Wednesday, November 25, 2009

November

Hope everyone had a happy turkey day! Ours was as good as could be expected. We buried my precious grandmother the Friday before Thanksgiving (7 weeks after Dad). It was unexpected, but she was 85 and had a full and wonderful life. We missed having her and Dad at Thanksgiving, but we shall go on. We most certainly missed AE's fabulous dressing...one of us girls is going to have to master that skill before the next holiday.

William turned four years old last Monday, the time has flown by so fast! I can remember so vividly the day he was born, it truly seems like just the other day. He had a birthday party at the Jump Zone. No one sat still long enough to snap any good pictures while they were jumping, so I'm leaving those out!

I was so glad to have some help with Charlie, but I have to admit he was pretty darn good until the very end!



William was so tired by the end of the night, can you tell????
Little Charlie...busy sweeping the floors with his eyelashes. Seriously, why do the boys always get them?
Birthday party #2 at home with the family.
The only thing he asked for were these things he calls "terrible monsters." They are from a TV show he has NEVER watched. I do not know where he got onto them or why he calls them terrible monsters. Anyway, he was pumped to get some.

It has been a crazy and sad fall, but we are determined to end this year on a positive note....

Sunday, November 1, 2009

We love fall!

WARNING: Lots of pictures below! BTW...if anyone knows how to make my pictures NOT fuzzy on my blog, PLEASE let me know. It drives me insane because they aren't blurry in iPhoto.

Anyway....here's a little snippit of our fall. Charlie and William playing in the leaves...


Carving a pumpkin on Halloween (yes, we procrastinated a little). Daddy and William scooped it out, and William helped Mommy carve it.


In the midst of getting everything ready for trick-or-treating, here is where I found Charlie. Don't know how he got up on the middle of the train table, and big brother was not around to help him. He sure was happy though...
Charlie is obviously the second child. I waited until Halloween morning to get his costume. Yep. Went to Target, got the ONLY 9 month costume they had left...a puppy dog, and it was so cute. Not bad, I thought, for waiting until the last possible minute. Didn't realize until it was time to put it on that it did not fit. At all. I cut the toes out of the bottom so his feet could come out, but it was still a stretch. Is the scene from Tommy Boy "fat guy in a little coat" ringing a bell to anyone here??? William was the Transformer Bumblebee.


Janie, Bumblebee, and Ardie.
Pocahontas (Mary Ellis)
Butterfly Baby "Kakkin" as we so lovingly call Katherine. :)
Jack, the Maverick. (Doesn't he make the perfect Maverick)????
All the Boyce cousins
Eatin' candy in our glow in the dark mummy pajamas.