Family Pictures

We finally got our family pictures we took last summer in California at the Montage! Its been a while, but it was worth the wait!

Happy Halloween 2008!

Okay, so I haven't put up a blog in a couple weeks, but I hope this one was worth the wait! We had such a great Halloween, Jackson did even better than I imagined! We've also been doing some fun little things one our own and with MOMS Club, getting ready for Halloween, so I will include those pictures too.

There's no words for this one, he's just too cute. :)

My Little Skeleton! He was so cute, and so excited! He kept telling me "My say trick-or-treat, Mommy, get candy!" Eventually, 'Trick-or-treat', became simply 'Treat', but he was very polite and said thank-you at every house.

Jackson and Auntie getting ready to Trick-or-Treat!

This was our Fall Party with the MOMS Club, on Halloween. It was so fun to see all the cute little costumes!

We finally got pumpkins that we could carve, unfortunately this picture was taking about thirty seconds before Jack threw up his lunch, because he can't handle the smell of a pumpkin! (At first I thought this was an isolated incident, but we tried again a week later, and Jack gagged and drooled like a carsick puppy, just standing near the open pumpkin.)

One weekend this month, Justin and I took Jackson to a place called Sutherland Farms (unfortunately though we didn't find Jack Bower) This was a playground for kids, but rather than having sand to play in, they had tons of corn kernels! So fun!

This is Jackson adorable fall sweater, around which I am planning the rest of our family's outfits for our Christmas pictures this year. Maybe, I'm still working on it :)

We were hoping to go to the pumpkin farm this year and pick our own fresh pumpkin, but the night before we were scheduled to go, the weather dropped below freezing and all the pumpkins froze :(. So Justin took Jack to the store to pick one up and this is what they came home with, too cute huh?

Each week before Halloween, we did at least one fun Halloween-y project, these were our sugar cookies the kids got to frost and sprinkle themselves.

Jackson and his friend Quincy (Peter Pan). Quincy and his family came trick-or-treating with us, his baby sister made and adorable Tinkerbell :)

Telluride

coming soon!

Children of the World

We were so blessed on Sunday, we got to see the Children of the World International Children's Choir perform at our church. We had heard that they were coming, and it was an event the church has been planning for a while, but we weren't totally aware of what it actually was. The actual choir consists of 39 orphaned and disadvantaged children from Guatemala, Uganda, and Nepal and they tour to raise awareness and funds orphaned children all over the world. It was so moving to see them singing the same praise songs we sing every week, with thier little routines and outfits! I am amazed at the rythym these kids have, they were amzing! Anyways it was such an incredible experience and I am so glad we got to see it.

Moms Night Out

We had a 'Mom's Night Out' on Friday night with a group of girls from MOMS Club, and it was so much fun. They had us running around store to store figuring out clues and taking goofy pictures! It was a great way to get to know other moms, and just let loose a little bit. After the scavenger hunt, we all met back at Fuddruckers and had nachos, hot wings and a couple of drinks, (which did not make for a very happy tummy the next morning!) Anyways, it was really a lot of fun and I look forward to doing it again!

Hot Dog Mummies

We made Hot Dog Mummies for lunch yesterday, and I thought they came out so cute! They looked like a little army of mummies! The kids really liked them and had fun trying to help make them! We did have a casualty though... one fell over in the oven! (Mommy had to eat that one!)

Chalk Days

The weather here has been amazing the last few days, so this week I've been trying to get the kids out as much as possible. Its so incredible to me how much they change in just a matter of months, weeks even. I've let the little ones play with chalk before, but their play usually consists of eating and throwing the chalk, not too much drawing actually takes place. I have noticed however, an extreme amount of crayon scribbling on my walls and other furniture lately, so I figured they must be ready for some actual coloring activities. I let them take out a bucket of chalk into the front yard and draw all over the driveway, this kept them busy for at least 45 minutes, and for anyone who has had a two year old, you know this is a rare event. They were so cute telling me what they were drawing (even though all I could see was random lines of color) Jackson was telling me "My dra-wing firetruck Courtney" (yes, he calls me Courtney now instead of Mommy, because that's what Riley says.) We also went to the park this week with Quincey and his Mommy, Megan and his little sister Maiya. The three little one, well big ones I guess now that baby Maiya is in the picture, had so much fun sliding down head first on the slide and pulling each other around in the wagon. Its is so nice to have other kids for Jackson to play with. He loves the interaction, every time we go somewhere with other children he tells me "See kids Mommy!!". Speaking of the little man, he's calling me now from his bed, so I better get him up and ready for the day!