Yay Me!!!

WOOHOO!! Just submitted my last assignment in my first term of graduate school. It feels so good to know I'm finally on "Christmas break." Now I can get some Christmas shopping and stuff done! I feel so behind having only bought one thing so far for the boys and not a thing else! I feel great about this last term and can't believe I'm one term down from being finished! Only 6 more to go! LOL

GO BEAVS!!!

What an exciting day for Oregon school football fans! This day may just be one of our favorite days of the year next to watching our kiddos open Christmas presents! We've been flying our beaver flags all day long and we've got Benny blown up in our front yard. Hayden's super excited to cheer on the Beavs tonight and we are hoping for a sweet victory! I think it's going to be a really great game! GOOOO BEAVSSSS!!!!

Here's some pics from our house this morning and a past beaver game this year (vs. the Huskies) that I'm just getting posted. :)

2 of the cutest Beaver believers!

"OSU"

Hayden and Mama tailgating

Kam and Hayden cheering on the Beavs

I need help!!

So I absolutely cannot change my background! I've tried everything and cannot get the dang thing to revert back to minima so that I can change it. Does anyone have any tips? I've never had trouble until I changed it to the one I have and from there on I've never been able to get it to change. SO FRUSTRATING!!!

Happy Veterans Day

Happy Veterans Day to all those who have or are serving for our country. Thanks could never be enough for all you and your families do! Thanks to my brother Justin for helping protect our country by serving in the US Navy.

Happy Halloween 2009

Halloween this year was so much fun with 2 kiddos! The boys were great and didn't complain once about their costumes or anything! Hayden as I said was a turtle and Austin was a dinosaur. They were too cute! We started Halloween by hitting the downtown trick or treating. It was so crowded! And we got hit with a downpour on our way back to the car...thankfully the boys didn't even care about the rain...their suckers were much more important. :) After downtown we hit up family friends and family before dropping the boys off at Grandma & Grandpa George's house for the night. Ryan and I had an "adult" Halloween party to attend that night. Ryan dressed as a Rasta man and I was an 80's prom queen...my costume won for best costume for the girls at the party! It was fun to see how everyone dressed for the night.

My babies

Cutest little dinosaur around

Papa and the boys

Cheeser

Trick or treating at Grandma & Grandpa George's

The hubs and I

Lins in her funny costume, the tooth fairy, & prom queen

Brett's sweet side (with baby Dylan)

Hallie & Ryan

Kitty, UPS guy, and Ultimate fighting guy?

Jennifer always out does her self with the food!

Brett looks good in lashes!

Punkin Seed Halloween Party

The Thursday before Halloween Hayden had his first preschool Halloween party and it was so much FUN!! Hayden was a teenage mutant ninja turtle (Raphael) obviously and he loved his costume. He had it on before we even made it out of the store when we got it and he wore it all day. Glad he picked out one he wanted to put on more than just for one day! So at the party all the kiddos were super cute and they did so well with their trick-or-treating each other. All the kids had a "house" to sit at (a colored mat), and 2 kids at a time went around to each house and trick or treated. I'm telling you it was so cute and I really was shocked how well they all did with it. We had a lot of fun watching it and Hayden enjoyed it all of it!

Our turtle all ready to go!

His adorable class

Passing out candy to Lexi

Hayden doing his trick or treating

Passing candy to Trent

Doing the story "The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything"

Hayden patiently waiting

Hayden and his buddy Trent

And with his friend Lexi

Pumpkin Carving 2009

Pumpkin carving was absolutely hilarious this year! We started out by giving the boys markers to color on their little pumpkins and thought we'd carve the big ones (with Hayden helping). Well we have never given Austin a marker before and there's definitely a reason why...lets just say he enjoyed decorating his face than the pumpkins face! All it took was one swipe on accident onto his face and he felt it so he kept doing it, until his whole side of his face was green. We couldn't stop laughing as he did it cause he was so serious looking. We decided to then bathe him and put him to bed and finish the carving with Hayden. Ended up carving all 4 pumpkins, even the 2 tiny ones. Hayden had a blast. Last year he didn't want to touch the gooey insides but this year he dug right in. He was super excited to put candles in them and put them on the porch. I love it! Holidays are so much fun when you have kids and they are old enough to get excited. So here's some pics from our carving night. Hayden's school Halloween party is Thursday and I can't wait! Pics will be up soon of that!

Hayden is excited!

He never says cheese and he wouldn't stop posing for pics this night!

Boys all ready to go

Started out pretty clean with just a bit of marker on his mouth from putting the colored pumpkin in his mouth...

One mark led to...

More! This is the look he gave me when I said "Austin...what are you doing?"

Digging out the guts

His end result on his face :)

Austin's pumpkin

Hayden's pumpkin

My (Amber) pumpkin

Ryan's pumpkin