Playing in the snow

The other morning while I was taking a snooze, the older boys were nice enough to watch the younger boys.  When I got up I found out that they had bundled up Tracen and Lincoln in snow clothes and took them outside to play in the snow.  Then they did again after I woke up.  I thought it was so stinking cute that they’d got them all decked out in snow gear and took them out to play.  They even made them a little sledding hill off the back porch.

Cute red cheeks :)

Lincoln was so cold but he did not want to come in.  He was so mad at me when I made him stay in the house and warm up his frozen fingers!

Cute Little Lincoln

I can’t believe how fast he is growing up!  It’s so crazy.  He has started talking a TON lately.  Some of it is jabbering but a lot of it we understand.  The other night at pack meeting I picked him up and he yelled at me “put me down!”  Both Josh and I could tell what he’d said and started laughing.  I have quite a few cute pictures of him I just wanted to post on the blog for fun.

 

The other day he climbed on my bed and found Tracen asleep. He was so cute he laid down next to him and snuggled with him for quite a long time and never woke him up.

Pretending to be asleep

Link’s taken to vacuuming.  He loves to help.  It does take quite a bit longer but who could say no to this?

When Josh built the bike track I think it may have been some of the happiest days of Linky’s little life.  He came in dirty, stinky, tired and tanned up every day.

Halloween

We had an interesting Halloween this year.  We did most of our partying on Saturday the 29th.  I guess we started back on Thursday though….

Thursday we hosted the Halloween party for Joy School.  We did some fun stuff I found on pinterest.  We made spiders…we traced the kids hands, cut them out (minus thumbs), glued them together and added googly eyes.  We also made skeletons out of q-tips.  We ate Frankenstein for a snack and played a little pumpkin/ghost bowling, ring toss and read a few books.  Tracen dressed up as Buzz for the party.

Friday night Josh and I got to work and we got a little too much halloween fun.

Saturday Josh’s Aunt Lorie had a party for the kids.  They played lots of games and there was a lot of good food.  Tracen decided today that he wanted to be superman…so superman he was.  I finished Link’s super cute (super cheap) ghost costume.  I think he made the cutest ghost ever.  We had to leave part way through that party to hit the ward trunk-or-treat.  First we had some yummy food.  Tyler and Jesse decorated our trunk.  I took the little boys around to get their candy.  Jesse went around with his buddy and Ty and Ethan handed out our candy.  They turned the back of the car into a shark with a great big tongue.  Part way through it Ty climbed under the blanket (tongue) and started attacking people with it.  It was pretty funny.

 

Ty the zombie…

Somehow this is the only picture I got of Jesse in his costume.  He was a Ranger off of Ranger’s apprentice.  I made him that awesome cape. :)

Monday the boys were going to get all dressed up and do some more trick-or-treating and we were going to go see Grandma Bev and eat at Anns.  We did see Grandma and eat but no one even dressed up.  Tracen had even borrowed another costume from Addi so he wouldn’t have to be the same thing twice :)  But Ty was sick and Tracen was onery and didn’t want to dress up.  So I put Link and Tracen in jammies and away we went to Grandmas.  I had to work Halloween as well but one of the day nurses offered to come in and work for me for a few hours.  I got there about 8:30 though because our partying for the night was pretty pathetic ha ha.  Dinner was super yummy though and it was fun to play with the cousins and sing happy birthday to Ty one more time.  Ann made him German chocolate cupcakes.