Henry is growing up!

I have neglected to take pictures of my kids the last few weeks. Sadly, Henry has much fewer pictures than his brother (typical). I took him in for his 15 mo well check, and he is much smaller than his brother was at that age. Here are the stats:
23 lbs  28%
32 in    76%
He's still small enough to be small to me. I love that he eats everything and loves to mimmic his brother. Last night we played red light/green light, and he insisted on doing everything we do. He is a ball of energy and loves to climb on EVERYTHING. I don't know when this stage will end, but I hope soon. He's started playing well with toys and his brother. This has led to many blissfull moments for me to get things done without his "help". He is so quick to understand everything, and is really good at sleeping. He has one more tooth to come in, then we can finally be done with that! He enjoys being outdoors and LOVES animals. He does all the the sounds when prompted. His favorite movie is the LION KING. He says a few words like: "mama, dada, hot, water, car, go, cracker, grandma." He signs for a lot of things, mostly when asked, but is great at it!
We just need to get him past the clingy stage to welcome baby brother...sigh. We sure love him!
Here's a few photos taken today for this post...

happy halloween

Cornbelly's

Last year we went to cornbellys with the kids and we all LOVED IT! We decided to try it again this year. Unfortunately, we picked the WRONG day to go. It was super windy and very cold. We only lasted just over an hour. The kids had fun, despite the weather, but we decided to cut our losses, and plan better next year.

Porter jumping on the pillows

 The kids loved the singing farm animals

My latest project

It only took 2 days and a long night to go from this:

To this:

I only did my hallway, kitchen and the great room, but those ceilings are high, and the time it took to climb and unclimb and reposition the ladders on the stairs and the great room was the biggest time-taker. I did run across THE BEST tools for the job- one is the shur-line edger. ($5)  Those smooth lines? No taping! Not a lie. It saved me loads of time and frustration. The second is the Wagner turboroll. It's a paint roller that hold all the paint in the handle, and I could do more than one wall without going back for more paint. Totally worth the $ for the time it saved me. ($40) I just have to do the rest of the house now, and pick a color for the archways.

Halloween Craft

It has been awhile since we've done a craft, and we wanted to do some Halloween wreaths. The descrepancy was our door colors. Tea's is white, and mine is black. She found a really cute wreath I though I could replicate for my door (picture now unavailable-from etsy). It would be cheap and fast.  During Priesthood session, we got started but my kids weren't allowing us much undivided attention, so we did them one at a time. Hers turned out super cute, and fast, and easy. Mine was a different story...

I bought a foam wreath, and covered it with quilting batting, then wrapped it tightly with gauze.

Then, I did it again, this time loosly.

After that step, we ripped up some gauze, and placed it haphazardly around the wreath. I ended up sewing on the gauze strips, because gluing it would show too well...that took the longest.

Then I found some mummy hands at Michaels and spray painted some black and brown and glued them to the wreath. Then I hung a rediculously short ribbon around it, (because I wasn't thinking at the craft store) and viola! It's done!

Can you tell what I am?

It's a boy!
We found out in May, but didn't openly publish it, except to those who would obviously be aware in the coming months. We were so sure it was a girl, with no real reason except we had felt since Henry was born that the next would be a girl. And I started laughing when I noticed what was up in the ultrasound.
"What are we going to do with 3 boys!!!" That's the common phrase around our house. We don't have even 1 boy that will sit through a cartoon yet, so I have NO idea (and yet, a whole lot of ideas) of what I'm getting myself into.
The surprise came when we didn't actually miscarry-which was why we started so early...so I guess we can plan on never being in control. We'll leave that up to the Lord.
We are excited, nervous, and just plain scared. I had convinced myself that it was ok to have a girl, and started seeing visions of pink and hairbows, and dresses, but now, we are back on budget, and happy just the same! No names to agree on yet, and a minivan to purchase, but we can wait on those things:)
We are due Jan 9th.

Park City

Our annual trip to Park City came and went so fast! The boys had a blast swimming every day, running around, fishing and just enjoying the "hotel room". It was beautiful weather all week, and we took the kids out on the bike trail a couple of times. The kids liked roaming around, and just lazying and being together. Of course, a trip to Park City wouldn't be complete without a ride down the Alpine Slide!

Heading up to the slide

Riding the airplanes

 Climbing the rope tower

Henry running around

In a bobsled