On a windy day a few weeks ago

We had a lovely windy day a few weekends ago and luckily we had our fish kite in the car with us.  So we went to the park and flew that thing.  Grant always begs to go fly the kite, but really it's hardly ever windy enough here.  He was so excited!  Brett thought it was pretty cool too.

We went all out and even rode the train afterwards.  I love Grant's crooked little smile.  It's so him.  I probably have a hundred pictures of him making that face.  He's such a goof ball.  And Brett.  I probably have a hundred pictures of him sucking that thumb!

We had such a nice day together.  I just love it when we can spend a whole Saturday together as a family.

Sunday and today

This past Sunday Keith & Grant dressed like twins.  Aren't they cute?  They went to regional conference while Brett & I stayed home.  Brett had woken up Sunday morning with a burning fever.

Today Grant was so cute before he went to school.  I just had to take some pictures.  Isn't he looking so grown up?!

Today we were supposed to have our family pictures taken, but this is Brett:

Still sick, and not very photogenic today (Plus it looks like his hand is missing.  Oh dear!).  I took him to the doctor last night and he has an ear infection.  That explains the high fevers.  He started a prescription last night and this morning I accidentally spilled the whole thing all over my kitchen floor.  Oh boy, we are both ready for a new day.  Until then, we will continue with lots of snuggles and lots of other things not getting done around here.  And we will have our pictures taken next week.

Pumpkin Pancakes

For Halloween dinner we enjoyed some yummy pumpkin pancakes under our spooky bat light.  We topped them with pure maple syrup and roasted pecans.  They were so good!  Here's the recipe if you feel like trying it.

Pumpkin Pancakes

2 cups flour

3 TBS packed brown sugar

1 TBS baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1-2 tsp pumpkin pie spice

1 3/4 cups milk

3 eggs, lightly beaten

3/4 cup canned pumpkin

1/4 cup cooking oil (I used coconut oil and it was really good!)

1. In large bowl combine flour and other dry ingredients.  In a second bowl combine eggs and remaining ingredients.  Stir milk mixture into flour mixture until slightly lumpy.
2. Heat a lightly greased griddle or heavy skillet over medium heat.  Pour batter in circles onto griddle.  Cook until golden; turn when tops are bubbly and edges are slightly dry (1-2 minutes per side).

Halloween 2012

We started off this years festivities in style.  Last Friday night we went to a costume party at Keith's sister's house.  Keith repeated his Man In The Yellow Hat costume from last year.  Grant was Super Why, thanks to this birthday party he went to in August.  Brett was an adorable turtle just like Grant was when he was a baby.  And I was a hippy/70's sort of person.  I wore my mom's dress that she actually made in high school and wore to her senior dance.  So cool Mom!  With the super long wig, super long eyelashes and cream colored lipgloss I was set.

Here's a better shot of Grant since he's kind of cut off above:

It was way too hard to try to catch our cute little turtle holding still, so here are some action shots:

 Keith got 3rd place in the costume contest.  I'll have you know that he actually made everything about his costume except the tie.  He got the clothes and dyed them himself and spray painted the hat.  So proud of him!  Aren't those other costumes great?  The caveman won and Cruella Deville was the runner up.

On Halloween day Brett was so excited to go trick-or-treating that he was climbing the walls.  Literally.  This goober has been climbing everything lately.  I found him standing on top after he moved the seat over there himself.

Handsome Halloweeners ready to go trick-or treating.  Grant decided at the last minute to be this cute Dalmatian.  He loved having his nose painted black.  My mom made this costume for my sister when she was a little girl.  So glad it's still around and glad we got to use it before we send it to my sister!

I was so excited for our pumpkins this year.  We usually carve them really quick at the last minute, or sometimes not at all.  This year we carved them for Family Home Evening so they were ready to go.  The funny part was that Grant just didn't understand why we put them outside.  He was so concerned about them, and he kept wanting to blow out the candles.  

It was really fun to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood area this year.  We sure walked a lot!  After visiting my parents we went to Keith's parents.  Grant went straight to this fun train table that Grandma Jackson just got.  He couldn't get enough of it.

Little Brett still isn't feeling so well and staying up late last night didn't help.  He was so tired when I went to run errands this morning with my mom.  He fell asleep on the way home and took a really long nap when we got home.  And then Grant got home from school and he was tired too.  I convinced him to take a nap too (which hardly ever happens) and then ran to my bed and took a nap too!  Oh those precious and few naps that I get!  It was great!

Hope you had a fun Halloween to!

Halloween flowers

I took Grant & Brett to Costco last Saturday.  After making a b-line to the bathrooms for Grant a few minutes after we arrived, he saw the flower section and said, "Let's get some flowers!"  Okay!  So on our way out we picked out some Halloween flowers.  I really like his pick.  I think they look super cool for Halloween.  They are just heavy.  But luckily I had this sturdier vase I could put them in.

And I picked out some orange tulips.  I think our trip was a success!

This boy is sick today

Brett woke up screaming last night.  I went in and he was all stuffy and had a runny nose.  It took him a while to calm down, but then he fell asleep on me while we sat in his chair.  If I didn't need sleep myself I would have sat there all night.  Don't you just love holding a sleeping baby?