Taylor finished his fall soccer season last Sat.  They had a great season and all the players really improved.  Tayor especially is running faster, shooting more goals, playing aggressively, and  learned to play goalie.  Way to go Tay!

Little Isaac has been making us laugh all week long!  He has such a funny personality and he talks constantly, telling us about everything, and asking a million questions.

His questions lately are about where we buy everything; food, clothes, toys, snacks, cleaning stuff etc..  We will be eating a meal and he'll ask over and over "Where you buy this cheese, mom?"  "Where you buy my sippy cups, mom" Etc, etc, etc....  He will repeat the questions until you answer him with a response he's satisfied wiht.  He asks about everything.  It's really cute, but gets hard after a whole day of questions. 

I took him to my Dr. appt. this week, and he was hilarious.  He made himself at home in the waiting room by making friends with other patients, and exploring everything in the room.  I had to go to the bathroom and pee in the cup, and he was announcing
 "Why you pee in that cup, mom?" and "I want to pee in the cup!" over and over in a loud voice!  Then when I was walking back to the room, he yells "I want to hold the pee cup, mom!"  I was trying to keep him quiet, but the staff and nurses were all laughing so hard! 

Love you Isaac!  You keep life entertaining!

Shields Family pics.

We had some family pictures taken this summer with the whole extended J&P Shields clan.  It was quite a production to get the kids all in good moods and hold still long enough to get some decent pictures. 

Thanks to Brandon, he did a great job and they turned out great!



This group was the hardest and funniest to try and get a picture.  They all love being cousins, and have so much fun playing when we all get together! 



Happy Halloween!

Here is Isaac the Frog.  All of our kids have worn this costume when they were two.  It's been the best costume, it can be used for a girl or a boy, and it's really warm!

We had such a fun, busy Halloween weekend. 
Thursday Emily had a Halloween program and party at school and we carved our pumkins that night.

Friday Taylor had a Halloween parade and that night a Halloween carnival, compete with dinner, games and a scary spook alley.

 Saturday we went to "Boo at the Zoo", attended a friend's baptism and had dinner and scones with our neighbors and friends, followed by Trick o' Treating. 

 All the kids have been wearing their costumes for a few days.

  Here is Emily as a princess (big surprise)!  She was dancing, singing and twirling around so this was the best picture I could get of her. 

Taylor was a scary skeleton this year.  He really scared Isaac when he put on this mask. 

Here are a few pics. from the weekend.

The kids were thrilled with their Halloween adventures and completely exhausted.  It was freezing cold and rainy on Halloween night, so thanks to Danny for taking the kids out to get candy!

Happy Halloween!

Hard at work!

Sorry about the blurry pics.
These little two year old spent some time picking, cleaning and eating carrots from Mono's gardern.  They were so enthusiastic about doing a little chore!  They are so cute when they are working!

E's Birthday party!

 We spent the rainy day together as a family.  We had Stake Conference at the Conference Center, and it was fun to take the kids.  Later we looked at pics. of Emily when she was a baby, and watched videos of when she was born and just a little baby.  She loved seeing herself so little.  She was such an adorable baby.  When Emily was born we didn't know if she was a boy or a girl.  I was so ecstatic when Dr. Jones announced  "It's a girl" after a bit of a complicated delivery.  I was so happy to have a girl and couldn't ask for a sweeter daughter.  She bring so much joy, laughter, kindness and love to our family.

We had a fun family birthday party for her.  She wanted tacos for dinner, and a candy cake with pink and purple cake.  She designed and decorated her own candy cake, it looked pretty scary, but she was thrilled with it. 



She got lots of great stuff; a tea set, clothes, art supplies and umbrella.  Here she is showing off some of her gifts. 

                                                              Some of the pics. are blurry, I have no idea why?!





Here she is this morning before school showing off her new boots, outfit and umbrella. 



We had the party at G&G' Shields house, thanks for letting us crash your place!  Goofy Grandma & Grandpa came too, and the kids always love to see them. 

Overall it was a great day with Emily, we can't believe she is growing up so fast. We love you Emily!



Happy 5th B-day Emily!

Today Emily is 5 years old! She has grown into such a smart, funny, energetic, sweet girl. She has so many good qualites and is a wonderful sister to her two brothers. She has really matured in the last year and we can't believe she is five already. Here are a few of my favorite pics. of Emily.

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    Taylor helping the princess apply her makeup!



This orange Tu-tu was worn to shreds by the time she turned 3, she loved wearing it!

Always dressed up with nowhere to go!  She has loved getting herself dressed since she could walk.  I gave up caring what she wore in public by the time she was 2, it's not worth the fight. 

Emily is a wonderful friend, sister and cousin.  She is helpful, kind, smart and obedient.  We love you so much Emily!  We are so happy to have you in our family. 

Halloween Activities

We spent this week doing all sorts of fun Halloween activites.  We visited Gardner Village and looked for all the witches,  with our friends.  The kids had fun and it was nice, warm sunny day. 

We also went to Red Butte Garden on another gorgeous warm day.  They have Halloween activites, but they are all at night.  So we just played and enjoyed the sunshine. 

These three little kids are so funny together.  Isaac and Becca are always trying to start a fight with each other, and Emily is the peacemaker in the middle!  They are so funny!

Isaac decided to get really muddy and dirty, he is sucha boy!