Busy, Busy Saturday!

So, Andrew and I are SO glad this weekend is pretty much over. Andrew's been teaching Gospel Doctrine every other Sunday at church. Today was his week to teach and the Bishopric asked him to speak in sacrament. Also, his class begged him into making cookies for them. (I was so happy to hear that!) So, with schedules and kids and life it came down to doing all of this preparing yesterday. He started studying at ten in the morning, he finished just before ten last night. In case you were wondering, this is what he looked like all day.

His talk was great ("Being in the World but not of the World"), he lesson was amazing (as always) and we're so excited to be relaxing.

Necklaces and Scary Movies

Scary Movies:

If you don't know, The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my all time favorite movies. I don't know if any of you will believe me but I have only watched it once in front of Ebby (he was less than a year old) and never in front of Autumn. And that one time I realized that it would probably be too scary for them. You know with the bogeyman and that clown with the tear-away face and all. 

So you can imagine my surprise when Ebby pointed to the DVD and said, "Please, Mommy, Please!" When I told him it was too scary he started having a BIG meltdown. So, I put on the movie totally thinking he'd get scared in the first few minutes of the film and then we'd switch it to something more suitable for toddlers. Well, not only did Ebby love it but Autumn did too. So much that he's asked for it four times in the past week! 

These are definitely my children.

Necklaces:
Autumn has decided she likes the softer side of woman hood. This is a video of her first "necklace" experience.

 

P.S. I've never put a necklace on her and Andrew took the video, so this is all Autumn.

Holiday videos at last!

It's really late but here is proof we had a great holiday vacation.

Random Awesome-ness

As I was compiling our vacation stuff to make a video I came across these precious gems and couldn't wait to post them.

Some highlights from the past month.

Crazy Month

Wow, I already feel like I've had my share of sicknesses and troubles for the year and we're only through the first month!

First we got back from vacation. Don't get me wrong vacation was FABULOUS but getting back up to speed after being gone for an entire month can be ridiculously frustrating. Then, just when things were starting to settle down, all of us got sick. Then since we were starting to feel better Autumn received her 1 year vaccines. Four shots, she was not happy. Then both Ebby and Autumn got sick again. That time it actually turned out to be bronchitis and concurrent ear infections. (For both kids.) Right after they were diagnosed Andrew and I got upper respiratory infections. We all only started feeling better two days ago. Now Autumn's decided to have a reaction to the MMR vaccine. Thank goodness it's only a mild reaction. She's uncomfortable and has small pick dots all over her little body, but it should be better in three days. Oh, and through all of this Andrew has been studying his heart out for STEP 2. He took it last week.

It's not all been sicknesses and stresses. We've been able to see my brother Tim twice and my Dad came into town last weekend. Seriously they have made this past month worth it.

It's been so long since I've posted anything that I feel like I need to post some pictures to prove that we're still alive. So here are a few cute ones.

P.S. Just so you know, I'm still planning on posting about our fabulous vacation. And if we're healthy for more than two days it might actually happen.

Really Autumn?

I have so much stuff I want to post about our holidays that it's incredibly daunting. So, I'm not going to. Yet.

Instead, I'm going to give you a quick glimps at Autumn's adorable, quirky self.

She's decided that this is the only right way to sit at the table.