exercising with Dad!

Ryan has been having back and leg problems so he is seeing a physical therapist. He has to do exercises at home. The kids like to exercise with him. here is a video of the boys working out with dad. So fun!

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Way behind..Christmas!

Ok, so I know that I am way behind, but here are some christmas pictures. They were too cute to just skip over and as you will see Halle is in almost every picture. What can I say, my mom just keeps buying her cute things and I just have to take pictures of it. Needless to say, we had a wonderful Christmas. The kids were spoiled rotten and it was nice to spend that week doing a lot of things with my family. I love the holidays. We are so blessed and have so much to be thankful for.

My mom bought Halle this outfit. Seriously I love the Jacket. and the bow. She is starting to figure out to smile for the camera now. I love it. I can actually get some good shots of her now.

Caden and Halle posing in front of our pathetic excuse of a christmas tree. Jack took the thing down and broke it the first day we put it up. Caden is holding these puppets he got from my parents. He loves them!

Halle yet again, posing in new apparel from Grandma for christmas while helping doing a little yardwork.

Ryan bought the kids a tent with a tunnel for super cheep. Good thing, because it only took them a few days to break the tent. Yep, my kids can destroy just about anything. The kids love the tunnel though. Here's Caden crawling through.

Here's Jack opening his present. He loved opening presents. I don't think Caden or Halle opened any gifts. Jack did all of them. Go Jack!

Here's the kids decorating Christmas cookies with Jacks specialist. We love Mary. The kids had a great time and made a huge mess.

Jack Signing!

So people keep telling me they want to see Jack signing.  So here is a cute video of him signing along with a song on Signing Times. What would we do with out signing times?  If you know any sign language you should be able to catch 3 signs; Cracker, apple and Ice cream.  He doesn't sign them perfect, but I think he is pretty close.  What can you expect from a 2 year old?  If you listen you can hear Caden and Halle yelling cheese and banana (aka nana) at the end of the video.  Love it!

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Fall Fun

Well There is so much to tell about what has been going on.  First of all my dad has been really sick.  Poor guy, it has been a rough year for him.  Anyway,  He was in the hospital in a coma in June with some serious respiratory problems.  They had to do a major surgery and biopsy his lungs to find out what was wrong with him.  After the surgery his lungs were failing so they put him in a medically induced coma for a week until he was strong enough to breath on his own. It turned out that a medication he has been on for 20 years caused the problems in his lungs, so he is off that now. Anyway, after he started improving they took him out of a coma and he has had to re-learn how to do everything again.  He couldn't walk or eat or stand up on his own.  He was finally doing better and his lungs have been improving, but then he got the swine flu so he went back to the hospital in the ICU again.  He is doing a little better and is hoping to be released tomorrow.  I have to say that I have been amazed with my Dad.  He has been so patient and easy going about everything. Our family has also been so thankful and blessed by all the amazing things people have done to help our family during this difficult time.  What a blessing to have some many wonderful friends and family so willing to give service and support.  We couldn't have made it without the countless prayers and support. It has been a pretty scary few months and we were afraid we might lose him, but I think things should hopefully keep improving after he gets over the flu. 

The kids have had a great fall!  We have been carving pumpkins and painting pumpkins with friends in the ward, trick-or-treating, ect.  We also went to Vertrucio (spelling?) Farms with the kids and my parents.  It was so cute.  They had all sorts of great activities for the kids to do and it was reasonably priced. The kids had a really great time looking at the animals and riding the train. I don't have the trick-or-treating photos yet so that will be another post if I get around to it.  

Jack and Halle carving pumpkins with dad

Dad helping Cade with his pumpkin

Halle carving

Jack painting his pumpkin.  He painted pumpkins for 2 hours strait.  He finished his and then started painting all the other pumpkins.  That kid is going to be an artist. 

Caden having a taste.  Yum yum!

Halle after having a taste of the paint.  Thank heavens it was non-toxic

Jack swinging at the farm

This is one of the kids favorite thing at the farm.  They had a cow for the kids to milk.  They just attached utters to a bucket and filled it with water.  The kids sat and milked the cow forever. 

Sweet Caden

Heres video below of the kids carving pumpkins with Dad.  Ryan is on the phone for half  of it, but Jack signs that he wants to eat the pumpkin and he thinks it is cereal inside. I thought it was pretty cute. 

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Fun in the yard

I took this video this morning and thought it was so cute.  I just had to post it today. The kids love their John  Deer tractor.  We got it from our neighbor awhile ago, but the batteries don't really work, so Ryan took the motor out of it yesterday and now it is a lot easier to push around.  The babies love to push each other around in it.  And for those of you who don't know Halle well; now you get to see her "not so sweet side" here on the video. She kept throwing tantrums when the truck got stuck.  Pretty funny!  She sometimes has problems with her temper.  We are working on that, but that's easier said then done. 

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Summer vacation

Ok, so here I am way behind again on posting.  But here is our annual trip to Utah pictures.  The kids had a really good time this year.  We visited my grandparents in St. George briefly on the way up and then while we were in Salt lake we stayed with Ryans brother Specer and his family.  I have to say, I was expecting the car ride up to be a total nightmare.  The kids did a lot better than I thought they would.  They were o.k. on the ride up, but they were awesome on they way back home! So all and all the trip was a success.  So below are pictures we took of the kids at my Grandparents house playing in the water in the backyard half naked.  The first one is Caden. 

Halle

Ryan was squirting Jack right in the head with the hose and he loved it.  Go figure?!

We spent one day up at Ryan's friends Family ranch. They own thousands of acres of land a have a cabin there with a beautiful view of the mountains and a lake. It was absolutely georgeous.  I took Halle to the stable and Ryan's friend let us ride the horses.  She loved it. 

Beautiful 

Caden wearing a toy bin on his head passing time in the car

We went to the aquarium in Salt lake.  The kids loved it.  Jack especially he was running around a hundred miles a minute signing everything he saw.  Jack and Dad below looking at the fish

Ryan's brother Richard got married while we were up there, unfortunately we were so busy chasing our kids around at the wedding that we didn't get very many good photo's.  this one of Jack is classic.  He just decided to lay down right in the middle of the dance floor and have a rest while everyone else was dancing around him.  Such a cute little man.  Anyway, The wedding was beautiful.  My new sister-in-law is so sweet.  We are excited to have her be a part of the family.  That is the last of the Fowler weddings.  Richard is the baby of the family. 

Here's a video of the Kids at the aquarium.  Halle cracks me up.  She is so loud!  She sure is a feisty spunky thing.  Keeps us on our toes.  

 

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Mud Run!

Well, I am a little behind on my blog postings so this was actually  in June I think.  Anyway, Ryan and  his brother Dave and brother- in- law Dave and some other friends signed up for the mud run at camp Pendleton near San Diego.  It was a 10k with obstacle course and several mud pits. It was pretty dirty.   They had a great time.  I was pretty proud of him.  He even placed pretty well.  There were over 2,000 runners and he placed in the first few hundred.  Not to shabby. My sister in law took some photos after the run.  What a bunch of dirty guys.  I guess they are doing it again next year.  My sister an law and I are supposed to do it with them.  I guess I need to get my lazy self working out if I am going to make that and not die!  Yikes.  

Ryan and Dave

Kevin, Dave, Dave, Ryan , Trever