughing and playing. Derek and I have decided that as long as they are in that room and no one is crying that they can do just about anything they want. We are just glad, after two years, to have our room back.

Fall-shmall! Sure it's November but I don't think Saint George knows that yet. The mornings are quite chilly but by the afternoon the temperture rises up into the 80s or more. The kids were complaining that it was hot and they wanted to go to the pool. They kept asking for the pool and the pool and the pool. Our pool has been closed since september. So it was time to improvise.  I brought out a couple of tupperware bins and filled them up with water. The kids went nuts. In and out and all about they were. Then I kept adding elements. I added bowls, cups, and spoons. Then a little while later I added balls, and then awhile later I dyed the water with our color tablets. They had such a grand time and were at it for almost the whole afternoon.

Our ward had a super fun time Halloween party, and super fun it was. Every one was dressed up so fun. We went with a cowboy indian theme and got lots of compliments. How could we not with kiddos so cute.  We did a cupcake walk that the kids didn't really understand but figured they could hop on board when they heard that cupcakes were involved. After cupcakes we ate some yummy chilli and then did ome trunk or treating, or is it trick or trunking? Whatever it was there were tons of candy and the kids were going cuckoorunning from one car to another. Happy pre-Halloween!!

After the carnival Alice was feeling rather vengeful. She put everyone in time out. Daddy went first. Then Andrea, then myself. We also had to go into the bedroom to have a talk with Alice. She dragged us in the room. Sat us down, and told us to be nice.  It was very cute and very hard to keep a straight face through it all.

Every year my mom's school has a halloween carnival and this year they really stepped it up. There were some of the most intense bouncy houses I have ever seen! Alice and Jude were loving the shark one. You climbed to the top of the shark and slid down and came out of his mouth, great teeth and all. Then we tried to go down the gorilla one. Jude loved it but Alice lost her mind. It was a little deflated and when you stepped inside it kind of wrapped around you. So I thought maybe she was feeling claustraphobic. I went around to put her under the gorilla where it was more of a flat jumpy part. SHE SCREAMED!!! She screamed so loud and just did this speedy scuttle crawl over to the other side and ran off into the night. I had to ditch Jude and chase after her. Poor thing was traumatized. Anytime I got even semi close to the gorilla she would just panic. Anytime we would mention the gorilla she would just say "NO NO NO!!" It was very cute but also very sad.  We just enjoyed the rest of the carnival sans giant gorillas.

Now the grocery store is something all new everytime. Its a 3 ring circus that keep you constantly on your toes. Alice is one circle, Jude is another, and the actual shopping is the third. I am supposed to keep it all together. Sometimes I do a really good job and sometimes it all falls to bits in my hands. On this certain day things were going really well. The touch but no grab rule was having a really beating but they were keeping the other rules. No running, inside voice, and stay by mommy. The no grabbing rule is hard because they want so baddly to help. They see me grab things and put them in the cart, so they try and grab things to put in the cart. They see me open a frezzer door, so they open up a frezzer door, etc. About 75 percent of the time I would say our shopping trips go realy well and this was one of those times. Good job my darlings!

Anytime we go to pick something up at the store the kids insist on making a pumpkin pit stop. We have to set aside at least 5-10 minutes for them to looks, touch, and explore. The rule is that you can touch as much as you want but no picking up. I have to often remind them of this rule, but on this day they had just recieved a batch of mega pumpkins. They were all way to huge for a toddler to even think about hefting. So it was nice to just let them enjoy themsleves.

Another big bonk for Alice. We were running around having a good time playing and Alce trips and cracks her head open. Blood everywhere. Derek was the first to her rescue and he ended up with blood on his hands, on his shirt, and on the carpet underneath him. Alice also had a fair amount of blood on her hands, face, and shirt. Luckily head wounds always look worse then they really are. When we finally got her cleaned up and the bleeding stopped the cut was only about an inch. A cute little bandaide was all we needed to make it all better. Geez, Alice, be more careful!

It's that time of year. Spooky, scary and a whole lot of fun. The kids love hide and seek with a firey passion. We play it all the time and for them it never gets old. Well I wanted to give it a little twist. I waited until dark, turned off all the lights inthe house and gave the seeker a red flashlight. Thus flash light hide and seek was born!The kids were loving it to bits and pieces. We must have played 20 rounds. Even though our house is only 2 bedrooms there are a lot of places to hide. There were a couple times where Derek and I had the kids stumped. When that happened we would make ghost noises until they could find us.Such a perfectly spooky Halloween activity. YAY!! 

