Shake Shake Shake

We got the Shake N Go Speedway for Dylan a few years back. He lost interest in it and its been sitting in a closet for quite some time. Ty Found the Mater car and has been carrying it around the house, so Kyle thought it would be a good idea to change out the dead batteries and set it up for the boys.  As you can see, Tyler was in heaven.  I love how you can hide a toy from the kids for a while and when you pull it out again its just like it is brand new.

Oh, and watching Tyler shake the cars to make them go is just about the cutest thing I think I have ever seen. lol

P.S, and yes, Dylan’s Pants are on backwards. 

5 dangerous things to let your kids play with

He isnt the best speaker, but I really agree with what he is saying.

Windows Live Writer

I know some of you know about this, but Windows live writer is a GREAT alternative to the traditional blogger post editor.

Ive been using it now for a month or two and I will never go back. As you can tell from my very picture heavy posts- It makes adding pictures easy peasy. I can do small pictures in the middle of text

I can do HUGE pictures

I can crop and edit pictures right here in the program

and I can do all sorts of other effects that blogger would choke and freeze on. Better yet- I can do them with out even opening my beloved photoshop.

 

  

Another option (which I havnt done yet) Is that you can add photo albums  right into your blog no problem.

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Oh, and did I tell you how easy it is to make everything pretty fonts and pretty colors?
yeah, that is way fun too. ;)

Father and Son

 

This isn’t the most attractive picture of Tyler, but I think it shows some of the similarities between Kyle’s baby pictures and Tyler.  When Tyler first joined us, all I could see was Andrew in him, but as he has gotten older I have realized that he is WAY more Kyle than anyone else.

I like it.

Tooting my own horn

Normally I download a blog background from one of the many sites out there. I finally decided to step up and use some of the 50 gig of scrappy downloads I have and make my own. It took a bit of doing (darn HTML) but I finally got it.
I think it turned out pretty darn cute if I do say so myself.

Pictures

Just to let you know, Both my 365 blog and our smug mug accounts have been updated lately and are current.

Yay for pictures.

speaking of pictures, here is a random one of me from the zoo on Saturday. I got attacked by Lorikeets.

I ended up having two more land on me (there are three there if you cant tell) One went on my head and one was on my shoulder.    .

Andrew’s Video Game Night

Andrew has been having a bit of a tough time lately. And as our pediatrician put it “He’s been hearing his name too often”. He was starting to get a little down on himself so I decided to throw him a video game party with his friends. We invited three friends from church to come over, eat pizza, and play some games. I thought they would play a little wii and maybe some of the other games we own- but they hit the Halo right away and apparently spent their whole time in Halo. I took the younger kids to my mom’s ward’s halloween party so I wasnt here for the party, (I figured it would be way easier to not have to keep the other kids away) but Kyle says that fun times were had by all.

Official Halloween Photos

We ended up having Two Hallween Parties at church (one with my mom, one at our own), One afterschool Party for Dylan's pre k class, a day spent at Zoo Boo, some standard house to house trick o Treating, and some Trunk O Treating.  Needless to say I am halloweened out!

Tyler was the most fun to watch. He figured it out really quick and he thought it was the most glorious thing ever. When we took his candy bucket to get in the car after the trunk o treat he FREAKED. I dont think I have seen him that worked up in a while.

 

Too Big!

Here is Tyler eating dinner. On a big boy chair. With a big boy cup. With the same utensils and plate that his siblings have.
*sigh*

Church Halloween Party

The first of our multiple Halloween Parties was last Saturday night. While I was a little frazzled from getting the kids ready- they all had a great time. (and that is what is important right?)

In case you cant tell- Kate is Cinderella, Tyler is a cowboy baby, Dylan is Batman, and Andrew is a SWAT guy. I have to brag on my husband here for a bit. He created Andrew’s Vest from scratch.

Kate and her Friend Emma and another friend from School.  

 

The vest needs a few more touch ups before the big night. It has pockets on the interior that will get some sort of stiff object put into them (foam core, cardboard…) to make it look like a bullet proof vest) And I still need to go get him a black turtleneck. I thought we had one, but it was navy. Oops!