First snow, great visits, and birthday wishes!

So, we FINALLY had our first little snow storm here in Denver for the year! If you didn't already know, I LOVE the snow! I LOVE to watch the snow fall from the sky, and I love to play in it. I also love to ski, but unfortunately, that hasn't happened in a few years. I guess that's what I get for havin babies.:) I'll skip a year of skiing any day if it means that I get to have a baby! ANYWAYS, we woke up this morning to a few things. First, Payton had barfed all over in his bed, Lincoln had pooped his pants, but it had SNOWED! So all in all, our spirits were up. Poor Payton has a mean case of the flu, and Lincoln has a mean case of the potty training blues....what can you do! So, needless to say, it is almost noon and I am still in my pajamas, and have absolutely NO intention of ever changing out of them! I have WAY too much laundry to do, and when Payton is awake, he just wants me to hold him, so pajamas it is! I guess, if you twist my arm and force me I will stay comfy all day. :)
In other news, Cole's big brother Spencer came to town this morning for a few hours! He had a 4 hour layover here in Denver before he went to SLC, so we went and picked him up, gave him a home cooked breakfast, which he hasn't had in a few months, played in the snow a little, and turned back around and took him to the airport! So we have had quite the fun filled morning!
Playin' with Uncle Spenc. Lincoln was SO pumped to play with him!
Playin with Daddy.....Sportin' the camo jammies! Atta boy Link!
Playin on the deck. It's a good thing we played when we did, because shortly after this, the sun came out and now there isn't much snow left! Gotta love Denver snow!

Also, I just want to give a shout out to my baby sister! It is her EIGHTEENTH birthday today! WHAT! My baby sister is 18 years old? That must mean that not only am I old, but my parents are as well! :) Just kidding...they are still young for sure. They just have old kids that's all! But Rachel is the best ever. She is the sweetest little thing and LOVES my kids, and that makes all the difference in the world to me. She is SO great at everything that she does, and boy does she do alot of stuff! She is such a great friend to me, and it is so much fun to see her grow up and do all sorts of new things. I love her so much, and I am so grateful for her example to me in my life! I want to be like you when I grow up Rach! Happy B-day, and go order something off the T.V. for me would ya?
High flyin on the wakeboard. Rach is seriously SO good at all sorts of stuff like this. She started wakeboarding when she was like 8 or something like that. She couldn't even hold up the board, but she surely could jump the wake! I remember after every time she tried to get up and couldn't, or every time that she fell, we would have to come around and flip her board over because she wasn't strong enough to do so herself! Quite the maniac.

Hello!!!!Rootin for the Jazz at a playoff game last year. GO JAZZ!
Of course, on the boat with the Linkster
All the Miles girls...add two more now! Rubydoo and now Mallory!
Common scene when Rach is around. The kids just LOVE her!
Happy B-Day baby Rach...we love you!

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.

Bike trailer Fun

I think I mentioned before, but we got a bike trailer for the boys and MAN have we been having tons of fun! It is so nice to be able to take the boys with us! I have been wanting to do some biking for the longest time, but haven't been able to much because I always have the boys with me! So NOW, I can! Both Lincoln and Payton love the trailer...lulls them right to sleep more often than not when they aren't beating up on each other. It is so fun to be able to go and just do short or long rides. We have been going on quite a few lately and have been really enjoying the nice fall weather, and much to our dismay, a little bit of exercise! :)
There's my boys!
An aerial shot of them off for a ride. I had to go to Young Womens and unfortunately could not join them...bummer!
Sorry for the blurry shot. I was about 20 feet away! Not bad for 20 feet away! SO CUTE! They practically lay on each other the whole time. Lincoln is pretty great about wearing his helmet...they don't make ones small enough for Payton's head, so we just pray that we don't crash!

Thanks Grandma B!

My cute cousin Melissa Glover and her husband Todd just moved here to Denver...YEAH...and so Rosalie (Melissa's mom- my mother's sister) came out to visit and my cute mom sent a package with her for me! THANKS MOM! So these are the snuggly pajamas that the boys received. I would have taken a picture of myself, but who wants to see that? Not me, that is for sure! So here are some pics of the boys in their new snuggly jammies! Thanks Grandma B!
Can you even believe they sat there for that long! Especially the EXTREMELY mischievous one on the RIGHT! That's right, I'm talking about mischievous Marvin Payton...
CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Getting Ready for evening prayers....always a struggle.