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!

Carving Pumpkins!

Such a fun night together! We had the "halloween party" station blaring on Pandora and we carved out "pa-kins" that Bauer has been asking about for a week.

Bauer actually thought this whole cleaning out the pumpkin process was sorta gross. He was wayyy more in to dancing to the Monster Mash:

Griffin mostly just did this:

Bauer's new super attractive smile. I guess 'smile' and 'squint' sorta sound the same:

Bauer's pumpkin "stitched up" thank you disneyfamily.go.com for the easy idea:

the "adult" pumpkin. We were trying to be different, but it's

just a little scary now that I look at it. Or maybe it's the creepy man holding it...

What it's all about...

I ended a great Sunday (2 hour nap and all, can you tell?! :) with these two precious boys cuddling with me. It was one of those moments for me-- i felt so fulfilled, so full of love, so humbled, and so very very grateful. This is truly what life is all about!

In other news:

- Griffin had his 2 week check up last week. They were hoping he'd be back to his birth weight...yeah well he gained 9 ounces from his birth weight. WOO HOO Griff!

- Griffin was 2 weeks old and hadn't been to a college football game yet-- can you believe that?! haha. Well I thought it was a shame too, and it just so happened that BYU was in town playing Oregon State. It also so happened that although I had bought Andrew tickets to go, I didn't think I'd be already feeling up to it- nor did i think it would be 70 and sunny and that my parents would happen to have 2 extra tickets....needless to say, we packed the boys up and headed to Corvallis to see the Cougs in action. It was SOOOO fun. I'm glad I didn't give into that voice in my head and stay home, afraid people would report me to the authorities for bringing my newborn out. We stupidly didn't get a single picture-- I know, HORRIBLE, but it was such a fun day and both boys did great! Plus, the Cougs got a win and I was able to rub it in the face of just a few old friends!