A few pictures from Dec. part 1

December seemed to fly by. With the all the business of moving it seems we missed out on the whole season.
The kids acted out the Nativity on Christmas Eve. Jacob was Joseph (I didn't know he had strawberry soda stains on his undershirt), Merry was Mary and Grace was the angel. Adam was a very fast shepherd who would not stay by his sheep.
Adam liked to shake the presents.
Our sadly decorated tree. I only got out about a quarter of the ornaments because of the impending move.
Brother Dan came one weekend and we made tons of tamales and drank a lot of DDP.

House pictures

So I have been slowly cleaning the house and getting pictures taken. I thought I would post a few pictures for memories sake.

Formal living/ dining

Kitchen

Boys room

Girls room

Grace and Merry posing in front of her doll house that Merry built last year- she loves power tools.

Adam is 9 months and an official count down

Adam is now 9 months old and lots of fun.

His hobbies include chasing his train, drooling, eating lots and lots of paper (Christmas is going to be awesome) and biting pretty much everything he can get near his 7 chompers.

Showing off his crooked smile

Giving the train the evil eye, because he knows it about to escape.

The great chase.

Victory at last.

We have also started a count down of 17 days. I know you are a bit confused because Christmas is only 15 days away. Yes, we do have a countdown until Christmas, but it is 17 days until we pack our bags and head to the Sunshine State. My brain is still trying to figure out this whole moving thing out. We will be well stock with sugar and lots of DDP so I can cope.

FYI - Do not set small items on top of the dryer because you may when trying to empty the lint screen knock a random item into hole the screen comes out of. You may only be aware of this because you hear something thump at the bottom of the dryer. Then you may get a wire hanger and poke around in there and sure enough there will be a mystery item down there. You will secretly hope that it is your long lost pink phone that disappeared a few weeks ago but when you open up the back of the dryer and the lint shoot then you will be sadly disappointed when you only find a bleach pen. Then you noticed the massive amount of lint in the back of your 10 year old dryer and vacuum it out feeling sure that it was a fire hazard and that your house would have caught on fire if you had started the dryer just one more time and that it was fortuitous that the bleach pen even fell in the first place. That might just happen.

Thanksgiving-warning lots of blurry pictures

We had a quiet Thanksgiving at home this year with just our little family. Usually we host a big crowd, so this was a nice change.

Merry decided to carve the turkey with a butter knife.

A blurry self-timer shot of everyone.

Jacob, the silly band model, showing what he liked best- unfortunately I didn't get that in the picture.

Brian, cinematographer, document the whole event. Something to torture our kids with later.

Grace, Grace and her lovely dinner. I think she just drank orange soda and ate cranberry sauce.

Adam drank his sweet potatoes through a straw-- delicious.

After dinner relaxing.

Over the weekend we painted the inside of the playhouse. This is after the painting. I really don't know know what the big secret was.

Love these two together.

Cute little worker.

What you are taking my picture?

And finally me on Thanksgiving- glad that Brian did the dishes.

Some favorites from our recent family pictures

These are the pictures that will not make the Christmas card.

Love, love this picture of Grace.

Nice teeth.

Love, love this of Merry.

I can see Adam is really trying to get off of the ground. Gravity is keeping the man down.
Cats always seem to show up at our photo shoots. They even made our Christmas card 2 years ago. Grace is terrified of any animals, I do not think you could have pried her hand out of Jacob's. This is typical Merry, having an asthma attack after jumping around. I have no idea what the peace sign is about.

A Fall Expedition

We went to the field to play tonight. I am not really sure why Merry needed an umbrella, I guess it is a must on an expedition.



This button is here because, in an effort to take more pictures of my offspring, I have to have some sort of motivation. This website has weekly challenges, this week is silohuette. I could have just dug some pictures out of my archives, but that would defeat the purpose of the excercise and we needed an excuse to take an expedition.

Us at 10 years

A day in my life

This morning I served the breakfast of champions. For some reason Grace eats all the way around the edge of the donut first.
Adam is now 8 months old. He has developed a love of swings and biting things with his six chompers.

The rest of the force

Nothing says Halloween like a grown man dressed as a Jedi. Thanks for growing a beard Obi-Wan.
Small Yoda or Shrek. Who can know for sure?

Some of October

I am still trying to catch up from our trip to fee-lord-a at the beginning of the month. Do I have pictures? Of course. Will they ever get posted? Probably not, seeing how Jacob's birthday some how got skipped this year.
But on to more important things like Halloween costumes and and pumpkin patches.
We snapped a few pictures of costumes on the way to a birthday party and the ward trunk or treat. Adam was asleep so I didn't get a picture of him.
Jacob was Luke Skywalker from Episode VI. Not to be confused with any of the other Lukes. Any way, he insisted he needed a Jedi robe too. So I made one. Did he wear it? No, of course not remember we live in Tejas. He put it on and said this is way too hot. So much for my hard work.
Because, I have decided that sewing costumes is much too time consuming. I let Merry pick her costume out. You can tell, sequins, shiny stuff and fake flowers.

Grace is a bumble bee because just refer to the comments on Merry's picture.
Grace has also changed her name to Tinker Bell for some unknown reason. Apparently a snowman gave her that name at a party on Christmas or something like that. At least that is what she claims.

Now for a few of my favorite pictures from the pumpkin patch. I love Merry in this picture because 1. she is wearing her favorite outfit- work out clothes 2. she is gorgeous 3. she is looking so grow up all the sudden.

Adam, poor guy, has had a terrible stomach bug the past week so he was not to thrilled with anything, pumpkins included.
Maybe in the next week if our house is puke free then I will get all my pictures caught up. Most likely I will lay around gorging myself on Halloween candy while reading novels.

dental school, schmental school

Every time Jacob has a wiggly tooth, I ask him if he wants me to take it out. For some reason he never wants me too. I have to resort to drastic measures- the old eat an apple trick. I would have bought him a candy apple if any were near by. So much for 4 years of dental school.

Adam at 7 months

Hey, Adam show me your smile.

How is this Mom?


Yeah, I know that was pretty funny.
How about this?

Or this?
Well I am just plain confused.
I will blow raspberries to show my disgust.
Oh, wait, I see something.
If only I could get it in my mouth.
Wait, what is up there?
Now this is awesome.