"HaPPY HaNoWeeN"

Yes, I am behind on blogging. Life seems like it is fast forward lately. We are busy busy and LOVING every minute!

Cicilee loves to feed herself. She is by far the messiest child I have ever seen when it comes to eating. She is definitely not afraid to get dirty. We had cake for dessert on Sunday and this is what Cic did with it.
We love to joke around just how much Cic likes to wash her hair. She washes her hair with everything...including cake.

Halloween

Halloween was an absolute blast this year. Best yet! I stressed and stressed about what to buy the kids this year for costumes. I know I don't have many more years where they will let me pick out the costumes so I decided to take advantage of it and make them "matchy". Kai is totally into super hero's right now. We hung out with his twin cousins a lot this summer and they introduced him to Batman. I found these costumes at Walmart for SUPER CHEAP. It was actually a relief b/c I had looked online and at a few different costume stores at other matching costumes and I couldn't justify spending a ton of money for a "weekend outfit."

Ready to go trick or treating! I love this picture of Cic. What a little poser.
Kai and Cic were so excited. (Check out those pumpkins in the background...time to throw them out?! We carved them on Monday (which normally would be ok for Colorado but the weather has been so awesome and hot that the pumpkins suffered.)
Cic was the cutest bat girl I have ever seen!

What a stud.

My Mom sent Cic this cute polka dot skirt. Cic loves it and was so happy to wear it to church on Sunday. Thanks Mom!

Boo At The Zoo

The zoo has a fun Halloween night planned where they light up all the trees and let the kids come trick or treating. It was kinda eerie to be at the zoo with all the lights off. I watch too many scary movies to feel at ease. We had so much fun and met up with a few of our friends there. The only drawback is that it was so dark you couldn't seen any of the animals. I thought that the Zoo would have lit up some of the exhibits, but no. The outside exhibits were pitch black.

Kai was stoked to see that they were giving out full size candy bars though. He wanted to eat them as soon as he got them.

Love these pics of Cic.

They offered free carousal rides for the kids. Cic didn't know what to think about it at first. I was nervous b/c she wouldn't hold on and b/c I am so short I had to hold her up above my head when the animal was at its highest. (It was quite a sight.)

Star struck.



We told Kai that we were going to trick or treat at the zoo and he kept telling us that he was "going to get some candy from the Lions."
Trick or Treat Street

Our community always does a trick or treat street with several of the local businesses. Kai was stoked to put on his costume again.

Love this picture.

Even though the weather was PERFECT it was after I took these two pictures of Cic that I decided to put some pants under Cici's dress.

I do love these two pictures though.

Love that Cic is giggling and covering her mouth. Classic.
Carving pumpkins

For family home evening on Monday we carved pumpkins. The kids loved it.

They had no idea what they were about to do...but they were excited.

"You want me to do what?"
"You're seriously going to let me do this?" (Yes, it looks like Cic needs some bigger pants. Check out that pot belly.)

Kai's finished product.

The "crazy face" is still alive and well.
Cici's finished product.

Just one of many reasons why having a daughter terrifies me...
Am I really supposed to know how to do her hair? I don't even know how to do my own hair...let alone baby fine hair. She has a horrific mullet right now and I don't want to cut it yet.

It is long enough to put into pig tails on top but I would never take her out in public with this "do".




Kai was feeling left so I had to take a pic of "Kai Boy"

"New Music Thursday" (Instead of Tuesday)

I still remember.

I am obsessed with this guy. Literally. Love his voice in so many of his songs.



I've heard this song so many times, but there is just something about this version that makes me hold my breath...
It's beautiful.

On My Mind...

Third Eye Blind totally reminds me of high school. There are so many bands that I loved in High School, but I loved this entire CD. These songs are some of my favorites, but honestly every song is great...loved this CD. Can't believe I still have it and it isn't worn out from all the times I used to play it.
Been thinking about old songs lately. I have always been able to vividly remember songs and place them with events that happened. Sometimes a blessing and sometimes a curse. It's like I can relive a moment. I love music for that reason. These songs bring back such great memories.

SuNDaY PiCTuReS

I don't take enough pictures of Kai and Cic in their church clothes. Church is right in the middle of nap time so Sundays are usually quite hard. Today both kids were happy when we came home from church so I jumped at the opportunity to get some shots.
I bought this suit for Kai during Easter this year and it was HUGE on him. I have been waiting to see when he would hit a growth spurt so he could finally wear it. Today we tried it on and it fits so much better. Perfect timing too b/c today was a little chilly outside.
Playing around with the saturation... I love this face on Cic. This is the face I see all. day. long.
I love these pictures! Ben just has to stand behind me and make silly faces and the kiddos just crack up.

