Fire Leavitt

Everytime we drive by the Nampa fire station Leavitt yells out, "Look mom, theres my work!" Well today they had a call to the nursing home across the street from us. Leavitt happened to be wearing his fire truck shirt and was hanging off the back of Dave's car yelling across the street, "Wait, I have to go with you." Jozette was telling Chauni how handsome the firemen were. While they were in there Leavitt yelled into the headset, "Hey Braden look my fire truck!" When they were done with their call one of the firefighters let Leavitt and Jo get in the truck. Made their day!

Does this look like Tred to you?

I was playing on facebook and Leavitt was sitting next to me. He saw this picture on an ad and said, "Look mom! Its the Whoover!" -AKA Tred. After looking a little closer he said, "Oh, no, thats not him." But at a glance he sure thought that was his baby brother!

Pheasant Hunt

I swear my kids have pet more dead animals than they have live! This was the result of Dave's first pheasant hunt thanks to Nate and the help of his dog Sadie.

Practicing for Halloween

Jozette insisted on being a scary witch for Halloween this year. I showed her some pretty witches on google but she kept saying no until we got to the ugliest witch ever. She put her little pointer on it and made sure I knew that was what she wanted. She is so odd, I love it!

I picked up the stuff for her face today and had to try it out. I think for Halloween and the Trunk or Treat I will try to make the skin match the nose and chin better. I must have done a pretty good job making her scary because when I put her in the bath to wash this all off, she wouldn't let me shut the door. She was too scared of a green witch coming in. Poor baby, creeped herself out. But she did say she still wants to be a scary witch and she can't wait to show her girlfriends. Stay tuned for the real pics.

Hug a Bug

Tred was climbing on the couch and Jozette told him to give her a hug. He was like this for a while before I got my camera. Tred loves his JoJo and she loves him, as you can see!

Tred a Roo

Have you ever tried with all your might to do something and just couldn't pull it off?

This is Tred folding his arms for a prayer... notice his little peeping eyeballs.

Mommy left me :-)

We all saw what happens when David leaves Tred, but what happens when I leave? Well, yesterday I had to take a test in Boise so Dave stayed with the kids while I went. When I left, Tred was sitting on Dave's lap. I told him I was leaving and I walked out the door... nothing. So I opened the door and really emphasized the fact that I was going away... what did I get? A wave good-bye accompanied with a giggle!

Disco babies

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Happy Halloween

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Relying on a 5 year old

I know many of us do, but yes, I have a husband who never takes his turn with the camera. We have entire family vacations documented with photos and you would never know I was there, except that someone had to be holding the camera.

David is continually trying to improve in that department, but I find myself relying on Leavitt to take pictures of me! This pic is from a video Leavitt took, this was the only frame in the entire video that had us both in the picture and was somewhat focused. But alas, here I am finally apart of the FAMILY blog.

Daddy left me :- (

Everyday when Tred sees David change into his scrubs, he follows him around the house crying. Here you will see what happens everyday when David leaves the house. This time Tred even tried to climb out the window! Sorry about the hour-long view of Dave's bottom when he is putting his shoes on! Try not to stare.

Jozette's Hunting Plans

P-O-P, POP!

Leavitt and I were working on writing words this morning. Leavitt took the pen and wanted to write his name. Instead of writing an A he wrote a P. I pointed out his mistake and he told me he wanted to build a word on the other side of the paper. To my suprises he wrote POP! I asked him what it said, he sounded out the letters and came up witht the correct word. So here we have, with no prompts at all, Leavitt's very first written word! HOW COOL IS HE?!?!

A Tred and a dad

Sometimes Tred will not see David for a couple days due to Dave's hectic schedule. Here we see what happens when Dave tries to go to sleep without giving Tred adequate attention before hand.

Our Little Princess

When my mom came to visit she bought this pretty little outfit at a yard sale. Jozette kept begging me to make her look like a princess so two weeks ago I got out of bed and went to work on my baby girl. I curled her hair, painted her nails, gave her a dab of makeup and I even let her wear some perfume. You can only imagine how excited she was. I brought her out and prompted her dad to take her on a date. So off they went to DQ for some ice cream. On the way home they swang by walmart where her dad bought her her first rose. Every child that walked by was pointing her out saying, "Mom, look at that princess."

No picture could ever do justice for how beautiful she looked that day. She has mentioned that date everyday since. I am sure it will be a memory she will always cherish.