Hats

James loves crawling under and through things.
Also, trying on hats- isn't he cute?

Halloween

We painted our Halloween pumpkins this year since the boys chose really tiny ones. This is James' first experience with paint. He thought it tasted pretty good.
This isn't the best picture of Spencer, but he loved painting the pumpkins.
Spencer wanted to be a green monster for Halloween. He always helps me be creative. I think he looks like a cross between a Dr. Seuss character and a viking, but he thinks he looks like a green monster, and that is what counts.
I was Little Red Riding Hood, and James was Curious George. He loves George just like Spencer. He always points to the TV and says "Jo." his costume lasted about 10 minutes because he had a fever and it was hot- but it was cute for a few minutes!
These are creepy Jack-o-lantern pictures. Spencer was pretty sure they were real. Actually, when the fire alarm went off in the school he thought it was these screaming. Such an imagination!
Here's the whole family on trick-or-treating night. Devon is a "space cowboy" but you can see his buzz lightyear gun.
We had a busy week with a library party on Thursday, a carnival on Friday and trick or treating on Saturday. The party went well, by far the best attendance at a library event. It has been fu to get to know other people in the community through the library.
Devon put together a ring toss for the carnival. He was very excited about it, and it went really well. There was a line most of the night, and he made pretty good money.
Now Halloween is over, on to Christmas!

Catching Up

So we learned that we could get our neighbors wireless internet in our living room. So for now we sort-of have the internet. We have to use our laptop- which still means I have to load pictures twice, but it's better than nothing. James had been really sick, so I am staying home from church with him today. I am sad, but it is the perfect opportunity to catch up a little on our blog, so here it goes!
These are not in chronological order.
I just had to put this one in because it's so cute. James put that hat on himself. He loves saying "cheese" for the camera.
Garden season is over, I'm so sad. Here is Spencer holding up the carrots we dug up.
Spencer and the newest member of our family, the Ipad. The school here got a grant where every teacher gets an Ipad and every student gets and Ipod touch. There are a lot of educational apps. Spencer loves to play on the Ipad, and Devon takes it everywhere.
James loves oatmeal, which is good because he is a picky eater, I am glad to find anything he will eat. Here he is after feeding himself.
James also loves riding his bike. When we go outside he just rides around and around. He has even firugred out steering. He rides really well, but we are still working on walking.
These are the preschool kids with their "ears" when we learned about hearing. Teaching preschool has been really fun, and last week Spencer decided that he didn't need to cry everytime he went- Yeah!
We found this toad in our sandbox. It was pretty cool, so we tried to keep it as a pet, but it wouldn't eat any of the bugs Devon found for it, so we had to let it go.
Devon's dad and sister stopped by on their way to Provo from Texas. We showed them Bluff fort. Here is James laughing because he is making Grandpa nervous by standing up in the handcart.
Elizabeth let spencer use her camera for a while, and he took pictures of everything, trees, rocks, dirt, the floor, and a few people.
Isn't James just cute?
My neighbor and I trade off babies when we are teaching preschool so we can actually teach preschool. Having Berkley over has taught me some things to be grateful for. On this day I came out and the crayons were everywhere! They were both drawing on the floor. We got some paper to make this more productive. I am grateful that Spencer had enough of a small motor delay that he could not open the crayon box until he was pretty good about drawing on paper. James however, has learned the trick, so now we need a new place for the crayons.


And lastly Spencer singing his new favorite song "I'm a mean old witch with a hat"

Long time

So it has been a long time since I posted. Our internet has been down for what seems like forever, about 2 months with a 2 day working spurt when I last posted. Anyway, I am posting this from the library, but that is a big pain since I don't want to load my pictures on the library computer. Someday the internet will work again, or we will just buck up and pay for it (since it's the school's free internet that is down), but until then here are some cute pictures of the boys we took on Sunday. They are growing like crazy!

Trip to Idaho

My Little Sister Rebecca got married on the Friday before Labor Day. We went up to Idaho for the wedding. I swear we took pictures at the wedding, but they are not to be found, so If I do find them I will post them later.
Anyway, Devon stayed with us in Idaho for the weekend. On Saturday we celebrated my Dad's birthday. He doesn't want presents, so my sister Emilee planned this scavenger hunt of all of the things that he loves. We played tennis



Went to Reed's Dairy to see the cows and eat ice cream

Went to the airport to see airplanes
We ended in a park where the kids had boat races and played in the water.



It was a really fun day.
All of my sisters and their kids were there. It was fun to be with family, and Spencer loved playing with all of his cousins. Here is Kate reading the comics to him on Sunday morning.

Devon left on Sunday, but the kids and I stayed to have fun with Grandma and Grandpa.
On Sunday night Spencer and Grandpa had a rousing game of tinker toy "ice hockey." My dad set up goals and everything, so when Spencer got more goals he said he needed a golden medal. Grandpa is a great golden medal maker.

One reason that I stayed was to make applesauce. My boys love homemade applesauce, and my parents tree had a ton of apples this year. We made 40+ bottles. James helped by eating all of the apples.


Spencer was "the smasher." Now he loves to tell people how he made the applesauce when we eat it.

After 2 days of applesauce we decided to have some fun. We fed the ducks (and the crazy seagulls)


We went to my sister Natalie's soccer game. We had to practice saying "Go Tigers" since my kids always say "Go Cougars." Actually James still said "Go Coug!"


We also went to the zoo. It was a pretty cold and misty day, so no one was there, but the animals were quite active. This monkey came right up to the glass to check Spencer out, it was pretty cool.


Here are some other pictures from the zoo





I have never heard a lion roar before, but it must have been the weather or something, this lion was definitely roaring.


Here is Spencer being Spencer

Dinning tables and chairs were half off at Shopko, I have been wanting to get one, so it was perfect timing. My parents van was quite packed on the trip home. We only had one little seat up in the back for Spencer and he was totally packed in. I forgot to take a picture, but he called it his castle. He actually said he was a princess in a castle. We tried to convince him to be a prince in a castle, but you never hear much about the prince.
On the way back we stayed at my sister's house in Salt Lake overnight. Spencer loves to play with his cousins and dress up in the Superhero costumes. I couldn't stop laughing at him the Hulk costume.



Anyway, it was a great trip. We had a lot of fun. Just the other night Spencer said "Remember when we went to Grandma's?" He loves visiting people, which is good since we travel a lot.
I figured out that in less than a year's time we have been to California twice (10 hours one way) to Texas twice (16 hours one way) and to Idaho Falls twice (also 10 hours one was) not to mention trips to Salt Lake, Albuquerque and Walmart in Farmington (2.5 hours one way). It is really good that our boys are good travelers, they have a lot of practice!

First Day of Preschool

Or internet is finally up and running, and i am finally unpacked from Idaho, so i might be posting a lot!
Here is Spencer on his first day of preschool. We are just doing a little co-op preschool we each teach one day a week. It's nothing big, but it is fun. Spencer enjoys being with his friends, and whenever i ask what he learned about he says "letters."