Our Christmas Picture

How difficult is it to get a 5 year old, 3 year old and 6 month old all looking and smiling at the camera at the same time? Not difficult at all- it's actually impossible.

Merry Christmas anyway!

Halloween

So, Halloween in December... why not?
This year we went with a family theme for our Halloween costumes- we were all from the show Phineas and Ferb. For our trunk or treat, I made up the Trick or Treat Candy-Inator. If I had thought of doing this at some point before the afternoon before the activity, I could have made a really cool -inator, but well, this is what I could come up with last minute. When you stuck your hand in the door, there was a bowl that had a motion sensor hand that came down on you. Jesse was Dr Doofenshmirtz, I was Candace, Olivia was Perry the Platypus, Nate was Phineas, and Graham was Ferb.

Platypus costume courtesy of Grandma White.

She also made the silly tall pants for Graham.

Nate woke up the next morning and put on those inside-out pjs, blue shorts and wanted to know when we were going to spray his hair orange.

So Happy Halloween!

Dear Santa,

Nate came home from school with this letter that he had written to Santa:

Dear Santa
I love to sit on your lap.
love Nathaniel

If I were Santa and that's all he wrote to me in his letter, I'd bring him lots of toys just for being so sweet.

November update

November was a pretty slow month for us. Nate and Graham and Olivia just kind of played all month Jesse had a birthday, and that was just about the only thing that happened. He got an electric guitar.

Nate and Graham colored on their faces.

Nate got to take home Brown Bear from his classroom over Thanksgiving break. He took it to Grandma's house one day.

He also brought Brown Bear to Thanksgiving with the Markhams. We ate at Seth and Heather's house this year, and the dinner was delicious. Nate had a ton of fun playing with cousin Meckenzie.

And that was it. A pretty boring November for us! Guess I didn't miss much in not blogging about things as they happened.

December update

OK, so December started out with a super cute baby. Then we moved right on to Graham's birthday! The big Number 3!!!

It was a multi-day celebration. We had a party with a few friends on Friday.

Then on Saturday morning he got to open his presents from us.

That afternoon we had a party with the Markhams. It was a joint birthday party since Uncle Seth's birthday was on Sunday. But Graham got the one desire of his heart- "The Dragon Movie" It's a favorite! On Sunday we had a birthday party with the Whites, and that pretty much ended his birthday weekend.

The following Saturday we went out with Grandad and Aunt Cammi to cut down some Christmas trees. We did this last year, and it will probably be an annual tradition. It wasn't snowing like it was last year, but it had snowed the day before, and there was still some snow on the ground and trees.

They have these signs all over the lots, saying watch out for holes. I was the only one to fall into a hole, and bang up my knee, and fall face first, and Olivia first, into a pine tree. It was OK though, just a bruised knee, and everyone was OK.

It was cold though, and Olivia had to be pretty bundled up!We eventually got a tree stand big enough for our tree- the trunk was too wide for the one that we had, and we got it up and decorated.

And finally, last week we took the Kids to the mall, waited in line for an hour, and got our picture taken with Santa. In the past Nate and or Graham have been terrified of Santa, this year, both of them ran up to him, and were so excited to see him. What did they want you ask? Graham asked for "Lightning" (As in Lightning McQueen- as if we don't already have enough) And Santa knew all of the characters from Cars. Nate asked for a cute puppy dog, (yes, my children are terrified of dogs) and a Batman toy.

And that pretty much brings up up to date on December.

6 Months

This little girl is 6 months old! I can hardly believe it's been that long! She's still a tiny little thing, so people often are surprised that the is 6 months old, but she's cute as can be. Everyone loves her, she wins over people wherever she goes. She is mostly a happy baby, and when she is not happy, most of the time she can be made happy just by picking her up. She doesn't really do much, she can't sit up, she just lunges as soon as you sit her up, she doesn't roll over, she has rolled from her front to back once, but that is it. In her defense, she doesn't spend much time on the floor, I'm usually afraid she will get run over by a crazy boy. But she does have one trick- she has started to shake her head, and now if you shake your head at her, she'll shake her head back at you. It's super cute. She loves her brother so much! And they love her just as much, they always want to be with her. In fact, Nate has a plan for getting rid of Graham, and keeping Olivia.

So we'll keep her, for a bit longer at least. Sometimes I hate putting her to bed, just because it would mean that I'd have to put her down, and she's just the sweetest thing ever.

10%

So I kind of stopped with the Weight Loss Wednesday posts, but in all fairness, I stopped with all posts, so yeah. BUT- I have kept with things, and with the exception of one week I have been down every single week. This week though, I hit my 10% goal! So I got a nifty little weight watchers key chain, and a standing ovation. (OK, not really about the standing ovation, but with the exception of my two friends who were sitting behind me, everyone was very happy for me.)
One day I may even start blogging again. We'll see. :)