No pictures lately

We have been quite busy for the past 2 weeks but no pictures to show for it. I thought, "maybe I'll look up some old pictures and post them. I found these pictures of Kyle when he was around 5-6 months. Kyle was our "chunky monkey" and answered to that nickname more than his own name. Now you can all see what a chunker he was. He was 10 lbs 4 oz at birth and has never stopped growing. This picture cracks me up because his sweet personality is sooo visible even at this age. (Yes he's nude. Babies are too cute with naked cheeks!)

Here's some pictures of the boys at Jeff's brother's old house. Joshua has always been amazingly photogenic. He can never take a bad picture. Wow, look at Kyle's rolls!!!

Hopefully I'll get my butt in gear and get some current photos for the next post.

Pumpkin Mystery/Halloween Celebrations

I did not get a picture of it but take my word for it. My pumpkin on the far left started out the week showing BYU. I did it because my younger sister visiting from Houston would be going trick or treating with us and I wanted to do something she would love!!! I don't know what happened but after she and her family spent the night eating our food and carousing our neighborhood for candy they left and when I went outside my pumpkin had mysteriously changed. Is there bandits in the condos that go around changing pumpkins? Maybe it has something to do with my sister and her husband graduating from U of U. Yeah, that must be it!!
Thanks for the good times Trinie!!!


Here's all of us in our glory. You can't see Katrine's costume but she made this fantastic Bo Peep costume and her two kids she made a white sheep and a black sheep. max kept his sheep ears on for a total of 2 1/2 seconds. Trust me they were adorable. Joshua had planned to wear his mummy costume again this year but I don't know if he is too old be he freaked out two days before Halloween and changed his mind. AARRRGGGH We explained we were not going to buy him a new costume so he came up with this injured skateboarder. Not bad huh? Katherine was , to quote her, "A purple butterfly with wings on my back". Kyle was inspired by Charlie Brown and wanted to be a plain sheet ghost but I worry about seeing clearly through two small eye holes so he let me cut out the head as long as we did spooky makeup. He asked Mom and Dad to be Mommy and Daddy ghosts too. I thought that was a great idea since the costume only took 2 1/2 yards of dollar fabric. Jeff would not get dressed in his that night which made me sad at first until I realized he saw how stressed I was getting everyone else ready he let me off the hook. Thanks Jeff!

Here are pictures of our Halloween feast. After a few years of Dead Man over worms meatloaf (picture follows) I found this great idea for mummy hotdogs in an advertisement for Rhodes rolls. I'm always ready for super easy fun food that kids will actually eat. Of course they never eat the meatloaf but I have to make it every year for tradition.

Riding a bike

Katherine rides this little vehicle faster than it shows in this video. We posted this one because the crash at the end is funny!

Kyle has been bugging us to take off his training wheels ever since Joshua took his off this spring. We kept putting him off saying not until your birthday, not until your birthday. Well, a few days after his birthday he asked again and when we tried unsuccessfully to put him (what bad parents to break a promise) we decided to keep our word. We took of the training wheels and what you see is his third try. We were not looking forward to the long process of teaching him but he just put his feet on the pedals and took off. You should've seen the look on our faces and we ran in and grabbed the camera. He surprises us in so many ways.