Britt's First Family Portrait

Last night Britt was drawing everyone in the family {side note: he said since there are so many people in our family, he only had room to make everyone's hair, eyes, legs, and shoes...} but I must be special, he added a little more to his drawing of me...

Can you guess which one I am?? :)

26 weeks and counting...

this isn't a belly shot... but he's just too cute!

Practice, practice, practice...

Britt's always willing to "practice" holding baby Emelyn... He'll be a pro by the time his baby sister gets here!


Every time he holds her he has to touch her cheeks, kiss her head, and hold her hand. If she's wearing something that covers her feet, he has to take her feet out so he can look at them. He says, "I love her tiny feet!" :)
Just over 3 months to go...

Prepare to be scared!

Here's our inspiration...

Strike first! Strike hard! No mercy!

...and our finished product!

I am SO glad to have an artistic husband! Justin made Britt's costume this year (and painted his face)... sure I'm biased, but didn't he do a great job?!



An guesses on what Jordan and Kait were for Halloween??

Ellee's expression is priceless! Britt kept telling her, "It's just me, Ellee!"

Nothing says "spooky" like a black cat! {this one's my brother's little guy, Gremlin}

The crazy thing about this is... we went to less than 10 houses!

Britt had fun washing his face, and we realized how well a 'Joker' costume would have worked on the little guy... although, we saw about 15 jokers last night...

This is one happy (and very sleepy) boy... he's already deciding what to be next Halloween. :)

It's almost Halloween...

...and that means it's time to:

make a scary costume...

pick a few pumpkins...


sorry Kiri, we just had to borrow this pose :)
practice your scary faces...



and eat lots of this....

while watching this...

and this...


Hope you're all having as much fun getting ready for Halloween as we are!

p.s. the video is a scene from "Freaks and Geeks" (one of the best TV shows of all time). It gets particularly great right after the 1 minute mark...

In Loving Memory...

Jade
March 2001-October 2008








we'll miss your licks...
we'll miss your soft cuddles...
we'll miss the times you would bring us your rope to play tug of war, and then when we threw it into the bathroom you would have to walk backwards to get out of the bathroom, and then Jarret would make a try to block your path back into the living room and you would just jump over him...
we'll miss when you would bring your food dish into wherever we were and casually toss it around as if to say, "hint, hint... this dish is empty..."
we'll miss you laying right in front of the woodstove when it was cold outside...
we'll miss our walks...
we'll miss the way we never had to worry about you being gentle with Britt, even when he was too little to understand that dogs don't like it when you sit on them...
we'll miss painting your fingernails purple and orange for basketball season and blue and white for Lobo football season...
we'll miss hearing you chase cats in your sleep...
we'll miss dressing you up like a pumpkin every Halloween...
we'll miss you chasing us through the woods while we look for a Christmas tree...
we'll miss the way you could always tell if someone needed your warm body to keep them company...
we'll miss the times when you would lay back and your ears would flip up and Britt would say you looked like a "gonkey"...
we'll miss the games of frisbee and catch...
we'll even miss your stinky breath...

We love you... we'll think of you every time we look at your tree in the backyard...