Monday, October 25, 2010

Paci Princess

Today has been a low key day of sorts, but busy at the same time.  I have a very long "to do" list this week so this morning I started in on my list and was checking it twice...and adding to it...and marking off...and adding to it.  It seems the longer I worked, the longer my list got...ugh!  Anybody else do this???

Tonight after hair cuts and baths, I caught a sweet moment between Lucy and daddy.  She is into pointing out all of hers and our facial/body parts....eyes, ears, nose, mouth, teeth, hair, legs, hands, belly etc.  They were doing "noses" here...


While I was changing out Lucy's bed sheets tonight, she started playing with her paci collection (yes I keep about 5 pacis in her bed at a time).  She got all 5 and put them in this purse.  She is TOTALLY into purses these days.

Speaking of the Paci Princess....

Karis gymnastics team got matching leotards and tonight she got it and wore it for the first time. She was SOOO proud of it (and I thought it was super cute)! It is a leotard and those are boys shorts at the bottom.


Here I caught Brayden saying, "Karis, I love your new leotard.  It looks pretty on you!"

I don't know what got into him, but then I heard Brayden asking Jay, "So dad, how was your day?...Did you have any meetings today???"  He was talking to him like he was 30 or something...it was funny.  I guess he has heard me asking those things to Jay.  

Hoping tomorrow brings alot of energy so I can cross stuff off my list!

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Carving Pumpkins...

I was already awake and was getting ready this morning, but Brayden came down at about 7:30 looking for his gun he got yesterday.  I told him I thought he left it outside so he heads out to get it.  He opened the door going to the garage to open the garage door and a bird flew in our house.  SO he came running back to my bathroom screaming, "MOM!  MOM!  THERES A BIRD IN THE HOUSE!!!"  So daddy was awakened this morning to chasing a freaked out bird out of our house! It was pretty funny and Lucy was screaming at it and chasing it while daddy tried shooing it out the door.  

We then went to church, to the store and then to lunch small group.  We all came home and rested/napped which was wonderful!  Then the kids and I picked out some pumpkins and were excited to carve them for the first time together.  Up until now, they haven't really been interested but this year they were very excited and eager.  

***Excuse our lounge look...we had all napped and were comfy by this point.

The kids with their pumpkins (Lucy's is the little one she picked out all by herself)

We did a boy and a girl pumpkin.  Jay and B carved one together and Karis and I did another one.



This is how I ended up cleaning out our pumpkin...Lucy in my arms.

Next year this sweet baby will be all up in the action!




Not real sure what this face is...maybe a pumpkin face...who knows?!

This is the girl pumpkin pre-carved...

Post-carved and pre-lit...

Now he has light!

The boys lit "punkin"....

Brayden and his first carved pumpkin...


Our pumpkin...

The boys pumpkin...

Then Karis wanted to "play" with the innards again.  Doesn't this soup look appetizing???

I love making memories with the kiddos...so fun!

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Our "punkin" destruction party...

Do you remember this pumpkin Brayden (Lolli) drew/painted at the Fall Festival that I blogged about earlier today?    

Well it was still a work in progress apparently because Brayden wanted to destroy it with his new fake gun.

So daddy got out his real 22 (he decided not to pull out the BIG guns...pun intended) and decided to "help" him...



And Karis did this most of the time...



...until she decided to give it a try herself.





But daddy ended up doing the damage...


My boys and their guns...

Daddy decided to finish it off by throwing it up and busting it and the kids loved that part!

OOOOOO!

AAAAAAAHHHH!

EEEEKKKKK!

The kids decided to clean it themselves...(and don't worry...those were NOT sharp knives)...


They had a "helper" in Lucy...someday sweet girl...someday.

Karis took the "innards" and has been making her own concoction "pumpkin pie."  I never knew how much fun a tiny pumpkin could be!