The Wales Family

We kicked off our Halloween Celebration yesterday afternoon with a Halloween party at Jaycee’s preschool, trick-or-treating at Westech (where Craig works), and visiting the witches at Gardner Village. It was a ton of fun!!! Then we started off our Halloween morning with orange halloween pancakes. Yummy!

~TRICK-OR-TREAT~
The girls and I had never visited Craig at work, so it was so much fun to see him there and meet all of his co-workers while we went trick-or-treating.

All of the employees had bowls of candy at their desks for the kids to pick from. A lot of the employees dressed up too, so it was really fun. Rylee had a great time. At first she would wait for me to help her get the candy from people, but after a while she would just run from one bowl of candy to the next yelling “candy!… candy!” She couldn’t get enough.

Jaycee was really tired. She had already had a busy day and I think her Halloween party at preschool wore her out, so after walking around a while she started asking us to carry her and she didn’t even want to get the candy after a while. Because she was so tired we ended up skipping a lot of the building.

~Gardner Village Witches~
I love Gardner Village, and the girls had so much fun going on a “witch hunt” to find all of the cute witches around the different shops.

Tammy & Emily (Craig’s sister and niece) came with us to Westech (because Jimmy works there too) and also to Gardner Village, but they didn’t want to pose in our pictures. We sure had a great time with them though. They are some of my favorite people to hang out with.


I had a hard time getting good pictures because our camera isn’t working well (that’s another story…) so after I hit the flash button it would take a while for the picture to take. Needless to say that doesn’t work so well with little children.


Here’s one of the flying witches…

And the girls loved this hula-hooping one…



Jaycee liked hiding behind this one…

The other flying witch…

And we couldn’t pass up the choo choo train. My girls both LOVE trains.

~HALLOWEEN PANCAKES~
This morning I attempted to make cute-shaped Halloween pancakes, but as you can see they are barely recognizeable. But the girls had fun with them anyway.
Before she could eat her pancakes I had to pry 2 suckers away from Rylee. While I was making the pancakes she had climbed up to get her candy from trick-or-treating last night.

We dunked them into syrup. I later decided that is NOT a smart idea with a 1-year-old. The entire table and my entire little one were covered with sticky-ness.

I am excited for more fun to come today. I love Halloween!

Sunday night my sister Janette and her two cute girls slept over because she didn’t have a babysitter for Monday or Tuesday. they actually stayed 2 nights and we are having so much fun with them! Jaycee and Rylee love having their cousins here to play with.

Yesterday morning they got up and instead of dressing in their regular clothes they of course all had to dress up like princesses! Well, all but Brooklyn that is, but she still wanted to make sure everyone told her she was pretty! And she was.

They are still here having a great time. They’ve been playing dress up, barbies, baking us pies in the play kitchen, having “lesson time” and “story time”, and of course giving me and grandpa plenty to clean up!

We are also having a blast living here with my niece, Chenylle, she is so much fun and my girls just love her. I have always been really tight with Chenylle so it perfect that she is living her while she goes to college.

Friday the girls got all dressed up in their Halloween costumes and went with a group of kids to Chancelor Gardens (an assisted living center) to deliver mini pumpkins they had painted to the residents there.


The girls had a lot of fun showing off their costumes and visiting with the residents, and the residents seemed to enjoy the visit too!

On Saturday Jaycee had a fun Halloween Party at her dance studio. They played lots of games and had a ton of fun! Everyone kept saying how much they loved Jaycee’s costume. (there were a lot of Ute fans there).

Jaycee said her favorite part was the Donut game! She loved it.

Then on Sunday my family had a Halloween party. We had yummy chili, a costume parade with prizes, bobbing for apples (yuck!- I think that game is so gross), and more games.

Rylee wouldn’t wear her witch dress, but she looked really cute in the hat!

And much to Jaycee’s delight, this party had the donut game too! She just can’t get enough of eating pastries off a string…

I love this holiday!!!

