Play Date

I am flying out to Northern Cali in a couple of hours so Brig and Sully can have a play date.....

Just me and Sully :)

Can't wait to see my sister and brother and their families!

Finally Halloween

We are going to start off this Halloween post with Friday the school parade!

Here you have Abe our old man.

He had decided on this costume months ago.

The DI is a fantastic place to find some great costume items....like white shoes.

But that jacket/sweater is mine.

Wore it in 10th grade.

Tucker also decided on his costume months ago.

Who doesn't like a little hippie action?

His jacket is also mine....J Crew a few years back, like maybe 17 years back.

Sully was just really wishing he was at home sleeping.

Then we come to the Indian Princess.

My mom was so sweet to make Gwyn this costume.

Is it just me? Isn't this costume AMAZING!

Very authentic....Gwyn told me she felt "so beautiful" in this.

My dear daughter is what I like to call a "poser".

What can I say, she can work a camera.

Those are all her own poses.

This posed one to the far right is my FAVE!

Silly girl.

Then we come to the Indian Princesses Noble Steed.

Doesn't he look noble?

Ding-a-ling....

Notice his saddle and tail?

Gwyn is in afternoon kindergarten and so they had their very own parade.

This is her cute class lined up to go into school.

Friday night we carved pumpkins....

Scully hung out in his swing and watched the festivies.

Can you guess which one is Gwyn's?
Yep the eye lashes gave it away right?

Or was it the molar that she and the pumpkin are both getting?

Of course Tuck's is puking.

Abe went with words this year.

He and Tucker carved theirs all by themselves.

Gils is the very scary pumpkin:)

Thanks to Grandpa and Grandy for the pumpkins...it's always fun to raid their garden.

Every Halloween my neighbor and I throw a HUGE party for all the neighbors and kids.

We have a bounce house, a huge slide, and a cotton candy machine.

It makes for a FUN day before we head off trick-or treating.

Here are our munchkins all dressed up and ready to go.

Gwyn wanted to be something that would include the love of her life, Sullivan.

So we have the Indian Princess with her bear cub, and her trusty steed Gilbert.

My cute boys who are just buddies.

They trick-or-treated with out us this year:(

Sad....

Being an old man was SO fun for Abe....he could have dressed up like that all week.

Turns out this is the only picture I got of little Sully.

He is delicious by the way.

Peace Man....

Poor Tuck was actually really sick on Halloween.

He missed the whole party and barely made it trick-or-treating.

Here is the whole gang.

Most of these kids have gone trick-or-treating with eachother for the last 6 years.

I have a picture like this from every year.

It freaks me out how much they have grown.

All in all it was a spooktacular Halloween!

Happy to see it go and my kids can't wait to see it come back.

Eleven

How on earth did he go from this......

(Tucker on his 1st birthday)

to this..... so stinkin' fast?

(the eve of his 11th birthday)

He was the most delightful, happiest and most busy baby.

That has turned into the most delightful, happiest and busy young man.

Tuck, your feet are bigger than mine, you read more than anyone person should ever read. You retain knowledge like you read it five minutes ago. You ALWAYS know what is right and almost always do it. There is not one adult that knows you that doesn't stop to tells us what a fine young man you are.

To know you is to love you.

We are so proud of you. We think you are devilishly handsome in an eleven year old way, athletic, and super smart. You are one of my best friends and you I enjoy you to no end. I hope you will always be as kind as you are now. You are a wonderful brother and friend. You are a shining example.

Thanks for being ours.

Happy Birthday son!

p.s. You would be perfect if you could just sleep in your own bed:)

Oh Abe....

#4 Of the Cub Scout Religious Patch requirement:

**Write a poem, story, or short play that teaches a principle of the gospel or is about Heavenly Father's creations"

Abe's Poem

"Roses are red, violet are blue.

Jesus created me and you.

When death comes we'll see him again,

with a body that will blend in."

?????

~Yep, that's our boy.

Yes, we did laugh really hard and loud when we read this.

4 months old...

Wow....4 months already.
Sully is our little love.

Not our easiest baby.

But when he is happy....he lights up this house.

His love affair with his hands is HUGE!

I don't think any of our other children have loved their hands so much....

Then again, my memory isn't what is use to be.

I want to touch and kiss that dimple in his chin just looking at this picture.

