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Monday, November 30, 2009

A Monday

Jared makes a decorative carrot girl with a stylish pb hairdo. It was the post FHE dessert snack.

Look at the detail.

Taylor taught our lesson on blessings. He colored this at church and brought it home so he could teach the lesson. We all got to select the item we were thankful for and stick it on the poster board. We then said why we were thankful for that specific picture.

Devin had quite a 24 hour period from Sunday to Monday. Of course, I was solo because my DH was at work. I had to speak in church which added to the confusion and a migraine to boot. Before the above tv incident he was in his closet "getting dressed for church" when I hear a crash. He was playing Tarzan on the shelves and they pulled out of the wall and all the games and toys came crashing down. Tarzan was not injured luckily. Monday morning I hear a crash while I'm upstairs changing the baby. I come downstairs and this is what I see. Devin was trying to get a dvd from behind the tv and it fell. Ashton was close, but not in the line of descent, thankfully. It was so heavy I had to wait for help to come home before I could put it back. The cords ripped out the back so, needless to say, there has been no tv watching this week. I think it's a fair punishment.

Working Outside

Taylor loves climbing trees, and has found out it's easier to climb up than to come down.

Uncle Andrew working with the boys. Raking up the leaves for grandpa.

Even Ashton is helping.

Devin takes a break to have some fun in the trees.

An unrelated picture, but I just love his smile. He's a sweety!

Monday, November 16, 2009

A Night Out

I think we look really happy to be out alone with 380 other people.

How cute!! We went to the prom; sort of. The in-laws and a very nice Andrew and Sarah watched the kids and we went to The Wabash Hospital Dancing with the Stars Gala (that's a mouth full). This is our first date without Lucas since he was born. Yeah!! We dined and danced until midnight. We even squeezed in a little cha-cha.

Karate Guys

Taylor and his dad have been going twice a week to karate classes for a year now. They have earned their yellow belts and love sparring.

They look tough

When Taylor first took his sparring gear to class he was so excited. He was timid at first, but after he warmed up he started being aggressive and punching and kicking kids that were at higher levels.

Not bad for an old man. In the class there are a few black belts that come to workout and the yellow belts get to practice against them.

Finally the Pumpkins!! and Batman

The boys posing with their works of art.

Cutie Lucas is getting so big. He now rolls from his back to stomach all the time.

Batman!!! I think he can pull it off.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Happy Halloween

The whole family was a Star Wars character this year; including mom and dad. Don't get too deep into the psyche of this one (married to his daughter and she doesn't know he's her father) messed up childhood.

Darth Vader and his mini.

Jango Fett and the Jedi face off. For some reason Jango Fett (Devin) wants to use a light saber also and not his gun.

Princess Leia with her gang: Taylor(Obi one), Ashton (Yoda), Lucas (Darth), Princess Leia, Devin(Jango Fett)

The Dark Force is taking over; all our fall leaves behind them are gone. They were so beautiful while they lasted.

We had a great halloween. We took them to the State Park earlier in the day with some pizzas and had a picnic then did the halloween scavenger hunt the DNR had set up. There was also pumpkin painting, a bonfire, a hayride and weenie roast. It was fun to get outside and doing something in nature on Halloween.

The pumpkin patch

We took the kids to the pumpkin patch so they could take the hayride and pick out their pumpkins. Here they are carving their own pumpkins, but Devin doesn't want to actually get his hands dirty; he wants to use a spoon.