New Bicycle Helmet

So Natalie is getting really good at riding her bike. She still tips over though, so we thought it would be a good idea to get her some bike riding gear. I was really excited to find this set on clearance for only $11! That was more than half off. I mostly just wanted her to have elbow and knee pads so she wouldn't get all scraped up. I had no idea that she would be so thrilled about all of it. I thought I might have to convince her to wear them, but as you can see, that wasn't the case. Now every time I ask her if she wants to ride her bike, she takes off and says "I have to get my elbow pads." All the pictures I took of her were just to cute--I couldn't pick only one. So I posted all of them.

Yikes!!

So I finally gave Kelton a much needed haircut today. It was absolutely terrifying! I have never ever cut anyone's hair with scissors before (including Natalie's) with the one exception of my college roommate who put a pair of scissors in my hand one day and told me to trim her hair and wouldn't take no for an answer. (Thanks a lot Elaine--I still don't think I've quite recovered from that.) Oh, the things we do as college students to save money. Anyway, I had so many people tell me not to use clippers to do it, so I used scissors. Next time, I think the clippers are going to get a shot at it. But for now, it's done. Does it look... good? Um, not so much. Does it look better? Definitely. I wish there was some way to keep his hair from growing so I don't have to do this again.

BEFORE

AFTER

AND THIS IS SERIOUSLY HOW

KELTON FELT ABOUT THE WHOLE THING

ME IN ACTION USING JUST ABOUT ANYTHING

I COULD THINK OF TO GET HIM TO HOLD STILL

Halloween Monkey and Banana

Ah, my computer is finally letting me upload photos again! For a while every time I attached a photo, my computer would disconnect from the internet. Very frusterating. But for some magical reason, it is working again tonight. So here are our Halloween pictures!

I happened to be in town on Halloween so I took the kids over to the mall and had their picture taken at The Picture People. The 8x10 print was free, so I figured why not? It turned out really cute and I'm really glad I did it, because we didn't get any other real great pictures of the kids in their costumes.

A few days ago we went to the Halloween story time at the library and I took these pictures there. Natalie had a lot of fun--they told some Halloween stories and then the kids go trick-or-treating through the library for things like stickers and pencils--no candy.

On Halloween itself, we braved the outside world for the first time ever. For silly reasons our ward did not have a trunk-or-treat this year. I, along with many others, was not very happy about this, but oh well. So we went to a town thing where they had some Halloween carnival games and they gave out some prizes and candy. Then we went home and went trick-or-treating. We went up our street and the the street over from us. I was shocked that with only that, Natalie got quite a bit of candy. (We might be visiting Uncle Chad the dentist soon). Poor Kelton didn't get to go trick-or-treating because he was fast asleep. In order to get the cute picture at The Picture People, he kinda had to miss his long afternoon nap.

Natalie was thrilled at getting lots of suckers.

Kelton needs a haircut!!

So, I was only trying to get a picture of his crazy hair. The face he made the second I took the picture was an added bonus.

Playing at the park

I took the kids to the park this morning. Last time we went, I realized that Kelton is old enough to swing in the baby swings. He had so much fun, but of course I didn't have my camera. So today I took it with me. He had so much fun again but I think it almost put him to sleep. Natalie had a lot of fun too.

Yuck

So if you look really closely in this picture, you can see that Kelton is covered in pink chalk--his shirt, his hands, and yes... his mouth. He found a bag of Natalie's sidewalk chalk and like any good baby, decided to eat it. At least it's non toxic. So just as I got the outside of my pink baby all cleaned up, he decided to clean out the inside. That's the first time I've ever seen hot pink throw up. And I would guess that it's probably the last. (unless Kelton finds the chalk again)

Daddy's little fan

Kelton is all ready for college!

Peek-a-Boo

I walked into the room the other day and Kelton was peeking out from behind the piano bench. Natalie quickly joined him. It was just so cute to see those two little faces peeking out at me. I just had to take a picture. Unfortunately, in the first picture I took, the flash didn't go off (my fault--on our camera you have to actually lift it up) and of course that happened to be the very best picture. The picture was really dark, but I was able to fix it a little bit--but there's nothing I can do about the grainy-ness. Oh well, it's still cute. Then once they saw the camera, they both had to come get me.

Weekend in Snowflake

We spent this last weekend in Snowflake with our families, and we had a lot of fun. We went for Paisley Lunt's (Nathan's sister Lynnette's baby) baby blessing. Natalie was so excited to go and very unexcited to leave. She had so much fun seeing all of her grandparents that she did not want to come home. We came home at night and about half way home, she woke up and said "I want to go back to grandma's house." The next day, back at home, she told me that we were going back to grandma's house on Thursday. I don't know where she got that from, but I had to tell her that we aren't going back until Thanksgiving. (I don't think she even comprehends what Thursday is anyway)

While we were there we decided to go by the temple. Natalie thought that was really fun, especially because the waterfall was running. She was so excited that we had to take some pictures. It was pretty cold outside and Kelton was sleeping in the car, so he didn't get to take any pictures.

So Proud

I am so proud of myself. I figured out how to make my own blog background. Well, I didn't figure it out all by myself, I found some instructions on how to make it work. But I did design it all by myself (using Chloe kit by Digi Designs by Nicole). Anyways, I'm still proud.

Oh, well...

So I never wanted one of these things--a blog, I mean. But, my kids are too cute and this is the easiest way to share them with everyone. So I'm giving in. Plus I really like looking at my friends/family's blogs, so I will give it a try.

So for right now I will just put up a picture of cute Natalie (if I can figure out how). She's so silly and makes me laugh. Just this morning she found a thermometer and put it under her arm and told me "I have a temper-picture." I guess when she hears a word she doesn't really know, her mind substitutes in words that she does know. Like with the karaoke machine. She tells me she has to sing into the "microwave phone." Oh, Natalie.