Halloween!

This halloween was super fun! It started out with out Branch Party, continued with the Sisters Halloween Parade through town to trick-or-treat through all the businesses (since there aren't a lot of neighborhoods in our town) and ending with homemade doughnuts and good friends!

Don't try to tell him he was a shark, Bauer insisted he was NemoFishy all night.

My good friends daughter McKenna was sooo awesome and helped him get a hang of the whole trick-or-treating thing. She's so great!

I was a bad mom and didn't dress Griffin up-- but I did find this killer "my first halloween shirt" in the hand-me-down bin. Thanks Mandy or Jyl! :)

My sister Mandy has been making homemade doughnuts as a halloween tradition for a while now and I decided to give it a try. I didn't remember to grab my camera until they were all almost gone, but I was actually pretty proud of myself. They were totally Yummy- we'll have to keep this tradition going!

Boys will be Boys!

After dinner one night, Andrew asked if he could make a wresting ring for Bauer and him. He followed it up with "i promise to put everything back!" Apparently he realized his wife is a little OCD about the house and a messy house can get me stressed and cranky VERY quickly. Of course I said yes, how bad can a few blankets be right? Boy was I wrong! Not a few seconds later I see Andrew rounding the corner with the mattress off Bauer's bed. You can imagine my first thought-- "He messed up the made bed!" ok- maybe only people that know me real well (or have the maiden name Silliman) would have imagined that thought.

Don't worry, I controlled the OCD inside of me and fake smiled, trying to pretend that them having fun was more important to me than my perfectly tucked in sheet, tidy quilt, decorative pillows, and the strange satisfaction I get when I can pull back his bed perfectly while he's in the bath.

Bauer's eyes lit up when he figured out what was going on and the hysterical laughs of my precious 2 year old helped me forget about the fact I was going to have to remake that completely when they were done : )

if you're wondering, this is Bauer jumping off the couch behind him onto Andrew's back. I think we have a WWF fighter on our hands.

all tuckered out! by the way-- they just HAD to change into their "wresting" clothes. That Blazer jersey is the most thug thing Bauer had in his closet.

a more recent picture of my boys before bed one night. These boys mean the world to me- I love them more than words could ever express!

ps- look at the chunkster! i could seriously eat him!