A Welcome to Fall Living

It's here!  Even if the weather is still in the 90's, I don't care, Fall is here.  If I wait for it to get cooler I'll miss the whole thing.  Anyhoo, here is a little recap of the past weekend we had.  Did I mention how excited I am that it's October?

Tommy's Preschool Art,  Maxers impression on Lola's arm

Mr. Daredevil, Tommy's Birthday dinner at El Charro

Building Tommy's first set of Lego's

Costco trip, We made the decision to go to Disneyland in November with Tyler's family.

Our Christmas gift to us.

Playing with new hair style's at Bunko, Watching General Conference on my small computer.  {I need a new one before the next conference!}

Love him!  Sorting and organizing a ton of the kids clothing while listening to Conference.  Been on the to do list for awhile.  Feels great to have it done!

Met at my friend Jill's house to hang and eat dinner during the Priesthood session.  Here's some of the cute kiddos.

After putting the two little's to bed {while Tommy and Tyler were still at the ASU game} I cuddled up into bed and watched a movie that I wanted to watch and did a little journaling.  It was heaven!  Tommy got to go to the ASU game with Tyler for the first time this season.  He loved it, and we won!  Bonus!

My first taste of Pumpkin pie this season!  First of two slices and many more to come!  Some of the little cousins hanging out together at Grandma's house in between conference sessions on Sunday.  We didn't stage this photo.  They were all sitting there on their own.  Too cute!

My nephew Cooper, age 7, was taking notes during the morning and afternoon sessions of conference.  These were some of his notes.  I just thought it was the sweetest thing ever!

Where we found the babies getting into trouble.  The craziness we endured during the afternoon session while trying to keep all the children quite.  We didn't get much out of that session, or at least I didn't.  But still nice to be with the family and feel of the spirit together.

Later Sunday evening we headed over to Spencer and Tiffani's house to share dinner with them.  It was a decent enough night to sit outside and let the kids play on some of the bikes and such.  I even took a little stroll through the neighborhood on Tiff's cruiser.  Then we threw all the kids into their massive shower.  After which we went to Granny and Papa's house to go for a little visit.  The last picture is of Thomas sitting in my bed next to me as I was journaling.  He wanted to journal too and I love watching him draw and come up with such cute little pictures so I was happy to have the company.  

A great way to end an amazing weekend!

ASU Game

A few weeks ago we had the opportunity to go to the ASU game with Tyler and all the tickets holders.  He and his family get season tickets every year, and the Porters weren't using theirs so I decided to go with the kids.  Toms has never been before, so we knew he's love it.

We started the day off by going to Ted's for lunch.  Sometimes they tailgate but today worked out to just pick some good old hot dogs up at Ted's.  It was crazy busy and the line took forever, but the dog's and onion rings were pretty good.  Well worth the wait.

Tommy wouldn't cooperate.  Surprise.

Lola getting in the spirit.

Here we are!  Go Devils!

Toms kept wanting to sit next to me, then next to Tyler.  I think the people next to us were a little annoyed, but Tommy was happy.

Looking through Papa's binoculars.  While Lola slept on Granny's lap.

Lola loved all the attention she got from her cousins.  and Kate loved having someone small to play with and keep her occupied during the game.

Thanks Amy for letting us use your tickets to enjoy one game game this season.  The kids had a blast and I had fun too.  Even though we didn't win, it was still a good game.  As we were leaving it started to pour rain on all of us and we all got soaked as we ran to our cars.  That always makes for an exciting adventure.

Go DEVILS!  Hopefully they will do better next season.

Go Devils!

Most Saturdays in the fall are game days for us around here. The kiddos get dressed in their finest Maroon and Gold, the flag flies high and Daddy leaves us around 4:00 to start tailgating. I'm working on finding joy in the fact that Tyler enjoys his college football games so much. I think I'm getting better, it's a process. Anyhow, today is one of those "Game Days", and the kids are looking pretty darn cute, so I had to take some pics and make a quick shout out for the team.

{here they are from the FIRST game of the season}

{and here is a shot from today}

{they are pretty excited for the game to start too. Can you tell?}

Good Luck ASU, Go DEVILS!

ASU Game!

So, I was finally able to join Tyler and the rest of the gang for one of the ASU Football games this season.  He and his family have been going for a few years now and I've never had the desire to go and sit in a hot stadium and watch a game that I'm not all that interested in, but we had an extra ticket this past weekend {Thanks Spencer} so I wanted to go and see what all the fuss was about.

We started the evening out with a little tailgating.  We ordered Spinato's pizza to chow on and can I just say, YUM!  Then we hung out in the parking lot for a bit while the boys threw a football back and forth and the ladies talked all about the fun deals they were able to get earlier that day while shopping.

