Spilling the Beans: October 2012

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

All Hallow's Eve

Halloween is so much fun, especially with three excited boys that still like to dress-up...
Jorden was a ninja, Cameron was 'Hawkeye' from the Avengers (not Dr. Pierce from M*A*S*H, as I first thought when he told me what he wanted to be), Garrett was The Flash (not Dash from the Incredibles) and Max was a 'hot dog'.
Our dear friends, the Rawlins, moved back up this way and we were able to get-together for a tradition of carving pumpkins. We actually took our boys, for the first time (seriously, no judging), to a pumpkin patch to pick out their own orange squash, instead of perusing the selection outside of the grocery store ;)

Our neighborhood did a trunk-or-treat and Scott got into transforming Oscar our bug, it turned out awesome, and the best part, I was off!

Monday, October 15, 2012

What do you think this baby will be?

In exactly one month we will go in for 'THE' ultrasound, I am getting excited about this new little one that is making my clothes fit a little snug...the little one that is now included in Garrett's sweet night-time prayers as he rattles off each member of our family including 'blankie' and 'water'. The little one that actually prompted a little nesting today as I cleaned the bathroom and kitchen, even the kitchen knobs and toaster ;) The little one that craves home-made cinnamon rolls that are as-we-speak rising.

I know I said it is a boy until proven otherwise and we certainly have a track record, but is anyone out there particularly in-tune, or just willing to lose a bet ;)

Place your vote on the side and we will see who is a wiener, I mean winner...

words to live by...

"I run so my goals in life will continue to get bigger instead of my belly."

~Bill Kirby

"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there."

~Barbara Bush

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are living art, created to help others hang on, stand up, forbear, continue."

~Maya Angelou

"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet."

~Winston Churchill

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."

~Christopher Reeve

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

~Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

~The Dalai Lama

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

~Lou Holtz

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

~C.S. Lewis

"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love."

~Pearl Buck

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

~Mignon McLaughlin

"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone."

~Gertrude Stein

"Don't let the fear of striking out prevent you from playing the game."

~author unknown

"He who is tired of Wierd Al is tired of life."

~Homer Simpson

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

~ Abraham Lincoln

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh the thinks you can think up if only you try."

~ Theodore Geisel

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

~ Maya Angelou

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

~Theodore Roosevelt

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

~Marie Curie

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

~F.P. Jones

"If you can't sleep, then get up and do someting instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep."

~Dale Carnegie

"...the greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies."

~ President Gordon B. Hinckley, Dec. 2007 Ensign, pg. 6