Days of Us

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

What November Brought

Brinley giving me some smiles before church

Boston looking angelic

My pretty Cambree

The Turkey Trot Thanksgiving morning. Boston ran the last mile and 1/2 with me.

Boston at the finish line

Cambree and Whitney at the finish line

After the Turkey Trot, I had the great idea to have some family pictures taken before Thanksgiving. Wow, getting five people in nice clothes with hair done was quite the undertaking.

Yep, these are them. Pretty amazing with shadows, squinty eyes, and frowny kids. We're are going to try for real in the spring when I have geared myself up again for this event.

Kids at breakfast

Kissy lips and chubby cheeks

Daddy's new hat

This is Cambree at 5:40 a.m. one morning. She took about two weeks to get used to daylight savings and is now making it to 6:30. Lucky us!

Another present waiting for daddy when he comes home from work, wrapped and all. Lucky daddy!

Doing a feeling heart. This is what you get when your mom is a therapist in training. Poor kid.

Boston proud after making his bed.....There's baby KiKi, Monkey, Cella, Hopper, and Rufus.

Making secret treats for Boston's friends on a boring day. He is the cutest when he rings the doorbell and runs to the van. It is one of my most favorite moments.

I took Boston on a bowling date. We had a blast hanging out and spending time one-on-one.

We stopped for a hamburger and cookie at Carl's Junior on the way home from bowling. Boston was very thoughtful as he insisted we bring a cookie home for daddy and Cambree so they wouldn't feel bad.

Hanging at Costco with grandma and checking out the Christmas toys

Picture with my best friend. The longer we are married, the more I fall in love with Ryan. So grateful to have him and know he was meant just for me.

Cambree sweetly rearranges the nativity regularly, placing all people very close to the baby Jesus. She says they need to be able to see the baby......precious.

Monday, November 4, 2013

Halloween

Brinley loved Halloween. She was giving me all sorts of smiles.

I wore my easy black cat costume and the boys dressed up like police men. We also had a cute princess with us. We left a big bowl of candy on the porch when we left, and it was empty when we got home from trick-or-treating.

The kids went to the doors by themselves this year. Very brave

Checking out their first treat.

Before the preschool party

Our creative pumpkins

Doing homework

Cambree putting together four puzzles by herself while Boston was at preschool.

Making Halloween cookies with Grandma and licking the beater

The singing portion of the preschool program. He's enthused.

and a tired baby.

Funny Things They Say

Boston notices an earth on TV and says, "Look mom. There's the earth." Cambree then replies, "Yeah, the earth of Jesus Christ."

I ask Cambree if the people in her dollhouse are moving because she cleared everything out. She says, "Yes, they're going to live with Satan the Lamanite." (aka Samuel)

I say, "It's getting dark" while we are trick-or-treating. Boston replies, "It's okay. I can see. I ate a bite of carrots at preschool today."

I also heard Boston give Cambree a blessing of comfort and administer the Sacrament when I was in the other room the other day. Interesting

Friday, October 25, 2013

Pictures

Since Boston and Cambree are now five and three, I thought it would be a good time to take some pictures of them dressed in clothes that look somewhat new. I got this great idea one morning and we headed out at 8:30 to the local park. It went okay. I got a few smiles but next time, I'm going to take someone with me. For now, this is what we got.