Wednesday, October 8, 2008

It's a baking kind of day!

We have many of these kind of days around here! The weather is getting cooler and it just makes us feel like baking. Joshua loves to help us of course. He actually does a pretty good job transporting ingredients back and forth from one bowl to another. It's actually really weird for me to think that I have a son who is old enough to help me cook! All our boys are growing up and I just can't seem to enjoy them enough! It's definitely worth the extra clean up in order to build these special memories with him. It feels like just yesterday that I was sitting on the kitchen counter helping my mom mix up a batch of these very same cookies (Oatmeal Chocolate Chip - Yum)!
Amber & Joshua :)
So grown up!
Caleb & Tyler just hanging out, waiting for their turn to lick the bowl.

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My sister, Cheryl, came to visit this past Friday through Tuesday. I hope to share a bit on that soon and some pictures!

Monday, October 6, 2008

Poopy Diapers & Sock Wars

A couple of weeks ago we had a very fun & unique evening. We had the usual celebration when Aaron came home! After catching up a bit on the day, Aaron went to get Joshua up from his nap. A few seconds later, Aaron ran downstairs and said with humor in his voice, "Sweetie, you have to come look at this." Well, you may not be wondering what was wrong due to the title of this post. Yup, that's right, he had let the poopy loose! Poor thing! I knew a day like this was coming and I was grateful to embrace it with humor.
Then came the sock wars... :)
This was not a formal "family night" but it was definitely set apart from any other kind of night. Aaron suggested we have sock wars. We've had marshmellow wars before but now it was time to pull out the socks. (Much easier to clean up than marshmellows by the way!) Aaron set up 2 fortresses on each side of the room, put on some fun sock war type music and we started!

Aaron sneaking up on us!
No, I wasn't really hurt. :)


Caleb & Tyler were the sideline referees.