Happy Halloween!!!

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays...next to Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, Fourth of July...oh who am I kidding, I LOVE ALL HOLIDAYS!!!

But I especially love that there is one day of the year to dress up and be crazy. This year we decided to let Curtis pick what we would be and he decided a Football theme. It worked out great and wasn't too hard to put together and was fun and inexpensive (since Kylee and I both already had the stuff for our costumes).

We took Kylee trick-or-treating and she ABSOLUTELY loved it. She would say trick-or-treat so cute and loved that she got candy for it. After we'd leave a house she say "more candy mom." It was so fun to see her have such a great time. She walked all the night and I think both kids will sleep well tonight. And the weather was SO nice, we didn't even need jackets. It was perfect. The only bad thing was I actually dropped my camera and broke it tonight. :( I'm so depressed. Thankfully, I was able to steal these pics from Em's camera before we left my mom's.
Our Football Family

Tinkerbell and Peter Pan

(Emilee and Jon)

Mario and Luigi

(Cody and Isai (pronounced E-SY-E) )



HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

6 Months Old

Cannon is already 6 months old (last Friday). He's personality is starting to shine and even though he has always been such a sweet baby, I think he just gets sweeter and sweeter each day. He is almost always SO happy (especially when he first wakes up) and gives me the biggest hugs and such slobbery kisses. He melts my heart.

He rolls and scoots all over and is never is the same spot or position I left him in. He adores his big sister and sometimes will just watch her every move. Kylee loves to boss him around and is always sharing what ever she has with him...which can be scary sometimes, like when I found her shoving 3 milk duds into his mouth.

He doesn't seem to care too much even when she puts him in a head lock.

He loves playing on the floor and is SO close to crawling.

I can't believe how fast he is growing up.

He loves...

Swinging in his swing,

Going for walks,

Going for walks with sister,

and eating ANYTHING...even the spoon.

(Poor guy, he almost always has a pink or purple bib on.)

He had his 6 month wellness check today and here are his stats:

Height - 27.7 in (80%)

Weight - 17.8 lbs (50% - he has really thinned out)

Head - 17.5 in (65%)

Down Down Baby

I'm getting a new lap top for work so I was taking all the pictures and videos I have saved on it off and came across this one and couldn't believe I hadn't shared it. Kylee LOVES to sing. It makes me so happy when I hear her cute little voice singing a song. This is a song we learned off of Elmo's World (Kylee's favorite). She makes me smile.

And this is the reason I am getting a new lap top. Kylee BRUTALLY attacked the keys of my old one. Apparently it is out of warranty anyway so I was due for a new one, but still. What a stinker.

EEEK!!! EEWW!!! CREEPY!!!

So, the other day I'm sitting with my kids in our little family room when I notice something big and black crawling across the ceiling. If any of you know me well, you know that I'm pretty tough (ha ha) but not when it comes to spiders. They are SUPER gross and scary in my opinion. So I get a little nervous and of course Curtis wasn't home to kill it for me. The fact that it was black had me even more nervous so I walked over to get a better look. Sure enough, there is a BIG RED MARK on its back. So, I immediately FREAK OUT and grab the kids and take them out to the front yard, and call Curtis and ask him to come rescue us. I knew he was a ways away and I could see the spider quickly running across the ceiling. I started to worry that he would run into my couch or somewhere and I wouldn't know where he went so I knew I had to take some action. I took my kids to a safe room (after quickly surveying IT for spiders too) and went to face my fear. I couldn't kill it...I wanted to know for sure if it was a black widow or some other spider, so I grabbed a jar to capture it instead. I was shaking and freaking out, but I did it.

These pictures aren't very good, but you can kind of see the mark on his back. We have since sprayed for spiders and my spider guy even confirmed it was a black widow. Luckily, it's a male, so hopefully there were no nests or eggs laid anywhere, but still GROSS and SCARY!!!
Hopefully he just came by for a Halloween scare and we don't see anymore of his friends anytime. I of course look everywhere for spiders now and every time a hair tickles my neck or arm, I freak out thinking it's something crawling on me. That's what you get when you live out in farm country I guess.

Kylee's Glasses

My sweet little Kylee had to get glasses. She has a lazy eye and the specialist at Primary Children's said glasses would help correct it and she should be able to have normal vision the rest of her life.

Doesn't she look so cute? Now the problem is HOW IN THE HECK DO I KEEP THEM ON HER? She hates them. She'll put them on for about a minute, if that. I've tried bribery with candy and that worked for about a minute. I've never had to deal with glasses before, so I really have no ideas. Any one out there have any suggestions?

Picture Tag

I have been tagged many times but never get around to it. This one was too cute and easy not to participate in though. Here's what you do...

• Go to your pictures file
• Pick the 4th file and the 4th picture.
• Post the picture and tag more people.
  

Honestly, I wasn't going to do it until I saw the picture. It was too funny and cute not to post. So here is my picture.

This is Christmas 2006. That's baby Kylee I'm holding. (Her first Christmas) What a bunch of goofs! I sure do love them though!

NOW YOU'RE TAGGED!

Grandma's Homecoming

Yesterday we all got together to listen to Grandma report on her mission. She did a great job and it was really wonderful to listen to her stories and her testimony. She is an awesome lady. Then we of course went back to her house and ate lots of yummy food and visited with lots of awesome people.

Don't you love pictures where no one knows the picture is being taken.

And of course there was lots of yummy food. I ate SO much I was on the verge of throwing up, yet I still kept eating.

And lots of jumping on the trampoline and playing
Kylee loves the trampoline.
What a precious picture. Me with BOTH my Grandma's!

