Disneyland!

Well, it's taken me a while to recover from the trip and get all of my pics organized. But we had a 'Magical' time in Disneyland. We drove down and stopped in Vegas on our way down. Phillip LOVED the M&M store. Watch out when you walk in the door ... you may spend a lot of $$ on M$M. Phillip picked out green M&Ms and they came out REALLY fast. ha!

We went to downtown LA to the Alley. It's pretty much like any china town, but with tons of stores. We found Disney towels for pretty cheap. We also got some skeleton hoodie sweatshirts which will be part of our next Halloween display. GREAT junk shopping! We spent some time with Pete's Aunt Connie and had some GREAT sushi.

We had three days at Disneyland. It was kind of nice that we had the time because the first two days we were pretty tired by 5:00 and didn't feel guilty about leaving because we could see anything we missed the next day. The best deal for lunch is in the Disneyland park called 'Plaza Inn'. (It's on the end of the street of Main Street on your right). It's cafeteria style and they serve a great 3 piece chicken meal which is plenty of food to split between two adults. You have free refills on drinks and before you leave the restaurant they give you a 'To-go' cup. We fed me, pete, his parents, & phillip, with salads desert and drinks for $50. Pretty good for in the park eating!

We stopped by Santa Monica beach. It was a little overcast which is Pete's favorite because you don't get too hot. Phillip still LOVES the beach. We were there for a little bit until Lily got sand in her eyes. We saw my brother and his family at the local Koo-ka-roo.

The drive home was a little easier because we decided to drive through the night. Pete had the hard stretch. Vegas to Bountiful from 8:30 PM to 2:30 AM.



Highlights:

• Phillip's reaction to the Monster's Inc. Ride. He thought that it was real! He went on it 5 times!
  
• Lily on It's a small world and the 'Tiki Room.' She was laughing and clapping the whole time.
• Phillip watching the Pixar Parade in California Adventure. There is a clip below that is pretty funny!
• The double stroller naps. Lily would fall asleep and Phillip would say that he wanted to lay down too. They took naps at the same time each day.
• Getting Pete's grandparent's bird bath. We stopped by their old house in San Gabriel. Pete asked the owner if he could look around the backyard. She was chinese lady that didn't speak much english. Pete somehow got her to understand that his dad and grandparents used to live there. He saw the bird bath in the corner and told her that he remembered it and asked if we could have it. She understood and helped him clean it out. Now we have a great bird bath under our pine trees. ha!
• Pete's Parents coming with us to Disneyland. It was great to get away from the kids for a little bit. We all went back to the hotel for dinner and went back to the park with the kids in the jammies to see the fireworks. IT WAS MAGICAL!!
  

Lowlights:

• Lily's warm bottles. We had to go to the espresso machines to get her milk to the right temperature. We had to listen to her scream when we were inbetween towns.
• Waiting in line. Some of the new attractions had long lines no matter what time it was.
• Lots of driving. It's a good thing we had our nice mini-van.
• A very dirty car after a long road trip. Pete and his dad detailed the car after we got home.

Phillip and Lily at Santa Monica Beach

Phillip with a "green happy" at the M&M store

Dropping like Flies

We had a fun day on Saturday with Paige's family. Phillip had a play-date with Gracie and Pete got to go snow-mobiling with Joe and Morgan. That meant I got some precious hours by myself while Lily was napping. I sometimes would wonder why I haven't been baking and cooking as much as I did in California. Now I realize that you can get a LOT done during the nap time. I got some work done, scrubbed down the bathrooms, and made enough spaghetti sauce to freeze for 4 meals. Phew! Well Phillip fell asleep on the bar stools and Pete fell asleep on the couch. It was a fun filled day and everyone was definitely ready for bed.

Phillip has been saying some funny things lately. I asked him before dinner yesterday, "What do you want?" He answered in a loud voice, "Clean Air!" Ha! I guess he's on my band wagon.

I sometimes will suggest something to eat like a banana or yogurt. Phillip will say, "How about a healthy snack instead."

Other times I will tell him to finish his chicken. Phillip has said, "I can't. It's too expensive."

Lily is starting to feel better. She had a ear infection and three teeth coming in. A perfect storm. She always has a smile even when she doesn't feel good.

This will be a busy week to get ready for our trip to California and our visit to Disneyland next week. YAY!! Phillip is really excited.

Kids for Clean Air!

