How cute are they!!

I must admit, I'm a little prejudice...my kids are the cutest in the world! (At least in my book) These are the pictures that I made for Halloween. I think they turned out so well.


These pictures are some from Kensley's 1 year pics.

A bunch of loons

My boys are crazy. They are constantly making up stuff...noises, faces, acting silly, laughing... ya know, being kids. Kensley is taking right after them. She cracks us up all of the time. She is very vocal and gets her point across even though she's only 13 months old. I've told you about her eating habits before... how much she likes to eat. Her new thing the past couple of days is when she's ready to eat, she puts her hand to her open mouth and makes the "ah-bah" sound over and over until you acknowledge what she wants. It's so funny! It's almost like she's saying give me some food to put into my mouth... NOW!

She's getting a little better with standing, but on her terms only. I've tried over and over to coax her into it so I can get a picture, but it doesn't work out very well. Here's one picture I got, but the quality is bad. It's good enough to see her expression which is so cute. She's so proud of herself when she does it.

On a different subject, Corby is home... YAY! We are all so glad he returned safely.

Happy Birthday to You!

Today is my honey's birthday. He's in Jacksonville, FL at a conference, so babe if you are reading my blog today... here's a shout out for you... uh-hmm
Happy birthday to you
you live in a zoo
you look like a monkey
aaaaaaaannnnd you smell like one too.

hee, hee! (birthday song from the movie Madagascar.... it fits him well... JK)

Standing up

Well, Kensley turned 13 months old today. I want to hold on to the line "she just turned 1" but I'm a month out now, so I guess I'll revert back to the month age system again. She hit another milestone today... she's stood up on her own. We were laying on the air mattress in the floor at my parents house & she was off & on for a while until she decided she wanted to stand up. She would stand up, keep her balance for a few seconds, then drop to her butt. Once we clapped and "yayed" a few times, she would try to do it even faster and fall even faster but laughed every time. The longest she stood was probably 20 to 30 seconds. I know that's not much, but she's that much closer to walking now... and I'm not looking forward to that. It's so cute when they do walk, but then the baby is gone... they are officially toddlers then. I'm trying to hold on to my "baby" as long as I can since she's my last. Of course as soon as I left to go get the camera, she quit doing it.

All the kids have the "crud". We had a jinx last year that every time we went to my parents house one of them would get sick. I know it's just bad timing, but it all came out Saturday morning when Chandler woke up with the barking cough, Kensley had a green crusted nose and red, runny eyes and Carter sneezed all day. I really hope we don't start that again this year. It's really not my parents house, because I know they've picked up whatever bug they have before we get there, it just always seems to hit them after we get there.

We are waiting for Corby to come home. He's been in Jacksonville, FL since Thursday (that's why we went away for the weekend) at a First Tee conference. The boys ask everyday, "how many more days til Daddy gets home?" We will all be very happy to see him on Tuesday.

Trick or Treating

We took the kids trick or treating in our friends neighborhood last night (Reagan is with the boys in the picture below). This is the first time we've actually done Halloween the old fashion way. We his a few houses and Chandler said "this is the best Halloween ever". They were running way ahead of us and we could barely keep up. I thought for sure they would complain about having to walk so long but they didn't at all. They got plenty of candy and had a fun time with their friends. Here's some pictures from last night.

Okay this is totally unrelated, but I just had to post this. I made a cake tonight for a friend who's daughter is having an almost sleepover party. I thought the cake turned out so cute!

Singing to the tune of Dr. Suess

Okay, so Chandler has come up with a new way to read. I heard him last night, but didn't really pay attention to what he was actually doing. I heard it again tonight and asked him about it. He said he was singing the book... he was reading "Fox in Socks". I guess that's one way to make reading fun?

Fore!

The boys having been playing golf for several months now. Since Corby is out at the Y golf course, they spent plenty of time out there this summer playing with Daddy and they are also in The First Tee program that Corby is running. I'm not a golf fan to watch or play, so the only involvement I usually have is to drop off or pick up... rarely I will ride the course with them on the golf cart. Anyway, I decided today that I would go watch the boys play since Corby said they are doing really well. I was so surprised. For little kids, I thought they did great (especially compared to the other kids in their class). Carter has never had a problem smacking the ball... sports seem to come natural for him... just like his Daddy! However, I've seen Chandler with the golf club and spaghetti arms many times in the back yard and just shook my head because it's so funny. I guess that's why today I was so proud. They were smacking the ball almost every time and Chandler's form has completely changed. I might just have the next Tiger Woods on my hands :-)... anyway, here's a few pictures of them.