It's Our Birthday!

Joe is a little camera happy. He took so many pictures I thought I would just put them in a little slide show. I, however, am still trying to figure it out. So, I am just posting it as is. When I tried to rearrange it by dragging it somehow it wouldn't let go and just kept following my mouse and the same thing happened when I tried to add captions. Anyhow, Romney and I had a joint birthday party since our birthday's are only a day apart. (I tried to get him here on my birthday but the induction just wasn't moving along fast enough and he was born just after 1:00 am on the 15th of November. The birthday was fun. Grandma and Grandpa Hull came over to celebrate.

We did the hokey pokey for Romney's birthday party. He loves to dance! He's a little rump shaker.

Jacob School Assembly

Today Jacob performed two songs at a school Veteran's day assembly. I unfortunately didn't get a very good picture. I was clear in the back with Romney and Rebekah in the big double stroller. So. between the distance, people's heads, and the basketball backboard it was a little hard to get my camera steady enough to focus. But I did get a little of the first song recorded. He had a good time and I enjoyed watching him perform.

It was a nice assembly and pretty quick, too. I was worried Romney wouldn't make it through the whole thing but he did great. I brought him some juice, fruit snacks, and his pacifier to keep him happy and quiet.

Just Because...

I am adding a post today just because. No reason really other than I have new pictures and a video with my cute baby. I also just enjoy this blogging thing.

Rebekah loves sticking out her tongue.

Stinker, Rockstar & Fungus

Friday was a bit stressful. I took Romney to get his pictures taken at Wal-mart because I had a coupon for a free portrait package and it couldn't be used in November or December. I went Thursday but they were running behind by about two hours so I made an appointment for Friday morning. They were once again behind but only by one hour. It was getting close to lunch and his nap time. He did great for his pictures but afterwards when I was waiting to look at them he was throwing a huge fit. I just wanted to quickly tell her what I wanted and leave. She kept chatting and making enhancements to all these photos. I already knew I wasn't going to pay $20 for one picture. Romney kept running off and I had to chase him and bring him back kicking and screaming. Thankfully Rebekah was happy the whole time. School lets out early on Friday so I had to get back home before the kids. I barely finished finding things for Jacob's Halloween costume just before I got Romney's picture taken. Then we went to Joe's work for a little carnival. We had to take Paige to dance class. Then we went to the trunk-or-treat. So, here's our little stinker, Romney. Jacob and Paige both wore this same skunk costume. It has gotten a lot of wear!Here's our rockstar, Paige. She was too embarassed to get out of the car when we went to Joe's work party. She was afraid people wouldn't know she was Hannah Montana. When I finally coaxed her in people knew exactly who she was so she was happy about that. You can't see all the sparkles on her shirt in this picture.This is the fungus, Jacob. In case you aren't a "gamer" he is Toad from Mario Bros. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why a character that has a mushroom head would be called Toad. Then, HELLO, a toad stool. He loved his costume which is great because I didn't put much effort into it. I just modified stuff I found around here except I paid $2 for the white shorts. Here they are together before we headed off to the Trunk-or-treat. Paige is plugging her nose (because she is standing next to a skunk!).I didn't actually dress-up Rebekah. We just called her our cute little pink puff ball.

Carving Pumpkins

For FHE on Monday night we carved some of the pumpkins from our garden. Actually Paige painted hers. Romney had so much fun poking his pumpkin carver in and out of it. Joe helped him cut it out. He would carve around it most of the way and have Romney pop the piece out.

Jacob's was pretty slimy and full of guts. It took quite a while to clean out. Romney refused to touch the stuff. He's going through a phase where he doesn't like his hands getting dirty.

Paige made hers into a witch. Complete with a green face and black hair.

Oh, Barf!

Romney started throwing up Monday evening. Not fun. We were wondering why he was following us around whining and laying on the floor whining. We were starting to get annoyed. Then he threw up all of a sudden and we were filled with compassion once again. He wasn't just whining to annoy us. He wasn't feeling good. Poor boy. Anyhow, I got him this bucket just in case he might actually get it in there. You can see by the picture he wanted use it as a hat instead. Tuesday, we thought he was feeling better but, this morning he threw up again. I don't know why my kids do that every other day barfing.

Jacobs First Scout Camp Out

Jacob had his first Cub Scout camp out this last weekend. I got to go with him, and let me tell you, we had a blast!!! Wink, wink! It was about the time that we began hunting for owl pellets (nice word for owl poop) that I really began to realize how much fun I was having. What I did not know at that moment was the fun was just beginning. Just our luck we found some owl pellets. We immediately began to dissect the pellets to see what the owl had eaten for dinner. Yummy!!! Let me tell you, those mice bones mangled with digested fur and flesh looked tasty. Jacob was enthralled. He must have said “cool” a million times.

In all honestly, it was a lot of fun. Jacob was able to pass off several scouting requirements while have fun at the same time. The picture that you see is Jacob listening to a few Boy Scouts teach first aid. I just missed getting a shot of Jacob laughing hysterically when the boys were graphically portraying blood gushing from a wounded person’s body. He thought it was really funny.