Enter new phase: toddler

The joy of making messes. 

Sigh. 

It has come all too soon.

 And on a side note, just when I think Callin is 3 going on 13, he pulls this little stunt and rips up half of the Holy Bible (in Portuguese none the less) and pushes himself back down to toddlerhood all over again. 

ps.  that would be my new tiled kitchen floor; goodbye white tile and daily mopping!

Give Thanks!

It is so wonderful to spend a month focused on all of our blessings.  We have so much to be thankful for.  Our highlights from Thanksgiving include:

that Aunt Deedee came to town...

that we got to go to Dallas and have so much fun...

that we got to spend time with family we love much...

 for beautiful and healthy children...

...and for a really, really great guy who adores all things social (kissing me, connecting with people, conversation, chatting on the phone, reading all my emails, girls night...)  

Do you see what I see?

Curls!!!!  AHHH! Like he needed another reason for me to love him more!

13.1 Miles!

We ran a halfy this weekend! 

It was so awesome running right next to the beach for most of it. 

Here are all the running girls from church:

(and ps if you are having a hard time finding me...look for the scary black smokey ghost that was attacking someone- a mosquito was landing right between my eyes on the picture count "1, 2.."  and on three I just had to get it, and I was holding a black garbage sack/pre race jacket...thanks Lyn!  And since this picture makes me laugh, I am including this one and not the other/non smokey monster picture.)

 I have a pretty awesome fan club! 

Our haunted happenings

Cal was a horseman/cowboy for the second year in a row.  And for the second year in a row he would not go for the rest of the costume: the hat/bandanna/cowboy shirt look.  So he was the Gap shirt boy wearing a horse.  Or in the case of  his Joyschool Halloween parade...nothing.  But I am picking my fights these days.  And seriously, life is way better.  I was a good girl and did wear a costume for 2 parades (Preschool and Joyschool) thank you very much.  



And in case you are wondering, YES, I love my all boy Joyschool class!

T he neighborhood girlie's have been working hard at running/training! But clumsy old me always seems to find that one spot where the sidewalk does NOT align very well. Good thing there was a truck full of groundsman like 3 feet away to watch and get a morning laugh.    



The Monster Dash 10K.  Fun times!  And go Leslee (in green) for getting 1st Place!

And one last scary picture...this has pretty much been the state of my house the past month...BUT things are starting to shape up!  Hopefully much better pictures will be ready to post soon!

Huge thanks to Kim for letting me cook dinner at her house for a straight week!

3rd Annual Fall Dallas Trip

 We love any chance to get to be with family (even if I did catch a little flu bug!)  Cal and Rhett had a great time with their cousins. The highlights were roasting smores out by the lake, the Pumpkin Patch, the BYU football game - as pathetic as it was, and maybe even more pathetic...when the Imodium AD finally showed up!

Can you guess which pumpkin is my favorite?

7 hours sans children- ahh!

Genetics

Can you see it?

Rhett has entered my all time favorite baby age- 9 months!  I love just about EVERYTHING at this age: his darling little sixlet teeth, his perfected doggie crawl, his beautiful blue eyes, his little curls that are coming in, his laugh and excitement, his love for pulling himself up everywhere, his squishy cheeks and double chin.  Oh if I could freeze time!