A New Bed!!!

Ezra graduated from his co-sleeper to his toddler bed! He was so excited to lay in it when we first set it up, but has yet to sleep in it! He loves to snuggle with his mommy all night instead!

Thanksgiving Week!!!

We had the greatest Thanksgiving vacation. We stayed home and Scott's parents came to celebrate Thanksgiving with us. We had a busy and fun week....

First, Isaac had his Thanksgiving Feast at his preschool, here he is as a very cute pilgram!

Daddy and his Pilgram Isaac

Mommy, Pilgram Isaac and Ezra watching Isaac eat his "feast". Isaac ate everything but the Jello, he said that it looked like plastic! (Maybe because I have "brainwashed" him about processed food! Ha Ha Ha!)

In California we don't get many chances to wear sweaters, and having three boys, I rarely get them to match in anything! Everyone kept saying how handsome they look!

We had so much fun with Grandpa Tom and Grandma Susan. They are very fun and easy to be with. The boys especially loved having them around!

Grandma Susan wanted so bad to hold Ezra but, as you can tell from other posts, his "personal space" is very large and there is only room in it for him, mommy and occasionally daddy. So after about a couple days Susan was able to "steal" him away to read some books. I snapped this picture (below) after he had been with her for about a half an hour reading books. The last few days of their visit, Ezra kissed Grandma Susan goodnight every night! Welcome to the circle of trust, Grandma Susan!

We are so grateful to them. During their visit they put cupboards up in our laundry room, put a floor down in the attic, fixed several windows and repaired a light switch! Some vacation for them!

Isaac helping Grandpa Tom with the cupboards.

But it wasn't all work and no fun. Scott and the boys took Tom down to the river...



Then the day after Thanksgiving we went to the beach for a picnic. It was beautiful! While most of the adults (about 10) played tag football, I took some cute pictures of the boys! Ezra found this stick and loved chasing his brothers around with it.

Elijah and Isaac found some sticks and we made a tent!

Here are all of us eating left- over turkey sandwiches. It was so fun being all together for a second day.

Sadly our very fun week had to come to an end. We took this picture the morning we drove Tom and Susan to the airport. It was so sad to see them go. We love them so much and are blessed to be apart of their lives.

Beautiful Weather

We have had wonderful weather! Here are some recent beach pictures!

What a handsome kid!

Scott stole this picture of Elizabeth

Emma, Isabel and Elijah catching some waves!

Isaac and Ezra enjoying the sunshine!

Halloween

Our "Trunk or Treating" at church

Scott and I picked out our outfits five minutes before leaving the house. I really wanted to be the doctor, but Scott would not wear the hippie outfit!

Pumpkin Patch

Happy Halloween from "Batman", a "race car driver" and Ezra who wouldn't wear a costume but allowed me to put this skeleton shirt and pumpkin hat on him.

Isaac had the stomach flu, so he is trying his hardest to be happy.

My little silly baby. He really loved sitting on the pumpkins and picking them up and throwing them down our driveway!

Picture Day!

Well, Ezra is 19 months and we thought that it was time to get his pictures taken....

However, as you can see he did not.

He took one look at the photographer and started screaming. The poor lady tried everything, but he just became even more frightened... So finally I suggested that I hold him with a sheet covering me...

So as you can see...there's my neck, but look at how happy he was!!!

(Don't worry the final pictures are cropped!)

Now this next picture is very special...

Ezra loves basketballs more than anything. When I mention that it's time to go to church...he says "basketball!" (Yes, he really says the whole word...his first words were momma and basketball!) Because at church there is a basketball court inside the building.

Here is a picture of all of them...so cute!

If you notice, Isaac thought that it was very important to have his hand in his pocket. We kept telling him that he doesn't need to but he wouldn't listen.

Again, people were in Ezra's "personal space" and he was getting angry!

Hubba Hubba!

So adorable!

This one would have been perfect if Elijah wouldn't have been trying to do his "Donald Duck" voice.

This was on my lap again!

This next one I think is my favorite...

And finally, he really enjoyed himself in the end!

Disneyland

Kathryn, Caleb and Joshua came to visit. We went to the AMGIN tour of California, and did lots of other things. The greatest thing we did together was go to Disneyland for Ezra's first birthday.

The boys loved the rides and went on everything! Elijah went on the big roller coaster 7 times!



We got to meet all their favorite characters.



Isaac's favorite was getting to drive a race car.



Joshua and Ezra had fun times together, but got a little tired.

Taking Christmas Pictures

Today we attempted to take Christmas pictures.

It was going pretty good...

But then Ezra began to get angry

And then Isaac got bored

And then we finally settled for this one.

Merry Christmas!