birthday boy

my baby is three....THREE!!! 

it's unbelievable how fast time flies.  i can say that with him, and knowing he is probably our last, i have tried to soak in every single minute.  but still, the last three years have just flown by.

riggs is seriously one funny kid.  he is constantly cracking us all up and he brings so much joy to our home.  his sisters can't get enough of him and that makes him the most spoiled kid on earth.

for his actual birthday we were still at my dad's house for thanksgiving.  before we left for burley my girls each wrapped homemade presents for riggs.  it was adorable.

i was feeling super proud and excited that i literally spent less than $20 on gifts for his birthday.  and then my dad comes walking through the door with a new bike for him.  haha.  i told you, he is the most spoiled kid i know.  

when you would ask riggs what he wanted for his birthday he would mostly always answer 'tacos!' so we had mexican food about 3 or 4 times that week.

after all the birthday excitement riggs passed out in the car outside my dad's house and then he slept in my arms for two glorious hours.  it was amazing.

we sure love this three year old.

thanksgiving

for thanksgiving break my kids had 9 whole days off of school and it was the best! i am seriously going through kid/husband withdrawals. i live for times like this with my family.  halfway through our break we went to burley to hang with my side of the family.  it was a nice easy-going weekend, and i loved it.

my dad carving the turkey (i'm pretty sure he has a mouthful of turkey here) and my sissy.

we went to whitneys' house for thanksgiving dinner and this is their backyard.  i mean come on, can you even believe their view?  so, so dreamy!! that's tacey out there in 7th heaven exploring.

 as always we were horrible at putting our kids to bed on time at my dad's house. they were pooped by the time their heads hit the pillow.

thanksgiving aka riggs birthday eve

my family

so my awesome friend toni scheduled my family for pictures probably two months ago.  we were all set to go and for once i was actually super excited to have our pictures done!  three days before our family pictures rhett gets called out of town for work.  i was seriously so, so bummed.  so after church on sunday rhett tried really hard to make up for it.  we grabbed our camera and went on a little family drive.  our outfits are not coordinated and a whole lot of our pictures turned out blurry.  haha.  these pictures are nowhere near perfect or what i had in mind,  but honestly, i'm just happy we got a few to document this sweet time in our lives.  

 tacey grabbed the camera and took probably 100 pictures.  not too bad for a 9 year old.  

and oh my heck, can i just say how much i love this family of mine.  seriously, they are my whole world and make me so dang happy.

another salt lake trip

a couple of weekends ago we headed back down to salt lake to attend my little sister and her hubs getting sealed in the temple.  it was such a neat sealing.  president monson's son-in-law did the sealing.  it was so cool to listen to him talk about president monson, because he knew him personally.  it was so special seeing my sister be sealed to her husband, who a year ago was just getting baptized.  drake's conversion has been such a blessing to watch.

after the sealing we had about 7 minutes of light to take some fast pictures!! 

my mom and her fiance.

issn't my sister such a babe!

we spent the next couple of days at my mom's house and did lots of shopping at all our favorite stores.  we didn't buy much, but it was just fun browsing.

i took riggs on the ferris wheel for his first time ever at scheels.  he loved it and cried when we had to get off. haha.

as you can see, we literally shopped until we dropped!!!

the week of halloween

we had a great halloween.  i am always super worn out by the time halloween is done and over with because of the millions of parties and how many times we actually have to dress the kids up.  oh well, the kids loved every second of it!!

i decided against buying new costumes this year, so my girls just rotated through all their old halloween and dance costumes.  

on halloween brylee decided with this old dance costume that we turned into minnie mouse.

 tacey decided that she was a 'dark' princess.  fyi, in tacey's book, dark doesn't mean evil.  it just means the princess is dressed in dark colors.  haha.

 halloween weekend was so fun and the weather was so, so nice.  we ended up doing a bonfire outside that night with our awesome neighbors.

 one night we all headed out to grandma warren's to decorate pumpkins.  

  

 this was our ward party!

 the same night we had a bonfire we also loaded up the kids and went to the spook alley and out for ice cream.  it was a pretty scary spook alley if i do say so myself!

we took the kids to the hocus pocus event in rexburg.  the kids always love going to that.  this year they even had a train, which totally made riggins day.

 riggins at his gymnastics halloween party.

halloween night ended up being sooo cold!! but we still had a blast.  our neighbors hauled us around on their trailer to trick or treat.  

and we ended the night with our traditional halloween visit from the kennedy's!

now bring on the holidays!!!