So we try to remind ourselves that having a Dad that's a firefighter does have it's perks. Like having a smoke detector in EVERY room of your house, getting to go "play" on all the fire trucks and ambulances when ever you go to the fire house and being able to get Santa Clause to come a night early on the Christmases that Dad has to work .... and bringing your Daddy to show and tell is kind of cool too!
Theo was asked to come in and talk to Ethan's preschool class about being a firefighter, It was So cute! They watched a music video about fire safety. (And I swear a 7 year old Lindsay Lohan was in it.) Then Theo asked them questions like ...what do you do if you see matches? and stop drop and roll type stuff... they are mostly 3 and 4 year olds...
Here Theo is with his assistant, Ethan, (notice the arm on his hips?) He was cracking me up.... every time Theo would ask a question, the other kids would raise their hand and answer and Ethan would say "yeah so you know .... don't hide....yeah so you know, don't play with matches.... 
I love this picture cause you can see how the kids were just mesmerized by Theo putting on all his gear and Ethan is standing up in the middle of them all with this HUGE smile on his face... he was so proud! 
Here Theo is in all his gear, Darth Vader sounding, getting the kids to come up and touch him so they wouldn't be afraid if a firefighter had to come in their house. Just out of this shot there is a little girl loosing her SH*T.... she was crying and screaming.... and the crazy part... guess what her Dad does for a living.... he's a firefighter!!! Go figure! 
Ethan got to give all his friend their own plastic fire helmet and coloring books and was talking about his Dad coming to talk to his class all week long. I sometimes forget that Theo is a real life hero...I usually hear the hilarious stories about the stupid things he sees or the stupid things people say and do! It's easy to forget that he runs INTO burning buildings when everyone else is running out.... he can find a person without a pulse... and bring them back to life.... he's delivered babies and held a dying person's hand and comforted a nervous mother... he really does do amazing things! I'd forgotten that, but luckily through Ethan's eye's I've been reminded he's a REAL life superhero... with a cape and everything!
And this little beauty is a Nintendo DS case, complete with a place to store your games! (how to people come up with this stuff!) I'm making one for two of my nieces and probably one for Alex if I can find some more "manly" material!
Sunday we of course joined them at church where it just happened to be the children's turn to speak & sing. Abbey got to stand up and say "she could set the WHOLE table by herself" and Leah loved the singing and we heard her singing later in the day "follow and drop it... follow and drop it" (it's suppose to be "Follow the Prophet"... but what can I say her Daddy's a fire fighter and stop drop and roll is ingrained in her head) we got a good chuckle out of that. I also love seeing the kids all dressed up! 
On Monday we found ourselves at Kangaroo Zoo.... if you visit Utah, you have to check this place out! It's a Warehouse full of bounce houses and slides and decorated with ALL IKEA stuff! It was so fun! 
As you can imagine the kids worked up quite a sweat playing and bouncing so we threw them all in the tub together. I thought a bubble bath would be so fun, and then they found the button that turns on the whirlpool bath.... notice in the first picture how low the water & bubbles are.... well it didn't take long for there to be TONS of bubbles... up to their ears....they had so much fun! Even if that meant there was water & bubbles all over the bathroom! You can see Ethan showing off his bubble muscles! 
One Tuesday we celebrated Abbey's 5th birthday (Leah & I have been at Abbey's birthday party EVERY year! The theme was based on Abbey's favorite book "The Berenstain bears Old Hat/New Hat. First Danielle read the book, then they made NEW hats. The kids even had a chance to pin the flower on the hat. (is that cute or what?) It was a great party and we got to meet a bunch of Abbey's new friends! Can't believe Abbey & Leah are both 5 years old!!! 
I also had made the all 5 kids matching pajamas, here they are fresh out of the bathtub ready for bed on our last night! I love these kids SOOOOOO much! 
And this is of the newest members of the Gibbs family, Little Mariann. She was sick when we first got there so she slept alot the first few days. This was the first day she was feeling better and I get to see more of her little personality. She's a sweetheart, but a bit of a Momma's girl! She is going through the "I only want my Mom" stage. but as long as Mommy wasn't in sight she was quite happy with me! 
Up next my Dad and his wife Connie and her daughter 
And my Dad loves profile shots, but I laughed when i saw this because we all look like..... well to steal a line from the movie up.....
And then as is our fall family tradition, we took the kids to Circle S Farms to pick out the perfect pumpkins and eat the best donuts in the whole world!!! The kids get to go down slides into huge piles of straw, wander through bales of hay made into a maze go on a hay ride out to the field to pick their own 
This is one of my favorite traditions! It amazing for me to see the pictures from just 2 years ago when Ethan was just a little baby! I asked Theo if he thought we'll be able to drag them to
Ethan has the Pup... "Oh-No" 
Alex has this little snoopy dog that his pal Rick got for him a long time ago and it seems to be the only stuffed animal that's stayed around... even though he "doesnt use it" it somehow remains in the general vicinity of his bed. 
This was a well loved stuffed animal and after seeing the movie Toy Story 3 (and crying) I was so happy that I still have this guy around. Even if he's in the linen closet most of the time. I hope that I'm able to hang onto the kids special woobies until they get older too!
So she wore her sparkly shoes with her sparkly skirt & sparkly shirt on her first day of school and when I went to pick her up, the first words out of her mouth were "MY FEET HURT"