Guzzle Down Sweets

Lila has been thoroughly enjoying her Halloween candy haul. The other day when she came to get me to open her 5th piece of candy in as many minutes, I thought maybe we should start weening her. Lila is usually pretty reasonable if you can explain things to her. So I told her that eating a little candy was OK but if you ate a lot of candy it was bad for you. Of course the immediately reply was the notorious, "Why?" I decided that this situation called for a little Google image search. You can imagine the awful images that came up when I searched for "tooth cavity". Then Lila asked, "What else will happen if you eat too much candy?" So I told her about type II diabetes and searched for images of "insulin shots". I thought that should settle it. But Lila kept asking and asking for "What else will happen, Daddy, what else?" That was when the inspiration came. After searching YouTube for a minute I found this video. I told Lila that this girl ate too much candy even though they told her not to.



After she was done watching it like 7 times, I asked, "Lila, do you want to eat a lot of candy or just a little candy?" She replied, "Only a little bit, I don't want get big and blue."

One of these things is not like the other...

Abby (11 months)

Lila (11 months)

If you ask me, the only thing similar is the outfit!!

(I have to confess that in real life there are a few similarities.
However, I do think that Lila and Zack look very similar.
I'll have to remember to dress them in the same outfit and take a picture!) ;)

Lila (almost 3 years and incredibly excited to get to stand on the table!!)

"Look, me and Abby match, match"

I Love to See the Temple

I took the kids out to take pictures in the leaves a few weeks ago. These are a few of the pictures I got of the Boston Temple near our house.

When we first moved to Boston, Johnny asked the members of our ward (strangers who were kindly moving our furniture and stuff into our house for us) where the temple was. Little did we know, it was just up the hill. I've really grown to love the Boston temple and it is my favorite part of the drive to church and the drive up Route 2 (a major freeway by our house.) The temple sits on the 2nd highest hill in Boston and the members of the church here have lots of miraculous stories about how it was finally built. It's become one of my very favorite temples. Beautiful, isn't it!!

Pumpkin Pride

It was my job to post the pumpkins and I didn't get around to it until now. Sorry it is late.

Emily's, Lila's, Johnny's

Lila actually got to help this year, and she didn't even try to eat the pumpkins as she has in the past.


If some are are wondering where I have taken my inspiration for my amazing jack-0-lantern, I typically use a pumpkin stencil from HomeStarRunner.com. This year I used the Strong Mad stencil. Previously I used the Trogdor stencil which turned out very nicely.

If you enjoyed the Trogdor cartoon you may enjoy some of their Halloween toons (Homestarlaween Party, A Pumpkin Carve-nival, A Boogidy Boogidy). You gotta love those costumes. If you didn't think Trogdor was funny (Emily sure doesn't) then I wouldn't bother watching these.

Lovin' the Leaves Again

I didn't give Lila a choice for this photo shoot (see this post if you don't have a clue what I'm talking about) so we headed over to the Gore Place to take some pictures in the leaves. I keep having these great ideas that I'm going to use my new camera and get some amazing pictures of all 3 of the kids smiling and looking so sweet... let's just say they don't have those same thoughts. I have been able to get a few pictures of them playing though. Lila did have fun with her "big sister pumpkin". I guess that these days that's all I can hope for! Anyway, here's the latest photo shoot. I just LOVE the fall in New England and can't resist taking pictures. There will probably be more so stay tuned...

My sweet Abby!

See a theme here? Zack likes to eat nasty stuff.

Aside from beautiful leaves, the Gore place has a little barnyard.
Lila's trying to look for the animals but the barns were all empty.
We did see some goats, a llama and the roosters.

Lila's playing "Peek-A-Boo" with this rooster!

Abby in my sweatshirt. For some reason I love this picture.
I think it captures her little personality well.

12 months pregnant

Seriously. That's how pregnant I was (at LEAST!) I was measuring full term at 5 months! At my biggest I was measuring 52 weeks (yep there are 52 weeks in a year). Anyway, by request and for those of you who were deceived by the smallness of my belly in last year's Halloween pictures, this one is to set the record straight (and you don't even get the full bigness in this picture.)

This is it. The morning before they FINALLY induced me with Abby & Zack. 39 weeks and 1 day!

Our Perfect Fairytale

I know what you're thinking (because I was thinking it all night long)... "That is one cute little witch." But you're wrong. She's a "scaaaarrry witch." She was hilarious trick-or-treating and I haven't had that much fun on a Halloween since I pretended to be a pregnant woman as a kid. Lila was so excited she would run up each sidewalk and ring the doorbells (at least the ones she could reach). Everyone talked about how cute she was and one woman from Norway even took a picture of her. I know I'm bragging but I can't help myself today. These kids were too darn cute!



I debated for a long time what I should make the twins for Halloween. We finally settled on the perfect little fairytale. Abby was a princess and Zack was a frog prince. (Lila was the witch that cast the spell.) Cute, I know! :)

Happy Halloween everyone!