Our Family

Here are our wonderful pictures our friend did for us!

I think this is my favorite even if Jarom is not smiling!

This is what Jarom did everytime you say, "SMILE!"

We got a little smile here.

My boy is growing up!

Try not to look at the camera or smile!

Love thoughs eyes

No smiles here either

Looking at his silly parents trying to get me to smile!

Busy Weekend

You sure know you love your family when the time flys by. Weekends sure go by fast when Daddy is around. We must love him.

We are lucky to have a photographer in our ward. She agreed to takes some pictures of us. Here is a sample of what to come after I get all the pictures.

It sure is harder to get pictures when you have more children. Jarom and Ammon refused to smile. Below is the only picture we got of Jarom smiling. It was our first picture taken.

Note to self: Do not put a 2 year old in a white shirt while at a park. I still have stains. Next wash I will have to use more bleach!

Friday was our ward Halloween party with Trunk or Treat.

We also went to the Library for Halloween crafts. Here is Jarom's craft.

spider web was Devin's craft.

Here are the boys posing for me. Jarom was very unsure about costumes. I had to give him a lolly pop inorder to get his costum on.

Friday

Today we went to Devin's school to help with their pumpkins, counting seeds. Very hard to keep the kids on task to count 572 seeds in our pumpkin but it was fun! I took in cupcakes for the class to eat after lunch.

You know you are a true mom when you hear a loud explosion from your baby,

and you are just happy you are still at home when it happens!

Here are some instant smiles I get after an explosion!!!

It's hard to take a picture while holding him but I got some of the smiles.

I have been selling all our German 220V things online which has been fun.
Yesterday I sold all my plants in one day. People sure want plants here. It's hard to let go of all my plants I love so much but the things you have to do when you move.
Can you tell I am ready to move?????
Isn't time to move yet?
I think I might be made for the Army because after a year, I am ready to move again.
Or maybe it's just a Germany thing.

My boys!

Here are my wild boys. Love Jarom fake smile!

Wednesday was Devin's Pack Meeting. One down 5 to go!!

Devin on the far left with the yellow hat.

I was surpried Devin got an award for getting one of the highest scores bowling at their fundraiser. I think he got a 104. He also got some belt loops and 2 out of 4 beads to get his wolf badge. I am trying to get Devin done early since we will be moving. It's hard enough to get Devin done with cubscouts, helping 7 more kids is hard.

Date night!

Dane's work had a social Friday night and there happen to be parents night out child care also, so we got to go out together with Ammon of course. I got an entire 30 min before Ammon woke up and fussed all night! The restaurant was wonderful! It is fun to get dressed up and go out to eat without kids!

Dane is thinking of selling his car to someone in the church since we have a short time left here in Germany. I told him to wait till after Winter. He thinks he is going to "WALK" 3 miles to work in the snow, crazy. I think I might be out of a car some days if he sells it!

Impressive Devin

It is getting really cold here in the 40's, and Jarom does not want to wear a jacket or hat. So I thought maybe if I let him pick a hat, he would wear it. Here he is, Buzz! He is going to be Buzz for Halloween, so he likes him right now.

Lets just see if he will wear it outside!

I was very impressed with Devin carved his own pumpkin. Dane should him how and he did it by himself for the first time.
Ammon cried for about 2 hours last night.
I finally decided to bring the swing into my room since even the car seat was not working.
He went right to sleep!
That boy sure loves his swing.

Crazy!

We had our first Cub Scout Den meeting today. We learned all about the flag. At the end of the meeting, we all jumped into the cars and drove to the 5:00 pm flag ceremony on post. Dane was nice and came and showed the boys how to fold the flag.

Dane has told me in the past,

"one boy is some what a boy, two boys is half a boy, and three or more is no boy at all!" (Something like that)

Well, eight boys means craziness!

Of course, my 2 boys gave me the hardest time.

PS I have resorted back to the car seat for Ammon sleeping at night.

I JUST NEED MORE SLEEP!