We had a "Clean Air" rally today at the capital. It was a little tricky getting there with the two kids. Luckily a lady helped me with the stroller up the big steps. They stuck me in front of the steps in the Rotunda. Someone was passing out gas masks and as I said before ... my kids like to dress up. Phillip wanted to be Darth Vader. There was a gas mask for an adult and he said, "You want to be Darth Vader too?" He kept asking and asking so I put it on for a second. Then I heard all of the photographers clicking away. Someone from the Davis County Clipper and the Salt Lake Tribune asked for our names. Ha!

Here's a clip from the ksl news. It shows Phillip and me in our Gas Masks. ha!!

I met up with Al who was brave enough to bring 6 kids to the capital. Her boys made great signs. James and William got a good lesson on legislation and rallying. Thanks Al for supporting the cause!

The latest news is that the Consolidated Energy will NOT put in the petcoke plant but will use a cleaner energy source. Shows what you can do if you get enough people together. Now hopefully we can get some legislation approved that will prevent something like this to be approved in the future. Thanks everyone for all of your support. I saw a lot of your signatures on Mom's petition. :-)

Post 101: Lily's Birthday

Ha! I just noticed that my last posting was my 100th post! ha!

Well, it was Lily's Birthday on Saturday. We decided to take the kids to the zoo. I am now an official Hogle Zoo Member. So, let me know the next time you are going, because I want to get our monies worth. Phillip normally likes the Giraffes, but this time he said they were too stinky.

I wasn't feeling too good in the morning and I was worried that her birthday was going to be a flop. But, luckily Paige agreed to let Phillip have a play date and I was able to take a nap and then hit the stores. I made her cupcakes and birthday cake. I got the flowers that were on sale from Valentine day. I also got her some cute balloons.

Her main present was the pink car, which was a garage sale find that Al passed down. She really likes the car. She's a little short to ride it, but still tries to climb on top of it.

It was our first little family birthday party, and Pete said it was his favorite party. We didn't have to clean up the mess right away and just relaxed.

Lily got to eat her cake by herself. She was pretty dainty eating it and only picked off some of the icing and then got frustrated that her hands were dirty. I can't believe she is already a year old! Time flies!

My Kids Like to Dress-Up

I don't know WHY ... but Phillip and Lily sure do like to dress up.

I gave phillip the SuperMan cape for a potty prize (from D.I). He wanted to wear it over his coat around the town.

Lily put together her outfit. A pair of binoculars, a stethoscope, and one of Mom's valentine's baskets for a hat.

I guess I have encouraged it... just a little bit.

Here are my current projects:

Pottytraining Phillip - I got rid of the pull-ups. Advice welcome!
Lobbying for clean air - They have a bill drafted that could put a hold and possibly stop the PetCoke plant.
Taxes - Gaaaaah!
Sell some of our collections and junk on ebay.

Stop the Petroleum Coke Power Plant

A generated photo of the proposed PetCoke Plant

I am not typically a person to get involved with causes or political rallies, but when my friend Alison told me about the plant that is going to be built in West Bountiful I was outraged.  I went to the information meeting at the Bountiful Public Library.  They asked to interview me.  I was really nervous and my voice cracked, so they actually took my interview.  Goes to show you should always put on make-up before fighting for a cause.  Here's the link to the clip:Fox News

Here are the facts about the proposed plant:

• Petcoke, the proposed fuel-source for the plant, is a by-product of the oil refining process theat burns dirtier than coal (with a higher carbon and sulfur content than coal).
• Petcoke emissions include Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) that are known cancer causers.  If permitted, the Petcoke plant will be allowed to emit 19,000 pounds of HAP emissions annually.
• The plant will also emit 800,000 pounds of PM10, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and volatile organic compounds.  This can contribute to poor air quality and can exacerbate respiratory or cardiac conditions.  Studies have shown that 16% of south davis county children have asthma, which is nearly double the state average of 8%.  We cannot afford any more pollution.
• The emissions and the delivery of the petcoke fuel could affect the entire Wasatch front.  Teh petcoke fuel is an ash-like substance and can become easily wind-borne and could cause HAPs to leech in to groundwater and agricultural products.
• This plant will be only a few blocks from Pete's work and only a few miles from our Home!!  The smoke stack will be level with our neighborhood and we will receive the brunt of the emissions!!  

So, I am using my blog to educate those who read it.  If you know anyone in Utah, Please let them know and get them involved.  If you are a Utah Resident, please sign a petition to stop this plant from going in. Please contact your elected officials.  Contact the Financial bakers of the plant, EPIC Ventures, Zions Bank.  Contact media representatives.

