A few things and a song

I took the Brett & Camille with me for some morning errands.  It was chilly outside and Camille got to wear her boots for the first time.  

 Brett is potty training and he's getting good at going to the bathroom on his own...

even when he's outside playing.  Ha!

 Grant and Keith had their last baseball game of the season.

 The whole team got fun gold medals after the game.

I will be making pies this evening and rolls tomorrow morning to take to my parents house for Thanksgiving.  One of my sisters is in town with her cute family and my brother and his family will all be there, and my Mom's sister.  We haven't had Thanksgiving at my parent's house in years and I am so looking forward to it!
We've been listening to this song in our home over and over and over again this week.  And we also LOVE this version.  And now we have this song stuck in our heads all the time!  But that's a good thing because it's so beautiful.  It has me sitting at my piano plunking out the few songs that I know and being so grateful for music and how it makes me feel inside.  And so grateful that Keith got us such a great piano to enjoy!  It's probably the best thing we've ever gotten for our home!
On that note (haha), have a great Thanksgiving!

PJ's and potties

I turned the heater on yesterday and I slept so much warmer last night.  :)

Camille woke up bright and early this morning.  What's up with that?!

I'm loving her in her cozy winter PJ's.  She's so cuddly.  She was watching Keith in the backyard through the window this morning.  She's had a constant runny nose for a week.  You can see really see it in the reflection.  Ha!

 And this boy has been potty training since Saturday.  We are making progress every day and I know that in a few months it'll be done and seem like no big deal.  But right now it is a big deal (to me) and I'm so looking forward to being done.  He's been putting a smiley face sticker on a chart every time he uses the bathroom.  He gets so excited for those simple little stickers!

A chilly morning

Keith and I awoke really early this morning and both agreed that it was really cold and then pulled the covers up higher and fell back asleep.  It was a chipper 68 degrees in our house this morning.  And it hasn't gotten much warmer than that during the day.  I just can't turn on the heater yet.  It doesn't feel right.  How could it be the end of November already?  This year has truly flown by faster than any other year...ever!  It seems like Keith and I were just talking about Christmas presents for our boys, but here we are a year later adding gifts for our Camille to the list! 

Yesterday there was a chilly wind all day.  We bundled up (AZ style, i.e. sweatshirts and pants) and took our kids for a walk at the park.  It was close to sunset and it was so beautiful out.  There were tons of families there having their pictures taken.  I was glad that we already took care of that!  But we did take a few fun pictures while we walked around.

Keith, Camille & Brett (in the jogging stroller), Me, and Grant

Lately...

The kids have all been sick this week.  They got some virus and have awful coughs and Grant has had a fever.  Both boys got shots yesterday to help them get better faster.  Until then this is what they've spent a lot of time doing.

I even found this picture on my camera that one of them took.  Silly boys.  :)

We've had great bike riding weather here.  And we're lucky that Keith's parents live close enough to take a quick ride over to their house for a little visit.

 These two went in the stroller.

 Love those lips!

 Having fun in Grandma's backyard.  She loves having her brothers push her around in this car!

 We still need to get our child locks on the cabinet doors in the kitchen.  Camille did this the other day.  Luckily I got there quick enough that she didn't get hurt.  She is such a busy girl lately!

 We planted a little garden.  Still waiting for things to start growing.

 Brett loves spending time in the sandbox with his tractors.

 Grant's kindergarten teacher had me make 5 of these book bags for their class.  It was a fun and quick little project to do.  

 The shadows are getting longer and coming earlier in the day.

 The citrus is starting to change color.  I guess we don't get fall leaves that change color, but our fruit changes color!  :)

 Look, no hands!

 Whoop!  Down I go!

Have a good weekend.  We'll be trying to get better around here.  

It's also the Phoenix Temple cultural celebration on Saturday and dedication on Sunday.  Looking forward to both!

October Things

My dad helped me paint our living, dining, hallway, and kitchen.  We got it to a good point and just have a little bit left to finish.  My boys thought it was so cool to have a "Grandpa on a shelf!"

 Camille was excited about the new paint colors too!

 One of Keith's sisters and her family came to town.  We had fun seeing them.  We all spent one evening at the park with the kids flying down the hills at the speed of light on bikes and plasma cars.  It really is a miracle that no one got hurt!  Especially Brett.  He was really cruising down on that plasma car!  They all had a blast!

 Grant started fall baseball.  Keith is his coach.  I really luck out in this situation.  Sometimes it's just so hard to get everybody ready and fed in time for a game, but I never have to worry too much because Keith is the coach and he has to get there early, so Grant goes early with him sometimes and then I trail in later.  

Grant got hit by the ball in the preseason and for the first time in his life was scared of the ball after that.  That is so not like him.  He got his courage back after a few games and now he gives that bat a good swing again.

 Handsome coach!

 So glad to have a great Dad and coach!

 I hosted a baby shower at our house for one of Keith's sisters.  It's pretty obvious from the pictures that she's expecting a girl.  I had so much fun decorating for this.  I wish I had the after pictures so you could see all of the clothes that she got hanging on the line in front of the TV.  

 Here's the kids eating breakfast early one morning.

 My grandparents came to town.  We all got together for dinner at our place.  We had races in the backyard and here we are looking at pictures from a three day hike my parents took my niece and nephew on.

 Smiley Camille with a pony tail. :)

 Camille had her 9 month check up.  Getting shots in those cute thighs is so sad!

 Food face!

A Happy Halloween

Oh Halloween!  I had big plans for you this year.  But then I got sick and plans changed.  But the kids still had a blast, so that's good.

Keith & boys carving pumpkins on Halloween Eve.  I crept out of my bed to get some pics.

Keith was such a huge help all week long!

I was looking forward to helping at Grant's school on Halloween morning, but sent Keith and his Mom instead.  The school started out the morning with a costume parade.

 Keith helped out in Grant's class.

 And his mom got to go too.  I had planned to read The Runaway Pumpkin (awesome book!) to his class and then take a picture of the kids with a painting of giant pumpkin.  I never got the giant pumpkin made so Keith's mom surprised me by making one herself!  Oh, I'm so glad I was able to hand this off to capable hands!  Thank you!

 The pumpkin line up.

We had a bunch of pumpkins that we'd used at our ward's Fall Festival the week before.  So we gave some away and carved the rest!

 Ready to go Trick-or-Treating.

I love this picture!  Happy Grant.  Excited Camille.  And then poor little Brett.  He was having a hard week and this is just one of the many times where he had a break down.  He doesn't look too sad in this picture, but in some of the others he's just crying his eyes out.  He slept good that night!

 Close-up of that cute bee!

 I love her little hand on that pumpkin!

 After going around the neighborhood for a while, the boys set themselves up on the driveway to eat pizza and hand out candy.  They had so much fun that night!

 Here's the back of the bee from our ward party the weekend before.

 There were fun games.

 I loved watching Grant eat this donut.  It was so funny!

So long Halloween, may we meet on better terms next year!