Field trip to the Firehouse

Luke's class took a field trip to the firehouse recently. It unexpectedly starting snowing pretty hard the morning of his field trip. I couldn't stand the thought of someone else driving him in that weather (even though it was down the street about 3 blocks), so i decided to go along. I was glad I went because I got to take some cute pictures of our funny little guy!

Grayden's random toys

My mom still doesn't let me live down that when Lauren was about 6 months old I didn't know what kind of "toys" to buy her. Of course my mom, mother of five, thought it was funny but being a first time mom I didn't know that "random" household items (if safe) make the best toys. Grayden has no interest in baby rattles, teething rings or squishy animals. He loves anything that is NOT a baby toy. His current favorite...an empty water bottle. He also loves the rubber pastry brush, old cell phones, and clean wipes (to name of few). He has even learned how to roll over just far enough on the changing table to pull a wipe out the box when we are changing him. Lil stinker.

Too big?

I gave Grayden his bottle in the bouncy seat this morning like I do for every feeding and headed over to the kitchen sink to work on the breakfast dishes. A few minutes later I heard the usual clunk of the bottle indicating he was done. He usually like to sit and play for a few minutes while his food settles. When I turned around to go pick up the bottle I found him SITTING UP in the bouncy seat! It was so hilarious I went and grabbed the camera. I think maybe this means he is getting too big for the bouncy!

Fall Treat

I was pleasantly surprised when I made these for Family Home Evening treat last night and they were so good. I thought my kids would turn their noses up at the dried cranberries on top but they all kept asking for seconds! I will be adding this to the "make again" recipe file. The only thing I might try differently next time is to drizzle the sweetened condensed milk on top of all the ingredients rather than putting it on top of the graham cracker crust. I had one for lunch today just to make sure they were just as good after being refrigerated. They were.

Okay. Seriously.

I'm so in love with this baby.

Halloween

I have to admit I was pretty excited when Lauren and Nathan decided they wanted to be Hermione Granger and Harry Potter for Halloween. This is my all time favorite book series. I got so excited I even decided to make their robes. This was the first time I have attempted to make Halloween costumes. It was definitely a learning experience...but fun. They got lots of use out of them by wearing them to the church carnival, school parties and finally trick or treating. Luke went as a SWAT team member and Grayden looked seriously cute in his skeleton jammies. Jason surprised the kids with his freaky Grim Reaper costume. He took them in the back of the truck this year to trick or treat in the rain.

First haircut...at 4 months!

I don't know what else to say except this baby is cute!!!