Family Pictures

Taken in a 7-minute window of waning light on Thanksgiving Day at Mother's by Matt Evans.

Case of the Sickies

We are on day five of our daylight savings hangover.  What a mess!  After waking up at 5:30 for the past week, it's safe to say this has been the hardest one ever.  I prefer to do it like the Arizonians and skip it all together.  Jonah is still in a daze and way off on his naps.  And then the two days he decided to sleep in til 7:00, Gavin woke up sick.  We've had two sick days (Gavin home from school) - coughing, snotty, poopy boys.  McKay's has been hanging on for at least a week.  Poor little buddy.  I, on the other hand, have been pretty dang productive.  I generally am not one to park the kids in front of the tv for hours.  Until today.  So with my low guilt they are totally occupied and I'm getting lots done.

As the tides have turned, Gavin has been testing my patience with his new Kindergarten sassiness.  I remember him doing this for a few weeks when he started preschool.  He's not being the nicest to McKay.  It makes me sad.  They all go through phases and obviously brothers can't treat each other perfectly all the time.  McKay has been the cutest little thing and is helping and saying thank you and giving me hugs and kisses all over the place.  Minimal crying and whining.  Maybe he's growing out of that?  Either way, this is where we are now and next week it will be something new I'm sure.

We'll see if Jonah escapes the sickness...  I'm guessing not since McKay leaned over him last night and drooled right into his eye.

Halloween 2013 - The Avengers

Our day was simple and fun. It started off with me taking the two little boys to Gavin's parade at school. The kids walk by for a few seconds, but his happy face and hug as he walked by was well worth it. McKay and I had a wonderful morning jumping with Ivy and making granola bars together. The boys were anxious and McKay asked over and over when it was time to trick-or-treat. Brian got home and we got things set up for Happy Hallowiener. We met up with Dave and Risa Jense and their cute girlies and new baby to continue our walking the neighborhood tradition. It's so nice to have good friends for our kids. Hallowiener was a hit. We had a handful of people come up and give us a hug or tell us how awesome of a tradition this is and how much their kids look forward to it each year. That's good a reason as any to keep it going! I love the ages of these boys... Their excitement lasts all day and into the next. They loved their costumes. This year was the first year of literally running from house to house. That's how things will be from now on! No time to dilly dally - gotta get that candy! McKay woke up an hour later than usual the next morning and walked in and said, "That sure was fun trick-or-treating last night, wasn't it?" Success!