Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was really great this year. The pictures can sum it up better than my words can!

Pineapple Turkey Centerpiece. Shane's dad thought it was a rooster...because everyone has a rooster centerpiece for Thanksgiving:)

The GORGEOUS salad that Irene made! It pained everyone to eat it because it was so pretty!

The Crew! Not pictured; Lily (she was sleeping) and Shane (taking the pic)
L to R; Kayley, Zack, Jess, Gram (Tom's mom), Theresa (Irene's sister), Tom, Oliver, Irene, Sheena (Shane's sis), Mark (Sheena's fiance) and Holden (also his first Thanskgiving!)

Lily having her own Thanksgiving feast...her fist!Happy baby and happy Grammy!Playing with GrampySleeping with Great Gram. She wanted so bad to hold a baby in each arm, but they wouldn't cooperate and took turns being grumpy all day!The desserts! Peanut butter cup pie, pumpkin pie, pumpkin streusel bars, chocolate mocha cake, and blackberry pie! Delish!Kayley and Zack impatient for some dessert!Sheena with the newest addition, Holden!

RS Christmas Activity

Last week we had our Relief Society Christmas Activity. We made bows for wreaths, decorative boxes, and decorated cookies. It was a lot of fun and I appreciate the effort that everyone put into the evening! Here are some pictures of my handy work!
Needless to say I've been munching on Christmas cookies all week! We're not getting our tree and wreath until December 12, so this was a fun little prequel of fun Holiday things to come!

AdSense

You all may notice that I now have a sidebar that has ads aswell as below each post. I signed up to do this through Blogger. Everytime someone clicks on an ad, I get paid! So click away folks! Its not spam or a virus. You don't have to buy the product, you just have to visit the site...so click away!!

Lily Bean

I don't know why, but I've been calling Lily "Lily Bean" lately. Oliver, who picks up on everything, has now started calling her BeanBean!
She had her 2 month appointment this week. She weighs 12lb 7 oz and is 23.5 in long! She is 50th percentile for both. Her head is in the 25th percentile. I also found out she has a yeast infection...under her neck rolls! So we just have to be more diligent about keeping them clean and dry from now on!
We've gone walking quite a bit this week. I don't know if I've blogged about this, but about a month ago I bought a double jogging stroller on craigslist for $40. The stroller retails new for $250! It's been nice to have it so that I don't have to carry Lily while Oliver is in the stroller. She does NOT like the Maya Wrap, which Oliver LOVED. I'm hoping to score an Ergo baby carrier for Christmas. Does anyone have one? If so, do you love it? What don't you love about it?



love this girl's smile!!

ChooChoo! Oliver's Two!

Some highlights from Oliver's birthday party

Party hat!Birthday balloon from PopPop. He calls it his moon.Can't get through the day without a temper tantrum!Starting off slow opening presents...But he got the hang of it after a while! He loved tearing the tissue paperGungGung! (tractor)VroomVroom!ChooChoo!Hmm, train tracks...that means in my bedroom there must be...A TRAIN TABLE!He ran right in and starting playing with it like it had always been there!You can tell he's concentrating because the tongue is sticking out...Minus the snot and drool, a very cute picture!GaGa showing him how it's done......and Oliver correcting her! "No no GaGa!"The cake! Engine, coal car, log car, zoo car, m&m car, and caboose with candle
He can't wait to sink his teeth into that bad boy!He was able to blow out the candle by himself this year!Eating the marshmallow smoke stackSiblings! Both looking tired after a long day of partying!

I'm just expanding his imagination!

It always amuses me how Oliver can turn anything into a play thing. He loves turning his food into cars...fries, sandwiches, chicken nuggets...Whatever he eats ends up being a car at some point. He also loves stacking anything that can look stackable. I was wondering why he turns these non-toy items into toys, when I realized what I have him play with in the bath...That's right...his baby soap, a rubber duck in a bikini (it was for Lily, but I felt bad that he had no toys), an empty soap bottle, a tupperware bowl, and a hair serum tube. The boy HAS to use his imagination with toys like these!

Future Architect?

Oliver built this stucture all on his own the other day. He loves to build things and then run out of his room clapping because he knows he's built a master piece! I love seeing his imagination at work!

Halloween Happenings

My little Candy Monster!

Farmer Brown

Baby Chick

Farmer with his just hatching chick!

Helping PopPop carve the pumpkin

Even though we didn't end up trick or treating (Oliver was just too tired!) we still had a super fun Halloween! We went to a party with Oliver's little friends, then we surprised PopPop in our full costumes! Oliver helped him carve a pumpkin. For dinner we had burgers and brats and for dessert we had pumpkin streusel bars. After sucha big day, Oliver went to bed early like a good little farmer should!