Sunday, November 2, 2008

I got tagged

rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you {Laura}
2. Post the rules on your blog
3. Write six random thoughts about yourself
4. Tag six or so people at the end of your post
5. Let each person know he or she has been tagged --{you will know if you read my blog}
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is posted

Here are the random thoughts:
1. I have never broken a bone-and now if I do at least I have a husband who can make it better.
2. I wish I could dance well.
3. I want so much to be back to my wedding weight-before I had children. I'm glad that I have finally started going to the Y again since Devin is a few months old and I feel comfortable leaving him there now.
4. I wish I could snap my fingers and my house would be clean-all the time, but especially right now.
5. I don't know who I'm going to vote for...I wish there were other options!
6. I want to sleep through the night so bad, and I think I will finally get to when the grandparents take Devin for a few days.

Now tag 6 other bloggers... this is really a test to see if people are really looking at this or not! Well, since I am still fairly new to blogging and don't follow too many other blogs yet-I'm tagging people who I know look at my blog, and you can just write your random thoughts in my comments!

1. Mom/Dad-You guys can do this together
2. Kiki-I always like to hear what you're thinking
3. Hilary-my sister
4. Gina- my cousin, since I put the blog in your favorites and you said you wanted to start commenting!
5. Lauren-my sister now that she has internet access all the time now!
6. Any of my Mom's Bunco buddies-you know who you are!

Halloween part 2

Happy Halloween! Isn't my little pumpkin so cute?? :)
We had fun this Halloween with the kids. Although Aiden was so sad not to go trick or treating with our neighbor friend Cole (because Cole would be going too fast for Aiden) He still had a lot of fun with Micah and my parents later in the night. Here are some pictures from the evening, along with a short video-be sure to check it out :)

All ready for trick or treating! Well, almost-Devin is still sleeping ;)

Here we go!

Be sure to listen as Aiden says Thank you, and then Gracias! I thought it was too funny-and I was later told that he really talked a lot saying Happy Halloween to everyone, and told him he was a fire fighter. What else was cool was that our local fire departments patrolled around the neighborhoods in the fire trucks passing out candy-and they got a kick out of Aiden's oversized costume :)

Devin and I came back after a few houses to pass out candy at our own house. He was a big hit with everyone that stopped by :)

The troops coming back from a long night-and yes, Micah went as a Doctor-go figure :)

Aiden decided to trick or treat at our house too at then end of the night-he basically took all the handfuls he could and dumped them in his bag-it was too funny. We were down to basically nothing anyway, and the hours were almost over, so I didn't mind.

Grammy and Papa

They Match!

Look at all that Candy Devin! If only you could get your hands on some...

Oh wait, it looks like you did!
We had to reassure Aiden that Devin wasn't going to eat any :) He was a little worried!

pumpkin carvings

Well, Micah's pumpkin carving season began in Colorado :) On our last night there we asked they boys to pick up a pumpkin to carve and make pumpkin seeds. I believe that this was the first pumpkin carved with Aiden, however Micah believes we did one last year-I don't remember that. But oh well. Anyhow Micah got to carving, and Aiden got to watching. I guess in my parenting, I have taught my son not to get "icky" and he was a big wuss when it came to cleaning out or even touching any part of the carved pumpkin. It was still fun-at least I thought. unfortunately we didn't have time to roast the seeds, and we left the next day. So Micah was still craving them and asked if we could carve another pumpkin at home. He picked one up, and then I picked another 2 up :) Please enjoy Micah's handy work!


Dan looking to clean Micah's ears out!

Aiden ever observant

The Finished Product-Aiden so proud-even though he didn't really help ;)

Ok, Pumpkin carving at our house part 1 :)

Devin getting in on the action, and Aiden telling us how big the pumpkin is

Hard at work


Micah wanted to be sure to let everyone know that Aiden helped by placing the face stickers on the pumpkin, and so it's a little crooked, but I think it adds some character to the carving :)


Papa and Grammy came out to visit and go trick or treating with Aiden. When they got home it was time for pumpkin carving at our house part 2 :) As Micah had the task of carving out the turkey-since Thanksgiving is now around the corner, he made the comment that this Turkey was more complicated and more time consuming than spinal surgery! haha ;) I think he was exaggerating just a little...but I'm glad he did it and not me! (not to mention the fact that I had to reduce the pattern on the printer for it to fit on the pumpkin-so I guess it made it a little harder)

Doesn't it look great though? Good job honey :) And Papa, thank you so much for the Bears C-we will have it lit for every game that the pumpkin survives for ;)

Halloween part 1

I know I have a lot of catching up to do with posting, so here is a little bit from Halloween: The boys and I went to our mall here with Laura and her kids for a party at Old Navy. It was actually pretty lame for the kids, but we were able to get some shirts for the kids for free-so it was sort of worth it for us. But anyway, the kids dressed up and then we walked around and they played by some cut-outs that were around. In the end, it was a fun day to spend with our friends :)

James looking all 'cool' :)

waiting for us to check out

Silly face :)

James liked being in that corner-it was cute

Haunted house

how cute!


princess Ally

Friday, October 31, 2008

Hiking in the foot hills

Dan took us for a hike in the foot hills the last day we were out there. As Aiden liked to say, he had so much fun hiking in the Rocky Mountains ;) Not quite the mountains, but it seemed like it to him. He did really well, and we went pretty far for having two kids with us, who haven't been hiking before. If I lived there, I would do this every day! We had a lot of fun, and it was just so beautiful-gotta love God's creations...



Don't let go!

Aiden loved going through the "spooky forest"

so many cool rock formations


Aiden finally needed a bit of a break

going through the "forest"



Devin did really well too...hey he hitched a ride the whole time ;)


Can't wait to go back again!