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Saturday, February 1, 2014

November Highlights

The morning after Halloween I flew out to Memphis to meet my brand new little nephew, Conner Payne...

I got to spend a little time with my grandad.  love him!



look at this sweet munchkin



i've forgotten what it feels like to hold one this little ;)



my niece reese had recently broken her arm, so we shared some snuggles




showing off her cast--she picked the blue



while i was out of town, mario was busy attempting a camp out in the backyard with the boys




they were sooo excited to sleep in a tent!




all their special "friends" joined them as well--
they made it until about 2am, before the boys got too cold and wanted to head back to their beds




the next week while anthony was at school, lucas and i celebrated his hippo's birthday!
(yeah, it was really just an excuse to get some donuts!!!)




anthony's project on lyndon b. johnson--he picked this president himself in class.  when i asked why he chose this one, he said that in the picture mrs. cleveland showed him of president johnson, it looked like he was holding a garbage can!  i guess he found that interesting!  ;)




Anthony's Elementary Showcase--
he performed two songs with his class
(to anthony's right--in the orange shirt--is porter, his best friend in school)


lucas couldn't wait to see his brother on stage




they sang "Jesus Loves Me" with the hand motions
they also sang a color song which tied in to their studies
(they've been memorizing the color names as sight words)



snuggles with daddy after it's all done--
he did great!



Lucas always asks to ride the mickey golf cart anytime we are at babies r us




my handsome boy--
love hanging out one on one while anthony is at school




i walked in the kitchen to find them making milk bubbles one morning!




my good friend kristin and her newest little one samuel at the ornament exchange we participated in




mario still has regular jam sessions with the boys
i love how he is instilling a passion for music within them, especially good worship music!

Halloween 2013

We had so much fun doing Halloween this year!  I ordered these batman costumes (pj sets) at Target, and the boys LOVED them!  They had so much fun being superheroes this year!


some quick pics before it gets dark


love these little blue capes that came with the set



some superhero moves before the big event



fighting bad guys



ready to save the day



and save the world



the heroes in action



have you ever seen two cuter batmen?



after our photo shoot they were more than ready to go trick-or-treating



mario had fancied up their power wheels hummer with a black sheet, spray painted cardboard, and blue glow sticks to make the batmobile!  It was pretty awesome!



me and my little loves



they thought they were pretty awesome!




and so did our neighbors!  ;)
everywhere we went, people asked if they could take pics of the boys in their batmobile!


It was really, really fun to trick-or-treat this year!  The boys didn't tire out since they were riding, and we had to power-walk to keep up with them.  It was very nice to keep things moving.   We did have to help them watch out for pedestrians, though!!!  And they got a TON of candy since they were able to go for a long time without getting tired.  That could be a good or a bad thing, depending on how you look at it!  Haha!