He can get really mad in just a matter of seconds.....

Is it wrong I think that crying face is so cute?

See that drool?

That happens a lot.

My first born drooled a lot too....he ALWAYS wore a bib.

Sull's well, he's my fifth.

Mostly he is always a little damp.

When people see Sully they always ask, "which one of your kids does he look like?"

I don't know.....Who do you think?

Truly, I want to know.

(Just leave a comment in the box.....comments have been a bit stingy lately)

It's usually quickly followed by a, "he has a different look than your other kids"

To this I agree.

He still scrunches up when I get him up.....sigh.

I'll hate when that goes away.

Waking up to him every morning is like Christmas for me.

For real.

For Gwyn too....and when she comes home from school, and from playing with friends, and from using the bathroom, cleaning her room, walking into the kitchen.....

You get the picture right.

Happy 4 months baby boy.

I LOVE YOU!

We don't like bald babies.....

So we resort to wigs....

toothless.....

How can she be old enough already to be losing teeth?

Bob is show casing her teeth for you all.

She is thrilled to finally lose a tooth.

(That darn tooth fairy got lost in the rain last night I think.)

*I am pretty sure that second tooth may be out by tonight.

My Photography Blog....Updated!

Sorry that I have been a little m.i.a. these last few weeks. I have been a little busy with photo shoots.

Come on over to my photography blog Sugared, I have been having some fun sessions lately.....

Here is a little preview.

Swiss Days

We have lived in Santa Clara for over 6 years now.

This is our home.

Our little town celebration is Swiss Days and we look forward to it every year.

The Swiss Pioneers settled our pretty little town.

This confused Gwyn and today she asked Bob and I "What did we do so that the Swiss had to come and settle us down?"

So this year Gwyn and Gil participated in Swiss Miss and Swiss Mister...

My mom is truly amazing and sewed this little number up a couple weeks ago for Gwyn.

This is going to be picture over load....this is for you mom!

I made the flower head piece to match this adorable dress.

Gil is wearing some Lederhosen his Papa Lyle brought home from his mission in Germany over 40 years ago.

There are pictures of Bob wearing them some where at his parents house.

You can't get more authentic than that.

This is Gwyn pose to show Nannie her dress.

My friend Jessica helped me with her hair. She is crazy amazing with hair you should check out her hair blog.

Gwyn and Piper are friends....better yet Andrea and I are friends.

We both have only one daughter and MANY sons.

So we tend to find really girly things to do with our daughters:)

I want to go and pick Gil up and smoosh him something fierce in this picture.

He is an AWESOME sport to agree to do this.

So opening ceremony of Swiss Days the Santa Clara elementary choir sang and their drum corp. performed.

Both of my boys are in choir and drum corp.

Actually, Tucker is the President of the Cougar Choir.

Abe's first year in drum corp.

Right after the choir the Swiss Miss and only Swiss Mister were announced and paraded on to stage.

This is a picture of all the kids who participated.

(Gil's a champ!)

On stage....

Saturday morning we were up bright and early for the parade.

Gwyn and Gil were in for the Swiss Miss and Mister.

Tucker was in it for year book.

Abe was in it for Student Council, he is actually the Vice President of the elementary school.

(Who knows why my boys are so ambitious. That is a totally different post.)

I'm not going to lie, we think having kids is so fun, especially when they are so cool.

A few last minute poses.

I convinced Gil that he had to do a little dance that involved hands on hips and heels touching out in front of him.

( I will be really sad when he stops just doing what we tell him.)

I can't get over him in Lederhosen.

Getting ready for the parade to start.

Sully was cheering them on....

The two littles were in the beginning of the parade.

We ended up being on the wrong side.

So I dashed over to snap a few shots of them.

Then we had a really long wait for the boys.

So I took pictures of Bob while we waited....

and of Gil while he told me about all the horse poop on the road...

and of the Lamoreaux, Reid, and Higgins children gathering candy.....

and of Sully smiling and talking to daddy.....

Until finally we saw them coming.

And then I got HORRID pictures of them.

After they skated past we gathered up our stuff and drove very quickly, trying not to break the law to 3 different soccer games.

Poor Gil had to miss his.

So there you have it, Swiss Days in a very long post.

Hope you enjoyed it...

*Thanks mom for making Gwyn the dress. We love it and she felt so pretty in it.