Yesterday was Craig’s birthday, and he said he didn’t want to do anything to celebrate it, so we threw him a party!

HAPPY BIRTHDY CRAIG!

Today was such a fun day. Jaycee had 2 big events, and me and Rylee got to come along for the fun.

Today Jaycee had her first field trip with her Preschool class. We went to the pumpkin patch in Farmington. I had never been to this one and it was a ton of fun.

Here is a picture of the class:

And Jaycee & Rylee enjoying the festive decorations:

And my sweet little witches:


We were able to play in a free hay maze, enjoy a fun story about pumpkins, and learn about how pumpkins grow, as well as the different types of pumpkins. We also got to taste sunflower seeds fresh off the flower, which is something I have never done. Afterward we got to play with their dress-up and photo-op spots, and have a snack.

Then it was off thru the pumpkin patch in our wagons. Jaycee chose a small pumpkin from her Preschool teacher and Cinderella pumpkin for her and Rylee choose a big pumpkin.

DANCE!
After the preschool outting Jaycee went to her new dance class. We decided just to try it today to see if she would like it - and she did! Jaycee loved her new teachers (she has 2 of them), and her new studio. I was so glad to find something she really loved.

And she did such a great job on her first day with the other girls.

And on a final note, Jaycee asked me this morning to take a picture of her hair and put it on our blog so she could show all of her friends how long it is getting. So here it is:

I can’t belive it has snowed so much already. First, my kids thought this little bit of snow falling was so exciting, even though nothing was really sticking.

Then, this morning there was this:

Jaycee could not wait to put her boots on and go tromp through the snow on the back deck. Then she decided it was pretty cold. But soon enough she wanted to get back out there to play, and she especially wanted to EAT some!

Yesterday Me & my sister took my girls and their cousins to Black Island Farm for some good ol’ Fall fun. At first I thought the price was a little high, but then we got in there and man do they have a lot of things to do. You could spend the whole day there. We had fun playing on the giant hay-stack slides, racing rubber-duckies, playing in the corn maze & tunnel, looking at animals, and this stuff:

Playing in the kiddie hay-maze:

And in the Pumpkin Bounce house:

And in the corn box:

Rylee loved rolling in it, and Jaycee like burrying herself.

And we took a fun train ride. Even I got to ride! Mostly because there are no seatbelts and I was worried Rylee would try to climb out in the middle of the ride. And I’m glad I did because it was really bumpy and I think even if she hadn’t tried to climb out she might have hit her head pretty good.

And finally taking a hay-ride to the pumpkin patch. (Imagine me carrying 3 pumpkins and 2 tired girls!)

Thanks for the fun day Janette, Brianna, and Brooklyn!!!

Jaycee started at her new preschool in Utah last Thursday, and so far it is going great! She is going to my cute friend Jenn’s preschool on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and she says she loves her new preschool and her new teacher, Miss Jennifer.

She also loved picking out her new backpack, and although it is a little oversized for her little body, she just had to have the Hannah Montana one. She looks adorable walking up to preschool by herself with her big ol’ backpack. Even though she’s done preschool before, she just seems so much more grown up lately and I am constantly surprised by how old she behaves.

Jaycee loves learning and especially loves writing. She can now write her own name, her little sister Rylee’s name, and her cousing Brianna’s name without asking me how. She also is constantly asking me how to spell other friends names and other words, and she has most of her letters down really well. She loves drawing too, so she is pretty easily entertained in a quiet environment (unlike her little sister).

Yesterday we tried out a new dance class, but Jaycee said she didn’t want to go back there again. I am having a hard time finding an opening for her age anywhere, so wish me luck on my continued hunt!

Today I found the camera out of it’s place, so I thought it was pretty obvious someone had taken it, and decided to check it out. As I was turning it on I asked Jaycee if she had used it, but she told me Rylee had it. I found the evidence on the camera, looks like they both were invovled. Here’s their pictures…