~Christmas 2010~

Christmas Eve

 Nick was very not into sitting still for a picture.

 Eric's weird smile...weirdo.

 Bein' silly!

Holy crap I can't find Liam anywhere!

 Christmas

 PJs!!!

 Our little tree :)

 This was all Eric was interested in. He didn't even want to open any other presents for a good 10-15 minutes.

 Socks! So exciting!

 The track from Grandpa Lance nearly beat out the joys of the basketball hoop.

 It's a pillow! It's a pet! It's a pillow pet!

 No. He was not excited...

The boys love everything they received! In fact Nicholas informed us that the basketball hoop was, "A real good present!" Then he proceeded to hug it and say, "I LOVE IT!" Nicholas was our quote monkey for the holiday and gave us another gem which really sums it all up, "Christmas is all about family!"

I hope everyone had a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Liam is 2!

 1 month

 6 months

 12 months

18 months

AND:

 Two Whole Years Old!!

Halloween! Halloween! Trick-or-Treat! Ghosts and Goblins Can't Be Beat!

In Pleasant Grove it decided to rain cats and dogs for like 3 hours which really put a damper (that was worded in that punny way just for my mother...you're welcome mom!) on things. We took the kids to Orem where it quit raining sooner and went around the block in Grandma Annette's neighborhood. This year Nick really was on top of the whole concept of Trick or Treating. He would run up to the door before anybody else, knock and start saying, "twick oh tweat" over and over and over and over...if nobody answered soon enough he would try to open (sometimes successfully open) their door. Patience is not his strong suit. Eric has a hard time with the "tr" sound so he says, "Fwick or Fweat!!" it's pretty cute, maybe even cuter than when he says, "Fire Fwuck!" I was a domino, Nick and Eric were very fetching pirates and Liam was a robot (because the twins robot costume last year was just too cute to only use once! Hopefully next year Liam will also want to be a pirate!)

 Gettin' ready!!! oh yeah, I totally found that candy bucket at Savers...go me.

 Liam has started to really like the whole picture taking process and did not want to be left out.

 They are complete! They wore their eye patches the entire night and I'm pretty sure their swords scared people into giving them extra candy.

 I have to give myself props for finding/creating all the pieces of their costumes. I sewed the vests and the boot things, got the pirate gear at the dollar store, the sweats were 4 dollars at kmart, the bandanas were about a dollar at walmart, and the shirts were purchased at Savers for about 2 dollars. I think it looks way better than any ready made pirate costume...so yay.

 Liam 3000! I highly recommend putting lights on your kids costumes, it comes in handy.

 Fwick or fweat!

 

This picture was after making the rounds and Liam was pretty much done with Halloween. I'm also thinking the moisture in the air attacked my hair. It was NOT that poofy before trick-or-treating.  Once we got back to our house everyone in our neighborhood was pretty much done with Halloween as well. We had no trick-or-treaters, and so we have tons of candy at our house. Nick and Eric were still in the mood so Ryan put Liam to bed and stayed home while I took the twins around to a few more houses. It was a lot colder by then so I modified their costumes a bit. Since we live on the mountain the house on one side of the street were level and the houses on the other had like 50 stairs (not kidding). Of course the first house that Nick dragged me too had the stairs. After that we went back to the level side of the street. I would have to say the best costumes besides MY families costumes was this family that were all Star Wars characters. Mom was Princess Leia, Dad was Obi-Wan, baby was Yoda and their other kid was Darth Vader. I'm not even a big Star Wars fan but still it was pretty cute/EPIC. Almost as epic as Nick with TWO suckers.

That was our Halloween, overall a success! The only other news is that the kids have all been sick with colds. As usual I think they will be fine and Ryan thinks they are knocking on deaths door. They have all been very happy, just runny noses and a cough, occasionally a light fever. Unfortunately today, Nick started crying when they were down for nap (very uncharacteristic of him) and he felt warm. He kept saying his ear hurt. Took him to the doctor who looked into the ear that Nick was NOT complaining about and said, "Oh wow! That looks painful!" He tells me then that Nick totally has an ear infection at it's a pretty bad one. Then he looks in the one that Nick keeps saying hurts and says, "Oh, I can definitely see why he is complaining about this." Which makes me think if the first one was really bad, the second one most have been really terrible. So who knows how long he has had these ear infections and how much they have been bothering him. It's times like this you wish you were psychic. Anywho, he's on antibiotics now and as usual he is a trooper through it all. I hope everybody else had a Happy Halloween!