Happy Halloween!!

The past few months, Kennedi has been obsessed with cowgirl stuff, so of course she wanted to be a cowgirl for Halloween. I decided to go ahead and dress Dax up as cowboy to go along with her.....but he REFUSED to wear his cute little chaps, boots, or hat! He can be such a stinker......so I decided to make him Chucky, it's fitting for him anyways, and all we had to do was MAKE him hold still while we sprayed his hair red.

As you can see......he was not thrilled about this whole Halloween thing!

GRRRRRR

Kennedi's favorite part about her costume was her big huge belt buckle that Grandpa Knudsen gave her.

Dax, Kenna, Kaydon, and Kalie

Fall Festivities

We went to the pumpkin patch the other day to pick out our pumpkins for our annual Knudsen Pumpkin Carving Contest.

It was poring rain, but the kids still had a blast picking out all kinds of pumpkins for carving and decoration.

They had a little maze for the kids to walk through and they had so much fun.

It was so funny to watch Dax try to get through it.

Then we all got together to carve them and had so much fun!

Kennedi pretty much did her own, other then some carving at the end. She actually did a really good job!

Here is hers all lit up.....

Here is mine and Shane's....

Jessica and Coby's

and Analee and Reid's

Our pet SNAKE!

The other day Kennedi and I were outside walking around the yard and as we walked by one of our window wells something grabbed my eye and for some reason I looked in to find a HUGE Black Widow Spider. I walked closer to check it out and then saw this HUGE snake that has made a nice little home down there as well. I kinda freaked out and yelled "there's a snake!!" and we both ran in the house. Now I'm not really a wussy girl, I can handle a lot and snakes don't necessarily scare me, I was just completely shocked, I wasn't expecting it.

I then went down stairs to inspect it from the window and here it is. We never stretched it out to see how long it actually was, but I'm guessing around 3ft. I'm also guessing it'd been down there a while because it had shed it's skin.




Sense Shane was out town, I called his dad to come over and get it for me.

Dax decided he needed to help too, so he went into the garage and got the shovel and came back to get it....so funny!

Here is the skin.....



Dax was pretty interested in it....luckily by this time Kenna was at dancing or she would have had nightmares for months!

Have you seen my Hubby?

It's that time of year....we refer to it as "busy season" around our house. She sells medicare advantage plans for Humana, and from OCTOBER 1st through DECEMBER 31st he is M I A around here. This year he is gone Monday-Friday working either in Cedar City or Kanab and then works the weekends here in Sanpete County.

I can't complain though, because the rest of the year he is home ALL the time (sometimes too much), I'm sure people in town don't even think he has a job most of the time!!

So......anyways......I enjoy my days hangin out with my kids (with no adult interaction), and at night I enjoy my TV shows!

Best one yet!

Dax is really into hiding. He has a few hiding spots that he always runs to when he wants to hide....like if I want to change his diaper or put him to bed.

This is a new one that he found yesterday. I about died laughing because he thought he was being really sneaky!

Phone Pics

I need to post some of these pictures I have on my phone that I thought were pretty cute.


This was Dax pretty much all summer. He LOVES to be outside, in fact if we are in the house the doors always have to be locked or he is gone!

He thinks he is so big riding his bike!

My little Kenna is growing up way too fast! She also went very blond this summer, hopefully it darkens back up over the winter.

Love my little Dax!

We got to visit with the Allen family last weekend while they were in town. Dax and Mia were so cute playing then fighting then playing and fighting some more. Lindsey and I just laughed at them as they fought, it was the funniest thing!

(we told Mia to give him kisses...he didn't like that)

A Work in Progress......

We have WORKED ALL SUMMER on our yard. We dug a hole and put our tramp in the ground, put in a sprinkler system, leveled it, weeded it, raked it, weeded it, got curbing, weeded it, put together our play set, WEEDED IT, planted trees and shrubs, WEEDED IT, shoveled cow poop on the whole thing, planted grass, WEEDED IT, put down mulch, put in gravel, and now we need to WEED IT AGAIN! I guess that's what we get for building in an Alf Alfa field.

It is still a work in progress, we still have LOTS of work to do NEXT YEAR!

Before:

After:

Our grass is coming in pretty good in the front, the back is another story.....

Shrubs are still small, but hopefully by next year they will be bigger...

Ignore the WEEDS in the play area, we still need to put something down in there....

Our door never matched our front arch so I finally made myself redo it....and it was a PAIN!

This is what it looked like before......

Here it is all sanded......

Here it is stained the RIGHT color.....

And the finished product! (bad glare)

Warning:

WARNING: Danger! Flammable Liquid and Vapor!

Any guesses on what this used to be????

Anyone? Anyone?

Well this used to be TWO of our garbage cans!!

Here is the story.......On Saturday, Shane was staining our big arch in our entry way. The wind was blowing pretty hard and it knocked over the can of stain and spilled some on our front porch. We were trying to scrub it off with things like: Paint Thinner, Pure Acetone, and Gas. Good news is we got most of the stain off our porch.

Well then we just put all the rags and paper towels we used to clean up the mess in the garbage (which was completely full) and didn't give it a second thought.

Jump to 4 am Sunday morning when Dax woke up and was crying a little (which he NEVER does). I went into his room and laid him back down and smelled something pretty strong but couldn't figure out what it was. I checked the whole house and couldn't see anything so I went back to bed.

Dax woke up again at like 7:15 and Shane went in to get him and hollered in at me and asked if I could smell something melting. He looked around the house too and couldn't see anything so he and Dax came and laid in our bed.

Then the door bell rang.....we were wondering who would be ringing our doorbell at 7:20 am. Shane went to the door and one our friends was there and asked Shane if he started a fire on our driveway.....Shane went out to look and saw this (but it was on fire)......

"dude that's my garbage can"

So this was our big garbage can totally full and then we had another 50 gallon can sitting right next to it also full and this is what was left.

We are just so thankful that it didn't hurt our house, we got so lucky!

It was a good story at church though!

1st Grade Already?

Today was Kennedi's first day as a 1st Grader.

She is getting so big, it makes me sad sometimes, but for the most part I'm ok with her getting older. I didn't cry today.....she was so excited, so I was just excited for her. She didn't want anyone to walk her to class but I insisted that I did.

Here she is all ready to go. She is such a pretty girl!

The sun was in her eyes....