At the Cummings House...

Well, it's been a little while since our last post. We enjoyed Thanksgiving with family. Lot's of yummy food and fun games. Then I stayed the night at David's mom and dad's because as tradition has it the Cummings girls and mom go shopping EARLY on Black Friday and they always try and get me to come. Well, this year Toys R' Us opened at midnight, so we went and got there about 5 to midnight - HOLY COW! People were parking across the street because the parking for the plaza was full! We ended up having to stand outside in line in the FREEZING COLD for 2 hours!! There were some pretty good deals but never again... that was so cold!! It was like 15 degrees out!! Brrrrrr!! Luckily one of my sister-in-laws was in line way ahead of us and was able to grab our stuff for us and so once we got in we then stood in line for the checkout which I didn't mind because it was WARM!! From there we went to Old Navy because they were supposed to open at 3:00 a.m. (all the ads said this). We were in line for about 45 minutes and it was about 5 after 3 and the Mall Security guy comes up and says that the whole mall wasn't opening until 4:00 a.m. so Old Navy decided not to open until then too! Oh!!! Well, from there we went to Wal Mart and stood in line (inside) for forever until 5:00 a.m. until their sale started. Then a few other places after that and then to breakfast. I got all the things I wanted to get and I was pretty tired so me and one of my sister-in-law's headed home. Whew! So glad it's only once a year. Anyways - then I came down with a cold (probably from standing outside of Toys R' Us for 2 hours! Argggghhhh! :( Logan and Mason kind of already had a cold and I probably got it from them. Logan's didn't last too long but Mason still has his. He has a nasty cough and a really runny nose - so glad that it hasn't gone into an ear infection though. So, here is Logan being a good big brother and feeding Mason his bottle and giving him kisses because Mason doesn't feel good. He has been so good to Mason since Mason has been sick - always bringing him toys and trying to play with him. It's so cute.

Little Maser...

Dillon completed his job chart and got to pick a family activity to do. He pulled out a card and it was a game night. He was a little disappointed because he wanted the bowling card or the arcade card but then I told him that he could pick 3 special treats and pick 3 games to play he was excited. So he picked Clue Jr., Castle Keep and Sorry for the games and for the treats - popcorn, licorice and of course his most favorite - Hubba Bubba Bubble Gum! As mentioned before in a previous post I just can't eat the stuff anymore but David still loves it. Here they are, ready to play... Logan showing off his bubble gum and David blowing a bubble with his gum. It was a fun night!

A Little Thanksgiving Fun...

Mason turned 7 months on November 5th! He has been sitting up by himself for a couple of weeks now and doing really well. Lately he has been doing this funny thing with his top lip - he pushes it down and juts out his lower lip, it's so cute and funny when he does it. Some of these pictures have him doing it. He also has 2 little teeth coming in on the bottom. One has started to poke through and the other one is just about to. They have been bothering him a little but not too bad. He still gives me big hugs and squeezes when I pick him up - love that!! :)

The first of November we had my sister and brother in law and their family over for a pre-Thanksgiving dinner I guess you could say? David is such a great cook - he made a delectable turkey, mashed potatoes, rolls and he would of done pies too but my sister made those (and they were yummy!! :) ) All I did was the beans, corn and stuffing and those aren't hard - lol! It was yummy, yummy, yummy!! We saved the wishbone from the turkey for Bryson and Dillon (I have memories of me and my sister making a wish and pulling on the wishbone every Thanksgiving.) Dillon ended up getting the longest piece when the wishbone broke and he was about to tell us all what he had wished for when Bryson stopped him and told him not to tell or his wish wouldn't come true.

Dillon has always loved police, army - in fact when he was really little everything turned into a pretend gun and he would call it his "shoot" - "Look at my "shoot" mom!" When he grows up he wants to be a policeman - however, he is my most soft hearted and tenderest boy. He loves to dress up in his army costume and pretend he's in the army. We had to cut some large circles out of cardboard for some scout stuff and he immediately took the remains and started setting it up. I asked him what he was doing and he said he was making a fort and then he got his army stuff on and his play gun and helmet. He even took time out and put the helmet and the gun by Mason. Too funny.

For FHE last night the boys made some Hand and Feet Turkeys and then wrote what they are thankful for on the feathers. It was so cute some of the things that were said. Bryson was being a "turkey" - when I tried to take a picture he kept pulling faces and these 2 are the best ones - he's pretending to eat his turkey in the top one. Silly boy.

5 THINGS I'M THANKFUL FOR...
1. My 4 adorable loveable silly fun boys!
2. My wonderful loveable patient and great cook of a husband! :)
3. The beautiful peaceful place that I live.
4. The wonderful gospel in my life.
5. Awesome friends who I can laugh and have fun with.

Halloween...

October 31, 2009

HALLOWEEN!! Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!! We had a really fun Halloween this year! Logan was the "nice" Big Bad Wolf (that is what he kept saying, "Mom, I'm the nice Big Bad Wolf, huh?" - Mason was one of the 3 Little Pigs. Bryson was Zorro and Dillon was Indiana Jones.

