weekend review

A couple of days ago, I ran over this beautiful creature in my driveway, while coming home from taking Addie to school. I wasn't 100% positive it was dead, So I took the picture and then ran for my life.

I am so extremely proud of this preschool picture of Trey. Why? because he looks like he is cooperating!! That is huge for Trey! Plus, he looks incredibly handsome. Other funny Treyisms for the week. Trey has narrowed down his costume choices for Halloween next year to either the letter Y or X or the number 56 or 32. When I asked him what he wanted from Santa he replied "fruit snacks and chocolate milk" at least he won't be hard to please. On the other hand, Addie only wants her own computer, uneven bars, wii, dollhouse,digital camera, beauty salon and makeup. If she only gets these items she will be completely happy. I guess we are going to have a sad Christmas.

what an example

My dad is pretty amazing! He is the Mayor of Santaquin and was up for re election.The Opposition has been campaigning very dirty. There have been some horrible things said about him. There were vicious lies spread about his character. But my dad never played their game. He never stooped to their level. There were times when I wanted him to because I thought what they were doing was so unfair. However, the fact that he continued to be the bigger person has reminded me that he is a great guy and his way was definitely the better way. With my dad what you see is what you get. He is very honest and stands by his decisions, even when it doesn't seem to be the popular thing to do.

In the end, he did pull out another victory. I am very happy he won. But even more happy he didn't lose.(yes, I did mean that in more than one way) It was a win for the good guy.

Halloween festivities

Hooray for Halloween being over. Here are a few pics of the eventful day PJ is a cowboy

Trey is the bob the builder

Addie is a scary witch

The haunted house at Grandma Patty's party was very scary!

AAAHHHH!

I even dressed up as the evil karate mama

Carlene and I ran the Salem witches run this morning. Lots of fun

The big birthday

This little stinker just turned two. He decided to jump right in to being a 2 year old. He spent all morning throwing tantrums.

This is Mr. October. Just check him out

Daddy is assembling the gift from Grandma Carla. It is a hit with all of the kids

Peyt is enjoying his birthday cake

We had quite a few characters show up to his party. Spiderman(aka Noah) took the time to come and celebrate

We played games like the ring toss, bean bag throw, had a fish pond and face painting. We had carnival cake and Halloween cupcakes. And the kids got to take home cotton candy with spiders in it.

Sophie getting her face painted

Maddux with one of the prizes from the fish pond

Look at all these fun people. It was a great time (I hope). I always wonder why I do these parties. You would not believe the mess that 12 guests between the ages of 18 months and 5 years can make.

My baby is turning 2

On the 29th of October Peyton John Huff will be 2 years old. It has been a very busy two years. He joined our family when Trey was only 16 months old. It has been a good but not relaxing time in our lives. This is the very first pic I saw of Peyton. He was 2 days old. I didn't actually meet him in person until he was 2 weeks old. Alabama law allows birth mothers to change their minds up to 14 days after signing.

Peyton has been a joy in our household. He is a happy kid. But he is so mischievous sometimes I think i am going to lose it. He goes by many names such as Peyt, Peyters, PJ, the Tank, Peyby, Pey Pey la pue, fatty.

One of my fave shots of PJ. Rhonda took this photo

another favorite of mine. I love his cheeks and lips

This is his new two year old pic. He was a monster and not cooperative at all. We had to cut him out of a group shot to get one of him at all. What a stinker. I should also add that this morning after getting him dressed for pics, he, yet again, got into the vaseline and hair product and covered his entire body in it. So off went the clothes into the wash. His pants were still wet at the studio. And speaking of group shots....

Here it is! This one is for Landan who is a major Utes fan.

Anyway, happy birthday Peyt! We love you

ending the debate

a while back I had an unpleasant encounter with an acquaintance. She told me that stay at home moms have the easiest job in the world and we, who are stay at home moms, never have any right to complain. I would like to share my feelings on this never ending debate on stay at home moms vs. working moms.

1. life stinks! some women are working moms but would rather be at home. Some women who are at home would rather be working else where.
2. Whether you work outside the home or in it does not make you a bad or good mom. It is what you do with your time.
3. If you are doing your job right, staying at home with your kids is hard. There is a lot to do both with the kids and maintaining your home. I have young children so I know that most of my work will be destroyed faster than I can fix it. I get to deal with crying and meltdowns and intercept sibling fights, help with homework, play taxi, pay bills, grocery shop, yard work, read to my children, educate them, play with them, monitor what they are eating, sleepless nights.......... and in return no one says thank you Stephanie you did a great job today! here is your paycheck. But I am grateful I can be with home with them even if it means we cannot afford every luxury in life... I realize that this may not always be the case so I am trying to appreciate that I have this opportunity now.
4. I have worked part time(very part time) for several years so I had a glimpse of what it is like to be a working mom and I didn't like it. Trying to make sure you always have a care taker for your children, having to miss work when they are sick, feeling guilty for leaving them, coming home tired and then have to start on the house work and be a mother, it is frustrating and hard

But my point is..... why do we feel the need to be judgemental? No one can say who has it harder. So many things have to be considered, whether you love what you do, how many children you have, their temperaments,disabilities,your own standards of acceptable,financial situation,single parent, absentee parent, support groups, close friends and family..........

Let us as woman just appreciate each other and realize that except for those few individuals, we as mothers are doing our best and doing what we think is best for our families. It may be not what we wanted to do or it may be exactly what we wanted. But either way, it is life so accept it.

Now after than rant I would just like to say I appreciate my children and the opportunity I have to raise them.
Now if you will excuse me, it is Monday and time to clean the toilets. Peace and Love to everyone

Isn't fall break great?

Fall break has been very outing full at the huff household. We have gone to Red Barn pumpkin patch, Hee Haw Farms, Docs Pizza, carved our pumpkins into jack o Lanterns, and Addie and I went to see "cloudy with a chance of meatballs" in 3D. Trey insisted on riding lady style on his horse.

Trey loved the corn. Funny thing, I took off his shoes at bedtime last night and it was covered in corn. I can't believe he never complained about his feet.

In the corn Maze, Addie thought we were lost for good and actually cried. Good thing Grandma was there to comfort her.

Trey could have gone down the slides for hours.

enjoying jumping in the hay

At the pumpkin patch I tried really hard to get a good picture of all three but that just isn't going to happen

Addie trying to cheer up Grumpy PJ. He definitely wasn't happiest little pumpkin picker

On the wagon ride back to the barn

Look at our great jack o lanterns! Fun times! Landan actually joined in on this activity.