Halloween

We started our Halloween celebrations with cupcakes for Corbin's class party. It was fun (and just a little bit frustrating) to make our two dozen spider cupcakes, which I thought turned out super cute!

We had a fun and full Halloween day! I surprised my kids by digging up the remnants of my Sydney Bristow costume from many years ago, which they all enjoyed trying on.


When it came to pumpkin carving time, we had a table full of kids and pumpkins! After Mommy cut off the tops the kids got to work cleaning out their pumpkins, including Hero's neighborhood friend, Ngan, who joined us for the day. Mommy carved the pumpkins according to each kids specifications (silly face, scary face, fangs, etc.)


For dinner we ate a jack-o-lantern faced chicken pot pie and drank blood-like juice with gummy eyeballs floating in it.



After dinner the kids all got dressed in their costumes. Poor Bastian started running a fever Halloween day and had to stay home with Mommy and Beckham, while we handed out candy. Hero had had the H1N1 virus the week leading up to Halloween, but was fever free and well enough to go out trick-or-treating, while poor Bastian started coming down with it that day and could not. We had our little monkey, Yoda, Luke Skywalker, a ballerina and lumberjack Daddy who took the rest of the kids out in the rain to trick-or-treat around our neighborhood. When everyone returned home we drank cinnamon steamers (a sweetened hot milk flavored with cinnamon extract - yummy!).




These are the finished products of our pumpkin carving efforts.



During the day Daddy also labored over our house-o-lantern, which was up in our front window with a strobe light flashing behind it. He did a great job and it looked very cool!

Dixie Classic Fair

I chaperoned Corbin's first Kindergarten field trip to the Dixie Classic Fair. As a class we saw many farm animals, visited the petting zoo and watched the pig races and sheep herding dogs. I did not get many pictures as my hands were full with my 3 month old, but we had fun and enjoyed our time together. We were able to visit Hero's artwork and went home with our favorite fair treats - fudge, cotton candy and a gourmet rocky road caramel apple!

Father and Son

Daddy with Beckham, his little mini-me after his first hair cut. What cute boys!

Miracle of Miracles

So after almost 9 full months away from blogging, here I am trying to get caught up. Although I love to blog it is a task I have been dreading, knowing that every day I wait I get more and more behind. I've also felt with piles of laundry still to fold or dishes in the sink or one of the many other household chores left undone that blogging was something of a lesser priority. Here I am almost 9 months to the day after Beckham was born tired from over a week of sickness in my house, 8:30am church and a list of other things, giving up my much treasured Sunday afternoon nap to get just one, but hopefully more than one blog post accomplished. I will try to keep things short and sweet so that it will be easier for me and less daunting to those of you trying to read.

And so I will start with a couple of pics of Beckham ranging from 2-3 months smiling, finding his feet and sitting up in his Bumbo seat. He has been the most smiley of babies and every time someone has looked his way or talked to him, he has returned their attentions with the biggest of smiles. We love our smiley boy!