Halloween!

Because of Adam's aversion to the train we needed a back up. Our friend were good enough to lone us a couple costumes and Adam felt most comfortable wit the frog, he made a pretty cute frog too!

 We don't typically let him eat a lot of candy, but as you can see, because people were just handing him candy he made good use of the opportunity

 yes the wrapper is still on that tootsie roll, yes he bit into it and yes he continued to eat the whole thing with the wrapper still on, I think he may have been afraid that we would take away the candy.

 Kyle enjoyed gumming on the starburst too.

Adam helped scoop out the pumpkin

 he was pretty excited about it

 sometimes simple is all you need to make a  good impression

who knew frogs have fangs, that is such a creepy picture of him.  A picture of Nathaniel's and my costume to come.

Corn Bellys

Nathaniel had never been to a corn maze... until this week, and what an event it was.  We decided to go to Thanksgiving Point's Corn Belly's maze and we sure had a blast. Between the Maze, the Cow train, rubber ducky races, hay to climb and enormous slides, the whole family enjoyed our time there.

 We made it through the maze and Adam waked the whole time (he just didn't want to stand still for the picture)

 Adam found a lot of corn "swords"

 Adam went, mommy and Kyle followed. 

 "kum-pins!"

 our littlest pumpkin Kyle enjoyed the whole time strapped to mama in the moby wrap, he even slept for a good part of it.

enough said.

Trunk or treat

Adam has a thing for trains, he just loves them and loves the "Freight Trian" book we read to him every day. If you ask him what a train says he will automatically tell you "choo choo"! that is why I thought that making a train for his Halloween costume would be fitting. Adam seemed to be on board with the idea too. (pardon the puns!)  

 he tried it on during production

and the finished product was so cute

but when it came time to put on his hat and bandanna.... well you can see how he liked that!

 he had the train on for about 20 seconds before the evening was over

 Kyle didn't mind his monkey costume

 and Aunt Milla even dressed up

 Kyle didn't even mind the train

alas, this is how Adam spent the majority of the evening. Thanks Aunt Milla for taking the boys around while Nathaniel and I went to the Real SL game!

Random sampling of life as we know it

 1. General Conference at Great Grandma and Grandpa Bassett's

 2.Kyle :)

 3. Snuggle buddies

 4. when the dads are left in charge

 5.chub rolls can't get enough of this kid

 6. this is the box the diapers come in... he slept all night here!

7. Kyle, just after laughing so hard from being tickled on his neck (why do my babies not like to smile for the camera?) 

Two-year-old Terror!

I am so happy to have Nathaniel home after a week long business trip to Denver.  Adam took it upon himself  to remind me, in every way he could, how very alone I was, and how much I depend on Nathaniel for my sanity. Though this week was rough, I am sure this weekend would have been a nightmare to deal with if not for my hubby's calming influence.  I was even calm enough to take some pictures of his back to back terrors.
Sunday shortly before church we came downstairs to make sure Adam was ready to go.

 a whole 8 ounces of brand new acrylic white paint, no longer in the bottle, but all over my son, the carpet and the couch (he is lucky he didn't get my new shoes)  we spent the next 45 mins trying to get it all cleaned up

 we were only a little late for church :p

 and this morning, butter popcorn powder, same couch cushion , breathe. at least this was easier to clean, and I made Adam do most of the cleaning

Someone please tell me this is just a phase!

oh boy(s)!

They are both growing so quickly

 Just hanging out

 Kyle is very quick at taking away his smile when he sees the camera, this is the end part of one of his fantastic smiles!

 The new playroom (closet under the stairs)

 Kyle has cute chubby legs, arms, belly, and face and I can't resist eating him up!

 My happy boys!

such a sweety

Happy Anniversary... Celebration!

This year Nathaniel really wanted to do some hiking for our Anniversary (and if he really had it his way it would have been camping too)  But often when it reaches our anniversary it is just to chilly up in the mountains.  We decided to celebrate a few weeks early this year.  Thank you Thank you to Grandma Gleason and Aunt Milla who watched and took care of the boys during our over night trip. 

 The morning we left Adam was being so sweet to Kyle.

 Our first stop was Tucano's at the Gateway in Salt Lake, then on to window shopping at city creek center.
We spent the night in a Hotel and had fun being the only ones taking advantage of the swimming pool and the hot tub.

 In the morning we went up cottonwood canyon and went on an amazing hike.  The weather was perfect and the colors were breathtaking.

I had been under the impression somehow that the hike was 3 miles round trip tops... I was mistaken and we ended up hiking 3.5 miles straight up the mountain. 7 miles round trip, we made it, and we celebrated.

 Love you so much Schatzie! you are my everything and you have given me the best three years of my life!

At red pine lake September 22 2012

Family resemblance?

when Adam was just a month or so old we took a picture of him as seen here. this is a picture of Kyle in the same onesie just a few days ago.

They don't look like brothers at all do they?

goodness I see pictures of Adam like the post here, and think I am looking at a picture of Kyle, except for the lip... the lip is all Adam:)  I love my cute boys!

birthday

 yup, I am now 27 :)

 Kyle is 2 months old and weighs 11 pounds! he is growing so fast and he is such a good eater.  He has just started smiling so much and he is getting cuter every day

Nathaniel got me a sewing machine! (now all I have to do is learn how to sew!)

Cook Family reunion

this family reunion was a blast as well! Canoeing on the Snake river, swinging on the porch, olympics, and a whole day at yellowstone!  unfortunately, right after we saw old faithful adam threw dads phone at a bench... and it broke. all of the pictures from the reunion were on that phone and most of them randomly disappeared.  sad. maybe we shall find them one day.

one of the couple that did survive... the other was of the floor.