Good old fashioned fun

Saturday we went to the fall fest at the boys school.  They played a bunch of fun games. I just thought I'd share some pictures. 

Potato sack races and a pumpkin roll race. 

Our friend Brett came to town Sunday night for a little while. It was fun catching up with him. We always laugh at his and Dougs height difference.  

Which lead to a comparison of Doug and my height difference.

I thought I was just a 1/2 an inch taller. I guess I grew or he shrunk. ;). Doug is not shaving for the month of November with plans to gradually shave it off into a mustache and such. We'll see if he can make it. Life is always entertaining here. 

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween yall!  Do you want to see our costumes?

They were inspired by the movie Cowboys and Aliens. Doug persuaded everyone to be cowboys with him.

All I had to do was sew a couple of holsters and alter a few thrift store vests. I think they all look pretty sweet.

Happy Halloween!

Getting ready.

We carved pumpkins tonight. Thursday's are FHE for us.  Here are some action shots. 

Doug is growing a beard for his costume tomorrow. Everyone is going be a cowboy/cowgirl. 

He's making FHE dessert here. Vanilla pudding! 

The final carvings...

Max. Luke. Jack. Mer. 

In other news we put an offer on a house this week and it was accepted. If everything goes well we close on dec 31st. Just 1 week before the baby's due. :). Perfect timing right? Email me if you want a link to see the new place. 

Happy Halloween!!!

The Jets came to town this weekend

The US Airforce Thunderbirds came to Melbourne this weekend for 2 airshows at our local airport.  We happen to live close enough to have them repeatedly fly over our house. They were practicing in the afternoon all week so we got to see them zoom over our house quite a bit. They were so loud but so awesome. 

On Sunday in between Conference sessions we decided to drive over near the airport to get a closer look.

 We saw them do all sorts of awesome tricks which you can't really see from our pictures but they were so cool that we won't forget them.

Bye for now

A lost tooth and a Birthday party

This post was started a couple of weeks ago. enjoy!

It has been raining and raining here.  It started the night of Doug's campout and it has hardly stopped. Everyone's soccer practices and games have been cancelled night after night, which is fine by me, and had been a nice little break. Yesterday the sun was finally out all day and my car had a chance to dry out all the way. After picking up all those soaking wet boys last Friday my car was soaked and super stinky. Like, I couldn't even drive with the windows closed, it was so bad. So glad to have it smelling a little better today.

Luke's has his first wiggly tooth! He has been wiggling it and wiggling it to try and get it out.  He makes sure I don't pack him ANYTHING crunchy in his lunch because he "just can't chew it" Last night Mer tried to pull it out with a piece of floss but it just kept slipping off.

Fastforward 1 week...

We had a couple of special occasions last week. First of all this little guy lost his first tooth.  To say he was excited would be an understatement.  

He wiggled it for a week and thought for sure it would come out any day. Finally he let me pull it out when it was nice and ready. Bye Bye little baby tooth. He's still waiting for the new one to grow in.

And Secondly Jack had his birthday party the Saturday after his birthday.  We hosted another Minute to Win it party and he invited his favorite friends to come.  Jack had a really fun time with all his friends.  He requested shark cupcakes like Max had one year.

 Thank goodness for easy parties. This one is probably the easiest party ever to throw and is really so much fun.  Here was our game line up for the record just in case it will come in handy for the future.

We added a few new games from last time, like the Elephant March 

And Stack attack.

Hanky Panky was probably the most fun and craziest.

In between games they decided to play soccer for a while.

We also made T-shirts for the boys to compete in and take home

Fun times. It's so fun making my kids' birthday dreams come true. Happy Birthday Jack, Stay sweet please!

Birthday Boys

September is a big month for birthdays.  Doug and Jack both had one, as well as my Dad, Mom, sister-in-law, and uncle. Let's start with Doug's. From these pictures it looks like his birthday was rather uneventful,

But on the contrary I'd say it was one of the most eventful birthdays he has ever had.  To make a long story short, he took the scouts camping that day.  They had grand plans to boat to an island in the river to camp and fish. They got as far as setting up their tents and fishing for an hour before the rain began.  A drizzle turned into a deluge that just wouldn't quit so they ended up abandoning their site and coming home.  I picked up 7 drenched and shivering guys that night at 9:30.  We had a more official celebration the next day after everything had calmed down a bit. We celebrated with Mango Key Lime pie.

Next up was Jack's birthday yesterday.  He woke up bright and early and opened a few presents before school.  

Strawberry filled Crepes for breakfast at his request.

He didn't want to have to go to school but it was an early release day and I came and picked him up for a quick trip to Subway for lunch so it really wasn't too bad.

More presents after school with the older kids this time

Then it was off to scouts and mutual where Jack recieved his Wolf patch. At long last we came home and had dessert.  Jack really wanted a cherry pie.

 He told me this was the "best birthday ever"!!! Yay!

Jack's sweet primary teacher brought him over a huge cookie for his birthday tonight.

Happy birthday Jack and Doug. We love you!!