Wednesday, November 28, 2012

What I'm Thankful For~

A chance to volunteer in Zachary's classroom for Colonial Day.

 I helped with candle making. Oi!
 Grandparents day at Mikayla's school and a little brunch at our house after.

 A relaxing Thanksgiving at home with these cuties!






 Everyone trying to be like Daddy.





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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Monday, November 19, 2012

Making progress~

Only 12 more days until I get my husband back. Ha! I don't know why, but I think his mustache makes him look like a police officer.  To support Jeff in his quest to raise awareness for prostate cancer you can follow the link to donate. http://mobro.co/JeffThiesen
He still looks handsome though.


Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Movember~

Jeff is growing a mustache for "Movember" to help raise awareness and money for prostate and testicular cancers.  http://mobro.co/JeffThiesen
After the first few days~

On election day
He grew the whole beard at first until the mustache grew in a little.
This past weekend



Landen tried to go in for a kiss!


Hopefully this is what he will look like by the end of November!

Monday, November 5, 2012

More memories~

I have more memories from Halloween that I don't want to forget.  The first house we went to was our neighbor and they gave Landen 2 chocolates.  Zach was supposed to go trick or treating with them but they weren't ready.  So we came home for a bit and as soon as we got home Landen immediately gave one chocolate to Mikayla and the other to Zach.  He is such a sweetheart!  He didn't even ask for any candy until we were completely done trick or treating and then he asked for the green lollipop that was from our treat bowl.
While we were waiting for the big kids to get home we watched "It's Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown."  The part where Woodstock accidentally puts Snoopy's ear in the toaster and butters it made Landen laugh so hard!  He was cracking up and could barely breathe.  He thinks Snoopy is hysterical.  
He keeps telling me that Halloween was so cool.
Zach and Mikayla insisted on using pillow cases this year for their candy bags and they both got about 150 pieces each.  They spread all their candy out on the kitchen table and traded with each other the kinds they didn't want or couldn't have.  At the end there was a pile of rejects that was all Almond Joys. Ha!  
Good thing Jeff actually likes those!

Friday, November 2, 2012

Halloween 2012~

Oh my gosh, how cute is he with his firefighter pajamas and new short haircut!?! Sigh.
This post is kind of out of order and it's waaaay too long, but it's just all the pumpkin decorating and Halloween fun from the past week.  I found this spider pumpkin decorating kit at target and knew he would love it.  It was a great way for him to decorate without too much work or mess.  He did the stickers and I did the legs.
 Speaking of legs, is it sad that it only came with 6 legs?? And Landen immediately noticed and said it needed 8 legs??  Even he knows spiders have 8 legs!  
 Thankfully my kitchen was clean this day, but please ignore the bucket with epsom salts in it.  Mikayla's poor toenail is growing back in and it got ingrown and infected so we are soaking it daily.=(
 And yes, that is a happy meal bucket from Mickey D's.  Landen calls it "Old McDonalds."  One just opened by our house.=(  We really only go about 3x a year.
Such a goof!  I don't even know, I just take the pictures.





~Before trick or treating~
Zach the Ninja

* Really long, random side note*
This reminds me of something Zach said maybe a year ago that I never wrote about but want to remember.  We witnessed a car cut off another car and then the guy go crazy honking and screaming.  I felt the need to point out how two wrongs don't make a right, thinking it would be like a little real life learning experience for the kids, since we struggle with that concept a lot.  Zach immediately responded with, "That's why I need a pocket ninja so he can just jump out and get people back for me."
He was completely serious.  
All I could think was, OK God, I tried.
He's very stealthy.
There's a whole saga about Mikayla's costume.  She wanted to be the Queen of hearts so I ordered it from Party City because it was reversible and could be worn next year as well.  Well, it took 10 days to get here and when it did she opened the box and all that was in there was a princess Aurora crown.  Ugh!  I actually feel worse for the poor little girl who never got her crown.  We got a full refund, but still no costume.  So the day of Halloween "we" were scrambling to find something.  She has a greek goddess costume but it was for school and that is booooring.  Thankfully, I found this Twister costume and she liked it and promised to wear it next year as well!
Mikayla the Twister Game

Right foot red!

Our cute "widdle spoida"
(little spider)

All I said was to act like a spider.
Landen decided months ago he was going to be a spider and he stuck with it.  I got a great deal on this spider costume from pb kids and he will wear it next year!
He just loves spiders right now, well, all spiders except real ones.
He kept saying, "I'm not going to scare everyone!  Just brobro."
Boo!
I guess if you have to read the word boo it's not that scary.


Carving pumpkins!
 This is what happens when mommy carves.  He wanted a silly face with round eyes.

He said, "It gwows, mommy!"


Zach with a knife!  He did fine though, that is the Pampered Chef knife we got for our wedding almost 15 years ago, so it's pretty dull.

Mikayla was determined to paint.  I was determined not to "stress" about bright pink and red paint getting everywhere.  We both succeeded!


It don't have a picture yet of it after she took the tape off.=(

Green paint, of course!
My favorite moment of the whole week was when I was walking around our neighborhood with Landen holding his soft little hand and he said,
 "I wuv trick or treating wif you Mama."
He just melts my heart daily.  I feel so blessed to be able to watch these kids grow and try my best not to mess up too much.  They are so precious and creative!  It can get crazy sometimes, but I wouldn't want to be doing anything else!