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We haven't done much picture taking lately, but i found a couple that everyone might enjoy. Judging by some of Bethany's old posts I think that she will appreciate this mascara massacre.







This is one of our first pictures taken with our new I pod. So far they've been kind of grainy, but I thought that this one was still pretty darn cute.

Happy Birthday Raegan!!!

Here is a few pictures of Raegan on her birthday. My sister and I frosted the cake... it's pretty amazing and I'm sure Keith would like me to mention that he used an air compressor to blow up the balloons (he went on and on about it). Raegan got lots of books and Toys and I don't know what her favorite toy was but I can tell you her least favorite things were all the clothes. They were immediately tossed aside. I wasn't too surprised. Don't worry I'll get pictures because the clothes were my favorite things.

Halloween a little late

Here's all of our Halloween pictures... finally. Caleb won the contest and his prize was oatmeal cream cookies..just what he wanted. Sometimes it pays to have a fat baby.
















All of the costumes were awesome. I was super impressed by all of them. For those of you who weren't there, my sister in law Rhianna and her husband Matt were underneath the yup yup costume, which they actually made.. super cool...









Keith and I were Mr. and Mrs. Brady and Raegan was a china doll and Caleb was a Sumo wrestler. Thanks Troy and Whit for throwing an awesome party and hopefully next year I'll get the time right for the trunk or treat. Oh, and now you know why Keith felt so irresistible in his costume.

Just a couple of things to update. Calebs first tooth is coming in. Surprisingly I haven't noticed him being anymore grumpy than usual. Although he did fall off the bed the other day so maybe I haven't been able to decipher between the bump on the head grumpy and cutting a new tooth grumpy. And no I don't want to talk about Caleb falling off the bed.
The other thing is I made bread for the first time today and it looks really pretty, I hope it tastes good too.
Oh, and I am making the sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving again, so sorry everyone.

Silly Kids

When Raegan gets an oweee, I kiss it and it instantly feels better. I'm amazing that way. Anyway, I must have passed my healing powers onto my daughter because she was jumping on the bottom side of the laundry basket, fell off, and stepped on the sharp outer corner, sat down and kissed the bottom of her foot and was immediately fine. It was so cute, but I kind of feel like I've of lost my motherly comfort thingy. All I have left is being the food provider... thank goodness that will last a while.

On a second note, Today was Raegans first day taking a nap in her toddler bed! She cried about it for a few minutes and then she was out. Of course I didn't put her down until 2:00 so I'm sure that helped, but the surprising thing was that she didn't even try once to get out of it.

On a third note, Caleb slept from 11:00 to 3:00. It was so weird, because during the day he is kind of a cat napper, but today was like 4 hours in a row. I kept checking on him to make sure he was alright and that he was still breathing and all was fine. Then when he finally got up I left him with grandpa for a few minute while I picked up some leather work and when I got back grandpa pointed out that Caleb had a hint of a black eye. So, I don't know if he did that in the crib or afterwords while I was gone, or if it had been there for a while and I just didn't notice it, but it was kind of a shock. He's only 4 and a half months old, he can't even really get anywhere yet. How in the world did he get a black eye? I think I'll blame it on grandpa, that way I don't feel like such a terrible mother.

Not quite right

The other night I made peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and Seth kept asking me for some of the batter, after the fact that he already stole some, but I didn't have very much so I told him to just wait for the cookies. I don't know if that blew a fuse in his brain or what but the next morning I made him pancakes and when I wasn't looking he stuck his finger in the runny batter and slurped it up!!! What the heck?!! Cookie batter I can totally get on board with, but pancake batter kind gets my gag reflex going.

friday then SATURDAY!!!

Ok, tomorrow I have visiting teaching at 9:30, then I'm taking my kids to a reading group thing at the library at 10:30. At 4:00 I have craft day at church that I'm demonstrating at.... Then Saturday I'M OUT OF HERE. I get the whole day off from my kids and husband!! I think I'll go look at some garage sales first, then I'll probably head to Phoenix or Prescott and go see a movie or something. Just me and my sister. No car seats, no diapers, nobody to feed. It's going to be great, and kinda weird. Don't worry I love my family, but they're a lot of work and I'm going to enjoy being gone. Sorry hubby...

Don Juan

Ok, My husband dressed up for work today, and I can't show a picture yet because we're having a contest for Halloween, but I just want to say everyone is in for a treat. I also want to mention that his whole personality changes when he puts his costume on. He thinks he's irresistible. I also want to mention that he wanted to sleep in it last night, kinda like a little boy that wants to sleep in his superman cape, but you have to explain to him that you don't sleep in capes because they could choke you, instead I had to say, you can't sleep in your outfit because your wife won't sleep next to you. Soon everyone will see why. heh heh

Irony

Caleb slept through the night!!! Well, he did wake up once, but I just let him cry for a few minutes and he went back to sleep. Yay!!! He's still asleep and it's almost 8. I find that when I tell people that my kids behave a certain way they continually make a liar out of me. Oh well, I'm not complaining.

