Halloween 2010

If you read my last post you know I am playing catch up.

Graham was a garden gnome for Halloween. Many people thought he was Santa or one of the seven dwarfs but to set the record straight he was a garden gnome.

On Friday we went to a trick or treat at Scentsy and got to see where Ryan works. Ryan's department had an Area 51 theme.

















Ryan was a "men in black guy" and I was a ladybug.

















Graham, holding nerds and relaxing in daddy's chair after a rigorous round of trick or treating.



















(Ellie as a ghost, Brooklyn as super girl, Landon as superman, Livi as a ghost, Brayden as a zombie, and GW as a garden gnome.)

On Sunday we had a little party at Ryan's parents and the kids got to trick or treat to the rooms throughout the house.

Pumpkin fun

I know it is January 1st 2011. But we are very behind on blogging. So here are some pumpkin pictures from October. I know pumpkins don't seem fun and magical since the Fall is over but just go with it.






















GW picking his pumpkin.


















Almost time to carve.






















Pumpkin guts, yum!






















A baby in a pumpkin.

Beardvember

Beardvember is in full swing and my beard is beginning to develop the maturity and sophistication one might expect from a pageantry caliber beard. For those who haven't heard, I am heading up a beard growing contest at work during the month of November. Myself and 12 of my co-workers are vying for the title of Mr. Beardvember 2010. We have been taking weekly photos to track our progress. On Nov. 30th, we will take our final photos. The women in our department are then going to judge the submissions and crown the winner. Since only one man will be lucky enough to bear the title of Mr. Beardvember 2010, we have also created honorable mention categories. The categories include:

Most likely to have a restraining order
Most likely to be flagged for additional screening at airport security
Most likely to be asked to eat in the other room at Thanksgiving
Most likely to make children cry
Most likely to be asked by HR to shave

...etc

I'll keep you posted on how the pageant goes and where I place.

Finally some birthday pictures

The turtle cake.


















The birthday boy with his turtle cake, though he doesn't look very impressed.


















The messy birthday boy.


















The messy birthday boy getting cleaned up.

Happy Birthday to Graham

Our little Graham turned 1 year old today. I'll save birthday details for another post. Here is Graham month by month over the past year. We sure love our little guy.


































Hours old and today at 12 months.

















1 month.






















2 months.


















3 months.


















4 months.

















5 months.






















6 months.

















7 months.

















8 months.

















9 months.






















10 months.

















11 months.

Mid week getaway

This week Graham and I traveled to the not so far away land of Walla Walla, WA. Considering that GW had a cold he did great on the car ride. My sweet sister, Jandi, is having a baby in a couple weeks and I just had to see her one more time before the baby came and be there for the baby shower.

















No matter how many times we took this picture we both felt like we looked sleepy, maybe it was because we had been chasing boys all day.

















Cousin Myles and Graham in the tub. Graham doesn't quite understand personal space yet and was up in Myles's face all the time, which understandably made Myles a little uneasy. But in the tub all the barriers came down and they shared cars and crawled all over and had a great time. Who knew a tub would be where his personal bubble would pop?

Boise State Fever

The season has started! (Okay it started over a month ago but we are just getting to blogging about it now.) Graham has been delighted to dress up for Boise State games with his mom and dad.
















Watching football is one of Graham's favorite things to do with his daddy.