Halloween

I thought I'd take a picture of our house in full color before all the ivy falls off the house and all the leaves are scattered all over the lawn, driveway, sidewalks, into the neighbors lawn next door, across the street, in the road, onto the neighbors lawns across the street, down a couple blocks, into main street, and down onto the beaches of the Great Salt Lake. Don't say we never shared with you. Man I love fall.

Earlier in the week we had TM, Mimi, Emma, and Maddy over for our annual "dinner in a pumpkin". We had a lot of fun but I can't believe Jack is still smiling even after we cooked him in the oven for over a hour. Little does he know that we are soon going to EAT him. Mwahhhhhahaha!

Tres and the kids had fun carving pumpkins and they got lots of candy on Halloween. If you're wondering if we ever let the kids inside and not make them sit on the front porch all the time, well your answer is no.

And last but certainly not least, Tres and I were scanning the aisles at our local Wal-Mart when we came across this little number for Liza. So we came right home to try it on her to make sure it was the perfect fit. Mean, abusive dog owners you ask? Probably.

Kind of funny? Oh... You Bet!
(it's no wonder why dogs bite people)

Family Update

My turn to add a post. This is Tres. Elizabeth loves to write these funny posts, but I thought maybe a quick update would be alright. Just a little update on the fam.

Garrett is doing well in school and all is well with him, other than he is a little older and has a little more attitude. We're finding we are having to adapt our parenting styles as he trys to grow up too fast.

Charlie has been our trial as of late. This whole kindergarten thing has thrown him into a tailspin. He's had some real separation anxiety issues. Up until now he has never had these kind of problems, but ever since kindergarten he has been throwing fits every time he has to be left anywhere. At school, soccer, at church, etc. But I think we are finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. He has found a friend that he really likes who is in our ward, in his class, and was also on his soccer team, and oddly enough they hardly knew each other until a little over a month ago. Thanks to Wyatt he got over the problem of being left at soccer fairly quickly, and with a few exceptions he is going to school happily as well. However, for some reason he has been a little timid about going to primary, but that's getting a little better too. Wyatt isn't in his primary class so I think that has been a bigger hurdle. So with a little more time I think this too shall pass.

Morgan is talking up a storm. I think he is our most articulate child yet. He loves to ask, "What's that?" and, "Is that *****?" He is also a BIG KID! He's about 2 1/2 yrs old and he's wearing 4T clothes! Quit growing!

Anyhow that's it for now from me.

Later, Tres

Hey Teacher... leave them kids alone!

The dog days of summer are now gone. Well, except for Liza that is still enjoying them. We have sent the kids off to school. They are good kids. They don't yell. They don't fight. They don't say things to each other like, "You're stupid!", "I hate you!", and "Dora's stupid!" They play well with each other all the time, AND they share. Wait a minute, those aren't my kids I'm talking about. They must be someone else's. Actually, we are praising the Lord for the public school system that allows them to come back.

Garrett is in third grade, and currently enjoys reading Captain Underpants and the attack of the talking toilets.




Charlie is in kindergarten and I'm running out of bribes to make him go. I'm open for suggestions.
And if I'm lucky, this cute little stinker will take a nap.

Ode to Cha-cha

Charlie turned 5 in August. I put together a little slideshow including blondies morning hair and various facial expressions that we are so lucky to see on a daily basis.

Charlie wanted to go to Cherry Hill for his birthday. We really had a lot of fun, thanks to Excedrin Migraine.

My sister Maddy went with me to brave Cherry Hill with the boys. She is a very fast texter. She texts all the time. She has LOTS of friends that she texts to. She uses her phone mostly to text. Did I mention she can text? I love you Maddy!!!:)

Morgan sat like this for seriously 20 minutes. I think that he was contemplating how much pee was in Pirates Cove.

Charlie wanted a Pirates of the Carribean cake. You gotta love the blue "water" frosting that turns your teeth and lips blue. Hurry call 911 none of the guests are breathing!

Bear Lake

We took the fam up to Bear Lake the first weekend of August. We went up with all of Tres' family to the cabin. Almost everyone was able to make the annual B.L. trip, but Garrett was a little confused to why Ben and Tanelle couldn't make it. Yeah guys, Grenada isn't that far away! Anyways, we had a great time with everyone, we especially enjoyed spending time at the beach once we convinced the kids that the Bear Lake monster isn't real.

Garrett and Charlie had a great time building sand castles and riding the four-wheelers

And Morgan spent most of his time doing this...

Peanut butter IS for everyone!

Liza turned 4 this week (28 in dog years) So in her honor we post this video and salute her for her accomplishment!

E: Tres, our puppy isn't a puppy anymore! She's a toddler!
T: She's not a toddler! She's already had a full hysterectomy!

Some pictures to add from a camera found in a golf bag

Charlie graduated from Forever Young pre-school the end of May. Doug and Jennifer Young were his teachers and he had a great time with them! No, he did not sing with the rest of his class at the program.

Morgan celebrated his 2nd birthday in May.

Garrett played baseball this spring. His team (the Phillies) were really fun to watch, they did really well!