Pumpking carving! We let the kids pick there own pumpkins and everything. Our whole family went with sort of a oval theme it seems. Then I asked the kids and they designed their own pumpkins. They picked the eyes, and expression, everything. Well almost everything. As much as they wanted to do it themselves I handled the carving. I also helped with the scooping. Alice didn't mind getting right in there but Jude was feeling a little hesitant. I got a big hunk of pumpkin goo and shoved it into his hands. Oh I got in trouble. He did not like that. So in penance I finished cleaning out the rest of his pumpkin for him. We were carving well into the night and by the time we finished it was the perfect time to light them up. The kids were so excited. Still everytime we go out the door they have to go and look at their pumpkins. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

WALLL BASHING!!! Oh this night was so much fun. Just a hoot and a half. It was Angie's birthday and tomorrow the contracter was coming to knock out the wall. Not if we got to it first. We had pizza, cake, presents, all the typical birthday fan fare and then. Oh boy and then. Out came the hammers. We let Angie have the first swing, it being her birthday and all but then it was a free for all. Kids, adults, grandparents everyone got a hammer, crowbar, sledge and started going for the wall. It was so much fun, there was dust flying everywhere and the holes were getting bigger and bigger.  We almost brought the whole wall down, but we saved some for the contracter. WAHOO!!

Jude, Alice and I go on many wanderings. Sometimes to old places and sometimes to new. Today was both. It was old place to me but had been built and redesigned to someplace new.  An old running trail that had a new highway built over it. Most of it was still there, like this bridge. It was neat for the kids to throw things off of it and to watch them splash into the river below. We walked for awhile and then turned back to go the other direction.

 We ended up under the highway. It was quite neat as the river ran perpindicular to the highway and was surronded by big rocks. The kids were throwing and tossing big rocks for big splashes and loving every moment. I had to keep telling them to back up, I was certian that they were going to fall in. We stayed until it was dark and even then the kids were reluctant to go.

When in rome....at least that is what Jude was thinking when were playing with all of Alice's new birthday presents. Alice doned a beautiful pink princess dress with matching princess shoes and trotted around the yard with her baby in the stroller.

Not one to be left out Jude grabbed himself a skirt, a cape, and his cowboy hat. And commenced to have tea party. Like I said, when in Rome... 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALICE!!!!!!!! HAPPY PAINT PARTY ALICE!!!

We started the day getting everyone together at Tati's house, and just getting messy. The boys played in the mud and the girls went and had tea parties. I got the canvases ready by taping off their names then I let them paint. They were all getting very creative with use of color and tools. Some kids were using brushes, some fingers, and Jude even drove a truck over his painting. Some of the adults had to chip in and help a bit. They were quite big canvases. While we were letting those dry we were on to another activity. Andrea had come up with this really neat "science experiment" involving baking soda and colored vinegar. She spread lots of baking soda in a cookie sheet and then let the kids spray colors on to it. It made a really fun porus design in addition to being a great foamy mess. Some of the kids were even brave enough to taste it. Ollie and Jude didn't think to much of it but Alice was quite fond of it. Wierd kid. At least she will have whiter teeth.

Next was the best part of any party, THE CAKE!! And in keeping with the theme I brought out a completley white cake and let the kids decorate it. I had 10 different types of sprinkles and the kids went nuts. Before too long we couldn't even see cake. But all the better because that cake was scrumptious. After that Tati brought out the crayons and let us go to town on her wall. She was going to bust it down sometime soon to open up the house so why not. The kids really enjoyed this naughty activity, although they were having a rough time staying on the designated wall. Little sneaks did it right in front of our eyes. After that we did presents. Alice did really well at first but then she got so side tracked by the open presents that she didn't care much for the unopened ones. The older kids helped to open them for her and woah did Alice make out like a bandit! Happy two year old birthday baby girl!

Jude built the coolest train track and I just had to take a picture! It was looping around and under and just looked really cool.

This was the small present that we gave Alice for her birthday. It was a pack of bath dyes that were sure to be fun. And package delivered they were a hoot! We had a blue bath, the a purple bath, an orange bath then a pink bath.  The kids were getting so excited and they loved to "throw colors." Bath time can be such a hoot!