Halloween party

This year for Halloween my mom had a really fun halloween party! We all dressed up, although everybody else dressed up quite a bit more than me, all I did was put on a witches hat, but after just having surgery that was about all the energy I had to put into a costume! Jaxson was Mr. Incredible, and a very handsome Mr. Incredible too!

Ella was a beautiful butterfly and daddy was a hunter (very creative honey)

Uncle Colby was a pirate, Soma (grandma) wore a cool spider hat, Gabey and uncle Derek were Batman, and Tahti was a gangster with a big afro wig.

my mom went all out on this party, she had her house all decorated and all of the food had fun Halloween names like, Hot foamy cheese soup with freshly picked green boogers aka broccoli cheese soup. We played fun games which the kids loved, I think the favorite was wrapping uncle Colby up in toilet paper like a mummy and bobbing for apples.

We had so much fun and my mom went to a lot of work to have this party for us. Thanks mom!

Grandpa

Nick's grandpa passed away early saturday morning, Nick and I drove to Salina friday evening when we heard he was not doing well, and I was so thankful that Nick got to see his grandpa and tell him he loved him before he passed away. His funeral was yesterday, it was a wonderful tribute to him, all of his children and grandchildren gave beautiful talks, and Nick's cousin sang a song that was so beautiful I cried through the whole thing.

I wish I could have spent more time with his grandpa, he was such a wonderful man and I absolutely adored him. He reminded me so much of my grandpa that passed away six years ago. While Nick and I were driving to Salina for the funeral, he told me some stories about his grandpa, I wish you could have seen the way his face lit up when he talked about him. He has so many great memories of him that he will always remember.

It was hard to see Nick hurting, but we know that he is in a better place now and he is watching over his family, especially his sweetheart Gwen, I hope that Nick and I can take the kids to Salina more often and spend more time with her and the rest of the family that we dont get to see as often as we would like to. Hopefully I can hear more great stories about his Grandpa.

We love you Grandpa Bennett!

Uh-oh

I put Ella down for a nap yesterday but the little stinker never even fell asleep. She just sat up in her crib and jabbered and kept saying "uh-oh" which is her new favorite word, she says it when there is not even a reason to say it. After listening to her jabber and say uh-oh and laugh, I went in to get her, obviously sleep was not on her list of things to do yesterday. When I walked in to her room, she was standing up looking over the side of her crib, she looked up at me and said "uh-oh" and pointed at the ground. When I looked down at the floor I discovered the reason that she had not actually gone to sleep. Her very most favorite teddy bear "munchie" had somehow fallen out of the crib and onto the floor, I have NO idea how on earth munchie could have ended up on the floor, it couldn't have been Ella because when I asked her how munchie got out of the crib, she just looked at me, shook her head and put her hands up and said "abadabadamu" which, roughly translated means "how did munchie do dat?" heaven forbid she take a nap, or do anything for that matter without munchie!

Fun with daddy

Nick had the day off yesterday, Jax was obviously thrilled that daddy didn't have to go to work. Nick had some projects to do around the house and Jaxson was right there next to him the whole time "helping" his daddy. Jax even got out his tools so that he could help daddy. However they did take a little break from all of their hard work, I was inside the house and I could hear the two of them laughing, so I looked outside to see what they were doing

they were taking turns doing "cool tricks" on the trampoline, Jaxson had a trick that he called a "rockstar" trick. It was so cute to watch the two of them play together, im glad I got to sneak a few pictures, and if you have ever seen a 6' 7" man jump on a trampoline, you can just imagine how hilarious it was to watch Nick!

World record

I think Jaxson may have broken the world record today. For what you ask? For the longest TEMPER TANTRUM ever thrown! Ok so that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but that is what it felt like at the time. Im not even sure why he started throwing the temper tantrum in the first place, and to be honest im not even sure he knows why. Im surprised that he even has enough energy to play and run around like a mad man after this melt down. I would be plastered to the couch for the remainder of the day after that. I wonder how many calories a person could burn while throwing one of these never ending tantrums? Probably several hundred, if thats the case im going to start throwing temper tantrums as my daily exercise routine, it sounds funner than the elliptical, especially if I get my way as a result.

After Jax was done throwing a fit, he immediately returned to the sweet innocent little boy that he is, he just decided he needed to test mommy and daddy's patience this morning. Ahh the joys of raising children.

14 months

I have had to force myself to come to terms with the fact that my little girl is no longer my little tiny baby, ok so she was never very tiny to begin with, but she was still our little baby, I think I have been in denial that she is growing up so quickly. I was writing something on the calender today and it occurred to me that today is the 7th, which means that my baby is 14 months old today. Seriously?? I cannot believe it, how did she get so big so fast? While I am having a hard time with the fact that she is not my little baby anymore, and she doesn't even need me to feed her anymore, she is VERY independent lately, I am loving watching her little personality come out more and more everyday. She is such a happy little girl, except when she doesn't get her own way, then she turns into an alien princess until she either gets her own way, or she forgets what she wanted in the first place.

She is learning to say several things now, her new favorite word is "shoes" which sounds more like oos, she has a bit of a shoe fetish, which of course makes me SO proud! Whenever you get her dressed, whether or not she really needs her shoes on, she will point at them and say shoes until she has them on her feet. This morning, as soon as she spotted her shoes, she started pointing at them and she wanted them on her feet NOW even though she was still in her jammies.

When she was sitting in her highchair eating breakfast this morning, she looked at me and put out her hands and said "es dada" (where's daddy) she kept saying this over and over while shoving her bananas in her mouth at a rapid rate.

While I was working out this morning I had the music on and she was dancing the whole time, it was hilarious and her big brother looked at her and said "awww sis, you are just so cute!" She just looked at him and grinned, and then started dancing again. What did we ever do without our princess?

So smart

Jax: Mom, look I just drawed a rectangle!

Me: Good job bud! You are so smart!

Jax: Dats because I go at preschool!

Me: I know, you are learning so much.

Jax: Yup I am mom! Watch what else I can draw, bump over bump, mom dat makes an M!

Me: Great job Jax! I am so proud of you!

Jax: (huge grin)Thanks mom. Hey mom, d'you know dat I can draw a whale?!?

Me: You can?!?

Jax: Yup! Watch! See mom! See how smart I am! Mom, I got a lot of learning in me!

I wish you could have heard the excitement in his voice, it was so cute, you could just tell he was so proud of himself! He loves going to preschool and coming home and showing me all of the stuff that he did at preschool, we have a special cupboard in the kitchen where we hang up the projects that he does at preschool, he loves to look at them hanging up and see what he has done.

He is getting so big, and while I wish he wouldn't grow up so fast, I love watching him learn to do things, and the best part is seeing how proud of himself he is. I love you buddy!