Dillon had a cool whip with his costume that made the sound of a whip and then played the Indiana Jones theme song - except that he was embarrassed to show people when we went trick or treating - silly boy! :)

Bryson had a cool sword that made a sword sound like when you make a "Z" for Zorro.

We went down to the Pumpkin Walk and trick or treated and saw the awesome pumpkin displays - such talent!! It was alot of fun.

The boys waiting to go into the pumpkin walk.

There was a display of the 3 Little Pigs and of course Logan had to get his picture taken with them. :)

After we went to the Pumpkin Walk we came home and ate our traditional Halloween dinner and then took the boys trick or treating. We usually just go around to houses around here. The boys were getting so excited about all the candy they were getting.

Logan telling Grandpa Gardner something about trick or treating - it was funny because he sucked on this pixie stick for about 45 minutes. I guess he wanted to make sure he got it all out of there and that he didn't miss any.

Bryson with some of his loot!

Dillon got 5 boxes of Dots - one of his favorites!

And Logan asking for just 1 more candy... gotta love Halloween!! :)

Carving Pumpkins...

October 28, 2009

We carved pumpkins tonight. The boys always pick which pumpkin is theirs, clean it out, then draw a face on paper and then David or I carve it for them. Dillon originally had one of the larger pumpkins but when it came down to cleaning it out he chose a much smaller one - silly boy! The boys loved it and Logan was even eating it! Said it tasted like canteloupe? I guess he got tired of waiting for it to be cooked. :)

Pumpkins & Parties, Parties, Parties...

The other day Logan said that he was ready to cook one of our pumpkins from our garden. I told him that we weren't ready to do that yet and that they were dirty and needed to be washed off. A little time went by and I noticed that it was pretty quiet and I had heard him come in from the garage. I went into the bathroom and this is what I found. He had brought in the dish soap, filled the sink with suds and bubbles, washed his pumpkin up real good and then put it in the tub to rinse it off. Silly boy - he must really want some cooked pumpkin!

Mason with Dillon's Indiana Jones hat on.

The other morning Logan was "reading" a book to George - it was so cute.

Then he added Lion and Sonny. Love the little bare feet.

Cute little Maser - Bryson took this picture.

My sister told me of a Pumpkin Patch down by her house that have huge pumpkins for just $2 & $3. Since we didn't get any real "huge" pumpkins this year I took the boys down with my sister and her kids and let them pick out some to carve for Halloween. They had so many different kinds of pumpkins and gourds too.

Tried to get a picture of Logan but he kept doing funny faces.

And Bo...

Silly kids...

Last week I woke up and it was still dark outside and my door was shut but I could see some light coming from the kitchen and I thought that Dillon was up taking his inhaler, then I heard this "whir", "whir", "whir". It was the Bausch - the mixer. Oh no, I thought - Logan is up playing with the Bausch. I looked at the clock and it said 6:20. Then I realized that David wasn't in bed. I went into the kitchen and David was full blown into making something - flour, sugar, pans... "What are you doing?" Him - "I'm making cinnamon rolls - I was going to suprise you." Oh - how sweet - he definately suprised me. Then Logan was up not too long after that and he loves to help his dad in the kitchen.

OK - starting last Thursday we had Pack Meeting again - we did a Halloween Carnival. The cub scouts were in charge of coming up with a homemade game for their booth and running it at the carnival. It was alot of fun and the boys all did a good job. Then Friday Bryson and Dillon had a Halloween Party with some of their friends. Then Saturday night David and I were invited to a Murder Mystery Dinner Party - it was so fun. Good food and fun costumes. We had to dress up from the 1940's - David seriously looked like he had just stepped off of a page in a book from the 1940's. It was a lot of fun. (I forgot to take pictures of us - oops!) Then Sunday evening we had the Cummings Family Halloween Party - pictures to come later. Woo! I'm almost all partied out! Well, not quite... :) For the boys Halloween Party we all dressed up - it was alot of fun. David was a Mad Scientist (aka - Dr. I.B. Frightening) because he was doing something for one of the games. He put this wig on Mason - it was hilarious.

Playing Trick or Treat.

We played some games and had a Treasure Hunt, ate some yummy sCaRy food and then Dr. I.B. Frightening did his monster lab - his latest creation, Mr. Drool... it was soooo funny! The boys loved it!! This is Dillon finding a skeleton part in Mr. Bones Scavenger Haunt.

Then there was Logan that whenever we went outside he just hopped on his bike and rode around.

Aunt Jo was there to help out - trying to put Mr. Bones bones back together.

The boys practicing for the Witches Brew game - sucking up paper bats with a straw and dropping them into a black cauldron.

Boo Am I - pop the balloon and act out the Halloween character. I think their favorite was Orange and Black Stomp - a balloon tied around their ankle and try to be the last one with a balloon not popped - they wanted to do that one again and again.

Dr. I.B. Frightening introduction to his lab. They then proceded to smell and touch "special ingredients" that he was using to make Mr. Drool. After smelling the "mouse breath" (parmesean cheese) ingredient so that Mr. Drool could have night vision one of the boys said, "Ohhh, I think I'm going to throw up!" David did such a good job - it was so FUNNY.

Then the boys got to make their own monster pumpkins. The boys had a great time.