Lately

A few things to blog about. First and saddest is Gwen was taking a bath and slipped chipping half of her front tooth away! She looks so WT and there is nothing to do about it. We just have to wait until she looses the tooth. I am just glad it doesn't bother her. It doesn't seem to be sensitive and it hasn't turned gray (like mine I know!).

Later that night I pretended I was still in High School and went to the midnight showing of New Moon! I wasn't disappointed (I like all movies). It was tons of fun and I am glad I got to reconnect with the Laveen gals.

The day we left for Monterey for Thanksgiving I went to Briant's class for his Thanksgiving performance and feast. The food was actually really yummy. Note to self: help Briant with his chester smile!

Goin' for a ride

Gwen's new favorite thing is to have Max pedal her around on the tricycle. They go in circles for a good half hour at a time. Last time they did this I was putting on my makeup and came out to find Gwen had gotten a hold of Max's pbj. What a mess!

 

 

Dirt Pile

 

 

The front yard of our house is made for irrigation and since we don't get irrigation any more Jared wanted to fill it in and level it to set it up for sprinklers. Naturally the boys thought the dirt pile looked like a giant playground. Lots of fun was had!

Pumpkin carving

Last night was pumpkin night. The McAllister's came over to eat dinner and carve pumpkins. Kendal made the most delicious cupcakes ever! If I had the recipe I'd post it.

Briant did most of his by himself and I was very impressed.

Jared finishing up the dishes.

Max helping Martin

Max wanted to draw ghosts on the back of his pumpkin.

On the left was the one Max and I did, the middle was Briant's (Jared helped a little) and the owl on the right was Martin's (Kendal did great observing).

Ellsworth Halloween

Jared's sister Jenny planned a fun Halloween party for the cousins. We don't all go trick-or-treating together so it was fun for them to get to see every one's costumes.

Here is Briant the Vampire

"Gilly" or Sarah holding Cami

Jared and Gwen

Riley the football player, Cami, Paisley and Brennen "Luke"

Brooke the Hula Girl, Kenzi "Tinkerbell" and Lyvi "50's Girl"

Brennen, Rush "Grim Reaper", Mason "Darth Vader" and Tate "Yoda"

Max and Rush as Grim Reaper's

Blake "Bumblebee"

Jenny the party planner

Gilly and her family

Jenny and Pretty Fairy Paisley

The elephant

Gary, Gwen, Neil "inmate", Brooke, Max, Briant, Blake, Riley, Tate and Brennen

Max, Briant, Blake, Riley, Tate, Brennen, Kenzi, Sarah, Lyvi and Granna the Witch!

We all were assigned to bring a booth. Carley's was the favorite "Munchkins on a rope"

Doesn't he look nice in pink?

The girls enjoying their ice cream.

There was a costume contest. Sarah won for best costume and Neil won for scariest (obviously a joke) so Jenny gave the award to Max instead. He has been begging for Halloween decorations and was so excited to get this ghost that he slept with it.

Thanks Jenny for putting together such a fun party! I hope it was worth all the effort...I know we all had a blast!

Happy B-Day Tow-Mater

Max's birthday celebration started on Saturday with a trip to the movies to see Where the Wild Things Are (I'm with Shauna...I don't recommend it for kids) They sat through it just fine but I could tell it wasn't what they were expecting. We brought his friend Jared and Briant's friend Bradley with us. After the movie we went to McDonald's for ice cream. Max has a sad face because he got his ice cream privilege taken away after several warnings. I know it's a little harsh on his birthday but he wasn't taking me seriously so I had to prove a point.

The next day, the 18Th was his actual birthday and we invited Kendal and Martin over for dinner and Delicious Sprinkles cupcakes...YUM!




Max has been wanting a mini trampoline to jump into the pool from and Kendal and Martin had one they never used so they surprised him with it. He was so excited...for now they just jump off the couch onto it until it is warm enough to swim again.


Gwen loved it just as much!


Earlier Sunday morning Kendal came over to give Max the second part of their gift. On top of the box were these huge sunglasses. If you know Jared he loves to tease and Max is well aware of this so he refused to try them on. Inside the box was a cool tie for church (which I loved) Thanks McAllisters!


Opening presents Sunday morning

Briant had to hold back Gwen...she kept crawling over and sitting on top of the presents.


As much as it killed us to buy Bakugan for him that is all he really wanted so we gave in.


This movie has been on repeat play for a few days now.

My mom and Jared's mom also took Max shopping and he picked out some Tech Decks, more Bakugan and a rocket!

Jared's sister Sarah came over today to watch Gwen and Briant while I took Max to the dentist to get a tooth pulled...it had an abscess(spelling?). She brought Max something he has been wanting for a long time...nasty goldfish! I have been putting off getting fish because they are pointless pets but Max told me "See mom, they aren't boring" I guess if you are the type of fish owner that polks them and likes to move their bowl from the shelf to the piano to the counter to almost your bed (I stopped him) than I suppose fish aren't that boring. He named them "Scary" and "Halloween". Thanks Sarah!

Gross! I had no idea the root was so big!

I think Max had a wonderful birthday. We feel so blessed to have him as a part of our family. We love his craziness, humor, random questions and Tow-Mater like teeth. We love you Max!