Pumpkin Day

It's not a national holiday or anything but we usually have Pumpkin Day on the Family Night before Halloween. I decided to call it Pumpkin Day because not all of us carve our pumpkins. Usually the kids paint theirs and Jaaromy and I carve ours. Jaaromy found the perfect pumpkin.


He thought that since it was so perfect it would be a shame to carve it. I thought that since it was so perfect it would be a shame not to carve it.


He decided to paint it.

We decided that Nathaniel was old enough to choose whether to paint or carve his pumpkin. He decided to carve it. Jaaromy helped him clean it out.


This is the principal reason why Jaaromy opted out of carving this year.


Nathaniel was very proud of his work.


Jonathan enjoyed painting his pumpkin.


Brigham started out so well...


...but soon ended up just like last year.


It was a fun family activity. I look forward to it every year.

Now I'm all caught up, and none too soon. I wouldn't want to be late posting my Halloween pictures!

Post #2

The week of October 12th was a very busy one for us. I had a concert which means I was gone Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night. Jaaromy came on Wednesday so they kids had a sitter that night(thanks Mom!). Friday Jaaromy's company had a bowling party so Jaaromy and I went and the kids had another sitter(thanks Sadie!). Saturday I had Super Saturday in the afternoon at which I made a way cute Thanksgiving decoration:

Saturday night was my dad's concert that I really really wanted to go to. Plus, it wasn't an Oratorio so I knew Jaaromy would go with me. So the kids had another sitter(thanks Kym from Helping Hands Care Agency!) So with all the leaving I did and all the baby-sitters, we decided to take the boys to the Dinosaur Museum.


I was impressed that Jonathan remembered the star room from last time we went, it's been over a year since he's been here.

The boys had a lot of fun and I even let them play in the sand and water room for more than two minutes.

Jonathan really enjoyed it and I even had to put him in a smock!


Nathaniel was more careful and kept himself clean.


Brigham was content to wander around the center. Although we noticed he was crunching on some sand later on...


I told Jaaromy to look scared and he wouldn't play along, luckily Nathaniel was happy to oblige.
Of course we played in the excavation room at the end. We were keeping an eye on the exit to make sure Brigham didn't run out into the lobby. In spite of this, we soon realized Brigham wasn't in either of the sandboxes. Jaaromy went looking in the lobby and I went back through into the museum even though I figured he'd gone into the lobby. I didn't go far before I turned back and tried to help Jaaromy find him in the lobby. He wasn't there so we decided to back into the museum. Jaaromy went through the front and I went through the back. Jaaromy was really worried but I had a pretty good idea where he had gone. There he was, in the sand a water room. I was impressed that he found it again and so quickly too. He wasn't very happy to be leaving. He'd had a lot of fun.
On the way home we stopped at McDonald's. It had a neat play area and the kids had fun. Everyone had a good time that day.

I know, I'm a slacker

I can't believe how fast the time has gone. I'm sorry I've been such a terrible blogger. I just know all of you have been dying to know what's been going on at our house. Well, there are a few things I want to blog about that happened all in a row and now I'm behind. So, I'm going to try and do a post every day until I'm caught up. We'll see how it goes.

Today's post isn't really about anything specific, just some things I wanted to share.


This is Jonathan's sunflower seed that he planted earlier this year at school. It started out in a styrofoam cup and kept getting bigger. I finally moved it outside in the flower pot. I know this isn't very exciting but I was really happy with how the picture turned out. Oh, and the picture was taken over a month ago. It's not nearly as pretty right now.


Here's Nathaniel getting his yellow-green belt. I'm proud of him for working so hard to pass his test. Sorry it's so blurry, the lighting isn't great and my phone doesn't have a lot of options.


Many of you already know about Brigham's thumb. It was smashed in the door at Aunt Rachelle's house. He was in a lot of pain and here is what it looked like the next day. Again, sorry it's blurry, I took one with the flash and it was over exposed.


This is to give you an idea of just how swollen it is.


The next day, Jaaromy was working from home but had to go to the church office building for his new ID badge so Brigham and I went with him. I actually took this with my phone and I'm really happy with how it turned out.


I have to throw this one in because I think it goes perfectly with the first one. I didn't plan it, he just happened to start climbing up right when I took the picture.
As a side story, we stopped at a McDonald's downtown after Jaaromy got his badge and I was looking for a seat while Jaaromy got the food and was finding a place to sit and right as I chose a table a homeless man sat down across from us. Well, it was too late to move at that point, so I stayed. Jaaromy sat down and I could tell he was a little uncomfortable. We didn't talk much while we were eating since he was looking right at us. Oh, but he talked plenty and stomped on imaginary bugs too. I couldn't understand what he was saying but he'd give a deep laugh every once and a while. As if that wasn't unsettling enough, Brigham also started laughing for some unknown reason. Jaaromy and I were left wondering if we'd missed something. As we were leaving Jaaromy felt like he should say something to him. But what could we say? "Good luck with your hopes and dreams, big guy!" So I just smiled. But hey, it makes a great story.

Thanks for sticking it out with me, sorry it's so long. I know I should have been posting more often. Let's do this again tomorrow!