Spaghetti Head

Stockton- for going so long not eating very good- is REALLY making up for lost time!  He loves to eat, and does so frequently!  Here the little sweetie is dining on some fine Spaghetti.  He wears it nicely don't you think?!

Such Concentration!!

If that gummer smile doesn't make you happy- I don't know what will!

November Goodies

Since I am SO far behind on my blogging, I am going to try and catch up a little bit!  November was SUCH a fun month for us!  It is so fun with Stockton getting bigger all the time!  He's starting to do lots of fun different things.  All of the kids are getting SO big, and changing all the time!  Being a mom is SOOO hard, but it is so fun- and most of the time it is most definitely worth it. :)  Here's the random November highlights in picture form!

Pizza Party!  These are ALWAYS so fun!  I think Cole was gone one night, so we got some pizza and had a party!  Booyeah!

I love this handsome boy!  Sorry the focus is on the crazy Rhino in front of him and not on his face!

One night, we decided that we wanted to make "Thankful Turkeys"  It was a total hit!  The kids loved it, and they were perfect adorning our walls the whole month! 

Stocktons Thankfuls: My Toys, Eating!, My Hands!, My Blanket- Payton was gracious enough to make him a turkey.  He also made Cole one.  Such a nice boy!

Paytons Thankfuls: Shows, Dad, Mom, Morgan, My Brothers

Morgans Thankfuls: Dad, Fruit Snacks, All the Stuffs, My Brothers, Mom

Moms Thankfuls: Snuggles from my family, Technology, My Bed, The Bishop :), My wonderful husband, our home, my health, my beautiful children.  Cole also did one (that Payton constructed for him) but did it later, so it missed the whole picture opportunity.  He's very thankful though!

One day we packed up and went to the bounce house!  The kids were on holiday break, and we were going CRAZY!  They loved Monkey Business- but it was a big crowded!  We still had a great time, and I got a lot of great planning done for our big party on Thanksgiving!  Everyone is coming to our house for the holiday, and we are SOOO excited!!!!  YAHOO!

Kinda hard to get a good shot with my phone at a bouncy house.  What can ya do!  They still had fun!

Payton showing us his rather large muscles!

Again with this handsome face!

We were at Costco one day and saw this GINORMOUS Minnie Mouse, and the kids thought she was SO hilarious!  You can see that Stockton is laughing SO hard!  hehehe

Per tradition- these lovely ladies and I attended a 10 o'clock showing (the first one!) of the LAST Twilight movie!  We went to all FIVE of these shows together, and were kind of sad to see it all come to an end!  Not so much the movies- they are alright- but the company with the girls is always SOOO much fun!  Thanks Laura and Steph!

Morgs got a new Snowsuit, and wanted to wear her coat at ALL times.  Such a cutie!

Payton went on a date with Cole, and chose his favorite- The Weinerschnitzel!  Actually, this was the Hamburger Stand, but they have weinerschnitzel hot dogs/corn dogs there.  He LOVES those, and thinks it is the beezneez to be able to go on a date with his dad!  I don't blame ya buddy!

Biggest project of the month: Getting these chairs finished!  We were gifted an amazing table and chairs set from the wonderful Lands family (they had it for over 20 years!) and we gave them some love (4+ hours each chair!) and now they are donning our kitchen table!  We haven't quite made it to the table.  It was a LOT of work, so that will have to wait for maybe next year.  We have had these tables and chairs for over a year now, just getting around to finishing them!  I LOVE them though!  Thanks babe for all of the hard work!  We had fun finishing these together!  Here's to another 20 years with them! ;)

Family Pictures

We had our family pictures taken back at the beginning of November and I am SO pleased with how they turned out!  My great friend Anna Rogers took them, and she did a great job.  We only had like 30 minutes or so of great light, and I think that she did a great job with what we had!  Thanks Anna!  Now- getting them up onto the wall in a good form....

Happy October!!

So I ran out of picture space on the old Blog- and haven't been able to figure out how to do it again!  But don't worry- I just signed in as Cole and now I can do it!  SOOOOO- back to it!

We have been SOOO busy the past couple of months.  Cole is SO busy with church/work/everything else.  So we like to see him when we can.  Work is going well for him.  He is ramping up his consulting business doing anything and everything that he can to get his foot in the door places, and is doing a great job at it!  He is the BEST and I am so grateful to have him in my life.  I love that guy.  The kids are growing SOOO fast!  I can't believe how quickly things change around here.  It makes me sick for heavens sake! 

We have been doing alot to keep ourselves busy, so without further ado- here is a photo essay of the month of October!

The kids have been playing a LOT of dress ups lately, and they made a SWEET fort (something they also have been doing a lot of!) downstairs and all dressed up like pirates.  That's a pretty cute pirate!

Notice paytons scary pirate face!  haha!

This little buddy learned to sit up!  YAHOO!  Best stage ever!

His sibs think it's pretty cool that he can do that as well!

This is one drooly, sweet, angelic, quiet, happy, snotty little baby boy!  LOVE HIM!

Again with this face!!!

These two really are great buddies now that they play with each other each afternoon while Lincoln is still at school!  It's fun to see them actually interacting!  They play different stuff than Payton and Lincoln do.  It's fun to see the difference!

I became an Usborne Books consultant, and the kids are REALLY loving all of the new books that they have gotten lately!

We are silly.

Payton finished up his soccer, and here we are watching his last game! It was FREEZING COLD!  But we had a great time watching him.  I can't remember who was sick for this game, but someone threw up on me right after this picture was taken. Like- REAL throw up.  Not just spit up.  It was awesome.  This started the month long flu-fest at our house.  Ah nuts. 

Payton was pretty pumped about his ribbon- and became quite the great little soccer player!  He's a go-getter.  That's for sure.  His coaches don't quite know what to do with all that energy!  But he also takes LOTS of water breaks.  Gotta ramp up the energy right?!

Cole's WONDERFUL sister Erica came for a work thing and was here for a few days, so we got to hang out with her some, and it was SOOO much fun!  The kids were in HEAVEN Having someone else to play with that's an adult and will actually play with them (note- I try to play with them as much as I can, but I can only play ninjas for so long!)  Thanks for coming out Erica!  We had SO much fun!  We went to the spaghetti factory, and the kids got some amazing balloon animals made for them from the lady that is always walking around.  What a great idea!

We also went bowling, and the kids had SO much fun ! I love bowling!

Morgs thought it was "weowee loud!" :)

Silly Halloween props!

Stay tuned!  More to come!!!