Follow this link for detailed contact information:Who to Contact

Follow this link if you want to get more involved and collect petition signatures: Get Involved

March to the Capital: Join me at Wednesday, February 25, 12:00 PM for a lobbying session in the Capital Rotunda

Here is a youtube video of Ohio Residents who live by a PetCoke Plant

We have a Dog!

Pete called me yesterday and said that his patient was looking for a home for her puganese dog (pug and pekanese mix). I decided that we would meet the dog. His name is 'Mater' from the movie Cars. He is REALLY cute and I had to have him. ha! He is about a year old and is a really calm dog.

Needless to say it's been a little adjustment.

Not 5 minutes after I brought him home he had an accident on the floor. I thought I should take him outside. I was stupid and forgot to check to see if the gates were closed ... and they weren't. Ga'ak! So he started running away. He was a fast runner for a little guy. It's a good thing I've been running lately. I was running in my heeled knee-high boots and work clothes. I wish I had a video of that! ha! I had to run up and down our street and up a really steep hill. Luckily a dog ran out and spooked Mater and he stopped in his tracks.

Phillip and Lily have warmed up to the dog and are starting to play with him. Phillip was pretty scared at first, but now he says that Mater is 'HIS' dog. He keeps saying that he wants to get a BIG dog too. or Mater needs to grow big.

We made our first trip to "Petco" to buy some supplies. I got succered into buy a Cezer Chevez Dog Whisperer leash. ha!! Pete bought the rest of the stuff at the dollar store. :-)



Here is Phillip's reaction to the dog. He got kind of scared when Mater tried to Lick him.




Here's Phillip with Mater. He had quickly warmed up to him and tried to share his toys and give him imaginary cookies!

Lily's a Cutie Pa-tootie

Well, by popular demand .. here is a video of Lily walking. I got her to do one of her other tricks. She likes to growl like a lion. She sometimes does it out of the blue and it kind of scares me!

She is really funny when she walks and kind of waddles around.

Milestones

Well, Lily started walking yesterday! She has been pulling herself up for a few months. A few weeks ago she started pushing around our chairs and a plastic walker. She even would walk down the hall holding onto the wall like Spiderman. Now she is taking steps and can walk a few feet at a time.

It's funny how the two can be so different and so much alike. Lily hasn't really liked bananas until I let her feed herself and take her own bites. Phillip LOVED to feed himself bananas and I found a picture of him eating one at the same age. He would inhale his bananas. Pete's sister, Paige would freak out when he would take two or three inch bites of banana at a time. ha!!

Phillip keeps us on our toes and says the funniest things. Pete was hanging up our framed quote of President Hinckley's book, "Way to Be". Phillip asked what that was and Pete listed off the different values, "Be Grateful, Be Smart, Be Involved, Be Clean, Be True, Be Positive, Be Humble, Be Still, Be Prayerful."

Phillips said, "yeah, Be Great, Be Prayerful, and stay out of the way!"

Phillip's latest thing is to act like different characters: "Three" the dog, a nice ghost, an ice cream salesman, and a baby named 'meme.' He's pretty intense when he plays make believe and it's really hard for him to break character. He even got angry with Lily because she was walking towards the spot where Pete had set down an imaginary glass of lemonade.

Home Haircuts

I was going to go to Cookie Cutters to get Phillip's Haircut.  But, last time I paid $15 and Pete didn't really like how it turned out.  Soooo... I got out the shears and scissors and was VERY careful.  Home Haircuts can be treacherous!

The last time we cut Phillip's hair was right before his birthday.  He was fighting us and moved his head so we had to give him a buzz cut.  It was so sad when he looked in the mirror.  He said, "I don't like it!" and started crying.

Well, I think I did pretty good.  I figured I need to learn how to cut his hair sooner or later.   It's not perfect but I think I got the job done :-)   

Wish me luck once I have to start dealing with Lily's hair :-)

Before

After

The Cathy Cutter Staff: Gracie, Phillip, and Lily

A Brand New Year

Here's a funny skit from Saturday Night Live. We saw it a few months ago and have saved it on our DVR. Phillip says, "I want to see 'I like chasing cars!'"  

Well, we have officially cleaned up our Christmas decorations and display. Since Pete was able to store the stuff so efficiently both Pete and I went on some Christmas Sale shopping spree. I bought a ton of christmas lights from Walmart at 60 cents a strand. Pete found a Santa sleigh and some outdoor light up figurines.  It should be fun.

