Halloween!

Here are our Halloween Pictures from this year... the great Indian brave "sneaking off to war"
What I thought was a baseball player, but may in fact be a football player?
Who knows...certainly not me

a daisy

a John Deere digger

Hunter won the Judges' Choice award at the Halloween party for this sweet costume!

Cosmo the cougar

Prima Ballerina

I just wanted to share how much fun we have at my house during the day. Can you tell who's the alpha wolf whilst the older boys are at school? It's always a good day for dancing!

Corbin's Baptism

Corbin was baptized this past Saturday by Spencer. It was a wonderful experience and I'm glad that he was willing and ready. Spencer's parents and brother and his family were there as well as family friends.

Corbin and Spencer before the baptism
Ella-marie, Spencer, Levi, Corbin, Hunter (the happy one) Amber and Miles

It was a great day and we're so glad that Spencer's family came to celebrate this exciting time with us. And we're so happy for Corbin and proud of his choice to be baptized.

Happy Birthday!

Corbin turned 8 yesterday and it was a very exciting day! He chose chocolate fudge cake with orange frosting and Halloween sprinkles.
Levi managed to blow out all of the candles whilst I was trying to put the cake in front of Corbin. The picture above is lighting #2. I physically moved Levi out of blowing range for this picture, and he was upset.

Corbin's favorite present of the night was a Swiss Army Knife from Uncle Brice and Auntie Breann. They certainly set the bar high for 8 year olds, and Miles is already counting down the days until he turns 8.

Here are some of the comments about the knife:

Spencer- "Wow, now I need a knife so that I can teach him proper knife etiquette." (Yeah right!)

Corbin- "Awesome, a Swiss Army Knife!"

Amber- sharp intake of breath, "Oh dear, at least they included bandaids too."

Miles- "When do I turn 8?"

Bonus picture...

I just wanted to add an additional picture for your viewing pleasure. Levi really has a lot of funny faces to share, this is just one of them!

Family Pictures

It was such a beautiful day yesterday. We decided to try and take pictures of the children at the park near our house. It really does change exponentially when you add more children to a picture. Nearly impossible to get all of them looking/smiling/sitting still/not touching each other, at the same time.

Miles, Levi, Corbin, Hunter and Ella-marie
CorbinMiles

Ella-marie

Hunter Levi

It's always a good time when you put five children together to try and get a happy picture!

It's great to be a terrific 2!

Levi is officially 2! He made it! I think that calls for a celebration no matter whether it's his birthday or not!

Levi was excited to see a raspberry cocoa cake with chocolate fudge glaze on it. Who knew he would be such a connoisseur of cake?

(I really love when kids are too young to ask for funfetti cake out of a box and instead I get to make what I want!)

Blowing out the candles. He didn't need any help. There may have been a teensy bit of spittle on the cake, but I cut him the piece closest to him.What a happy 2 year old!

Opening presents, with everyone's help, of course.

P.S. As a side note, I'm potty-training Levi. "Why do I do this to myself" you may ask? It's like torture, no matter how you go about doing it. But I guess I just have to stick with it now, too late to go back to diapers.