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Flashback Friday

Some days I think if I hadn't witnessed the birth of my own children and raised them, I wouldn't believe they were mine. Here's witness of just how little they look like me:

Cameron (only visible feature of mine is his nose)

Nathaniel

William (though he did get my height)

Me

Say "Cheese"

Yesterday I took out the boys to try to get some shots of the two of them together. It would take a miracle, I knew, but I had to try anyway. No such miracles granted, and in a total of 45 shots I got 2 that are worth posting for their loveliness and 2 that just need to be posted for posterity's sake.

My boys get their big eyes and rosy lips from daddy's side. I'm jealous!

Such a silly boy. Every time he sees me with the camera he gets this fabulous camera-worthy smile and charges at me. I think to get this one I reached out one hand to hold him back so I could actually focus and capture that sweetness!

"Smile with Daddy" resulted with both boys (one unknowingly in a messy diaper and the other exhausted) sobbing.

"William, give Cameron a hug" resulted in a running start body slam.

bye bye wallpaper

My sister Charity was in town this weekend. I am always most motivated when she is either in or coming to town! On Friday I took down William's retro Aztec-inspired wallpaper border and today we took down the one wall of paper in Cameron's room (even though it's not much of a Sabbath activity, it's just when we had the time to do it. :). The wallpaper had a shimmery monkey-grass/memorial to the American wetlands type feel to it. It. Needed. To. Go. Cameron was a most anxious helper in improving the state of living in his room.

"HORRAY. The monkey-grass is going to be gone!"

Project Manager: "Mom, you missed a spot."

"Whaddaya looking at?"

In a fleeting moment of remorse, Cameron tries to reapply the monkey-grass marsh to his walls.

Cameron really is the destroyer of our house. Toy cars, recycling, dirty laundry, and shoes of all sizes are scattered all over the house by our little hurricane. Yesterday afternoon the kids bathroom was hardest hit area along his path of destruction.

Belly

22 1/2 weeks

This is Halloween

I LOVE Halloween. It is the kick-off for the Holiday season and it makes me so happy. What's not to love about dressing up and going door to door for free candy?? My mom successfully made a huge deal about every holiday and it made for such a happy childhood. My boys are still little, but we're trying our best to get them excited and involved in holiday festivities. This year neither boy wanted anything to do with carving pumpkins, but both were delighted with the resulting jack-o-lanterns. I love having kids and watching them grow up! We had our friend Matt over yesterday for pizza with us and then he ever so graciously manned our front porch with candy duty so that Nathaniel and I could take the boys over to our old neighborhood and around our cul-de-sac. After the door-to-door goodness, the boys both crashed and the adults played Cities and Knights. I won. By a lot. Just have to put that in there. It was a great Halloween!

Cameron was Superman and William was Thomas the train. We lucked out this year. I got Cameron's costume at a ward kid-swap and a neighbor gave us William's costume! Nathaniel and I threw in our own costume contribution to the boys by spraying their hair blue. :)

Going door to door. Every time someone would answer and open their door William would walk right in! Silly kid. I think he thought that we kept going to visit friends. What a social boy.

We started our night visiting dear friends, Mark, Jenni, and their little one Luke (the cutest Frankenstein you've ever seen). Mark was dressed as a tourist. William ever so smoothly traded his Thomas hat for Mark's hat and light up lei. My little tourist Thomas.

Checking out that first precious candy bar.