Right now Lily is learning to walk.  She pushes chairs around the kitchen.  She also has a plastic walker.  She even got in trouble at church for stealing someone's walker.   There is a picture of her running with a chair below.

Phillip is doing really good on the Potty.  It will be a little while until he is fully potty trained, but he is making progress.  He got a CTR (Choose The Right) ring from his primary teacher.  He is really proud of it.  So we have been talking about good choices.  Today Phillip kept asking for apple juice and I was busy and kind of ignoring him.  He said, "Mommy you aren't listening to me!  That is not the right choice!"  

My New Years goals: Eat less, Exercise more, Watch less TV, and Paint more.  We'll see how it goes! :-)

Christmas Light Show

Here are the pictures and some video of our Christmas Light display. I had to get a video the night of New Years Eve because Pete and his dad worked most of New Years Day taking down the lights and lawn decorations. It's nice to have everything cleaned up, but I have to say I miss the crazy light display. Now we need to start shopping the after Christmas sales. For those going to garage sales, keep an eye out for solid color mini lights.

I took some pictures of our Nativity Display. Pete cut out the shapes and I painted the figures. It took a long time because we wanted the lines to be pretty sharp so that you can see it from the curb. We had lights on the nativity and had a clip from the "Merry Christmas Charlie Brown" movie where Linus reads the Nativity story from Luke Two.

A Merry Christmas Update!

Lily & Austin Christmas Day

It has been a while since my last update. It has been a BUSY Christmas season!

We celebrated our 4th Anniversary. I think I love Christmas time because it reminds me of when we got married. After 4 years of marriage we have owned 3 different houses, lived in 3 different time zones, and have two wonderful kids and four chickens. We have done a lot, but we have had a lot of fun along the way :-)

Phillip comatose from too much popcorn


Phillip and Lily opening Santa's presents

















Phillip hugging his new Woody toy


















Boathouse Row Painting




Highlights:

• Watching the Christmas Devotional with my family
• Bountiful light parade (my kind of parade that lasts for only 5 minutes)
• Bowling with Pete's work
• Taking the kids to see Santa
• Our light show (we sat in our car almost every night to watch)
• Hot chocolate party at my house
• Christmas Eve with the Olsens
• Christmas Day at Pari and Becca's House
• Sunset street party
• Going to DI or looking at Pete's finds from DI for Christmas, Easter, and birthdays (Toy storage instead of food storage :-)
• Trains - Pete got his old grandpa's train to work again. It is from the early 1900s. Now we have a train and Christmas village set up.
  
• Popcorn Tins - Phillip LOVES popcorn. We caught a picture of him sacked out on the side of one. As you can see, chedder is his favorite, then butter, then caramel.
• Getting Christmas cards - It's great to see peoples pictures and get letters. It's funny how learn stuff about my sisters in their christmas letters even though I talk to them almost everyday.
  

Low Lights

• Losing receipts - I kept on finding items that I had already bought for cheaper, but to my dismay, I couldn't find the receipt. I should tape the receipt to any item next year.
• Blowing Fuses - We kept plugging in new lights to our show and had to spend hours calibrating the amperage for each candy cane and icicle light.
• Snow Storms - We almost go stuck at Pari's house and had to sleep over at Becca's house. I guess it is kind of a highlight because I love sleepovers. :-)

Christmas Day recap -
Phillip was SOOO excited for his presents. He got a bunch of Toy Story stuff and Cars stuff and his own electric train. You can see a picture of him asleep hugging his new Woody.

Lily got some baby toys and a dolly. She loved the bouncing ball toy that I got her.

I took a picture of Pete's present with my present :-) Pete got me a Canon Rebel digital camera. I didn't need it, but I LOVE it. I need to figure out a protection solution because I don't trust myself to carry it in my purse where milk or bottles always spill.

I painted Pete a picture of Boathouse Row in Philadelphia. He has always wanted a painting of it. The miracle of Christmas is that I was able to finish it :-) I also got Pete a Star Wars light saber which is pretty awesome.

Overall it was a GREAT Christmas season. I feel so blessed to have such a great family and to be around so much family this time of year. I hope this entry finds all of you well and gearing up for one more Holiday party... New Years!

It's that Time of year!

Well, we have been busy on our Christmas decorating and getting our Christmas lights outside.   I'll post a video of the light show on another post.  I had fun decorating the house, but it was a week long project.   

