So winter begins...

Basically it started snowing and didn't stop all day long. This is what resulted in the end. And until about yesterday it hadn't all melted.

Not bad for a first snow fall huh?

This year is the first my boys actually like the snow. They don't last very long in the cold, but they will actually play in the snow... where before even walking in snow hand in hand with them freaked them out. While we waited for the bus, the day it was snowing, Gavin and Xander promptly asked where the snowman was. They just assumed one would appear with the falling snow... little do they know! They both also thought it was hilarious and so much fun to catch snowflakes on their tongues.

The next day when Gavin got home from preschool, he and I played outside and made a little snowman while Xander finished his nap. We had to go play out in the snow the day after that as well. It was a lot of fun. And I really enjoyed doing something with just Gavin. It's nice to have a little one on one time now and again.

Just to prove I was really out there playing in the snow too.
Aren't we so cute?!

UNDER

UNDERWEAR sticking out from UNDER the bed....
this is what I found when I walked into the boys' room to get something out of their closet.

Xander wanted to have underwear on, so even though he cares nothing about going on the potty, we let him wear underwear for a little while. Might as well encourage the concept. So this funny boy ends up under the bed playing around in underwear and sandals. It was too funny not to document. Silly kid.

Halloween... a little late

We've been sick this whole past week with the stomach flu... very very yucky. SO that kept me from accomplishing much of anything last week, and hence the late post about Halloween. We never did quite make it to carving pumpkins this year, but earlier in the week the boys and made pumpkins. Gavin even cut out his pumpkin almost entirely on his own! Though he needed some reminders to follow the line and not just cut the pumpkin in half ;).

They were so proud of their pumpkins and wouldn't let me hang them up. They had to be able to carry them around with them everywhere they went.

Here's the boys just being my boys! Xander was fixing his mouth with his screwdriver... though I never knew it was broken!

For costumes this year I decided to go with pirates because the boys say "Aarr, matie!" And it is hilarious and absolutely adorable. I meant to get a video of them saying it. I never did manage that. I may still have to... even if they're not in their costumes.

I also dressed up as a pirate and Ben dyed his contacts yellow this year. Not as creepy as the red he did last year. If you click on this last collage and look close at the picture of the Ben with boys were he's looking right at the camera you can see the eye color change. We celebrated Halloween on Saturday at our ward Halloween carnival. (I made the cute haunted house sign - 3 of them actually- for the church foyers.) The boys loved playing the games and getting prizes. They are throwing darts in the picture. We were also able to get a little family Halloween picture taken thanks to the talented Stevie. We eventually got the boys to hold mostly still... now if only Xander was smiling... silly boy :). Then we went trick or treating around the halls of the church building, and the boys loved it. And I loved it too because we weren't outside freezing! We all had a lot of fun. It was great way to spend Halloween!