Landen's Birthday

Landen is growing too fast for me! He turned 5 on November 30th. On Saturday the 26th we had a little birthday party for him. We had a really nice Thanksgiving with Drew's family then had both of our families together for Landen's birthday. Landen is such a smart kid and is growing so much everyday. I am so proud of him and thank Heavenly Father every day for him. He is such a sweet kid and never forgets to tell me how much he loves me. I am so blessed to have two beautiful, loving, great kids in my life!
 

The kids played a game that was kind of like pin the tail on the donkey, except it was with transformers and they had to put their stickers on the Autobot and Desepticon symbols.          

 The "SWEET" Autobot cake I made for Landen.

Halloween fun!!

We had a really fun Halloween! It started on the Friday before Halloween when we went to the Marana Pumpkin Patch. Landen said he wanted to get a REALLY BIG pumpkin, so we told him if he could carry it, he could get it. He definitely got the biggest pumpkin he could carry! There was a little hay maze for the kids that we went through and the boys liked the slide at the end. It was truly a wonderful family night out!

 

 Fun little tractors

 Dade couldn't reach the pedals.

 Tractor ride to the pumpkin patch.

 Landen looking at all the pumpkins.

 Picking the biggest pumpkin he could carry!

 Dade found his

 Driving the big tractor

 Farmer Landen

 Drew and Dade going through the maze.

 Dade leading the way

Yay, he made it out of the maze!!!

The next day we had trunk-or-treat at the church. A wonderful dinner was served first fallowed by some games and a haunted house.

 Trunk-or-treat at Grandma and Grandpa's car.

 We are very excited to get some candy!!

On Sunday we carved our pumpkins. Dade really got into it and had a lot of fun helping me clean out and carve the pumpkin. Landen enjoyed watching us but didn't really want to touch the guts.

 Helping Dad carve the pumpkin.

 Making sure its all cleaned out

 Growling at the pumpkin!

 Showing his pumpkin.

 Very proud of his pumpkin!

Now for Halloween. Landen dressed up as a ninja and Dade dressed up as a biker dude. There is a neighborhood near us that goes all out for Halloween. They block off the road and everyone sits out on their driveway as kids go around. It was a lot of fun but there were a lot of people there. The boys had a lot of fun and were not very happy when we were done trick-or-treating.

 Landen showing us some ninja moves!

 

 Grandma and Grandpa's entryway

 You can't tell from the picture but this was a talking pumpkin. It was awesome!

 These were some of the decorated houses in that neighborhood.

 All done trick-or-treating.

Seeing what candy they got and trying some of it!!

Yummy Cakes

I made a cake for both Alexa's birthday and my mom's birthday. Alexa loves giraffes and my mom loves the Oregon Ducks. Here are some pictures of the cakes. I used a marshmallow fondant that was supper easy to make and tasted really good.