I ventured out on black friday with the two kids at 8:30 am.  Most of the door busters were gone, but I found some good deals.  Above is a picture of phillip wearing his new jacket and laying on a blanket that we bought.  He was a little pooped from the shopping!   

We went to Temple Square to see the christmas lights.  Phillip loved seeing the lights and the nativity.  I said, "Isn't this pretty?" and he said, "It's not pretty, it's cool."  Phillip has been saying funny things lately.  Out of the blue one day he said, "Mommy, am I driving you crazy?"  ha!  I felt bad. I have to watch what I say to him.  Now when Lily is crying he says, "You are driving ME crazy!"

Now all I need to do is finish our Christmas cards.  I love christmas time!

Who wants a ride?

I got a new MINI VAN!! YAY!! I'm SOOO excited! Pete had to take my white car in for a check-up and test drove a mini-van. It was the color I wanted and had the DVD player. He was nervous about telling me about it because he knew that I would want to get it. It's a 2007 Honda Odyssey and is in great condition and has low milage. It was also a LOT cheaper than the new ones we looked at. Pete's Acura was on it's last leg and we thought we would take the plunge before another winter season. So now I am ROCKIN' the suburbs! Soccer car pool anyone? Need to car pool to salt lake? How about some big junk exchanges?! And as a disclaimer ... I am not pregnant. Ha! I've already had 3 people ask me if I was pregnant since we have invested in a family wagon. Phillip loves the mini-van and Lily will have a little more room once we upgrade her car seat.

It's kind of sad that we don't have the Acura anymore. I didn't have a car in Philadelphia, and that was our main car for a while. It was a great car. Pete had the car since the year before he graduated from BYU. I first met the car in 2004.

Favorite Acura memories:

1. While we were dating, Pete would drive to pick me up and drop me off in the city almost everyday. He added lots of mileage driving down Kelly drive.

2. We had an eventful road trip to Boston when I was pregnant. We thought it was silly how people fly from Philadelphia to Boston. On the map it should only take 5 maybe 6 hours. But we hit construction, and accidents and it took us 12 hours to drive to Rhode Island from Philadelphia.

3. During the aftermath storms of Katrina there was flooding on Kelly drive. We were driving on it before they closed the road. There was a stream of water coming from the hill. The water was so high that the car actually floated for a few seconds. Scary!

Garage Sale! In November!?

Well, I think Al has a 6th sense. She has an uncanny ability to foretell a GREAT garage sale. I didn't think to check the ads in the middle of November, but I guess people are always getting rid of junk. The title of the ad was, "My mom had a lot of stuff."

It was an estate sale and we got a LOT of stuff for $20:

One garden hose container
One door flag
One flag pole with a flag (will use for our light show)
Box of old tractor toys and trucks
A bunch of amber glasses (I kept breaking our IKEA glasses so I told pete to be on the lookout for new glasses)
Some vintage platters - They will be great for 7-layer dip
Two vintage Mr. Potato Heads
Two hand-made metallic airplane music boxes
1950's lamp
Old church magazines - Young Women Improvement (1910) Friend (1915) and some Relief Society magazines (see the picture below). I wish I got more, but I thought that a few of each would be enough. They are fun to read through it.

Happy Birthday Pete!

Pete had his birthday on Thursday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! In the words of Phillip, "You are THE MAZING!" Thank you for all of your hard work, fun times, and remarkable penmanship! Ha! I am glad that I can be with someone who likes to have fun and be silly as much as I do :-)

We had a fun night out together. We went to Texas Roadhouse and got the two meals for $16.95 (it's a GREAT deal) and watched "Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde" at Rodgers Memorial theater in Bountiful. We even had time to stop at DI and found a cool Oreo cookie jar. It was great time to celebrate. Pete's favorite present was the remote control helicopter. It's already broken, but since it has only been a few weeks we will return it to the store and get a new one. Good thing I bought the protection plan!!

I tried out a new recipe which was actually pretty good. It is from Nigella Feasts. Alton Brown (from FoodNetwork) would classify this cake as a "Butter Cake" which is a modification of a pound cake. You don't need cake flour or anything special. You just need to have the ingredients at room temperature. Dump it all in the food processor and then bake. My bake time was about 12 minutes. You just have to watch and see how fast they cook. They were really moist. I think it would be interesting to try substituting one of the tsp of vanilla for lemon juice.

