Chili Cookoff - Blue and Gold Banquet

This past Tuesday was our Blue and Gold banquet.  The leaders changed it up this year and instead of everyone bringing a decorated cake, everyone brought chili.  My family doesn't really like to eat chili so I don't ever make it.  I did change it up and got a different brand than I've ever purchased before.  they even had a "Best Canned Chili" award but no dice.  Presentation might have had something to do with it.  Most people brought their chili in crock pots and I just put mine in a bowl and heated it up in the microwave.  Just another example of my not liking to cook.

Jacob got a Silver Arrow and he was the star of the wolf pack skit which was really cute but the baby distracted me so I wasn't able to get it on video.  (Todd had to take Noah home because he kept running around - after we got home Noah came and apologized to me for "messing around" and promised not to do it again.)

Dinner with the Bjarnasons

Playing Apples to Apples after dinner! 

Ronny is in baby daddy heaven holding Z.

Two weeks ago we invited the Bjarnason family to enjoy spaghetti and meatballs at our house.  Todd was out of town on business and we missed him but we had a great time anyway.

Is it still fall? Or is it winter?

The kids keep asking me this question.  A few days ago we got our 1st real snowstorm of the year.  It snowed for at least 24 hours.  The boys had a blast making snow forts and we enjoyed seeing snow men all around our neighborhood.

Halloween!

Occupy Halloween at the Jaramillo’s. The kids went out and worked their butts off getting the candy and I made them share their wealth with Dad who did zero candy gathering. Why should my kids get all the candy and not share?  Can you believe the audacity of my kids not wanting to share? I live here and breathe their air so they should automatically be required to share right?  So we counted all the Snickers and for every ten they needed to give me four. For every 10 Reese’s you guessed it four. I let them keep all the DOTS and Jaw Breakers. Fat Cat kids anyway thinking they can reap the benefits from their work. 

Love, Dad

Mashed Potato Face

Sunday night is our usual chicken cordon bleu and mashed potato night.  Unlike his big brothers, Noah loves mashed potatoes.  He is still having a little bit of a hard time getting them in his mouth.  He tried several times with his fork/spoon and then gave up and just put his face in the mashed potatoes on his plate.  Thank goodness it was time for a bath!

Belt Testing

On Friday, Todd, Rachel, Ethan & Jacob had their belt testing.  Todd was testing for his red black stripe and the kids testing for their blue red stripe.  They all did really well. They all should be black belts by this time next year!

A New Member of Team Jaramillo - Introducing Daisy

Rachel has been wanting another dog for months. She wrote to "Santa" about getting a dog for Christmas.  She kept looking online at different Shih-tzu puppies.  She found one this afternoon on KSL.com.  Mom and Dad are a bunch of softies, particularly because Rachel is such a good girl.

This is Daisy.  We picked her up as a surprise.  Rachel has promised to take care of her.  One of the things we did differently than with Chloe is that we didn't get Daisy a kennel.  We used the cage that we bought before for outside, put down newspaper and training pads.  The space is big enough that she has all of her needs right there.  We won't have to take her outside to potty like we did with Chloe.  That will be nice particularly in the winter.

Welcome to our family, Daisy