From the mouth of a child...

Today Eliza says... "Dad, is that a picture of you and mom?"

What??? Apparently I need to either get her eyes checked or try a little bit more with my appearance.

But maybe I should not be too worried about the opinion of a person who will actually sleep in a diaper box on top of a chair.

Cold Cold Cold and Belated Birthdays

We started the new year off in Rexburg! We hit the sledding hills with Charlie & Ellie and their parents. It was freezing (as the weather in Idaho continues to be..) We have had a ton of snow this January and have had a lot of single digit temperatures. 

The next weekend brought birthday festivities! The annual party was moved to Boise this year where we celebrated with delicious chocolate cake that was suberbly frosted by Abby. The kids all got along great and had a lot of fun together. We went to the Boise Aquarium.

 Eliza and Afton dressed alike so we could spot them in the crowd.

 The puffin were my favorite animal/bird/fish at the aquarium. Thanks Boise Stubbs! I don't know if we can top that next year.

And this little baby continues to grow and change. He crawls, pulls himself up, stays up all night and all sorts of crazy things. He is 9 months old and a dainty 14 pounds. He has gained 10 pounds since birth, Wahoo!  And he is amazingly cute. We like him. We would like him even more if he would sleep sometimes!

Why do I try???

Each year I have the same brilliant idea to take pictures of the kids in their Christmassy Sunday clothes. 

You might remember such photos as this...  

Where Eliza refused to stand next to Ian. 

Or these from the next year...Where I couldn't get either of them to look at the camera. 

  

Ready for this years photos? This one is called "climbing the ladder on Grandma's Christmas tree" or "leave me alone Mom."

"I'm going to eat my brother's ear off" 

 Finn was looking at some very distracting cousins. By the time I get them to actually sit still and look at the camera, they will be too big to look cute dressed up in Christmassy clothes and the pictures will just be creepy and postable to akward family photos or something.

 Merry Christmas to all!

Halloween Parade...

 We went to a truck or treat last night. I really don't like doing Halloween 2 nights in a row, I think it is a waste and it diminishes the excitement of Halloween night. You lose the neightborhood feel. I like going door to door and I don't believe anyone will put needles in my kids candy!!

Anyways... Here we have Spider Girl and Ninjaknightpirateman

Any guesses on these costumes?? I found Mikes at DI for a sweet deal. Finn's wearing Ian's outfit from his first Halloween! Tonight I am going to try and talk the kids into being pirates. I am not sure if they are going to go for it. If they do, I will update and add that picture in.