Halloween...a little late

Alright, I know I'm probably the last to do this, but even two months after the fact I think these pics are cute...even though they don't catch my Boys in all their Ninja glory. this year Teancum wanted to be a Ninja Turtle for Halloween (and a have a Ninja Turtle birthday). Since I had some blue fabric around the house I figured it woudl be easy to stitch up a mask and some armbands to go on some green sweats and viola T was his favorite Ninja Turtle. Of coarse he wanted the rest of us to be them too so I made small purple and large red and orange bands a masks and we went to our halloween party as the complete set, too bad I didn't have anyone take our pic. Then on Halloween Night we went with some friends and Let me tell you they were the cutest set of kids on the block. Thanks Nicole for getting some pics for me.

Donatello with Diego and Baby Jaguar

The Whole Crew

Leonardo taking on a Ninja and Indiana Jones

Caught redhanded

I was busy preparing dinner today and turned to find my sweet little Jacob with his hand caught in the cookie jar...so to speak. He recently discovered how yummy marshmellows are yesterday when he found the container in our cupboard and I gave him one. Here is the play by play of todays caper

I'm caught...

Look Mommy....

....MMMMMMmmm....

The little children

Our first Sunday here happened to be the primary program. It was fun to here the kids sing...and I'm sorry to say I did compare the program to the one we had in Waco and it didn't even compare to how wonderful Waco's kids sang, and how well the program was put together. It made me miss my children, and got me to thinking about some of the kids who expressed sadness at my leaving.

I even got teary eyed thinking about my last sunday in our old ward. The primary spotlighted me and I had the kids sing Child's Prayer...a song that is near and dear to my heart since my family used to practice singing it in parts during family night. I hope the kids know that I was bearing my testimony to them in the song. I couldn't tell them that directly though because I was so choked up by the end I couldn't even sing.

To top it off the Rachel White presented me with a card that was signed by all the primary kids and teachers, the nursury leaders, and even the former primary kids that graduated while I was the singing time Choristor. I just went to my seat bawling, there was no way I was going to be able to say anything at the time...but if any of the parents are reading this, please let your children know how much I love them, that I know God loves them and they are choice spirits, I know Heavenly Father hears their prayers and will answer them. They are children of God.

Botched baking day

My inlaws are coming to visit us tomorrow. Remembering how my mother-in-law always has a bag of homemade cookies somewhere I decided to bake a bunch to make them feel more at home. I cheated though and used a tub of premade cookiedough since I have a lot of unpacking left to do still. The results...5 dozen burt cookies. The first couple batches burned...I don't know why since the oven wasn't even officially preheated to the right temp and I followed the time on the directions. The third was a success and I plum forgot about the 4th, 5th and 6th batches. What a waste. We've already eaten the dozen that turned out. I guess tomorrow I'll have to start from scratch before the get here.

Welcome to Colorfull Colorado

We've finally settled in to our home in colorado and the boys are loving having a yard to play in and a school around the corner with three playgrounds. The library is in walking distance and the first day here there was a Buck in our backyard. He came to visit us again the next day but we havn't seen him since then. Jacob is taking the move fairly well, it has been a little harder on Teancum who had to drop out of preschool and leave his many friends behind. He kept asking to go home until the movers brought our stuff and he had his bed back, now he just asks to go play with Jackson and Ava. Ryan is hard at work and has been given a lot of responsibility on this job (he is in charge of the entire interior of the Hospital), what a great learning opportunity. I'm loving having a home and really enjoyed decorating it and making it ours. Last Saturday we raked leaves...funny how yard work can get you all excited when you haven't had to do it in years.
Sorry about the lack of pictures. I was going to take a bunch and chronicle our move, unfortunately I had the movers pack up the charger and then when I went to take pictures of the "big" truck the camera's battery died. The charger is still lost in all the boxes left to unpack....I'm procrastinating now that the upstairs is settled and looking homey. When I finally dig it out and charge the camera I'll post the pictures of our new and blessed abode. Bye for now.

3 and crushing

Teancum had his birthday last night and his party tonight. I can't get over how much he has grown over the last three years. It seems like he has always been a part of this family and yet I am always amazed at how much older he seems, like how he always encourages others when we play simple games, how early he picked up on memory and go fish, how easily he grasped the concept of taking turns. His latest milestone reached is his first real crush...sure he liked a girl in Provo, but it was more like a close friend he liked to make happy.

I wasn't even sure if Teancum just liked Ava or had a crush on her. When we made up invitations for his preschool pals to come to his birthday party he refused to write her name in any color except pink. Then she showed up to preschool grumpy one day and as soon as he saw her Teancum put his arms around her, kissed her on the cheek and just held her. I was stunned and I think I went into shock because all I remember is coming up with some reason I only halfed believed for why he was holding this little girl in his arms....If I didn't apologize for my sons forward behavior Linz I am sorry. Anyways, this kiss put me on my gaurd to see if Teancum really liked this girl and sure enough everytime I asked him who was coming to his party it was "Jackson (bf), Ava" followed by a random friend from preschool. Finally the clincher came. I asked Teancum after his party what his favorite part was...thinking his answer would be the piñata or the presents and without hesitation he said "Ava." So there you have it my son has a crush. She's a cutie too.

Transfers

Alright, so I've been horrible at blogging lately, but here is the scoop. We just found out we are moving in three weeks, so if there is little news on our side for a while you know why. Where are we off to you ask? The wonderfully white in the wintertime state of Colorado! In Craig we will be five hours from my parents, five hours from Provo (great for when friends get married), and 11 hours from Ryan's parents...that's the closest we will have lived to my parents and the closest to Ryan's since the kids started arriving. Are we excited? Hmmm...outdoors, hiking, snow, sledding, grandparents, yard, nature, small town....Yup. The only downside is leaving all of our friends and family that we have grown so close to over the last year and a half, some of which we are just starting to get to know. So, here is a chance to help us reminisce with a fun memories you have of the last year and a half.

And we're back in 5,4,3,2,1

Welcome back to Maxwell's hive where despite an extremely long hiatus taken by the writer news has not slown down here at all. The bees were busy as usual this past month as Teancum started preschool, the family had an action packed labor day, Kirsten planned a baby shower, Mom and boys went to Colorado for a little over a week to enjoy time with Grandparents, Uncles, Buddy, Aunt Holly, and Cousins--Ryan missed them and was missed something terrible--they came back in time for Kirsten to help with a YM/YW activity, finish some gifts for the baby shower and attend, host book club, prepare an all day singing time in primary, and help and teach preschool lessons and take the boys to doctor appointments...plus all the normal stuff and trying to catch up on sleep. Feel like you missed out? Sorry, but this busy mom has more than a dozen pictures to bring you up to speed. Enjoy!