Raising Superheros

Sunday, November 30, 2014

A day out

We took a trip to Bass Pro during the first snow of the season! We bundled up in our boots and hats and had a fun trip. The store had all sorts of fun things to do and it kept us entertained while Daddy shopped.

Wild life carousel!

Checking out the fun toys below

TRAIN!!!

Just meeting the reindeer

Learning to shoot with Daddy. They loved this shooting range.

We came home to find our pumpkins with a nice coating of snow.

Gabriel:3 Months

So I'm running behind getting these up, but I did take them on time. I promise! He's nearly 4 months at this point, but I can't be a slacker and not put these up. Check out my cutie patootie pants!

He's at that age where he's very skeptical of the camera. Getting smiles out of him while the camera is up doesn't seem to happen.

My big boy!

I sat him up in his bumbo so he could reach his toys better and he was thrilled! By the time I grabbed the camera he had stopped grinning. But he was in love with being able to see his lion up close.

I can't believe he's already three months old! Time is flying by. He loves to smile at everyone and watch his big brother's running around. Once he can sit on his own he will be one happy little dude!

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Pumpkin carving

We are parental slackers when it comes to Halloween traditions. We used to carve pumpkins all the time....before there were children. We carved intricate designs with our friends. Spent hours working on these things that just rot. Once kids came along we just never did it. Sharp instruments in the hands of children seemed daunting I guess. But this year we knew they would actually enjoy it, so we bit the bullet and carved pumpkins (after halloween).

Landon wasn't too grossed out by the guts, but wasn't loving digging it out either.

I think this was one of the only handfuls he actually dug out. He was not a fan of the guts, Mommy had to save him.

Will helped Mommy carve his pumpkin. He loved pushing the carving tool in each time it needed reset.

Landon helped Daddy carve his pumpkin. He was a little bit more into the sawing action.

Gabriel obviously loved the pumpkin carving experience.

The finished products! They both picked what design they wanted. Landon wanted a "scary jack-o-lantern". Will wanted a happy face on his.

Checking out their masterpieces

Landon had his "class pet", Chip, home for the week. So he helped with the pumpkins and posed for pictures for his journal.

I don't think we will get away with not doing this again next year. It looks like we will be back to carving pumpkins every year! Maybe next year we will get them done in time to put them out to be enjoyed.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Gabriel: 2 months

It's nearly the end of October and I finally got Gabriel's 2 month pictures taken! He's nearly 3 months old, it was about time. He's my little love and I am enjoying watching him grow. It may make me a little sad to see him learning and growing so quickly, but it amazes me as well. He's my big boy in 6 month clothes and wearing out my arms.

I tried out a new collage of information on him this month. What do you think? I had fun putting it together. Don't worry, I'll add more pictures below. I love his smiles and his dimples and get distracted by him when he decides to talk to me. It's amazing I get anything done.

I couldn't get his attention to save my life

He LOVES to suck on his fist. Once he figures out how to get a thumb he's going to be in heaven.

I love my little squidge!

Trick or Treat!

This year we had several occasions to dress up and have some Halloween fun. The first was for Trunk or Treat with my parent's ward at Camp Liahona. It was fun to be out in the dark and the woods, but also freezing cold! I guess that's the way Halloween is supposed to be, right?

Take two was for our ward's Harvest Party. It was indoors so I didn't have to do all the extra bundling. Of course it could have been outside since it was 80 degrees that day! What in the world? Landon also got to dress up a third time for a party at school. Since they were able to score tons of candy over those three events we skipped out on trick or treating in our neighborhood. I really don't need more candy to tell them no about or to stuff in my own face.

These two were excited to both be Captain America this year. They have on thick layers under there and ended up wearing a jacket too. It was COLD that night.

The cutest Captain America's EVER....EVER.

For some reason they decided to smack Gabriel on the head.

Sidekick's really take a beating. (can you tell it was warm?)

In their complete costumes. I love my superheros and sidekick. They are ridiculously cute.

My little Robin from the back. I can't stand how cute he was with his cape.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Fun times with dry ice

Since we were able to get dry ice for the Halloween party we were able to play with it at home the next day. The boys LOVED it. They even asked for one more round before heading to bed.

Just add a drop of soap and you get wild dry ice bubbles

Poof! They're gone with one smack!

The focus of this is the flying dog. If we threw a hand full of bubbles in the air

he would jump after them.

Will was a big fan of the dry ice

Landon, "It's like a potion!"

1,2,3...BLOW!

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Halloween party

A few years ago some friends of ours and the two of us decided to start having Halloween parties every year. We love getting together with friends, eating party foods, and dressing up in costume. All those seemed to lend themselves to having a party! Every year gets better with new games and fun. Some years we've had to cancel due to schedules, or freak snow storms, but we try to do it yearly. Here's a few pictures of this year's shenanigans.

I didn't do very well at getting good pictures of everyone's costumes this year.