Carving Pumpkins and Cupcakes

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

(and happy birthday Dad!)

We carved a pumpkin yesterday and had lots of fun. Weston didn't like the goop though and started crying after we put his hand in. You can see it in this picture.

He kept trying to figure out how to get the goop off his hands.

Mark made me do the face because he knew he wouldn't do it "good enough" for me. =) I was concentrating pretty hard but still ended up giving our guy a loose tooth!

The finished product!

I made eyeball cupcakes this morning for all the nieces and nephews. Hopefully they'll like them. I love the end of the year with all the fun holidays!

Mmm...sour cream

On Sunday Weston managed to get a hold of the spoon I had used to put sour cream on my baked potato for dinner before I cleared the table. By the time I noticed, this was what we were left with. He was going to town on the spoon. Apparently he doesn't have the same aversion to sour cream that his dad does! I guess I'm going to have to remember that he's tall enough to reach even MORE places now!

If you look closely you can see he managed to get it on his hand too.

My little rascals

Last week when Weston destroyed the contents of his dresser he wasn't quite finished. A couple days later I went to check on him while he was playing with toys in his room (so I thought) and found this. He was so happy to be in the bottom drawer! He was pulling on the one above him, trying to make a ladder or something I suppose.

On Saturday morning Mark somehow managed to get Weston to just sit with him and watch a show together for a little bit. It was so cute. Weston never sits still so it was a rare treat for Mark. He was resting his head on Mark's shoulder but of course, as soon as I break out the camera he's always striking a pose so it didn't last long after I took this picture.

Another tag - but better

I'm supposed to tell seven random/weird things about myself and be creative. So here goes:

1. When I was little and rode my bike around our driveway I obsessively had to go right the same exact number of times that I went left. Do you see why I'm always mentioning my OCD?

2. I used to work for a business real estate company in California. I've sent things to Bill Gates and have seen paychecks for over a million dollars!

3. I almost drowned when I was three years old. My sister Becky jumped into the creek and saved me before I got washed down stream.

4. I used to be really good at impersonations. Some of my personal favs include: Ross Perot, Mrs. Butikofer (8th grade teacher), and of course Chris Farley. I live in a van down by the river!

5. My biggest fear is that someone will be standing behind me in the mirror when I'm washing my face. Miss and I used to keep watch for each other. It still freaks me out...especially since my husband and brother-in-law have taken advantage of their knowledge of this fear. Meanies.

6. I only had to push for ten minutes when I had Weston. And they say your first is the hardest!

7. This year was the first time in two years I got to enjoy a primary program and not stress about having to put it together! It was great. Being primary president is just about as stressful as it gets!

So I'm supposed to tag seven people but I don't wanna...if you read this and want to do it, I tag you. =)

I got tagged...twice

8 Things

8 things I'm obsessed with right now:

1. Family

2. Teaching Weston to stand/walk

3. Blogging

4. Cleaning 

5. Reading

6. Spending time with old friends

7. Finishing my "book" - more like a big journal of my life story so far

8. Did I say blogging already?

8 words or phrases I use often:

1. No

2. Mommy said no

3. No, no, no!

4. I love you so much

5. I know, right?

6. Seriously

7. Are you stinky?

8. Are you hungry?

8 shows I love to watch: (we actually don't have TV but these are some of the shows I watch online or used to watch)

1. House

2. Life

3. The Office

4. American Idol

5. So You Think You Can Dance

6. Next Food Network Star

7. Friends

8. The Mole

8 things I did yesterday:

1. Laundry

2. Made dinner (spaghetti)

3. Changed diapers

4. Fed Weston

5. Worked on my "book"

6. Went to dinner and a movie

7. Cleaned my house

8. Played with Fussy

8 Favorite Places to Eat

1. Home

2. Anyone else's house 

3. Sizzler

4. California Pizza Kitchen =( We need one in ID!

5. We really don't eat out much

6. So this is hard for me

7. To come up with 8 places

8. That I like to eat at

8 things I'm looking forward to

1. Owning a home

2. Weston walking

3. Having another baby (not an announcement folks)

4. Our trip to Brazil in December

5. Halloween

6. Thanksgiving

7. Christmas

8. Weston and Mark's birthday

8 things on my wish list

1. House

2. New wardrobe

3. New car (or at least one with power locks!)

4. Cruise

5. More room in my apartment

6. To be free of school debt

7. To go back to school

8. A better job for Mark

8 people I tagged:

1. Sarah

2. Becky

3. Mom

4. Alise

5. Danielle

6. Amanda

7. Jill

8. Natalie

Mischevious with a capital "M"

I know I've been posting like crazy this month but I had to share this. This morning I was preparing my sunday school lesson in the living room and Weston was playing in his room. I must have been really focusing because as I was almost done I realized it was WAY too quite. Any mom knows that quiet is the best sound in the world...but only when your kid is asleep. So I go back in his room and this is what I found.

