Creativity at it's best!!

The night before the big trunk or treat, we got together with a few friends and had a little Childless Halloween party of our own! Lots of great costumes, yummy food, and some stellar playing of the junior high/high school game of Mafia! It was loads of fun. Thanks Gordon's for hosting such a fun night out! Here's some pics of the fun night!

Cole and Mindy- aka Vegas' worst NIGHT MARE! We'd seriously probably clean them out...it's a good thing we aren't gamblers.
Chad and Brett East aka the Toothfairy and Calvin (and his trusty sidekick Hobbes)
John and Kara Washburn aka Clark Kent and Butterfly Lady
Jake and Dave and Steph Wessler aka Robin Hood, Wolverine (seriously!!!) and gorgeous Egyptian Lady
Taylor and Stephanie Dix in their traditional Chinese wedding garb (sorry Taylor, I know you were mad)
Jonathan and Jamie Jardine aka scary lady in black and Papa Smurph...how perfect is that!!
Chris and Anna Gordon aka hikers/outdoorsmen that are trying to hard!
Our Gracious Host Anna. That's what you GET for not smiling at my camera...now the WHOLE world can see! :)
Into a serious game of Mafia.

Halloween Fun...I know, ALREADY!!!

So, as the date draws nearer and nearer to Halloween (not my favorite holiday mind you-not a big fan of candy or scary things) Lincoln has been SO excited to be a monkey! First off, he REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to be an elephant, and I actually found a DARLING elephant costume at Costco for only like 10 bucks! It was so sweet! So I purchased the dang thing, brought it home, tried it on, and it wasn't even CLOSE to being able to fit him! BUMMER! SO, we had to take it back, and we had since had a fruitless hunt for another one. I have a monkey costume that I borrowed from my good friend Laura (thanks by the way:)) so we decided that we would have TWO little monkeys running around!
So, we had our annual trunk-or-treat party at the ward house- which is super sweet both for kids and parents! No taking the kids around in the cold, dark night...now we just get to take them to the trunks of cars- no more than 5 feet away from each other! It's beautiful! Now the kids have to wear their costumes that are meant for the cold weather in the 75-80 degree weather and get heat stroke! If it's not one thing, it's another right? Anyways, the boys had a great time! Lincoln was a little bit leary of going from car to car of someone that he didn't know and asking them for candy. I kept saying to him "Alright, say Trick-or-Treat!" He would back away quickly and say "no mom...i don't think i want to!" So silly! Payton was just passed from person to person while I walked around with Lincoln and Cole manned the car! My boys sure do have some pretty heavy fans! All in all, great party! Here are some pics of the wonderful trunk-or-treat/ward party...
My little treats in my trunk
So Payton TOTALLY looks like a monkey! Look at that cute nose! and those lips...SO CUTE!
My own little monkey
Cole was in charge of the balloon popping game for the activity, and Lincoln and some of his friends stood outside the door the whole time too scared to go in because of all the balloon popping! So silly. Maybe next year!
My friend Steph holding Payton...he wanted to be in on the popping action, but we decided that we did NOT want him to get trampled...wise choice I'd say!
SPOOKY!!!
Our best efforts at getting a group shot minus Dad
CHEESE!
Payton and his little girlfriend Sascha. All of Anna's dreams came true...she had her OWN little ladybug! And what a DARLING ladybug she made.
So the boys had had it by this time...can you tell?
Me and a few of the Hoffman girls...Haley and Katie. They are also two of my young women...SO SCARY!
Smile boys....oh wait.
Playing in the humongous leaf pile...so fun! Payton enjoyed eating them all, as he does everything!


It's nice! Now we don't have to go trick-or-treating for too long on the actuall Haloween night! We can just go to a few of our neighbors houses and call it good! Lincoln likes putting candy into other's bags much better than he likes receiving! On to Thanksgiving! :)

It's Bedtime!!

Lately, we have been letting Lincoln put US to bed, and it is absolutely HILARIOUS! You can tell that we do the same things over and over every night, because he pretty much has it down to a science how we go to bed! What a cute little guy. Of course, his favorite things to do when we go to bed are to read as many books as he can weasel out of us, and then to do the same things with songs. Lincoln knows all the words to an alarming amount of songs, and we got a few on camera, so enjoy! (sorry it's so dark...bedtime you know!)

The song that he is singing is what I sing to him everynight and have since he was born! It is the "Baby Mine" song from the Disney movie DUMBO....he is pretty close to all the right words! :)

Shoe Snatchers!!

I was getting ready for something the other day and the boys were upstairs in our bedroom with me, and it was all of the sudden quiet...too quiet if you know what I mean! Then I heard some histerical laughing and then some thumping around. I figured Lincoln was throwing Payton around a little bit, so I ran in to see what was wrong...this is what I found! My little shoe snatchers were tearing apart my whole closet! Lincoln has always had a shoe fettish, but I didn't know Payton was jumping on the bandwagon! Payton thinks it is hilarious to take anything that is tucked away into something (i.e. shoes, clothes in a basket, papers in a drawer, all of my makeup-which isn't much, etc.) and pull it out and throw it on the ground! So silly. Usually all of the shoes- well alright, not usually- but sometimes when I clean up my closet, all of the shoes are neatly tucked away into all of these little cubby holes, but NOT SO TODAY! My little shoe snatchers got to them before I could! I LOVE these boys!

STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!!

So, the new thing now is for Payton to WALK! That's right! Well, not all by himself, but he is using a little car to walk with! Also, he has shown some interest in walking back and forth to Cole and I! He is only 10 months! I had a little bit more time with Lincoln, so this is driving me crazy! It's all good though. HE is a cute little stinker. Here's a video of the little guy, and a few pics! What a cute little bugger. He isn't the sturdiest of all walkers, but he is getting better, and loves to do it! The first time that I saw him do this is was right when I was taking the video. He was in the other room with Lincoln and his little buddy Calvin (who has a gorgeous new baby sister by the way!) and the older boys were fighting over one of the cars, so Payton decided to just yoink the other car away from them, and I walked into the room with him taking a few little baby steps along with the car! AHHH!!!! So big.