Random 1, 2 & 3

Random #1 

Matthew and Ellis chilling in and destroying my once nicely made bed. They are so cute together that i just let them do it, and of course grabbed my camera.  I think its cute that they both have their sippy cups under their arms. These two cant live without their sippy cups. 

Random # 2

This is what will be Elizabeth's room. Right now it is the office/ sewing room/ library. Once she gets here the office part will be moved out to the living room. The pictures kinda make the purple look weird but i just wanted to show it so you could see the white wood trim stuff. ( I can't remember what they call it )  I love it and it really brightens up the room. In January I'm gonna decorate it with curtains and butterflys. She is kicking me right now, so i think she approves. : ) 

Random # 3

These pictures are from the family birthday party for October, November and December. I combined all three because there is already so much going on in these months. We went to a park and had picnic food ( subs, chips, potato salad and such ) Then we had a family soccer game. The cupcakes are ants and grass because well it was a picnic party and there are always ants at a picnic. It has been fun planning the monthly group birthday parties this year. We will see if it continues next year. Its a fun tradition but sometimes its a lot of work because i love to plan parties and i can never go simple. Although this last party was simple. If i had all the money that i could ever want to plan them though, they would be like crazy. : ) We'll see what happens. 

Things i love about Matthew

1. He loves to sleep.
              I say lets go to bed, and he runs to his crib waiting to be put in.

2. He loves to help with the dishes.
              Ill open the dishwasher and he'll hand me the dishes to put away. This comes in handy now that it is            
               getting harder to lean over

3. He loves the laundry.
              He helps me put the dirty laundry in the washing machine and then when i take the clean ones out of the  
               dryer he pushes the laundry basket into the bedroom for me.

4. He loves to color.
               He has a new obsession with coloring. It is funny to watch him do it because he gets so concentrated
               on holding his crayon just right. He then does this little squatty thing as he colors, it looks like it hurts
               and i have no idea how he sits like that.

5. He loves bananas.
              He will eat as many as i will let him have in one day. Its crazy.

6. And come on, that smile. : ) 

Halloween 2011

So i'm a little behind on posting, but that's ok i have been organizing my house instead. This year Matthew was a Jedi  I figured that is what he should be because Star Wars in the only movie besides Despicable Me that he will watch. Which is kinda funny, what 20 month old sits and watches Star Wars? At our ward Trunk or treat, the Friday before Halloween, Nick dressed up as scary Anakin, when he goes all sico in number three. Matthew figured out after the first two cars that if you hold out your basket people will put candy in it, whats cooler then that? He still cant say trick or treat or anything else for that matter but we tried. Our car was next to the bishops car which was funny because after we went around to the other cars Matthew felt that it was his duty to keep going over to the Bishops wife and take candy from her cauldron then he would come back to our car and then take the candy back. Or he would pick up candy from the ground or her cauldron and put it in random kids bags. It was pretty funny to watch.
   On Halloween I took Matthew trick or treating at Nick's work. He got to go around to all the different agents and they would put candy in his bucket. He was the only kid there at the time we went, so most of them just let he take as much candy as he wanted. Then one group of ladies made bags of candy with reusable dunkin donut bags. They were filled like a third of the way with candy. Suffice it to say we had way too much candy. I then took him to my mom's ward carnival. It was fun to just sit at the park and let him run around and hang out with his cousins. While he ran around, i ate. ha ha No big surprise there, although i did eat two hamburgers, i was starving. I can normally barely get one down, but not that night. After the carnival we were going to go trick or treating with my sister in law Joni and her kids but we didn't even make it to the first house before Matthew had a melt down. He was just so tired and worn out from the day. I didn't try to fight it, my back and feet were killing me as well and i just wanted to go to bed. So instead i stripped him down to his diaper and let him run around on the grass with his cousin Andrew being a tackling bag as we waited for my mom to come pick us up. Over all it was a fun Halloween but im hoping next year we get to actually go trick or treating.
 

My boys

My boys are adorable fighting over popcorn.  

Biggest Loser Treat?

Every time my brother Michael sees me eating a sweet, he tells me im "giving myself the diabetes". So in honor of that, i have this weeks Biggest Loser diabetes treat. : ) Since im pregnant and cant try to lose weight anyway, i always treat myself while watching the Biggest Loser every week. I eat for the contestants what they can not. : ) I'm sure ill regret it come March, but whatever. : ) Strawberry cupcakes dipped in ganache frosting. Yum.