All I want for Christmas is...

My 2 front teeth!! So I finally managed to get some pictures of Devins shiny new pearly teeth. They are so cute....and funny.

Yes, this is a picture of Addie in Devin's bed with him. No, they don't sleep together, but every time he wakes up from his nap, she bolts up to his room and uses a stuffed horse as her stepping stool and jumps into his bed with him. She thinks it is so fun, and he is always excited to see his friend Addie.




So we spent the afternoon on Sunday making some special icecream-cone cupcakes. Addie of course loved helping and eating them!! We dropped a couple off at some friends houses and she must have been exhausted because she fell asleep in te car the minute we drove out into the street and even when we gt home she would not wake up. We brought her in and she just flopped face down on the floor. By how she isdressed you would think it was the dead of winter here, and although normally we do have tons of snow, it is still just brown grass and temperatures of about 5 above. She just loves her snowpants. Reall,y she wears them at home almost every day. She just loves to dress herself. Often her clothes are on backwards. Oh well.
Addie and Benny-the doll- found a new place to hide out.
Dev is so cute. So he is almost 8 months old now. He is growing up so fast. He has been a horrible eater, though you would not know it by his growth chart, and we have always struggled getting him to eat baby food. This past week I started trying table foods just cut up tiny, and not so tiny if they are soft, and he LOVES it. He has been doing great. Now I just have to figure out who do give the freezer-full of baby food to.
What a sweet picture hey!! I sure love these kids. Justin and I made a little slideshow on his computer the other night of pictures of our family from addie's birth to now, and I cannot tell you how overwhelmingly greatful I am for these 2 little monkeys. They are great kids and we sure have a lot of fun together. It is also surprising how much they look alike!! A couple of Addie's younger pictures looked almost identical to Devin. I guess they did come from the same gene-pool. They both have Justin's eyes and my nose.

The Huntin Boy

Hey everyone, we had another first in the family. We went to the shooting range and practiced our sniping. Not really, but Keato had just refinished his rifle and it looks pretty cool. So we thought it would be fun to snap some pics of Dev with it. The pics turned out to be pretty cute.

So I finally got moving on the water aspect of food storage and inadvertently got the whole ward involved. We got these jugs at a poly-bottle distributor and I checked with the people in the ward to see if anyone else wanted to be involved in the purchase. At the end of church, within ten minutes I had sold 130 and ended up selling all 175. People got pretty excited about it anyway. Oh and btw Dev got his third tooth yesterday, first on the top. See ya.

Halloween Fun!!

Both our Mom's have requested that the blog gets updated....and I talked to Steph yesterday and she motivated me to get some halloween pictures up. So here we go.
Things have been going well here. Addie is doing great. She is officially potty trained...we did it when we got home from thanksgiving and she did amazing! Yeah!! Devin has been hitting lots of milestones. He has been sitting on his own for awhile and he has been trying to crawl for about a month. He gets up on his hands and knees and rocks and pushes himself back but the last couple days those little knees have been coming foward. As soon as he figures out how to move his hands he will be off. Addie can't wait. I am excited too....other than the realization that my little teddy bear is growing up.
Babies are so beautiful when they sleep. Especially bedtime.....

as always I put my pictures in the wrong order by accident. So birthday before halloween....anyways Justin and the kids were amazing. They spent a secret night decorating my wrapping paper which we framed a part of. It was so special to me how much effort Just put in to make it a special day. We spent saturday just spending time together and we did some errands and went to west edmonton mall and spent a couple hours taking addie on the rides. It is her favorite thing ever!! Thanks for a special day guys. Love you.

Halloween was a blast. Addie was strawberry shortcake....another one of my hand-me-downs...thanks mom.......and we are not sure what devin is, but he sure was cute. The friday before halloween we took the kids to the ward halloween party and they did some games and trick-or-treated door to door. Addie's favorite part was the blue juice...haha
So cute....too bad we couldn't get smiles from avery or addie!
We also had a little halloween party here. ustin and Addie carved a cat pumpkin while Devin and I made the pumpkin cat cake. It was lots of fun...and yummy!!

Finally Halloween came. Addison and Justin went out for about an hour. She was definatly candy driven this year!! She didn't want to stop. But when she did come home she had fun handing out candy too. Halloween is so fun with little kids. We had a blast.