The Fair

As it gets closer and closer to December we get sadder and sadder to close this chapter of our life but we get more excited to see whats next. With that being said we are very sad to leave our friends and we have been trying to do many fun things together. This last week we went to the fair. We had so much fun!

The Verizon football game. Stefen and I completely and utterly failed at making it into the hole.

The running game.. I did the best I think. 

Brielle had so much fun chilling and watching us.

But we did the petting farm just for her. She LOVED it!

She loved hugging the goats.

Then she thought she would head butt them after she saw 2 goats doing it to each other.

Llama! She wasnt so sure about this one.

He or she is such a stud!

There were even a couple wallaby's!

He loved to be petted!

Figure eight competition!

Brielle cuddling with the monkey!

Jayden Boy was one happy dude that night! He loved every minute of the fair!

Corn Maze!

This pass weekend we went to a corn maze with some of our friends. It was a blast and VERY kid friendly. They had this giant balloon tramp thing that was so much fun but it was very hard to get pictures. We had so much fun in the maze and the kids did great. Here are some fun stories.

Brielle ready to go pet the animals

These goats would climb and climb these stairs it was really cool.

You cant tell in this picture but she really did like the goats.

There was one pig and only one pig and it happened to be with the goats.

Jayden, Uncle Button, and Jordan climbing the hay

Peddle cars. Theres a good chance that we will be making these in the future

Erica in the peddle cars. They were so much fun

Brielle hiding

Jayden going for a ride. He walked most of the maze and did great!

Jordan Hey I am tall with the baby!

Jayden and the train!

Stefen is TALL!

All I cared about is the cow!

Jayden LOVED going down the slide with uncle button

Little pig house is tooo small for Uncle button

Aunt Bri with Brielle!

Camping

At the beginning of September we went camping with our friends. We had delicious food and amazing fun! As always there are more pictures on facebook these are just the ones i like or have stories for.

Stefen this is Slide Rock!

Stefen going down! The water was so cold by the time we went down the WHOLE thing we were all numb.

There goes Jen.

Bye Adam!

That was fun lets go again.

There I go. 

Jen Jumping off the cliff!

Erica Jumping!

Jordan being brave.

Uncle button was a trooper. He got cold and was tired and Brielle was cranky too. So he sat on a rock for about an hour holding the sweet baby just watching and chilling.

He got to watch Jaden too. Who in this picture was throwing a HUGE fit! He eventually fell asleep in a weird position  He loved camping though. Everytime he see me or his button he asks when we can go camping again.

After a long day swimming! We were all pooped!

Jaden is happy again!

Poor Brielle was so tired by this point as soon as she got in the car she crashed. she loved taking her pictures though.

Glaring!

See my tongue!

After her nap and not being wet anymore!

Thanks to the Bywaters for this beauty!

Our yearly picture. Do you like this one?

or Option 2?

On our way back from camping we stopped in Sedona. They had these cool music things.

Jen rocking it.

Old man! All these people were taking pictures of me with this dummy. He freaked me out but he was soo cool too. He waved!

We had a ton of fun on our camping trip! These are some of our closest friends here in the AZ we sure will miss them when we move but we hope to go on trips with them again soon!

Science Museum

A couple months back we took Jaden and Brielle to the science Museum there as always more pictures on facebook.

Jaden sliding!

Stefen being crazy

This throws the balls at you. It scared him so bad.

Bed of nails

Up high

It was actually pretty comfy

Jadens eye

Chocolate balls...

Every Christmas my Grandma and Grandpa make these wonder rich amazing chocolate balls. Now the way my grandma makes it verses how we made it work is completely different. Ill give you her version then how we did it.

Ingredients:
A Large tub of whip topping
3 LARGE chocolate bars
cookie coating (we used cinnamon graham crackers and it was really good)
Nuts (if you want. I am not a nut person)

Make sure you leave the cool whip out on the counter for 15 min prior to making the dessert.
Melt all the chocolate in a bowl in the microwave, you dont want it too hot or to chunky. After chocolate is melted pour the cool whip in and nuts if desired and mix. (this is where we ran into problems. Ill get to those in a sec)
Roll into balls (we just used our cookie scoop) and roll into the cookie crumbs and place on plate.
Refrigerate

Okay the problems we ran into. When we mixed the whip topping in with the chocolate it hardened to quickly and it wasnt becoming smooth. I was mixing it with a spatula. So we poured the mixture into the kitchen aid and whipped it that way. However the chocolate had still solidified to fast. So we put the whole kitchen aid bowel into the oven and melted it that way (at 450 F for 3 minutes). It was much more smooth. We did have to freeze it for a while so we could make balls, but the chocolate wasnt solid anymore. If you have questions let me know!