Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween or should we say Early Merry Christmas with the colors of our costumes. We had a fun day. We first visited our Grandma and Great Grandma Lene in the morning to show them our happy faces


Then we went over to our cousins house and got to play, have pizza, and get ready for our first real trick or treating experience.


Okay...seriously true story and there are witnesses to back this story. Drew and Lilly started getting the hang of the trick or treating activities so Todd and I would hang back and let them walk up to the doors some what independently. Well one of the adults in our group(who knows of Lilly's obsession with four legged furry creatures) yelled, "Doggie Lilly." The dog reference right as Lilly was approaching the front door to strangers house(who were very friendly)initiated a full fledged push through the nice adults handing out candy and into the living room and kitchen where Lilly is yelling at the top of her lungs "DOGGIE." Drew seeing Lilly in the house decided he would check it out as well. Todd and I decided that we would then go to each door with them for the rest of the evening.

Proof of the kids in random strangers house...Ohhhhh and there was never any dog to begin with by the way.

Finally...some sort of progress

It doesn't look that cute from the front yet. We still need quite a bit more growth

Yipppeeeeee!!!

So most of you talk to me regularly know that we (as a family) just got our pictures professionally done by a very talented photographer from our church named Melody White. Melody put a few previews up on her blog, so I thought I would share. We had so much fun and would highly recommend her to anyone in the market for a local photographer :)

Check us out at Melody's site

I enjoyed taking a break from me being the one always taking the pictures. Letting the talented, artistic, and trained eye take pictures is a way better idea.

Is this some form of neglect?

Just to confirm...that is just whole lot of pee in that diaper that apparently hasn't been changed for awhile. The diaper probably weighs at much as Lilly.

The perks of Costco....

A built in baby-sitter

Extra Curricular activities while eating

So what if we get bored while eating and like to keep busy with sculpture art using forks. Drew likes to demonstrate how he uses "the force" to make his fork stay still.

Live Footage from the jump-o-lene

Plus..there has been a discovery of a certain noise in our house...oh boy...