Let's assess the situation here: In the upper right hand corner you can see patches of baby powder, the bottle is on it side in the chair, which also has patches of powder. (And yes, I know it's my fault for leaving it open.)

He's playing with a DVD which he slid from the living room into his room. He seems to prefer Iron Man. He gets it out all the time. Good taste in movies already. You can vaguely see the other one behind him. He takes two and slides on them as he crawls to go faster.

His entire pants drawer is emptied, as you can see. There was nothing on the floor before he went in there. So yes, he created all this mayhem single handedly. 

And last but not least, the look on his face of complete satisfaction on his face. It's like I walked in his room and he wanted to say, "Look Mom, I made this for you today." In the future, I just hope it's a drawing or something.

Picture of the Month

This weekend I was going through our pictures and merging them all into one folder. I came across a lot of old pictures of us and I couldn't believe how many there were. So I decided rather then wasting them, I would post a picture once a month from our earlier years. Hope you all enjoy!

Let it Snow!

Hooray! It snowed this weekend! I know it sounds crazy but winter has always been my favorite season. Besides driving in the snow, everything else about it I love. So after not having a winter (or any other season besides summer for that matter) for four years I can hardly wait for winter this year. I was flipping out when I saw all the snow falling. This was what we woke up to on Sunday morning.

HAPPY 10 MONTH BIRTHDAY FUSSY BRITCHES!

We love you Weston! He's so big I can hardly believe it. Only two more months till his 1st birthday!

Dishwasher Helper

Weston loves to help. He was helping Mark this morning unload the dishwasher. He would take out a dish and then hand it to Mark to put away. It was cute. He helps the same way when I fold laundry.

Big Boy and latest project

Weston has a tray on his high chair that he figured out how to pull off. That's fine except that after he gets that off he yanks on the main tray (that DOESN'T come off) until he is purple in the face and gets so mad that he won't eat. So I decided it was time to permanently remove the tray and scoot him up to the table. He loved it! He's such a big boy!

Also, I finally finished my latest project. Our

room has looked like trash so I decided to get busy and embroider the thing I wanted to go over our bed. I had it for our last bed set but

 it doesn't match our new one. So I did it over. (OCD? Perhaps.) We've kind of tried to adopt this saying at the "motto" of our marriage - I emphasize TRY - I'm not so good at it. =) Anyway, I finally finished it. Now I just need to finish my curtains and our room will be done! It's only been two months.... I don't love the other stuff above our bed but whatev. At least the frames are off my dresser and my room looks like it's inhabited!

Just Because

Not much has been going on in our little lives lately. We've been sick for a while and just adjusting to Mark temporarily going back to days. We loved Conference. It's so nice to hear from the prophet and apostles. Mark and I both gained such strong testimonies of the importance of General Conference in California. We had a bishop who encouraged us to study their talks and mark them as we do our scriptures. 

Anyway, I mentioned that last week we went to Sarah's for a night. She sent me some pictures from that night and I thought I'd share.  

Koy and Fussy have similar jammies and me and Miss didn't even know it! We both brought them this night for them to wear. It was cute.

Weston was playing with this bus at Sarah's and he absolutely loved it. He was so happy...as the picture shows!!

Busy Week

We've had such a busy and FUN week so far. Tuesday night me and Miss went over to Say's for some fun and laughs and the kids all had so much fun together. Wednesday I took Weston to the play group that my ward has and he LOVED playing with all the different toys. I loved it too! Then that night some of my best friends from high school came over: Cherice (Christensen) Hanson, Taunya (Hill) Spaulding, and Bridget (Beesley) Russell. We watched some of our old high school videos and man were we silly!! Basically the definition of "immature". =) It was so much fun and we're going to do it once a month now. Today Amy and Aaron brought Kaden and Emma over to play for an hour or so while they took care of some errands. We took them outside and I got some great pictures - hence the post: so I can share them all! Somehow all my psycho-babble ends up in here too. ??? Anyway, I just love being busy. I think as a mom it's what keeps me somewhat sane!

Mark and I were trying to teach Emma to pump her legs when she swings so Mark was swinging with her and they were both saying, "out...and back, out...and back". It was so cute! And I told you all in an earlier post how much Weston loves swinging...here's his funny face. He actually does it a lot bigger then this but this is the best I got. I tried to get the one I have of all three of them on here and it wouldn't do it!! =( Sorry Kaden, didn't mean to leave you out. ;)

Family Home Evening

I went to enrichment tonight and it was so great. A sister in our ward spoke on family home evenings and gave so many great helps from information she found from the church and things she learned working with children as a social worker. It was fantastic. I was going to post some of the things she shared but there was just way too much so I typed up a small list. If any of you are interested leave your email and I'll gladly send it to you. It was so wonderful!