Outtakes...

We had a photo session yesterday and the subjects were a little less than cooperative....

Home for the Holidays...

Since we're staying put for the Holidays and no one is visiting, I thought I'd invite you all to virtually visit our home. Come on in! You can click on the pics to make them bigger if you really want to.
(Those are snowflakes on the tree to the right. They sparkle! Ooh!)

Grab a cup of Egg Nog or Pomegranate 7UP (seriously- try it) and have a seat!

Have a look at the ginormous tree Stephen picked this year. It's pre-lit. No more 2900 lights (I'm dead serious). Please try not to notice that I ran out of ribbon 3/4 of the way up the tree!

Since we went "pretty" for our living room tree this year, we decided to put a smaller, more Gooby-friendly one with the kids ornaments on it in the family room. This one doesn't have 2900 lights either.

It has half that. Sheesh.

(If I had planned this better, I would have kicked Miles off the video games and had a pretty Christmassy graphic on the tv!)

I hope you enjoy your visit! Now, let's relax and reminisce about Christmasses passed*....

Love you all!

*I had the hardest time deciding whether it was "Christmasses past" or "Christmasses passed". If I were to say "Christmasses past", isn't that turning "Christmas" into a posessive? Being the cunning linguist that I am, I want anyone who knows what it really should be to email me!

Greyson Potter

We have this nifty little closet under our staircase that we were using for storage but then decided that it would be cool to convert it to Greyson's play "room". He loves it in there! We have a little tv/vcr set up so he can watch Thomas (which he knows how to turn on himself!).

Happy Halloween!

My cousin Tyler came down from Seattle for Halloween. We didn't have anyone going Trick-or-Treating so it was a bit different this year but still fun. We made lots of yummy things to eat, watched Ghost Hunters and played the Wii. We got about 120 Trick-or-Treaters- a lot of who took pictures in front of our house! That was kinda cool!

Greyson was a penguin but refused to wear his hat or feet. So, he was half a penguin but still very cute and cuddly. Austin, Miles & Ty were intermitently vampires, gorillas and werewolves. Sometimes a combination of the 3. Bax was a man eating shark-dog.

I cannot wait until next year when Greyson will actually go out and show off his costume!

Greyson & Baxter Time...

Greyson loves Baxter...probably a little too much. Every once in awhile, Baxter will be patient (or maybe just tired?) enough to let Greyson pull on him any way he wants. He was giving Baxter wheat pretzel rods and climbing all over him in our family room. What a cute pair they are!

Austin's Braces-less Smile

Less than 2 years and $6000 later....they're off!

Pumpkin Patch!

We went to Roloff Farms last weekend to pick out our pumpkins. The farm & family are featured on the TLC reality show "Little People Big World". They are a dwarf couple with 4 kids (only one of which is a dwarf) who have created this amazing farm for the public. They have a western town, a pirate ship, a water wheel...

We saw the film crew there filming and the mom was signing autographs. We just went for pumpkins. It was a beautiful day and Greyson loved pushing the very heavy cart around.