Don't Quit your Day Job.

Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today!

Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today!

Happy Birthday to Dad!!!

We think you are #1! We also feel very lucky to have you in our life.
He picked to go out to eat at our favorite place. Of course we ate too much, but we love going these.
Here's two of the boys with their "best guy." I think Charlie calls him that some times. They really love him!
Tom took this picture of us. It's not too bad and we don't have many of them.
I think this is a really funny picture. I don't understand why they just can't take a nice picture.
Brian is so hard to buy a gift for. I tried for weeks to think about what to get him and he gave me no clues--not to mention the days leading up to the big day I had parent teacher conferences each night. I was going to stop at the store after school, but when I got home I saw two nicely wrapped gifts. I was so excited that he just bought what he wanted. That was definitely not the case. He had spent all of his birthday running around looking for gifts that would make everyone else happy. That is how he lives his life--completely selfless--wanting to make us happy. We are VERY lucky to have him.
He picked up a Cowboys snuggie for Brianna and the two boys got awesome Transformers cars. He even picked me up some new lotions and things at Bath and Body Works. He is FABOLOUS!!!
I did manage to surprise him with a ice cream cake from Baskin Robins. I'll do better next year Brian, I promise. I love you and I'm so glad you had a birthday!!

Funny Charlie!

The boys were wrestling with Brian the other night. Things got a little rough and the next thing we know Chrlie's flying through the air and lands with his cheek in the back of the couch. This lovely bruise is the result of the fun night.

Wiggle Tooth Update

Lots of tears because Tom wasn't ready to have us fiddle with his tooth. Eventually we talked him into it.
Emily wanted to tie a piece of floss around the wiggle tooth and see if we could pop it out.
He didn't mind too much.
After all of this the tooth is still there.

Trick-or-Treat

Charles as Iron Man with super cool muscles!
Thomas as Black Spiderman with an awesome mask (and moves.)

Charlie's candy haul.

Tom's trick-or-treat loot.
We had a great night. Sam came with us and Mary even joined us for a little while. The boys got a bunch of candy. About an hour into our beggars night, Charlie decided he was ready to come home and eat his candy. Halloween night is every child's dream come true.

Halloween Party #2

Today my mom had a Halloween party at here house. The boys wore their costumes and Brian and I went along. When we got there we were asked to go down to the costume box and find a costume of our own. Then we all went on a costume parade.

Here we go on our parade. We went up the street and even got some honks from some passing cars.

Brian was the ace of hearts. He was such a good sport to wear a costume and go on the parade.

My brother, Spencer, was Peter Pan.

Amanda: an Indian--Dan: a cow--Jayne (Spencer's friend): a ladybug--Emily: Velma from Scooby Doo.

Sam: a race car driver--Tom: black Spiderman--Mary: a princess--Charlie: Iron Man

My Dad: a devil--My Mom a sparkly witch

The devil (my dad), Me (a jack-o-lantern), Brian (the ace of hearts), Dan (a doctor), Dan (a cow)

Emily and Me.

Doctor Dan and Indian Amanda

After the parade, we went back inside and the kids made great noise makers. The decorated a plate and put jingle bells inside then attached another plate.

Charlie was taking a break during the decorating part. My dad was helping him and put the stickers on his plate and when we got back to check on the progress, he was upset that there were too many stickers and not in the right place. Maybe he should have stayed and helped.

I was helping put Mary's shaker together. Brian got hold of the camera and took the pictures.

Now Charlie is ready to work on his. He helped my mom thread the ribbon to hold the plates together.

Tom was admiring Mary's noise maker while I'm sure Brian was tickling or making a joke or something fun.

Next the kids got to go play games. Here they are waiting so patiently and listening to the rules.

We played stick the nose on the pumpkin. Charlie went first and he got closest to putting the nose in the right spot.

Tom went later, but and wasn't close. He of course used his hands to feel if it was close to the right spot.

The next game was throwing orange jack-o-lantern ping-pong balls through the cardboard cut-out. Thomas tried to bounce the balls to get them up to the different cut-outs.

Charlie did really well, but he didn't want anyone to take his picture. I had to put the camera through the cut-out to get this shot.

After our games we made some yummy desert treats and then at chili and grilled cheese sandwiches. We had a super fun Halloween party!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Pumpkin Carving

A few weeks ago we went to the pumpkin patch and picked out some pumpkins. I was mad we forgot the camera, but it's just the way we usually work.
Every day since we went to get them one of the three kids has asked when we were going to carve the pumpkins. We finally decided that today had to be the day that we were going to do it. Brian picked up a Michigan State pumpkin carving kit with awesome patterns and a really great scooper and carving knife.
We all got into the action this morning. I helped Tom with his green pumpkin and Brianna worked on Charlie's.

Tom got a turn to dig out the pumpkin guts.

He still has a problem with how it feels to stick your hand inside the pumpkin.

We finally finished. Tom picked to have the Spartans helmet carved into his green pumpkin. Charlie wanted Brianna to carve the football into his. I think that we did a really good job with these. Some of the pieces were really close together, but they turned out really good.

We had 3 pumpkins and the third was Brian's. He fell asleep while we worked on the other two, so I had the boys draw a face and helped them cut it out. We had a really good time making Jack-O-Lanterns.