Well, this is the last of our fall birthdays. Now we have our wedding anniversary and Christmas. I'll start keeping my eye out for a mini-van for my birthday next year! When I ask Phillip if I should get a new car he says, "YEAH, you be good, you get points for a prize."
So... If a point has a monetary value of about 10 to 25 cents, how many points do I need for a mini van? What should I do to earn points? ha!

Halloween is OVER!

Well,

We had quite the "Halloween Season" this year.  Here is a summary of our Halloween festivities:

1) Went to the Trick-Or-Treat event at GreenField Village during our trip to Michigan

2) Hosted a Halloween party

3) Went to the Bountiful Rec Center Halloween Party

4) Phillip went trick-Or-treating at Bountiful High School to all of the classes.

5) Actual Trick-Or-Treating on Halloween!!

You'd think by the end of the month that I would get sick of Halloween.  But NO!  I put on my trusty Pumpkin outfit and clown wig and walked around the neighborhood with the family.  Even when it started to sprinkle, it didn't stop ME!  It was fun to see everyone's decorations and all of the other people in the neighborhood.  We got some good reviews of our halloween display from all of the kids.

Phillip got 95 pieces of candy.  Yay!  After a while he got tired and sat in the jogger.  When we got to the door I would say, "Come on Phillip!" and he would say, "You go and get it."  ha!  I don't think anyone was as excited as me.  :-)  Phillip got about 4 or 5 regular size candy and one HUGE crunch bar (thanks to the Dodds!)

Well, when the clock strikes midnight on Halloween Night, the preparations for Christmas begins!  Pete got up the next morning to put up Christmas lights.  We will have another light show planned for Christmas and don't want to get stuck putting up lights in the snow.   

Garage Sale!

My family noticed some garage sale signs so this morning I checked the listings when I got up. Pete's Mom was nice to come over and sit with the kids for an hour. We only made it to one estate sale. It was GREAT! We got some cool vintage Christmas decorations (amber lights, santa, chasing lights, and ornaments). We also got a vintage fireman hat. A guy offered me 8$ for the fireman hat right after I bought it. I thought to sell it to him to help with the garage sale budget, but my Spidey sense thought that if this professional garage saler is offering me $8, then it must be worth a lot more. I just checked e-bay and there is one going for $80. Crazy! We got a cool red table for our downstairs kitchen, a small milk jug, some cool fabrics and an old fisherprice xylophone toy. We spent in all $22. We bought a santa from Walmart for $20, so once we return that we will be out only $2.

My favorite find is a poca-dot dress. My eye caught site of the black poca-dots and I thought I could use the fabric for something. However, I came home and tried on the dress and it is a perfect fit! I took a picture with our webcam, but you get the idea. I never find dresses that fit in the store, let alone at a garage sale!

Halloween Party

Well, we had a successful Halloween Party. We had REALLY good food. Homemade doughnuts (Thank you Becca!), homemade breadsticks (Thank you Al!), Costco Pizza (the take and bake kind), Decorated Carmel Apples, Sugar cookies and frosting, Jell-o Salad (Thanks RayAnne!) lady fingers, homemade root beer, artichoke dip, veggie dip, fruit tray and MUCH MUCH more! I was doing good on my diet, until last night and just couldn't resist.

We had some fun activities. Decorating cookies, decorating caramel apples, eating doughnuts on a string, and going outside to see the light show. We didn't get to bobbing for apples, but I guess there is always next year. Me, Hanna and her friend Autumn had fun bobbing for apples at 10:00PM after everyone had left!

We had some great costumes! Paige was trying to blend in with her camouflage. Paul had a realistic Darth Vader costume. The rest of their kids were super heroes and a cuddly bear. Al realized that having extra arms gets more in the way when she dressed as a spider. We had two pumpkins, four witches, two super-mans, two bat-mans, and many more!

Thanks everyone who helped out and came to enjoy the fun!

Look Who is Growing Up!

Well, Lily is crawling now. She gets upset when we leave her in a room by herself. She starts crawling as she is crying. I bet she is saying to herself, "I have to crawl all the way down the hall to find you and all you have to do is pick me up before you go!"

She is starting to pull herself up on almost everything as well. She loves to stand against the toy box and pull out all of the toys.

So far she has only eaten two of my broom piles. I have to keep the house a lot cleaner now.

She hasn't lost her baby weight even with all of this exercise, which is good. I think she has the food gene. She always is trying to steal Phillip's drinks and food. I let her gnaw on a Pizza and she go SO excited. I had to take it away from her when she was gnawing off huge bites. She was SO upset!