So much fun...........

Not much to report. I got to referee an eighth grade volleyball game the other day. I was really nervous, but it turned out not to be that big of a deal. It was one of those games where you were really excited if the ball actually got over the net, so my job wasn't too hard.
My husband has been gone hunting since Thursday, and I am worn out. I had the reffing thing, then the next day I watched a family members kids, which means I had 4 kids under the age of 4, and tomorrow I get to take my kids to church all by myself. It's going to be great. The last time I did that Caleb started freeking out and I ended up leaving Raegan by herself in sacrament meeting. Luckily she found a family to sit by. Just thinking about it makes me super excited for church tomorrow. I don't know if you caught the sarcasm, but that's what I was going for. Oh, and to top everything off, Caleb still doesn't sleep through the night. Ok, that about sums it up. Blogs are so great when you need to vent.
ta ta

Funny Raegan

Raegan has been really silly lately. This picture doesn't look all that exciting, but the way it happened was quite comical. She decided to lean on the top of the box, but the lid wasn't on tight and she fell through. The funny part though was that it was so deep that she couldn't get back out so she was yelling for help and Keith and I couldn't stop laughing. Then Keith took advantage of the situation and grabbed the camera and just kept telling her that he was coming so she wouldn't burst into tears.



This was just cute. My sister brought over a bunch of costume jewelry and she loved it. I can't wait until her cousin Katelyn comes over. They will have so much fun.














She's been doing this a lot lately. It's actually aggravating because she has already ripped two of the tabs off the bumper, but I thought I would get a picture and maybe I can use it to remind her what not to do.

My first canning

I learned how to can. It takes forever, but look how pretty.

We made apple pie filling, apple sauce, pear butter and apple butter. yummm

This was so cute. Earlier today I had Caleb on the floor and Raegan grabbed a book and started reading to him. It was so sweet. I could have died. I love my kids...most of the time.


Right now, both kids are in bed, which is amazingly nice, my husband is gone for the night at a scouting seminar, and I feel like I should take advantage of it somehow, but all I really want to do is grab my book and go to bed. What can I say, I know how to party.

Caleb trying to keep the light out


Raegan put together her own costume for Halloween



So, I've taken some videos of Raegan and Caleb, but for some reason haven't been able to get them to work. I'm guessing it's because they're too big, but if someone has any input on how to do it I would greatly appreciate it. I did get one to work and I'm not sure why, but it was a little shorter than the others so I think the size is the problem, but let me know if they're is a trick or something.
Anyway, here are some recent pics of the kids.

i love u lissa

we tried, but she really wanted to watch word world.

Gross and Funny

Ok, both of these things happened the same day, it was pretty eventful. I guess I need to explain Caleb's huge poop. It all started on my Anniversary and got worse because my birthday follows so closely. You see, Keith got me flowers and chocolates for both occasions and the chocolate took it's toll on poor little Caleb. I lost track of how long it had been since he pooped, but I knew when it finally happened it was going to be a doosy and as you can see it was. He was so pleased with himself too, because he had been struggling for so long.
The other picture with Keith is kind of hard to see, but basically we were at a drive up window getting some fast food on our way home and I asked Keith to reach behind him, between the seat and the door, to get the sippy off the floor, it was impressive or would have been if he hadn't got his arm stuck. It was so stuck that I had the time to grab the camera and if you know Keith you know that he would not have let me get any evidence of his foolishness had he not been really stuck. It was great.

Catching Up

We finally got Internet on out computer today and I'm hoping to find more time to blog. There is much to catch up on, like my kids, and....ok, I guess there isn't a ton going on. I did have some minor surgery a few weeks ago and it went well. Also, I threw my first bridal shower a few weeks ago too and I think it turned out pretty good although parties aren't really my thing so I can't be sure. We got Keith's last sister married off which was a huge accomplishment, just kidding, none of his sisters lasted long after they went to college, they're all so tall and beautiful. If I wasn't related to them I probably wouldn't like them very much.
On a more depressing note.... I've been eating non stop, I think I've tripled my weight since Caleb was born. On a more positive note it's making me think about exercising and that's a start right?!!!

Surprise

Caleb Rolled over today!!!! I was in shock and so was he. His eyes were huge because he wasn't quite sure what happened. I honestly thought it would take him a little longer, not because he's fat, but because he's big boned. heh heh

Here's Raegan's cheese smile.







Here's Caleb's smile which he's just started doing a whole bunch.. it's hard to get a picture of it because every time the flash went off it startled him.





I just thought I'd post this one because I know everyone enjoys seeing his milk belly.

SOMETHING NEW !!!

Caleb at around 2 months.

These are my kids at church. Raegan has a big itch.