The five steps to eating marshmallows...illustrated by Griffin

First put all the marshmallow's in your mouth.

Second chew with your mouth closed.

Third show the camera what's inside...

Fourth laugh really hard.

Fifth, once it reaches your tummy smile big!

Trash or Treasure?

Griffin got some mail! He was so excited to get a car magazine, ummm actually it was junk mail, but to him it was like finding a hundred dollar bill on the street.   It even came with a special key. He sat right down and flipped through every page.  He then put his key in the trunk of his trike and rode around and talked about all the cars and trucks in his "naggazine".

This is the perfect example of how one man's trash is another person's treasure.

P.S. As a side night you may notice how the focus of the above pic is not on Griffin's face, it is on the "naggazine". I did this on purpose, it helps showcase the junk mail...

Happy Cleaning Memory

When most mom's do a Saturday cleaning I think they typically find toys, socks, clothes, and miscellaneous dishes their children have "inadvertently" forgot to put back in their proper places.

Well, today I worked on vacuuming and sweeping up the main level of our home and I found a collection of tires.  Not large tires but small ones.

Anyone who knows Griffin, knows he loves to take apart his toys and put them back together.  Several of his cars look like they spent the night on the wrong side of the tracks.  I am not sure why he loves to take things apart but he does.  We've spent many nights looking for the parts and pieces of his tractors, cars, and airplanes so he can put them back together.  In fact, one time at work he put a tire in the little hole of a plastic Playskool toy.  He just would not let me do anything until we got the tire out. Unfortunately, it is stuck in there forever.  Sometimes I catch him peeking in the hole and trying to stick his finger in there to get it out.  The kids got a superb memory!

He is going to be really happy when he is sees this little collection I have found!  There are only six tires in this photo but I am sure as I venture into the bathrooms, his room, and downstairs I will collect more.  These little tires were everywhere I had to be careful not to vacuum any of them up, even though I was tempted.

One of the funny little things he enjoys doing is switching out the tires on all of his toys.  He has made some very interesting rigs.  I will have to remember to take some pictures of his creations.

Also, when we are driving around town he can always spot tires!  If there are tires in the back of a truck he sees them and makes a comment, if a Jeep has a spare tire on the back well that is just cool, he loves going to the tire shop and touching tires.  He loves looking and crawling around in tractor tires.  I think he just has a passion for tires.

Just wanted to take the time to journal a little moment I want to remember forever!

Snow Cookies

Griffin was looking forward to playing in the snow with his daddy all day long!!!  They played out in the front yard and made tracks and tried to catch snow flakes in their mouths.

I don't think this is the first snow of the season, but I could be wrong.  I am grateful the temperature dropped and the snow started falling. It really helped me to start feeling more in the holiday spirit. I've been cruising around town listening to my jazz Christmas music but it just doesn't feel like that time of year unless it is cloudy, snowy, and nippy.

Griffin was even lucky enough to find some snow cookies! Nobody knows who makes the snow cookies, but if you are lucky enough you might just find some in your own yard.

Yummy! He's been talking about his snow cookies all night!

Ditto on Christmas

Sometimes around the holidays I feel like the below "ditto".

Happy Halloween

This Halloween we ended up staying in town.  We were planning on going to visit with my mom but due to sickness we ended up having a "stay cation" instead!

Above is the pumpkin Joe carved on Halloween night.  Luckily our neighbor brought us over a pumpkin on Friday night.  All over town the pumpkins were sold out...since I wasn't planning on celebrating Halloween here I didn't pick any pumpkins up.  Anyways, I just adore his pumpkin and I really like how my picture turned out.  This was taken in manual mode, people!!! I was able to make like the candle light  look brighter than it actually was.  Loving it!

We did two ward trunk-er-treats. We went to one on Wednesday at the Wells's ward because Joe was asked to make animal balloons for the their Halloween fair.  Griffin went as a giraffe.

The lovely Miss Whitney painted a smiley face for him at the face painting booth!

Here is a picture of Joe making animal balloons at his booth.  There were tons of kids and each of them wanted a balloon.  He was super busy.  Griffin loved watching him.

As the night progressed Griffin got too hot in his costume so we had to take it off.  He loved playing drums with Joe's balloon pump.  He is using a pencil he got from the trunk-er-treat.

I dressed up as a witch for the trunk-er-treat activities.  Griffin actually rode over to the event with the Wells so he didn't see me all dressed up until he was trick-er-treating.  When he saw me he said, "hey mommy you are a witch".  It was really cute and made my day!  I loved my eye lashes and just so you know if I could wear them this way every day I would. *wink*

Here is the beautiful Jamilyn dressed up as a very LARGE clown.  Such a cutie running around in this thing all night!

On Saturday, actual Halloween day, we went to BOO at the ZOO.  Griffin had a ton of fun riding the train, and looking at all the animals!  This is the only picture I got of him or any of us at the zoo because well, my battery ran out.  Seems like every time we have a family event the batteries on my camera are beyond low!! I really need to remember to charge them or just break down and buy an extra back up battery!

Saturday day night we went to Pokie's ward for Trunk-er-treating.  Griffin had a fun time doing all the booths with Pockie.  As soon as he saw Pockie he gave him a big hug and told him Happy Halloween.

Griffin was on such a sugar high when it came time to do the actual trunk-er-treating he just ran circles all over the parking lot.  It was good for him to get his energy out.

Okay so after this was over we stopped by the grocery store to pick up some supplies for our Halloween crab fest, this was at 7:30 pm.  Griffin ran all over the grocery store.  Once we got home he was so excited to pass out candy and he told all of our trick-er-treaters to be safe once they were leaving.  He even invited a few of the kids in to play! So funny!

We finally got to eat our crab, carve our pumpkin, and watch Hocus Pocus.  It was a full day of fun!