Birthday Party!

Last week we celebrated Asa's 4th birthday. He wanted a Batman Birthday, so I decided I'd give this home made cake thing another try. It went much better...Note to self: start baking the cake about noon for a 7pm party in order to give it ample time to cool so it can be decorated. This was a super simple cake to make though. When I was surfing the web for cake ideas Asa was sitting next to me and we came across a Robin cake. He really wanted that one, but I forced him to have the batman one because I wanted to HA! He was super excited none the less.

Asa came away with some pretty good presents that included this batman helicopter, a coat, a couple outfits, handheld game, RC car, action figures, and other things that I can't recall at this time. It was a good time!

Family Pictures round two

We did pictures with the other side.  Here are a few of my favorites.  

A new skill

Anyone who has known me my whole life knows that my life has always revolved around being creative. I was always spending my time in lah lah land making up stories, drawing or playing with sculpy. Somewhere along the line during my jr high and high school + years I lost this part of me.  About 2 years ago, just after Coen was born, it came back.  And over time I've been spending my time redeveloping my lost creativity, and learning new skills. One of these new skills happens to be sewing/quilting. A couple of months ago we got twin beds for the boys and that sparked a wild hair to make blankets for the kids' new beds.  It only took me about 6 weeks from start to finish to construct and quilt two twin sized quilts. It was so fun!  So here they are.  I am going to make some pillows, but haven't had a chance to yet. 

Here is an up close on the quilting.  Not the best picture, but you get the idea.
Please scroll down for our halloween fun :)

Halloween 2009

Our Halloween festivities started off Thursday when we took Asa up the Heber Creeper's Haunted Canyon.  Coen was supposed to go, but he started his day off with a cough, so Grandma Kathy kept him home.  We thought it was going to be freezing cold.  When we got there we found out the train cars are actually heated! Oh well.  Next time we will know. Asa thought the train was so fun.  He loved watching out the window and I think he was a little scared.

On Friday we had a halloween costume party to go to.  Cody and I are dressed up as the Joker and his girl friend Harley Quinn, and the boys are Batman and Robin.  Asa has been obsessed with batman for quite some time.  I think he was more excited than anyone that Cody and I were dressed in theme.  I still can't believe I went out in public in a unitard! Oh, the things we do for our kids!
Cody took Saturday off (big shocker, he never takes a day off) and we decided we'd head to corn belly's. Asa and Coen had a great time.  Not pictured is the scary monster we went inside.  The boys hated every second of it.  Asa is still afraid of it and last night he thought every weird noise was the monster coming to get us. Cody and I are still laughing about it.  Mean parents I know. They rode the cow train....
...played in the corn kernels....
....and of course the corn maze that was so trampled we only walked around a little bit just to make the boys feel like we'd done everything.
Then of course trick or treating.  The weather was actually decent.  We hit more houses than we ever have. Asa was pretty excited to go out, aside from being scared that the monster would find us out and about.  Coen would say trick or treat and then thank everyone for the candy.  Here's our little Robin
And Batman