Happy Birthday Boston!

The Bos-man turned three today and all he wanted for his birthday was cake so that made it pretty easy for us! Ok, he did get a few more things. We tried to sing to him first thing this morning and he would have none of it. He said "we have to wait for cake!" As you will see from the photo, as soon as you hit three at our house you gotta start earnin' your keep. We love you Bossy!

It really is our most favorite time of year

We usually wait until after Thanksgiving to deck the halls but this year we just couldn't wait. We figured since we will be in Utah for half of December that we would get an early start. Since we have been married Ryan's least favorite thing has always been to put the lights on the Christmas tree, but now that we have a pre-lit artificial he gets to "fluff" the branches. I think it's pretty safe to say this is now his new least favorite thing. (That and changing the girls beds from twin beds to bunk beds every few months.) The girls had so much fun decorating their tree and were so proud of their decorating skills. Boston had the time of his life wearing Santa's sleigh bells around his waist all morning and playing the singing snowman over, and over, and over... the rest of us desperately wished we had earplugs. We are officially ready for Christmas! Now, if we could just get the kids to trust us that Santa really will find us at Grandmas.

HALLOWEEN

The fun started early this week! We had a great time at our Trunk or Treat party at the church - except we forgot the camera. There were games for the kids and we had our first annual chili cookoff. We had a great time and there were so many kids that we ran out of candy and had to shut our trunk.
The kids then had the 30th and 31st off of school. They were getting really excited to go trick or treating. It was absolutely wonderful for them to go trick or treating without having to bundle up. It was about 60 degrees when the kids went out and it was fun for them to stay outside most of the evening.
We had a fun time with friends over at the house. It was a great way to celebrate and have some fun. There were lots of memories made and Boston still insists that he was a skeleton for Halloween - not Frankenstein.