Saturday morning before McKenna's party, I went grocery shopping, and Dan took my mom to the airport to head home to FL. Ben also got to go to his friend Freddie's BD party at the Natural History Museum.
McKenna's party started at 12:30. The guests first colored Halloween pictures while we waited for everyone to arrive. Lunch consisted of mummy hot dogs, bones (pretzels), eyeballs (grapes), and pumpkins (clementines).
After that, we watched some of Charlie Brown's Great Pumpkin while we waited for everyone to finish eating. Then we played some games-- pumpkin bowling and bean bag toss. The girls got Halloween stickers as prizes.
We also made two crafts; A Q-tip skeleton and foam Halloween creatures. Then we opened presents!
Her birthday "cake" was donuts that we stuck vampire teeth into. They turned out so cute!
Ben enjoyed the vampire teeth!
All the girls!
Top: Sienna Dandurand, Kate Drumond, Gaby Jensen, Katie Stewart, Brinley Aune, Ben.
Bottom: Bridgette Moulton, Phebe Reudter, Camille Roth, Whitney Winegar, McKenna, and Brittana Alexander. Such a good group of girls!
Top: Sienna Dandurand, Kate Drumond, Gaby Jensen, Katie Stewart, Brinley Aune, Ben.
Bottom: Bridgette Moulton, Phebe Reudter, Camille Roth, Whitney Winegar, McKenna, and Brittana Alexander. Such a good group of girls!
After cleaning up and chilling for the rest of the afternoon, we went to an Elder's Quorum activity which was a chili dinner and a dessert contest. Dan had the rough job of being a judge. ;)
Sunday I went to ward choir and Mickelle came to church with a brand new giant tattoo on her arm!
That evening we had my siblings over for a birthday dinner for McKenna. We had Orange chicken, rice, rolls, and pomegranates. My brother also brought yummy treats.
Monday I got to help with reading in Ben's class while the girls played at Swa's house, then I went visiting teaching. We had an FHE that evening about baptism.
Tuesday we babysat cousin Hailey for a bit while Sam and Lara were on a trip.
I also worked on sorting kids clothes and our handyman, Genie, finally came to fix a few minor issues with the patio room carpet.
In the evening I helped take dinner to my friend Kylee who just had a baby. Then McKenna had her baptism interview with Bishop Dad!
Wednesday was our sweet McKenna's 8th Birthday! I went visiting teaching in the morning. I also got a call from the school saying Ben had fallen off the monkey bars and was a little shaken up. Not injured per se, just sad. He still went to gymnastics that day where they danced to the "Monster Mash."
Then we headed to the school to spotlight McKenna in her class. We showed this poster with all her favorites and then she passed out little Halloween buttons. Later, McKenna got to go to her first Activity Days. She also skyped with family members and we sang to her one more time.
From birth to age 8! Cute little lady that made me a mama!
I let McKenna stay up a little later that night and we painted nails and started watching Hocus Pocus. Thursday Dan took McKenna out to breakfast since it was UEA weekend and she didn't have to hurry off to school. (The night before, on Wednesday, I had a particularly hard time making dinner that night while the baby girls needed me and cried lots.)
Later on Thursday the Alexanders came over to play for a bit then my kids went to their house to play together more after lunch. The girls tried the window markers McKenna got for her BD.
Thursday Dan was also interviewed on channel 13 to advertise for their Pumpkin Festival coming up at the Gateway.
Later in the day, Bethany and Anna had well checks at the doctors.
Anna 3 Year Stats
Height: 37in (2in increase in 1 year) 30th percentile
Weight: 32lbs (5lb increase in 1 year) 50th percentile
- At 3 years and 3 months, Anna is not the least bit interested in potty training.
- She is loving the co-op preschool.
- Starting to know more letters and sounds.
- Can count to 12 correctly.
- Has a great imagination and loves to play with McKenna and Ben
Bethany's 15 Month Stats
Height: 28.5in (2in increase in 3 months) 4th percentile
Weight: 19lbs 16oz (2lb increase in 3 months) 30th percentile
Head: 50th percentile
- Lots of cruising
- Some standing and balancing practice
- Took her first steps on Sept. 7th
- Still has 7 teeth, though molars look like their bulging
- Went through a picky eating phase, getting a little better
Everyone also got flu shots and did like I expected; they all cried. :( We picked up my sister Mickelle then headed to eat at In N Out. Then we met up with Dan and went to a corn maze in West Jordan. They had fun true/false questions to answer along the way and helped you know which way to turn. They also had these fun cutouts!
They also had a corn pit which the kids loved. It's hard to tell but Ben got a corn kernal right in his crack. :)
We got there around 5:30 and it took us about an hour which was perfect. It was starting to get cold and dark right when we finished.
Here's an adorable video of Bethany laughing while chasing the kids through the maze. Afterwards we got hot chocolate and played at a McDonald's play place.
Friday I got some follow-up blood work done for my thyroid and also got my flu shot. Then we went grocery shopping. After that, we headed to Dan's work Pumpkin Festival. The Stewarts met us there too! The kids painted pumpkins and got balloon animals and swords.
The fire department was there and the kids got to check out the truck.
My car hit some fun mileage milestones as well! 56765 and 56789!
After the festival we packed up and headed to Mantua for an overnighter.
1 comment:
I'm jelly of your cornmaze/corn bath place! That looks super fun!
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