Pumpkin Carving

We carved pumpkins last night and had a pumpkin shake YUM! The mummy pumpkin is Trav's, the monster pumpkin is Kayla's and I carved the Boo pumpkin. I did a little Jack-o-lantern pumpkin for Miles since he is too small to carve one on his own still.


Miles likes the "Punkins"

Here is one in the dark with Miles

Trav had to take the picture so the family pumpkin pic is short one Dad.

Kayla's ugly pumpkin

You know how when your kids are little and they bring home the ugliest pictures and drawings you still treasure them like they are an original Van Gogh? Well poor Kayla brought home a pumpkin she painted in Mutual and it was so ugly. I am sure if she were younger we would have gushed over how cute it was and what a great job she did in painting. Instead my first question when she told me she painted a pumpkin was, "does it look stupid?" Then Trav wanted to throw it away because he thinks it looks dumb.

Anyway here is Kayla with her sad pumpkin:

Miles crazy sleeper

Nap time is not a fun time for Miles usually Trav has to take him for a ride in the car to get him to fall asleep. I think I spoil him. He lays down with me and falls asleep when I sing to him but Trav does not do this and it is harder for him to get him to take a nap. Today Miles wanted to lay on top of the couch cushion so Trav put him up there. Then Miles wanted the blanket over him so he pulled the blanket up and fell asleep.





Blanket over his face even Trav had to pull it down some so we could see his face. LOL!

Miles 2nd Birthday...

Miles turned 2 last Thursday, October 1st. WOW I cannnot believe my baby is no longer a baby. We had a party for him on Saturday most of his Uncles and Aunts, Grandma Marcia and Grandma and Grandpa Pack.

Miles had a "Cars" birthday party and Grandma Marci made a cool Lightening McQueen cake.





Miles is so funny he gets shy now and when we were singing happy birthday to him he had the funniest look on his face.


Here are some more pictures of the party and all Miles fun presents.

Miles tattoo

Miles with his new tattoo, you can see he was very excited to get the tattoo.

Still happy...

Close up...

We are such mean parents!

Moved an entire household in just THREE DAYS!!!

We sold our house well at least have it under contract. We had to be out by last Friday because the people moving into our house wanted to be in last weekend before we closed. We agreed to this for some crazy reason. We had literally three days to move our entire house hold to my Father-in-law's basement. I don't think we have ever made more trips to the D.I. than we had last week. I am not sure but this is one of the hardest things emotionally I have had to deal with in a while. We went to our Ward one last time Sunday and I think Kayla and I spent the whole time trying not to cry or trying to stop crying. I will miss the Ward. I will miss my house. I will miss my neighbors. I will miss having my own kitchen. I already miss my bathroom more than I though I ever would. This is an experience I know none of us will forget. I am so grateful that our families came together to help us out in our time of need. I don't know how we would have ever been able to move everything and get the house ready in the time we had. We did not have anything packed or ready for the move since we were not certain it would happen. In fact we did not have any hope that the appraisal would come back at the amount we needed. When we got word that it was with in $2,000 of the offer we had to jump at the opportunity.

I know we are moving in the right direction I just need to keep the faith that Heavenly Father has a plan for us and that eventually we will get back on course. We were reading the Book of Mormon every night before we moved but in the chaos that happened we have not been reading like we should and I feel the difference. I am missing the spirit again and I want to get that back,

Miles is loving living with the dogs he wakes up asking for them falls asleep talking about them. He loves animals so much. He is so fun he repeats everything he hears. It is funny because he will start talking to me and just jabber away but then he tells me something I can understand and I am surprised. I miss being home with him I hate that I cannot be with him all day to teach him more and play with him more. I feel like my time after work is so short before I have to start getting him ready to go to sleep. I think his tub time is my favorite. He talks the whole time and will be so funny he likes to "swim" in the tub. Last night he slipped and hit his chin in the edge of the tub and after that all he would talk about was his chin. He cut it open and it was bleeding pretty good so I put a band-aid on his chin and he thought hat we pretty cool.

Kayla seems to be adjusting pretty well to the move she has Homecoming this week so she is pretty busy with everything she has going on at school. She was asked to the dance and has been getting everything she needs ready for that. Thank goodness she does not have to work this week I think I would have stressed us all out.

Anyway I will keep the faith and be more diligent about reading the scriptures and I know that everything will work out for the best.

4th of July weekend

I had Friday off from work for the 4th of July so we thought we would go to the zoo. We have been talking about going for a while but we were not sure if Miles was old enough to get anything out of going, but he had a blast.

We stopped at the monkeys first and he laughed at them and thought they were pretty cool. It was pretty hot so most of the animals were trying to keep cool. The bears were so cute they were playing in their pool and wrestling, Miles was excited about that.

Miles loved the giraffes they were so pretty and he has never seen anything like that before.


Tiffany and James came with us and it was fun to see how excited the girls got over the animals. Olivia was excited to see the Gorillas and Orangutans. But Jacob was the craziest, we thought he was going to jump out of his stroller a few times.

Here's a pic of Kayla and Olivia.


We went on the train right before we left it was nice to sit down after all the walking but the ride was fast and short. I think Miles thought it was cool to ride on the train he really did not pay any attention to the animals we saw while on the train.

Photos from the train.

Typical Adams family photo.

Family pic where Trav is actually not pulling faces!

James, Tiff, Olivia, Emma and Jacob

I forgot my camera most places we went this weekend so the zoo pics are courtesy of Tiffany. We had a barbecue at Trav's Mom's house on Saturday with the family that was fun and the food was really good. We had a whole bunch of salads and that is what we ate the most we had so much left over meat. I think when it is hot you just want something cool and light, and the salads hit the spot.

I love the 4th of July I know it sounds weird but that is my favorite holiday. I love the barbecue, fireworks and warm weather. We had a few fireworks but the real hit were the smoke bombs. All the kids ran around with them and Miles raced after them running through the smoke. Kayla and Jackson were playing pyro they wanted to set everything on fire. After all the fireworks were lite she and Jackson tried to burn up all the cardboard shells. Crazy kids!

Sorry no pics from Saturday because of course I forgot my camera again.