Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!

35 years! Hope you have a great anniversary!

I love you!

Love, Kristine

Getting so big

Tonight Kami was doing so well standing and holding my hands, that I decided to stand her up next to something and see if she could stand up on her own. Of course, I had to take a picture. It's just the two of us because Justin is working and the other kids are in bed. She's already growing up too fast. I think I'm in that "I want my last child to be a baby forever" syndrome.

She'll be crawling in no time!

She also has lost interest in her pacifier and instead enjoys sucking on two fingers. She switches hands, but it's always the first two fingers. I don't know if she'll eventually stop or if she'll switch to sucking her thumb. It's cute now, but how do I take it away when she's 4?

A Haunted Halloween

My three trick-or-treaters. Sorry, no pics of Kami (as if I don't have enough). She spent most of the night asleep in her stroller and wasn't wearing a costume.

Katie's costume was called a sweetheart bat. She wanted something "scary" but "pretty".

Jacob was a very cute monkey, it's hard to see but his costume came with a banana in the pocket. He got the hang of trick-or-treating at our ward party and was so excited to go. He pushed his way through older kids to get to the door and didn't care if Katie and Jason were with him or not. Although, he had a hard time understanding why we skipped some houses, he didn't know lights out meant no one was home. He wanted to hit every house. For awhile he kept coming back to show me his candy, like he was thinking "look these people gave me free candy too!"

Jason was a ghoul. His mask didn't last too long because it was a little bent out of shape and was rubbing on his eye. Last year he had a mask that "smelled weird" so he didn't wear that very long either. I tried to talk him out of another costume with a mask but he was insistent. Somebody remind me about these mask issues next year.
Justin spent a lot of time turning our garage into the scariest house in the neighborhood. Trick-or-treaters entered one side and walked through to the other side where Justin was waiting in this costume (below) with their reward for bravery=candy. After the night was through I did a walk through of the garage to capture it on video. The first time you couldn't see a thing, so we turned on the lights and did it again. So watch the video below and imagine it a lot darker.

Jack-O-Lanterns

Daddy carved Jacob's pumpkin and Mommy carved Katie's pumpkin. But Daddy gets credit for doing the dirty job of hollowing them out. This year we let Jason do his pumpkin himself.

Does this look like trouble? First Jason fell off the counter and bumped his head on the windowsill, then he cut his finger with the carving saw. He started it on Monday and finished it today. (Mommy broke two saws and had to go buy more so he could finish.) Despite the injuries he insisted on doing it all himself. Good job Jason!

Jason lost a tooth

I took a picture of Jason earlier today because he had a loose tooth that was hanging and ready to come out. A few hours later it was out. Last night he said he couldn't get to sleep because his tooth was too distracting, I'm glad it's finally out so he can get some sleep. This is only his 3rd lost tooth so he's still pretty excited about it. We think he swallowed his 2nd lost tooth because he suddenly realized after dinner that it wasn't there anymore. So this will be only his 2nd visit from the tooth fairy.

BEFORE

AFTER

Ye Olde Pumpkin Patch

We took the kids on our annual trip to the pumpkin patch.

What's a visit to the pumpkin patch without a ride in the wheelbarrow? Jason was denied a ride, Daddy said he's too big.

This is the best picture of Kami alone, the sun was too bright (which was a surprise considering we're in Washington) and we couldn't get her to look up.

Can you tell he's saying "cheese!"

Kami asleep

This is in the corn maze. I'm talking to Julie on my cell phone.

Roll over...roll over....

Last week Kami rolled over for the first time. I immediately grabbed my camera and tried to get a video of her in action. Of course she wouldn't do it again. Then the next day when Katie saw her rolling over she grabbed the camera and got some video. So here's video of Kami rolling over and keep in mind the camerawoman is 5 years old.