Halloween

A friends of ours made this flower arrangement in a class and gave it to me. I thought it was really cool that it was arranged in a pumpkin. Its was really pretty.
Trick or Treat time is here. Its too bad Madee's eyes are shut in this picture. Madee was a pretty Pretty Princess. Sam was orginally a hotdog but that costume would not work in the stroller (No Legs) so we switched to the pumpkin costume.
Madee loved going door to door to get candy. We went to our old bishops house trick or treating and only went to about four of five houses and Madee still wanted to go to just one more house. So we went back to our neighbourhood and Lincoln dropped us off (He had to work late). At least he got to come with us for part of the trick or treating. So back in our Neighbourhood we continued our trick or treating and Madee kept saying exactly that just one more house. Over and over. She had more candy then one little girl really needs. We will have to find a good hiding place for it.
Can I just say that Halloween is a really dark holiday. Lincoln was looking up the origin of Halloween on Wicapidia and he also came across the story of the Jack 'o Lantern. Very dark. Interesting story if you get a chance to read about it.

27 on the 27th

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINCOLN!! Yes Lincoln turned 27 on the 27th of Oct. Madee was so much more excited then Lincoln. When he came home from work, She ran to the car and screamed at the top of her lungs "Its your birthday Daddy..Its your birthday!"
Its a Mountain Dew Cake. (No Mountain Dew included) Madee wanted to help make the cake and bake the cake and eat the icing and put the candles on too. It was a fun evening. We love Lincoln and are glad he is finally catching up age wise.

Fishing trip

We Decided to do a fishing trip to Strawberry Res. Madee got to learn how to fish. She is only three and her attention span is not very long so when they were waiting to rile in the line Lincoln told her she needed to call the fishes by saying Here Fishy fishy. Sadly no fish were caught.
So this is how Lincoln carried the kids to the perfect spot to fish. Yes Madee demanded to be carried because Lincoln was carring Sam in the Backpack. Day Trips with kids are A lot of work.

Pumpkin Carving

For Family Home Evening on Monday night we decided to carve some pumpkins. Madee didn't like the gooey innards of the pumpkin so much but I think she did like drawing on the pumpkins and having help cutting her Jack o'lantern's faces out.
This it the greatest picture. Madee actually took it and she is becoming quite our little photographer.
Madee helped her Daddy put the candles in the Jack o'lanterns and we turned out all the lights so we could look at them in the dark and see how scary they are.
Madee is doing her very scary face next to her pumpkin. Happy Halloween Everyone!!

Growing Bigger

Madee just keeps getting bigger everyday. Her hair is really long and beautiful but she rarely lets me brush it or do anything with it. She will not let me cut it at all either. Which is what I feel like doing when she does not let me brush it. It looks really cute in this picture though. Silly cute girl.
Sam now sits up on his own at five month old. He is a cutie too. He giggles sometimes but mostly when Madee is around. She can sure get him to laugh.
I needed to get some pictures of them more recent so we did a little photo shoot. It was kind of fun and Madee was really helpful.
We even pulled the pumpkins out. For Family home evening we went and picked out some good pumpkins for halloween and the fall. Madee loved doing that.

Happy Birthday Madee

So I am a little slow posting this but Madee had her third birthday last friday and she loved it so much she wanted to have a birthday everyday.
She got a barbie cake I am kind of proud of the cake besides the fact that some of the writing is different colors. She is wearing a beautiful cake gown. Madee loved it.
We had Madee's cousins over for the party and Garhett started beating Sam up a little bit. Garhett is one.
Last of all I got Sam to smile again in a picture. Seems like he is always smiling but its hard to get him to smile in a picture. He is just so mesmorized by the orange light he forgets to smile.

I love our kids

Can I just share how much I love our children. Sam is getting so big and starting to hold his head up so much longer. He talks all the time and loves to be talked to and he just wants to get moving. He pushes his legs up like he is ready to crawl but has no idea what to do with his hands. I sure do love our special little man. I am so greatful that he is part of our family.
Every kid is so different and we are seeing that so much with Sam around. Madee loves her little brother so much and helps when ever we let her. She loves to hug Sam and make him smile and loves to give him his bottle or just hold him in her lap.
We are the luckiest parents in the world to be blessed with these two little ones.
Lincoln is such a good daddy and my favorite part of the day is when he comes home from work and just tickle tickle tickles Madee until she falls off the couch. She loves to climb all over him and yes he is her own personal jungle gym.
Sam loves to be apart of it all too. Being Mommy's and Daddy's is the greatest Job. We should never forget that.