Sunday, November 23, 2008

Weather

The other day, the boys and I were getting ready to go out and rake leaves. It was a nice afternoon, about 70 degrees. Just as we are ready to go out, the wind starts. Big wind. Then the temperature drops. It went down to 50 degrees in about 20 minutes. The leaves were swirling, so the leaf raking got put on pause, but the boys still wanted to head out in the wind storm.
I know I didn't capture this very well with a still camera but Austin was out in the crazy wind, with leaves swirling around him. He had a tree limb and was trying to hit the flying leaves. He was yelling and running all over the yard.


James was out there too, but was less excited about all the leaves flying in his face, so he would stand on the porch to get out of some of the wind.

This picture you can actually see the leaves flying all around Austin.



They were having a great time. No toys for Christmas at my house, just need more crazy weather!

Then yesterday we had some dark clouds roll in. First it started with freezing rain, then small snow flakes, then these HUGE snow flakes. Luckily nothing stuck. I'm not ready for snow on the ground yet. I haven't even raked my leaves!


Random pictures


This is James and Austin in their aprons Mimi made for them. Anytime I start cooking in the kitchen, James wants to put on his apron and "me help?" They love them.



The boys had recently watched Mulan. Then that evening at dinner, James said he was a dragon (like the little dragon in Mulan) and he made this face. I didn't catch him with his eyes rolled way back. That was what the original dragon face was. It was hilarious.
Yesterday, one of my patients said "God put kids and cats on the Earth for entertainment." Maybe it's true :)

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Sunday best

On Sunday, both boys wanted to wear ties, like dad. So here they are. Very handsome (just try to overlook the Tang mustache on James).

Saturday, November 1, 2008

More Halloween

O ye traditional jack o'lantern carving.

Cam really hates getting the guts out of the pumpkin. Usually he figures out some way to make me do it for him. This year he had to do it himself. :)

Austin is making the same face that he wanted carved into his pumpkin.

Halloween or Sugar induced insanity

Halloween is really a weird holiday. Going something like this (especially if you have a stubborn, tired 2 year old).
"You have to put on your costume"
"NO"
"Don't you want to go get candy?"
"Yeah"
"Then let's get your costume on."
"NO"
(Why should I care if he doesn't get a bag full of candy that I have to spend the next week trying to keep him from gorging himself on? Because its Halloween, and were going to have fun, dang it!)
You can see how productive our conversations were.
Finally when we got to Cam's office (they let the kids come and trick 0r treat the cubicles), James wanted to put his costume on.


Then we got home and were going to take a few quick pictures then take them trick or treating to just a few houses in our neighborhood.

The sugar had already mix with their blood---they were crazy. Hence, no great pics. But I'll post what I have.


Ok, this first one isn't horrible, but James would not stand up, so he is leaning against the couch.













Then Austin starts flinging his bag around.
















Now we have completely lost it. I think James is crying in the background. Awesome.