Week in review

On Monday, Donovan came home from school with the news that his friend Dino pulled out his loose tooth during class. That makes number 5 for Donovan. His school gave him this little plastic tooth for safekeeping.


On Tuesday Donovan had his Glee Club performance. They sang 4 songs and during most of them Donovan kept motioning for me to take a picture of him. The pictures turned out too dark since we were way in the back, but here is a nice blurry one of him afterwards.



On Wednesday we all watched the United States National Team play Guatemala in a World Cup Qualifier.




On Saturday we celebrated the November birthdays from my siblings' and our family. Howie and Cohen were our honorees. Howie was delighted to get a Bakugan battle arena. Don't ask me.

Sweet sibling conversation

Nina - Donovan, I had a yucky poop.

Donovan - I had one too.

Nina - Can I see your poop?

Donovan - yeah, can I see your poop?

Nina - Gross! We are twinners. We have twin gross poops.

Cameron is 6 months old

Cameron has accomplished a few things in his half a year of life:
-he can sit on his own
-he can roll out of "tummy time" position in record time
-he has visited 6 states
-he has attended numerous sporting events
-he smiles at anyone who will look at him
-he has survived his 3 older siblings

Cameron is still working on a few other things:
-sleeping through the night
-cutting his first tooth
-rolling to his stomach
-communicating to Nina that waffles, cookie dough and popcorn are not appropriate foods for him yet


GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Cougars!



We made the trip to Colorado Springs to watch BYU beat Air Force yesterday.

What do you do

when this shows up at your door?




Now before you answer, consider these factors:
-it is 9:40 pm
-you have already put your kids to bed
-a certain 6 month old hasn't slept more than 4 hours in a row in his entire life
-you are DEAD tired

It was a hard choice for me too.

Come and Gone

This past weekend was a whirlwind of fun as Grandma and Grandpa Marshall came to visit. The time flew by as Ben and Pam played with, hid, sought, tagged, hugged and kissed the kids. We were all sad to see them leave this morning and we can't wait to visit them in Virginia next summer!




Doing some early Christmas crafts. This is something the Virginia cousins get to do with Grandma and Grandpa at their house. We were lucky they brought the fun to share with us too.




Cameron has grown just a bit since the last time Pam saw him.



Bowling and Chuck E. Cheese were just a couple of fun activities. We also played mini golf, walked to the park, fished (surprise, surprise) and ate lots of great food.

Welcome Haley!

My sister Jill and her husband Adam welcomed their third girl to their family yesterday. My other sisters, Jennifer and Kelly, and I visited Jill last night and brought the necessary recovery items: See's Candy, milkshakes and clothes. Congratulations guys, thanks for a reason to celebrate!

One hard part about being a parent

With all the crazies out there in the world you can't be too cautious, especially when it comes to protecting your children. So when our kids came home from trick-or-treating, we had to inspect all that candy that came from total strangers. Sadly, we found many pieces that we thought were unsafe for our kids. We removed those iffy treats and put them aside for further inspection.


You can clearly see how dangerous the candy on the left looks. Matt and I will be sure to dispose of them safely.



Cameron wasn't sure he agreed with our safety measures.