Rewind: Brighton's Birthday 2!

For Brighton's birthday, we had a family barbecue with the Bylunds and Reynolds.

He is obsessed with monster trucks, so he got a few for his birthday.

I sure love this boy!

Sherrill Moody made his cake: a monster truck with wheels that actually move! It was so cute (and delicious); the picture doesn't do it justice. He still talks about his monster truck birthday cake.

Rewind: Halloween

My mom sent the boys these cute foam Halloween houses to put together. They loved it! Those little houses kept the boys entertained for hours!

We went trick-or-treating with the Willburs. We met over at their house and made our rounds through the neighborhood. 

Greg and Brighton getting geared up.

Ben was a robot. I didn't get pictures of the other kids but Nick was a minion from "Despicable Me", Kristen was Minnie Mouse, and Emily was a cat. Joy makes the most amazing costumes ever. There is nothing that woman can't do.

The cutest cow I've ever seen. 

It was cold that night, and Brighton is definitely a fair weather child. He was also being a bit shy, so he was content to just sit in the wagon the whole time.

Greg totally got into the whole "get tons of candy" thing. He would run up to the door with the other kids, say thank you, come give his bag to me, then run to the next house. Then he'd get a little frustrated that he had to wait for me to get his bag. After a while, he finally figured out that it would just be easier if he held on to his bag.

When we got home, Greg was helping me take something out to the garbage and he saw some trick-or-treaters. He started shouting, "Hey! I like your costume! We have lots of candy at our house! Come say trick-or-treat, and we'll give you some!" It was pretty funny.

Noel helped the boys carve the pumpkin we got at the pumpkin patch. What a fun Halloween!

Rewind: Fall Festivities

Remember how I'm really bad at keeping up on memory keeping (journaling, scrapbooking, blogging, etc.)? Yep. So to keep our family scrapbook/blog alive, here's some of the things we did this past fall.

I had a Groupon to Bounce U, so Noel and I took the boys one afternoon that he unexpectedly had off. What a fun afternoon! Greg LOVED it! Especially the slides.

Noel and I thought that Brighton would be all over the place since he loves jumping off furniture and whatnot. Not the case. He got in one bounce house and wanted out immediately! He did, however, love the little "batting cage." You put the wiffle ball over the cone that had air coming out of it and then you could hit the ball. He thought it was really fun and was actually pretty good at it.

We bought a fire pit on sale at Lowes and had a few marshmallow roasts in the backyard. Neither of the boys like roasted marshmallows. That's okay, more for me!

Brighton was terrified of the fire, so he just snuck marshmallows and played on the slide instead. I guess a healthy fear of fire is a good thing, right?

In October, Greg's preschool had a field trip to Bi-Water Farms, an awesome pumpkin patch in Georgetown. They have play sets, sand boxes, a tricycle race track, slides, a petting zoo, corn maze. All sorts of fun. The boys didn't want to leave!

Ashley, Greg, and Brighton

Greg was obsessed with wearing Noel's sunglasses. He looks so cool!

On the hayride out to the pumpkin patch

It was pretty cold that day, but after we picked out our pumpkin, I could not get Greg to wear his jacket. I'm an awesome mom.

Greg and Bear: the Best of Friends

When Greg was born, Aunt Gale gave him this little snuggly bear. Four years later, he still loves Bear. One day he wanted me to take pictures of her (yes, bear is a girl because she has a dress).

Bear wearing Greg's shark hat. :) I love my boy!

Rewind: Greg Starts Preschool

In September, Greg started attending preschool at Building Blocks Preschool at the North Lexington Church of Christ. He LOVES it! It's insanely affordable, but it's an amazing little preschool. He goes every Tuesday with some of his best buddies: Ashley, Emily, Evan, Gray, just to name a few(there are tons of LDS kids who attend). His teachers are Ms. Ginny and Ms. Robin. And the lucky boy, he gets to have his best friend Ashley in his class.

First day of school. I tried to get him dressed in some shorts and a polo shirt, but he said, "Am I going to church? I don't want to wear that." And then he picked out his own outfit. It was really funny. You gotta pick your battles right?

 Outside the school

Brighton had to get in on the action too! 

There was an open house the day before school started, and the three of us (Greg, Brighton, and I) went. Both the boys thought it was so cool. The next day, I think Brighton thought he got to go to preschool too. He was soooo sad when we dropped Greg off. He kept saying, "I stay too! I stay too!" He cried almost the entire day because he missed Greg. Honestly, he is still a bit grumpy on Tuesdays because he misses his best buddy and just has to hang out with mom all day.

 Greg had to take a picture of himself to school to put on the bulletin board. It's hard to get this kid to make a normal face for a picture. :)

 The kids and teachers put on a little Thanksgiving program in November for the families, followed by a yummy Thanksgiving dinner. So fun! Here's Greg with his class (his buddy Evan is to the right of him).

Pretty sure that he didn't sing a single word, but he was really cute nonetheless. :)

Hiding Pals

IMG_6265, a photo by MuShoo2008 on Flickr.

Found them in a stump...oh how I love my boys!

Trunk and Treat

Trunk and Treat was a roaring success this year. 

With all of the milk Brighton consumes, 

Brighton felt at home in his cow costume. 

Greg was a ferocious dragon trainer named G-hiccup!

Who likes watching the horses?

Who likes watching the horses?, a photo by MuShoo2008 on Flickr.

On Saturday we celebrated our second to last trip to Keeneland's Breakfast at the Works. Brighton was in a particularly happy mood.

A Day in the Life...

Just doing a picture dump of all the random pictures that I have on my camera.

The boys absolutely LOVE playing outside.

This is how Brighton usually looks after...red face and sweaty (inherited from his mom).

Hose= hours of entertainment!

Greg loves to build forts/tents in the living room. Sometimes he is a little too particular about the construction for my liking, but oh well (ie. Mom, that blanket can't go there! It has to be the red side! There is too much light getting in! etc.).

One day when I was feeling exceptionally crummy, I helped him make a fort and told him he could watch a movie on his portable DVD player in his tent so that I could take a nap. After I slept for about an hour, this is what I found. I guess he needed a nap too!

Blurry but still cute. Brighton always wants his picture taken.

Greg being Bob the Builder, carrying his tools around in his boots. Who needs a tool belt? "Do my children ever where pants?" you ask. Nope.

Brighton being Daddy (he has Noel's pager and ID on)

Mariokart! I've turned into one fantastic mom since I got pregnant. Lots of TV, and Mariokart, and whatever else as long as I can lay on the couch.

FHE Olympics a few weeks ago with the Bylunds, Bylunds, Millars, Noehrens, and Powells. So much fun! I'm so glad that I have clever, creative friends who come up with fun activities!

Just being cute.

I was making a Moby wrap for a friend's baby shower, and the boys were very interested. I took the parts that I cut off to taper the ends, and they made great pirate bandanas. Pirates wear pink, right? Then Greg wanted to try the wrap on. Sorry Jennilyn, the wrap is pre-worn. :)

FHE singing time at the piano.

The picture really does not do it justice, but this is the cake Sherrill Moody made for Greg's birthday. It was AMAZING! I especially loved the fur on Hiccup's jacket.

The other day, I had a piece of toast with breakfast. Toward the end of the toasting, it started to smell really funny. Then after the toast popped up, the toaster started smoking a bit. I looked in and there were two cars in the bottom of the toaster (it's really hard to see in the picture). Didn't know that I needed to check for toy cars in the bottom of my toaster. You better believe I will from now on. I'm really glad that I didn't start my kitchen on fire!

My boys are just so darn cute and funny! I'm one lucky mom!