I had to take a picture of Tyler, Tim & Darrin's shoes.  Apparently they all shop at the same store.

Here's one of the top of that last picture.  Such fun friends, you're all so lucky to have each other!

Some of the other's getting ready for the game to start.

After the team would score a touchdown Tyler & one of the boys would do pushups with one of the nephews.  The first one's were done with Cody and Tim ended up hurting his shoulder.  So Darrin stood in and helped Tyler out for the rest of the touchdowns.  

Griff!

The boys going crazy after the Devils scored another touchdown.

They were running up and down the aisle's flying their shirts in the air screaming their heads off.  This was the most entertaining part of the whole game.  So funny watching such skinny little kids running all over the place.

and here we are!  We had to take a picture to document this joyous occasion.  Who knows when I'll be joining them again.  Maybe once a year.  That's about all I need to get my fill.

Thanks Babe for making such a fun and memorable evening at the game for me.  I loved seeing "Game Face Tyler", a new side of you that I knew was somewhere inside, but never have seen it come out before.  It was rather enjoyable.  Thanks!

GO DEVILS!!   oh, and we won!  That's always a plus!

We've Created A Devil...

...Literally!  The other night while Toms was fast asleep and Tyler was just making it into the bedroom, Toms stirred a bit, but while still sleeping he started to talk.  At first I didn't understand what he said {Tyler knew right away}, then I realized he said "Go Devils".  While he was sleeping!  So funny!  It was like 2:30 in the morning or something and he never opened his eye's or anything, just yelled out "Devils......Go Devils" and went right back to lying asleep next to us.  I tell ya, you just can't get enough of these little kids.  The things they say.

So, Happy dreaming about Sparky to all!!! {Even though they don't have the best record this year, we are still BIG fans!}

Go DEVILS!

Just another Saturday.

Today was a busy one, & it's not even over!  Kristy is in the hospital as we speak working on delivering that sweet baby of hers.  Good luck, sis!  PUSH!!!

First of all, last night was great.  We went out to Dinner W/ My in-laws for Tyler's Birthday.  Morton's, Yum!  I had the King Crab Legs and Tyler had some sort of Steak.  I never know the difference.  I think it was a filet of some sort.  It was such a fun atmosphere, with impekable service!  We even saw THIS guy walk in and sit at the bar towards the end.  Not the most popular celebrity, but on TV non-the less.  Then we headed to Scottsdale Fashion Square to buy Tyler some new Black Dress shoes for his gift from his parents.  After that we headed to Scottsdale's Hot spot for Gelato to get a little treat.

Then we headed home to pick up Toms from the Dale's house.  Griff was the babysitter tonight, and he was so excited!  He is out little 10 year old nephew, who loves Toms.  He had so much fun playing with him all night.  We'll have to get him more often.  Plus since he's a little younger we only payed him $15 instead of the usual $20.  That's always a plus!

Next, we have our fun filled Saturday!  I woke up and FINALLY decided to conquer my pantry!  It's one of those jobs that has needed to be done for months now, but I never have the energy or drive to start.  So today I did!  While Toms was out side doing this...

and this...

I went to work and here is my lovely pantry now!

Isn't it great!!!  I am so happy to have it all organized and clean.  It seriously just makes my day!  I keep going past it and opening the door to look at it again.  Silly, I know, but I love it when things are all in the right place!

Then I convinced Tyler to go with me to the Balloon Fly for Nie and her Husband.  We all met at the Temple grounds to to let our well wishes fly.  Look at the great turn out we had!!!

I pasted a bunch of my pics together to make one fun picture.  We love you Nie Nie and wish you well!  I was able to meet some of your sister's and your Mom.  And what a wonderful family you have.  It was so fun to see all the different people who were there to wish you both well.  You are seriously loved lady and have lots of people out there praying on your behalf.  

After the Temple we headed over to one of our FAVORITE dinner spots.  Spinatos!  We always order the Spaghetti Calzone and go away so stuffed!  It is seriously so darn good that it's wrong!

Then we went over to Old Navy to check out any sale's that may have been going on.  I got a couple of shirts.  Nothing special, just comfy ones for around the house.  Then we headed over to my In-Laws to stop in and say hello for a minute.  And finally made it back home to relax.  Tyler just took Toms over to the Barney's house to see Clark.  They have been out of town for the past few days so Toms was dying to see them!  He asks for Clark like 24/7!

I decided to stay behind and do a little blog catching up.  So here I am.  Well, hope you all had a fun filled day.  And hopefully got lots accomplished.

I'll leave you with a funny Home Movie of Toms watching the ASU Highlights video of Sparky walking through the desert and crushing the UofA bus.  It's hilarious.  He was so freaked out!  I'm such a mean Mom!

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