Thursday, November 06, 2008

Halloween Re-cap

I have been meaning to add some Halloween to this blog but things just kept coming up. Well here it is - our Halloween 2008
First of all - here we are at our church Trunk-or-Treat. Here is the cutest kitty I have ever seen. She would even say, "mow-mow"I made this dress for my costume because I wanted a green dress. I will probably post about making it on my other blog some time.Here is Cat woman sucking on a hot dog bun.and here she is five minutes later still sucking on it. This picture was taken right before we hunted down the garbage can and a napkin to get rid of that mess. Teething? Here is Robin showing Batman how to get the doughnuts off the string and Batman was not interested after that. I think that was actually because the girl working the booth spoke a little too forcefully to him when he tried to get it with his hands.He did win in the cakewalk and here he is consuming his goods.Here he is with all his loot. He thought it was a lot and he does not need any more than this.Here is Cat woman trying a tootsie roll
Here she is lounging with the tootsie still in her mouth.Here she is in the bathtub with it still in her mouth. I took it out after this.On actual Halloween night we went to our friends house. William got to go trick-or-treating with his buddy Carter. Carters little sister Kiley had her birthday that day so we went over for a party.
With LOTS of yummy food.
Here they are ready to save the world. Look our Christian Bale - we may have found a replacement.Here he is going up to a scary house with his hand on the hilt of his batman sword (he bday present from his mom and dad) ready for action. He decided candy was not worth the scary houses. After telling people "thank you" for giving him candy he would say "Happy Trick-or-Treat" instead of Happy Halloween.Here is poison Ivy giving Robin the kiss of death.

On the way home that night we were driving slow down the kids filled streets and William would yell happy Halloween out the window to everyone. Not everyone heard and that disappointed him, but it was nice anyway. Holidays are getting progressively more fun as he gets older.

I hope you all had a wonderful Trick-or-Treat.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Rock the Vote

This morning Russ and I got up early to go vote (our mail in ballots never showed up). We got there 15 minutes before the polls opened and there was about a five yard line (not typical) but that is good, I am glad people are voting. It was really cold and Russ' Robin costume was in the car so I put it on (just the shirt). Russ was laughing at me, but I was warm (er).
Here I am four years ago the evening before the polls opened. Good thing I did a mail in ballot. I had to wait to push until my doctor got there and I can still hear him grumbling about all the traffic the Kerry supporters were causing.
GO VOTE! I will watch your kids if you need me to.

Sunday, November 02, 2008

So good you could go nuts!

We woke up early on Friday and danced the birthday dance (we were pretending it was his birthday because we would be gone on his actual birthday). Since William LOVES doughnuts and gets to eat them probably less than ten times a year we thought we would take him to Krispy Kreme. Gracie wanting William to share with himWilliam obligingMommy was sharing too and making the awesome "happy mommy face"Gracie had learned how to fold her arms......and she is pretty dang proud of herself.How old are you?
"I don't want you to take a picture of me mom."I love this picture. Just look at this little happy family. Sigh.

This was the start of a crazy Halloween day.

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Like I said, yesterday was Williams birthday. I can't believe he has been here four years already but then at the same time it is really hard to remember my life without him. Here are some picture of him at every age.
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There are no words to describe what it has been like to watch this boy grow so I won't even try. He teaches me everyday and has made me grow so much as a person. Plus he makes me laugh a lot - like when he was climbing off the bathroom counter and did not realize the toilet lid was up. I heard him yell out and ran to the bathroom to find his leg in the *clean* toilet and his hands on the ground. Luckily he did not get hurt and after we cleaned him off I started to chuckle (because it is kinda funny). When he asked why I was laughing I told him I thought it was silly that his foot was in the toilet and he got a very serious look on his face and said, "we don't put legs in the toilet - that's gross." and walked out of the room. At least I taught him one thing right.

Thank you for loving me and telling me (unprompted) everyday. You'll never know how much I love you back - until you have a child of your own.

Saturday, November 01, 2008

Today...

...is William's birthday. Russ is in Prescott hunting and I am in Snowflake attending the sealing of my Grandparents. The kids are at Russ' parent's house. Don't worry - we celebrated William's birthday yesterday and his birthday party is next week.
Let's hope Russ will have more success hunting this weekend then he did last weekend. All he caught last weekend was a lot of dirt in his eyes from riding the quad. (He is 95% sure he shot a quail but could not find it anywhere).And this is what they looked like the next day. Let's also hope that this is his last hunting trip EVER!

Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween


from Batman, Robin, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Adventures in Carousel riding

Today we went to ride the carousel. William - excuse me, I mean Batman - wanted to ride the tiger again. And Gracie, who had only ever wanted to hug the animals while in my arms, rode a zebra with no complaint. Wait - that is not true she would complain if I tried to touch her. So my arms had to hover behind her where she could not see.and she insisted on riding with her left side lower than her right. If I tried to straighten her she would stiffen her whole body in protest and slide right back to this position. She rode the whole way the way.We also got some Nielsons custard (I got a veggie grinder and I highly recomend them).SharingSo happy.
Today has been a good day.

Welcome to the planet

Mr. Matthew
Isn't my newest nephew adorable with that double chin?


Saturday, October 25, 2008

Hows it goin'?...it's goin'.

I realized I haven't posted in awhile and not just because I am busy (I am busy) but because I have not felt like there way anything I needed to post. This last week has been a crazy whirlwind and I thought I should have some sort of documentation for it. So here it is, the brief overview of the last week.
  • Friday - Russ finished his internship at the outpatient Kempton Physical Therapy. It was a place that he really liked and it was nice that is was close enough to us that he could get there in 3 min. on his bike. I spent all day on the phone with moving truck companies and stressing over how we were going to move all our stuff down from Flagstaff. When Russ gets home at 7:00pm (something I will not miss about Kempton PT) we decided that Connie would watch our kiddos and we would leave that night to go to Prescott.
  • Saturday - Wake up in Prescott after an enjoyable late night of catching up with our friends Chris and Brittany. Russ and Chris are already gone scouting and the rest of us go to the swap meet and I got a few treasures. After watching Trenton's soccer game and lunch Russ and I head off to our apt in Flag and start packing.
  • Sunday - we wake up and pack some more. Then we went to our first ward in Flagstaff for Sacrament meeting and realized how much we loved that ward. Then we went home and packed until we were done. I was getting really nervous that all our stuff was NOT going to fit in a 12' truck and some stuff would get left behind.
  • Monday - wake up and start cleaning the apt and packing some more. 10:00 we go to pick up our Penske (recommended) 12' truck. The guy brings us a 16' truck and I feel some excitement and am tempted not to say anything but when it is brought up that it is the wrong size truck the guys says that this is all they had some when got it for the same price. I walk around feeling extremely happy and blessed. Now packing can go much faster with out the stress of arranging everything just so, so that it will fit. And that is what we did the rest of the day. Load! We left around 6:00 pm I in the car and Russ in the truck. On the way home I got call about some scary news about my sister in law and the baby she is expecting in 20 weeks. I had a prayer in my heart the whole way home. (She is now home and on bed rest praying that she won't get an infection). When I got home my feet hurt and both my kids were asleep in their beds.
  • Tuesday - I woke up to see my kids! I missed them. My brother and mom and dad help us move out into the house we hope we will be renting. They are letting us keep our stuff there until we find out for sure, I will post about it when it is more sure, but lets just say I am real excited. I also witness a crazy police chase that ended up on my moms neighborhood. Crazy.
  • Wednesday - We return the moving truck, did rearranging, errand, and Pushing Daisies - ahhh refreshing.
  • Thursday - we went to the mall, watched my niece Vaeh, got Russ' scrubs for his next internship (highway robbery what they charge for those things) and I worked some more on my Halloween dress.
  • Friday - I go looking for second hand scrubs and other things and buy stuff so Russ can take off around 1:00 to go to Prescott to hunt (no comment). I take the kids to Ikea for lunch (we were close to it because I had to drop Russ off at the car he was taking to Prescott) and found a great duvet cover in the as is section that I will be using to make something really fun, but that is for another day.
  • Saturday (today) I just got back from making and taking lunch to the band and crew for this benefit concert. Then we are headed off to my moms to work on some stuff and then I am leaving my kids there so I can go to this concert all by myself.

*funny how at the beginning of this post I used the word "brief".

**my favorite part of this week was the time I spent alone with Russ. Even though, it was not a relaxing vacation, I like to work with him and it was nice just to be with him.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Hello Curly Q

Here is a video of one of Gracie's new words.



And look at these cute little curls. They don't stay too long. As soon as she lays down, rubs her head on me, or plays in the cloths hanging in my closet they almost disappear. Only a small curl on the end remains. I still love trying to do it everyday though.


Look at these cheeks!!!!

Carvey

(photo by William)
Meet Carvey, our Jack-o-lantern. We carved him a few says ago. I love that William named him Carvey, I think it is quite creative. I got some more pumpkins. I can't help myself I LOVE them. We will see if I get around to carving them. William wanted a happy pumpkin and Russ obliged.


I especially love this one. It was called a fairytale pumpkin - I had to buy it. I love it so much I am thinking of shellacking it so I can keep it forever. Would that work?
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