Final Halloween post because I'm not dressing up my kids one more time!

I've decided to spare you all anymore Halloween posts! Because, while Buzz and the Ladybug are cute, I getting a little sick of getting kids in and out of costumes and picking up after discarded accessories and being upset over Dominic's ripped Buzz costume! (Hello, now I can't sell it on e-bay!)
Anyway, Saturday night, Brad's sweet Aunt Glora hosted her annual Halloween party. She is pretty awesome. She invites us all over, feeds us and entertains our kiddos. How cool is she? Very. Plus, we get to hang out an catch up with all of Brad's Henderson cousins. I'm just excited that I think I now know all the cousins between Wendy's sisters from Henderson (there are still several more siblings with more kids, grandkids, etc. that I don't even pretend to think that I've mastered names or connections!)





Tonight we had our ward trunk or treat. It was fun. Dominic really came out of his shell (what shell? you ask - he still gets shy around people at church believe it or not) We ate some yummy soup and rolls, then proceeded to the parking lot filled with generous Desert Rose ward members itching to give out FULL SIZE CANDY BARS! When I was a kid we were lucky to hit like one house that was giving out the big ones. My kids walked away with at least three in one parking lot! Not one piece of janky candy was to be found!

Slightly random, I watched Sidney yesterday and between two babies crying and a toddler trying to make himself chocolate milk in a "baby sippy" (a bottle) I managed to snap a few pictures of our newest cousin. Since Melinda is not a blogger, I'll do my part to past her cute little face all over the blog-o-sphere!

More Halloween Festivities!

I went with Mike and Sara to their ward trunk or treat with the kiddos tonight. It was really fun. I told Sara I think I have a better time dressing my kids up than they like to be dressed up!
I was so excited to put D and Jade in their costumes. Dominic, because he makes a dang cute Buzz Lightyear (with an even cuter "to infinity and P - yond!") and that adorable little Buzz, Woody, Jesse trio walking around! AKA D, Luke and Madi. Jade, because I had this vision for her costume and about $6.00 later was able execute it. She is the cutest little ladybug I've ever seen!
Growing up, I don't think I ever had a store bought costume. My mom made my costumes until I was in third grade, then I started making my own! I remember being a butterfly, princess and genie - all handmade by my mom. Then one year I was a punk rocker, and the best was when I was a clown in 5th grade. I stapled a hula hoop to a baby-doll style shirt. It was pretty clever if I do say so myself:) Am I the next Martha Stewart? Probably not. But I do have fun tinkering with things:)

Cute little pumpkins

Tonight we made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. Despite the itchy hay and rotten pumpkins, a fun time was had by all!

Saydi: Soccer Diva

I took some pictures of Miss Saydi in all her diva-ness yesterday. I think this about sums it up, not hard to take pictures of cute kids:)

Sister Bear is 9 months! DD is 2 1/2

Jade and Dominic just got back from their well checks. D is 2.5 years and Sis is 9 months. Both are totally normal, says Dr. Sirsy:)
Jade is in the 25% for height and weight. She was 16 pounds 12 ounces. (After I had to correct the "new girl" weighing her, informing her that Jade wasn't 10 pounds 6 ounces) It must take a genius to read those doctor's scales!
Dominic weighed 31 pounds. The doc said that was good. He was glad to see him putting a little meat on his bones. I'm pretty sure 27 pounds of that is in his head. I guess a big head means a big brain:)
Both are doing really well. Jade got a flu shot and DD got a Hep A shot and a flu shot. He kept saying that he was "braff" (brave).
I'm going to write some fun things about them so when I get caught up on scrapbooking, I can go back and read this:)

Dominic at 2 1/2:
Nicknames: D, DD, DD boy, sweetpea, babe, stink
Dominic is talking so much now. He likes to ask questions and repeats pretty much everything. Lately, he has made some friends at church from going to park day on Wednesdays. He comes home and asks me who everyone's mammas are and daddys are. For example, "What's Corbin's mamma's name, Mamma?" Me: Alisa. DD: "A-Leesa?" Me: "Yes" (2 seconds later repeat, repeat, repeat!)
He likes books. His favorite at the moment is "Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox" It's a book that Sam left over here when Melinda was having Sydney. He has the whole thing memorized.
We've been trying to tell him little stories from the Book of Mormon before he goes to bed. He likes to hear about Nephi. He loves primary songs. Yeserday was the primary program, I had to sit in the front row to help the kids with pctures nad singing and such. Dominic came and sat by me for most of it. He was singing the songs at the top of his lungs. It was cute and embarrassing.
He is obsessed with president Ukdorf (sp.) He knows that he "fies air-pains." He is notorious for snathcing sis' pacifier and hiding with it. He loves to build and make caves with blankets.
He likes to help me clean (I LOVE THAT and appreciate that more that he knows!)
And I've already talked about his little OCD tendencies...

Okay, onto Jade...
Nicknames: Jaders, Sissy, Sister Bear, Chi Chi, Chi Chi bear, Jadie Cakes,
Jade is so sweet. She is always content. She sleeps in her crib, she eats well, she loves her bath, I am so grateful for this little angel. She loves her cousins. Especially her girl cousins! She gets a big grin on her face anytime she sees one of them. She also loves her brother. She has this spastic little giggle that she gets when D plays with her.
She is starting to wave (again, pretty spastically). She loves to watch this nursery rhyme DVD we have. She is super mobile - she's been crawling and scooting since she was five months. Now she pulls herself up onto everything. She has the tinest little petite feet - if they were bigger she would probably be walking!
I love her hair! She can wear it in ponies and piggies. I have tons of headbands for her, but it doesn't quite tame the mane!
Her first tooth popped through on Friday. She loves people food and baby food and nursing. She is seriously a happy kid.
She says "da-da" and lots of baby jibber jabber.
She is not a fan of the car seat, at first, she does this back arch thing and looks so sad. I've started to put her in the seats in carts at stores and she looovvves it.

Okay, I novel, I know. Just needed to get someof these Jade and Disms in before they flee my scattered brain:)

DD and OCD on a whole new level

Lately, Dominic had taken the OCDness to a whole new level. He has always appreciated order in his life. But recently, it has trickled into his play and food. I about died laughing when I was cleaning up the living room and I noticed he was especially quiet. He was eating chicken noodle soup. I looked over and he was doing this…






So what is he doing you ask? I asked him the same question. He said, "I make train, like Bob the Builder." He proceeded to line up his noodles for a good 45 minutes.

Once upon a time

there was a girl who worked all the time. She just returned home from teaching a workshop in Arizona. A sweet boy came to pick her up after a long weekend of teaching lots and lots of students how to make yearbooks. She was so tired and it was really late. The boy kept asking her if she wanted to get something to eat. She said no. (So rare for this girl that usually loves to eat.) He kept pestering her to eat, to get ice cream or something. She kept telling him no, she wanted to go home and go to sleep. He kept driving, but not to her house. He kept asking questions and finally, he asked her to marry him. And five years ago today, she said yes.



This is the oldest digital I have of me and my hubby. It was our first married Christmas together in 2004.