Catch Up Time

well it feels like forever since i have blogged, probably because it has been a couple of months. but my computer is now working and i have a lot to catch up on. so this will be long but there is a lot of great pictures you are not gonna want to miss. lets go back to...

September 17... my baby kelton turns 1

kelton is now one and is so adorable. he is such a good baby and i love him to pieces.

for kelton's birthday we had a little celebration at our house with pizza, cake, and water balloons.

here is kelton before the party started.. he is excited

now the water balloons were originally supposed to be a fun activity for the kids to do because it was something different and you know kids love getting wet.... well what it ended up being was a 5 minute water balloon fight with john, my b-i-l troy, and my bro tyler using the balloons to try to drench me and my sister laura. as you can see in this first picture, the patio is soaked where we were standing. everyone had fun and that is all that counts.

the kids scramble to get balloons before they are all gone.

a quick shot before we go back inside.

kelton was not a great present opener but he got a lot of toys so he was happy

a clown was on the agenda for kelton's cake. i though it was cute, but of course i did make it. i guess i was satisfied with the outcome of it.

October 1...Superhero's

my kids go through stages of what they are into and for the month of october it was superheros and fighting. so they are very creative and spent a lot of time running around playing. i love to see mikenna and andon use their imagination

October 15... Mikenna turns 6

mikenna got a real special present for her birthday... a surprise visit from her nana (john's mom) and nana nani (john's grandma) from arizona. they had been planning to come for about a month and we kept it a secret from mikenna. just a little background, mikenna and her nana are real close, mikenna had the hardest time moving away from her. they talk a lot on the phone and it's like two best friends reuniting when they see each other. so anyway, i picked them up from the airport and we got home right before john got home from picking up mikenna from school. he told her there was one more birthday gift in her room. she walked in and the nana's jumped out of the closet. here was her reaction.

mikenna enjoyed opening all her gifts.

after our family left we had a get together for mikenna and my nephew mason's birthday. here is mikenna with uncle tyler (any one who is looking or knows anyone single, my brother is available :))

the boys like to play with mikenna and her new doll house

October 31... Halloween

i had the privilage of attending mikenna's fall party at school. it was so fun and the class even performed a couple of songs for the parents. it was cute.

this year we had our first annual baker family halloween night. it was so much fun to stay home and just be together as a family while enjoying halloween activities. i forgot what we ate for dinner but after that, we

made cookies and frosted them

and mikenna and andon both got a pumpkin to carve

okay so our night didn't sound to exciting but it was and it is something we are going to do every year.

we had our ward trunk or treat halloween afternoon with dinner, games, contests, and a parade

mikenna was a pretty witch (i tried to get her to be a mean one but she didn't go for the idea)

andon was a blue ninja. he just wanted to have a sword

kelton was a lion. the cutest one around

kelton was so fun to watch. one, his mane was so heavy that when he tried to walk, he fell over most of the time with his head being so top heavy. two, he went off wondering in the parking lot at the church when our friend, sam, who was dressed as a safari hunter, followed him and pretended to hunt him. it was hillarious, we laughed so much. but it was such a cute moment, i had to take a picture.

my kiddos were so adorable for halloween and we had a great night.

so to end my blog, i guess i will share the news that somewhere in between all these crazy events (to be exact it was oct. 10) we found out we are expecting baby #4 (crazy!!!) in mid june. i feel like i have know forever and i am only 10 weeks, but here is my official announcement. it took some time for the news to really sink in but we are excited. mikenna swears the baby told her she's a girl but we will see in january. we are still deciding whether we will find out what we are having, it just might be another surprise. i'll keep everyone posted.