"HaNoWeeN iS CoMiNG"

We are SO excited for Halloween this year. Kai runs around all the time saying, "Hanoween is coming, Hanoween is coming!"
My Mom is amazing and always finds a reason to send us "care packages" full of goodies for the kiddos. This time she sent several Halloween goodies and included a haunted (gingerbread) house for the kiddos (and when I say kiddos I mean Kai and Ben) to put together. Cic was interested at first and then we she realized that I wasn't going to let her eat all the candy I opened for the house, she wanted to get down and play.
Thanks for sending us awesome packages, Mom. It is such a highlight and we absolute love it!

I did manage to snap a shot of every one's "excited face" before the real work began.
Kai was in charge of separating the candy and took his job very seriously.
Ben is such a good sport about helping with activities like this. It isn't his favorite thing to do, but he takes one for the team b/c Kai LOVES it.
Making our path to the house.
All finished and ever so proud! I love this smile.
Every morning Kai wakes up and runs over to the kitchen table to make sure his haunted house is still there. His favorite part is the ghost on the front. (Kai's totally into ghosts at the moment. In fact the other day he dropped his toy in my room and looked under my bed to find it and told me that there was a ghost, "a mean ghost" under my bed. I try not to think too much about stuff like this. I reassured him that there was not a mean ghost under my bed, but seriously I watch too many scary movies not to think about the ghost under my bed every night before I fall asleep.)
Cic was so happy to take a picture with the haunted house. She smiled at the camera and said, "Cheeeee".
Pumpkin Patch

We thought about going to different places for a pumpkin this year and opted to go to a local church (again). It's so close by, there is no admission fee, proceeds go to support the youth mission fund, and the kids have a blast.
Even though the pumpkins are totally overpriced I justify it by telling Ben that we are helping the community.
Kai was so happy he jumped out of the car and ran around hunting for the biggest pumpkin he could find. Any pumpkin that was large he would yell out, "I foun my punkin! Dis one mine."
Ben was all for my plan in supporting our community, but we decided that we didn't want to support it that much.
We told Kai he needed to tone down the size and he opted for a smaller (but still quite large) pumpkin. We even let him pick out Cici's pumpkin and lucky for Ben, they are about the same size.
Kai also picked out a "baby punkin" and toted it around like it was his best friend for the remainder of our pumpkin patch visit.

Cici had a ball and ended up just following Kai around the pumpkin patch not quite sure what was going on but still happy to be there.
Kai and Ben put the pumpkins in the back of the car and on the way home we heard Kai talking to his pumpkins.

"Baby punkin, are you alright back there?"

Then we would hear the pumpkin answer, (in a voice sounding like Kai's)

"Ya, I'm alright."

"EvEryOnE pOOps" (and Cic likes to do it in the potty!)

Yup! I haven't started potty training yet, but Cic decided she is "curious." She loves to sit on the training potty. Today she was concentrating a little too hard and I asked her if she wanted to try and go in the potty. She said, "uh huh" and walked right over to the potty and pooped in the training potty. YAY!
You would have thought that I had just won the lottery. I was so excited. I am still not ready to potty train Cic yet, but we are getting close I think. This winter I am going to go for it and we will see how it goes.
Congrats Cic...Almost 17 months and already showing interest in potty training!

Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. ~Not Your Average Dictionary

I should have posted these pictures with Kai's birthday post...
There were so many pictures that I liked, I know it seems like I didn't eliminate any...I did though. What can I say, I am so in love with this kid! I think that every (well almost every) picture is adorable.
I found this rustic spot in downtown Littleton and absolutely LOVE it. We are taking our Christmas card pictures this weekend and will probably return to this location.


"I'm this many fingers old."

Love this smile.


Trying "not to smile."
Serious pose.


l.o.v.e.


again...not smiling. Such a happy kid...this is like the only thing he can do NOT to smile.


I love when I capture a true "moment" with my kids.
Anyone who knows Kai, knows that his tongue is constantly sticking out. In fact, I had to keep asking Kai to keep his tongue in his mouth to take pictures.


Still find it hard to believe that Kai's already 3...yet it feels like I have known him longer. Like he's always been here.
Love him.

"SWeeT CaRoLiNe"

I recently took some pictures of my friends little girl. She was so precious. I instantly fell in love with her. Oh just being around her made me so baby hungry.
Have you ever seen a baby with more hair? She just needs to share some of these locks with Cici.
Congrats Laura, she is PERFECT!