What We've Been Doing . . . This Week

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The kids and Dave had Veteran's Day off this week. So, we went on a hike to see more Indian caves in Bandelier National Forest. We got to go up and down a few ladders.This was a fun ladder to go down with Ty in the Baby Bjorn on my chest. Poor kid. I didn't bang his head on the ladder or break the camera, so things turned out okay.
Friday, November 13, 2009

I took Kate and Jack to see this movie at the theater.
The kids were so excited. They liked the movie until the end when there was a giant food storm. We haven't been to a movie for two years (since we saw Enchanted). And we probably won't go again for another two years. Poor Kate gets a little motion sick. She threw up two years ago during the movie and on Friday she threw up when we got home. Actually, all the food flying around in the movie made me feel a little nauseous too. Maybe it's a good movie to watch on a smaller screen at home.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Yesterday we went to the BYU vs. UNM football game in Albuquerque. There were tons of people from our ward there -- kind of fun to see people that we know! It sprinkled rain on and off pretty much the whole game. It was chilly, but not too bad. The sun came out for two minutes and I snapped these pictures.

Jack was pretty upset that his BYU shirt was being covered up by his sweatshirt, so we put it on top. He wouldn't put his coat on during the game. He is quite the little BYU fan!

Ty did great during the game. He was really warm, all bundled up.

Ty is 4 months old now! I took him to the doctor Thursday and he weighs 13 lbs, 12 oz. and is 25" long. He can roll over from front to back and back to front, but he doesn't do it very often. He tries to stick anything he can in his mouth and loves to chew on his binkie clip. He has been sleeping great (try not to jinx myself) from about 8 pm to 4 or 5 am (it's heaven!).

I snapped these pictures of him tonight.

Pictures Finally Updated

Okay, so I finally posted a whole bunch of pictures. I also posted the pictures from our trip to Florida (from September!) . I post-dated it, so it is chronological order. Click here to see the post. Enjoy!

Trick and Trunk-or-Treating

We had a busy Halloweekend with lots of trick-or-treating. Friday after school we took the kids to the hospital to go trick-or-treating to the clinics. This is our favorite place to go trick-or-treating since it is warm inside and not too crazy. After the hospital we went to the trick-or-treating downtown. Lots of businesses set up tables and give out candy. It's a little crowded, but the kids like it.
On Halloween our ward had our annual Trunk-or-Treat. I guess the sun was in the kids' eyes while I snapped this picture.

Little Chili Pepper

Candy Helpers

After trunk-or-treat the kids went trick-0r-treating down our street. Jack showing off his "scary teeth."

Our friends, Kate and Cam, went trick-or-treating with us at the hospital and down our street.

Jack and Kate loved handing out candy at our door to trick-or-treaters. One kid tried to scare Jack, I don't remember exactly what noise he made. Jack came running in to the living room. Dave thought he was scared, but he was just trying to find his "scary" teeth, so he could scare the kid back. After that every time the doorbell rang, Jack would yell "ROAR" as he opened the door so he could be the first one to scare people.

Class Halloween Parties

I got to go to both Kate and Jack's school parties the day before Halloween.

JACK'S

The preschool classes went around to all the school offices trick-or-treating.

KATE'S

The kindergarten kids started their party by playing BINGO.

Then they had a snack.

Then they sang some songs to the moms that were helping with the party.

Chick Hicks

Jack got into a bad habit of not sleeping in his bed all night, so to break it I made him a stick reward chart. After he got 20 stickers, he got his prize -- Chick Hicks. I'm not usually very good at following through with reward systems, but this one really worked. And Jack really, really loves his Chick.

Fall Soccer

10/27/09

Dave coached Dave's soccer team again this season. Kate was the only girl on the team with six other boys that are in kindergarten at her school. They don't have scheduled games for 5 & 6 year olds in the league, only practices. So, one of the other coaches from a 5 year old team set up a game against our team. Kate was really excited because her teacher, Mrs. Hopkins is the wife of the other team's coach, so she was at the game.

Sad Jack. He just wanted to play.

Jack-o-lantern Family Night

This Monday was our annual pumpkin carving Family Home Evening.

Jack wouldn't grab the pumpkin "guts" and pull them out. He did not like his hands getting all pumpkin-ey. Dave helped him clean it out.

The kids drew the face on the pumpkin and I carved it.

Kate drew the ears, nose and the mouth. Jack drew the eyes and the eyebrows.

Bumbo Baby!

My friend Juli let me borrow her Bumbo for Ty. They didn't make Bumbos when I had Jack, so I don't have one. They're pretty nice. I have to keep in on top of the fridge when Ty isn't in it because Jack won't stay out of it.See what I mean about having to keep things away from Jack? He's just a big baby... I just borrowed this activity playmat from one of my other friends. I know, I'm kind of a mooch, but we have limited storage space. It's nice to use something for a few months and then give it back.

Junior Shoveler

Monday was our first snow of the year. Jack was really excited to go shovel it with our junior sized snow shovel.

Jack told me that he was making lines in this picture.

Bob the Builder Helper

Jack (a.k.a. Bob the Builder) helped Dave rake the pine needles in the back yard the other day.