Stuff we've been up to (aka...posting pictures from my phone)

Of course, if you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, some of these will be repeats.  Enjoy!

There's a little community farm run by the local 4H just a block from our house that we visit often.  One day while there (a kind of cold day, you can see), I took some pictures of Malcolm by the door to the chicken house.  

Denali fell into a box, and I'm such a nice aunt, I took a picture of her distress before saving her.

Just my cute little man!

We went to the mall to get cases for our new phones.  They have a new Lego store and Malcolm just dug right in with the big kids there building things.  He would talk to the boys next to him, and even try to hand them pieces.  It was pretty cute.  

I believe this was the day Malcolm ate as much for breakfast as I did.  We're talking multiple pancakes and pieces of sausage.  Pumpkin pancakes... yum!

Malcolm and Denali being "upside down"  It took a few tries to get this picture of them doing it at the same time.

Me, only huger.

Ryan has a motorcycle now,  did you know?  I keep meaning to post about it.  He needed a place to put it during the cold weather months, along with his scooter.  So we got this temporary shed.  It's not as bad of an eyesore as I was expecting.  It was also some good "team building" exercises for us two as we built it together.  ;)

Bridget, on her 5th birthday.  We just sang to her and had cake and ice cream, and her favorite food: French toast.  She got to go to Disneyland for her birthday with Grandma and Grandpa!  (More pictures of that in a second...)

Ry and I finally made it to the temple.  It's been ridiculously long.  I was getting out the family names we have and making jokes on instagram about naming our next child a "family name".

You can't tell, but there's a temple back behind us.  We went to dinner first, then the session.  It was SOOOOO nice!  Love this hubby of mine.

The Young Women made donuts and cheesecloth ghosts for our activity.  Malcolm helped me prep the dough before the activity, and enjoyed eating them after they were cooked too.

One day Malcolm got mail!  He was pretty excited about it.  It was a card from his Great Grandparents in Alaska.  It had Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, and Donald on it. He made me read it to him over and over and carried it around with him most of the day.  Good choice Grandma!

This picture makes me smile everytime I look at it.  Laura and I took Denali and Malcolm to Story time at the Davis Library and then to the park.  We had fun in the leaves.  This picture I actually cropped to post on Instagram, but it's kind of funny when I leave my belly in it.

Mom and Dad and Bridget were in Disneyland, like I'd said.  They sent us lots of pictures while we were there, but none were so popular with Malcolm than the ones in Carsland.  Who can blame him?  I'd love to take him.  He'd seriously die!

Dad surprised everyone with his costume for the park's Halloween party.  Bridget was Alice, so he dressed as the Mad Hatter.  He got stopped over and over by just regular people to take his picture, or give him a high five, etc.  It sounded like so much fun!  Great memories for Bridget and her Grandparents.

Mom wearing her costume.

Just me, in Angio.  It's been a while since I've been to a sterile procedure where I had to wear these lovely accessories!

Malcolm and Ryan watching Basketball commentary.  Not even watching basketball--just guys talking about basketball.  Yet Malcolm stayed there all cuddled up to daddy for a good 10 mintues.  It was adorable.

We took Malcolm to the movie Planes at the dollar theater.  He was on the end in a booster seat, eating candy.  I think he had a really good time.  He sat like this for most of the movie, hands folded in his lap and everything.

Halloween Family Party

It's that time of year again!  The time for the Halloween party hosted by Ryan's aunts.  We had fun.  We arrived and immediately got pictures of everyone in their costumes.  Then ate plenty of food.  Played some games, including popping balloons with darts and a pumpkin walk.  Then VoNique used JaNel's glitter nail kit to do my toes while the football game was going. (Thanks, ladies!)  It was a fun night, and always makes me feel Halloweenie during these adult days when we don't do quite as much Halloween festivities as we did as kids.

Malcolm, our cute little hobbit.  Such an easy costume!  He just wore some of his church clothes, and I made the cape and the brooch is made of felt that I embroidered.

Ryan and I as Juno McGuff and Paulie Bleeker from the movie Juno.
Ryan's shorts and arm/head bands are from a pair of women's pants we found at DI that I hemmed/sewed. We also found that shirt at DI.  It's an actual replica from the movie!  I'd found one online for $13, but this was $3!  SCORE!  My outfit is pretty much all DI finds too. 

The Glaziers.

All the kiddos. 

Everybody who dressed up, except Aaron who took the pictures.  He was a nerd, like Bradley.

VoNique and VeNicia.

All the fun halloween food! 

We know how to party (with our prizes from the games.)

Vo was pretty in love with the tiny oranges made into pumpkins.

Baby Bellies

Did you know we're expecting a whole slew of grand-babies in the Dearden fam? Me, Laura, and Brenna are all pregnant.  Brenna is due really any time, so we took a second while at Station Park today to catch a picture of all the baby bellies together.  It was the fastest set up self timer shot ever because of course all the kids were waiting.  It turned out pretty cute!

Left to right: Laura: 22 weeks, due Feb 27. Ashley: 25 weeks,  due Feb 3. Brenna: 36 weeks, due Nov. 21 (Her babies are always a bit early though.)

Pumpkin Patch

Today, Mal and I ventured out with the cousins to a pumpkin patch in Farmington.  We were pretty much just there for the pictures.  And for Bridget to play tour guide with the rest of the cousins, since she'd been there once already.  "I know every inch!"

It's been a long time since we'd attempted pictures of all of the cousins.  I thought it was hard when they were itty bitty!  We managed a few decent pictures.  It sure makes me wish it was more convenient to carry around my Nikon D50.  Or that I could get as good of pictures with my iPhone.  :)

We had fun anyway.  The kids ran through a hay-bale maze and picked out pumpkins. Malcolm stared for a good long while at the fork lift loading pallets of pumpkins off of a truck. We had lunch afterward over at Station Park in Farmington.  It was a fun outing, and the weather was great!