Cute kids on the Swing.

Ranae and Sabrina

Juliet and Connie

Drew and Connor.

Terrell and Grandma

Grandpa E and Cannon

I haven't had the chance to blog about this but Cannon already cut his first tooth (and the second came the very next day) a few weeks ago. He isn't even 6 months yet. I can't believe he is growing up SO quickly.
It was SO fun to see everyone but so sad to see them all leave too. At least Thanksgiving is just a month away. We are having a HUGE party at the Jr. High like we did a few years ago. I can't wait. It will be SUCH a blast!

Grandma is HOME!

What a fun day. It was even more exciting then Christmas! I woke up so excited and had butterflies all day just waiting for 1:00 to come. We went to the airport and what a fun site. I think it was kind of what I hope heaven will be like(although I'm sure heaven is MUCH prettier then the airport). All your most favorite people just waiting to greet you! :)

We spent some family nights making signs. It was fun. Of course, Grandma was the last one off the plane and it felt like we sat there and waited forever for her. The little kids could hardly stand it and as soon as they saw her took a mad dash for her. It was pretty sweet actually. I really wish I took better pictures and video. The fact is I was so caught up IN the moment, I didn't do a very good job capturing it.

Of course after the airport we went back to Grandma's house (oh, it feels so good to be able to go to Grandma's again) and ate lots of yummy food and had a great time hearing stories about her mission and just hugging her and being with her.

This is the sign we hung on her house. You might not be able to tell, but there are a ton of little (and big) hand prints all over the sign. I promise to do a better job at getting pictures of PEOPLE at her homecoming this Sunday.

We are SO glad to have her home.

My Grandma

I know everyone thinks that they have the best Grandma in the world. Well, I hate you burst your bubble, but you don't. Unless your Grandma is my Grandma, then you are SUPER lucky like me and DO! ;-) Just Kidding. I know there are some REALLY great and awesome Grandma's out there.

Aren't Grandma's the greatest?

My Grandma is honestly the most kind, unselfish, loving, amazing, BEAUTIFUL, funny, sweet, talented, faithful, gracious, tender, humble, thoughtful, patient person I know. And I'm sure anyone reading this who knows her would totally agree.

Oh my heck I love her so much!!!

She has been a widow for over 17 years and tomorrow she is coming home from serving a PROSELYTING mission for the past 18 months. She is 76! No boring visitor center senior mission for her. No office job or something safe and easy. Heavenly Father knew she was too amazing for that and sent her right out into the field.

She's amazing!

She is one of my most favorite people (can you tell?) and I feel SO BLESSED to be able to call her Grandma and have her in my life. There is NO WAY to ever repay her for all that she has given me, done for me, taught me, or for how much she has loved me. I CAN'T WAIT to see her tomorrow!

I LOVE YOU GRANDMA!!!

And The Winner Is...

I didn't realize I'd be so sad that only one of you would win. I'm super excited for the winner and really appreciate all the comments you leave on my blog and all the love, support, and hope you each give me every day. I love you all and really do wish I could give something to all of you. I guess we'll just have to do more give-a-ways in the future. :)

According to the random number generator...

There were 15 items in your list.

Here is your random number:
12
Timestamp: 2008-10-11 12:38:24

Which means the 12th comment on my blog and therefore the LUCKY WINNER IS....

STACI from Sweet Nothings Blog

Just to tell you a little about Staci she is pretty much my little sister (even though we aren't related). She is one of the sweetest, most tender hearted people I know and we have a lot of really fun (and really sad) memories together, all of which I treasure. Staci, if there is one thing I want you to know it is that you are BETTER then you think you are. (That's my "big sister speech for you) I LOVE YOU STACI and can't wait to give you your necklace. (Email me your address, please)

To the rest of you, I HOPE life treats you kind, and I HOPE you have all you dreamed of, and I'm wishing you JOY and HAPPINESS, and above all this, I wish you LOVE...

AND I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU!

Can you tell it's late?

Passing On Hope

Recently, my ADORABLE friend Jill did an adorable post on her blog where she talked about HOPE and gave away an equally adorable necklace, which I WON! I was so excited! I never win anything, not to mention the fact that I can seriously count the amount of jewelry I own on one hand. It is now my favorite item. I actually have worn it everyday since it came in the mail.

THANKS JILL!

It was such a fun thing to participate in and brought me so much joy and HOPE, that I decided to copy her and keep the HOPE going.

What is HOPE to you?

To Believe, Desire, or Trust

The feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best.

"Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. Hope implies a certain amount of perseverance — i.e., believing that a positive outcome is possible even when there is some evidence to the contrary."

Hope makes us hold on when we could let go.

Here is Jill modeling the necklace, which she ordered from her friend Christina who hand stamps the jewelry and owns her own business called Simply Ornamental. I think Jill is a MUCH prettier model than me, so I stole her picture off her blog (hope you don't mind Jill).

I too will be sending a necklace to one of you lucky readers out there. Just leave me a comment on this post and I will enter you into the drawing and randomly pick a winner.

Leave me a comment by NEXT FRIDAY, the 10th at Midnight and I'll announce the winner first thing SATURDAY MORNING.

It doesn't matter if you've never commented on my blog before or don't have a blog of your own or if I don't even know you, just leave me a comment and you'll be entered. Come on...enter! You have nothing to lose and HOPE to gain.

I know the necklace looks much prettier on Jill, but I had to show you how much I love it. (By the way, Kylee took this picture of me, pretty good job for a 2 year old).

Here's HOPING some HOPE is coming your way.