pumpkin carving

This year we bought 6 pumpkins to carve for Halloween! Jared's family was down visiting to see Zander and were able to hang out with us as we carved pumpkins. Grandma was a ton of help carving the pumpkins with me having to take care of the new baby.

Blake was pretty sure he could carve all by himself. He drew the design on his pumpkin but ended up in the end needing some help from his dad.

This is Jared's pumpkin, he saw a bunch of different designs online and thought he might give it a shot. I think it turned out really cool, so did some of the trick or treaters that came to the house, there were lots of comments on it.

Weird to see another person in our family pictures. :) Glad Zander is finally here! You must check out Jareds blog on the side. He turned one of our pumpkins into a "scary" pumpkin that honked at you after you pushed a button on its nose. It was hillarious hearing the trick or treaters scream from being caught off guard. I even had adults tell me it really scared them. :)

Introducing

Zander Kenneth Dutton was born on Monday October 25th 2010 at 4:53pm. He weighed a healthy 8lbs.15oz. and was 21.5" long. The kids were super excited to come and see their new brother. When they arrived Jared asked them to guess how long it took me to push out Zander, the closest to the correct number got to hold him first. Kayla guessed 13 minutes which was the closest to the real 8 minute time. I like Elizabeths 2 minute guess though, wish she would have been right. :)

Elizabeth has been taking violin lessons this year and her teacher told her she need to start using a full size violin. So lucky girl has started to use my old violin. Well last night Jared was digging through boxes in the garage and found a bunch of my old violin books so I thought this morning I might go through them and play a few songs. I think I was on my third song or so when I heard the garage door close. Hrm, wonder what Blake is doing? Well when I finish up with the third song I turn around to find Blake on the recliner with a pair of Jared's shooting ear muffs on. Come on Blake I wasn't that bad!

Kayla turns 7

Last Saturday was Kayla's birthday. Since her birthday was on a Saturday we decided she could open her presents in the morning instead of waiting until dad got home from work. We put out her presents in the family room so that she would see them when she came downstairs in the morning. She was super excited, but she still had to wait a little while to open her presents because we had to go and borrow the Owensby's camera because ours broke again. Jared took Kayla to pick up the camera and get doughnuts for breakfast. Once they were back Kayla with a little help from Blake opened her presents.

Thank goodness Target had Barbie baby newborns. I had been hearing for a month about this toy! Kayla was really excited that I got them for her. After presents we decided to take the kids to Despicable Me. Blake actually sat through the whole movie, a first for him. The kids liked it but Jared and I thought it could have been better. When we got home we went swimming and then later in the day we went to Ponchos for dinner. I swear Kayla only likes that place because of the desert bar. The kids had ice cream, churros, jello, and sopapillas. Obviously when we got home no one was in the mood for birthday cake. No big deal we just did the birthday cake the next day.

Here are a few pictures of Blake in his homemade robot suit. He had me cut out holes in a paper sack for his body, but we couldn't figure out what to do for his helmet. I told him to go ask his dad and this is what they came up with.

It's a....

Here we are getting ready for the sonogram to start. It is a really small room but we made it work. When the sonogram tech moved to that "area" it was very obvious we were having a little boy. We were all very excited, I think everyone wanted to have a boy especially the girls so they wouldn't have to share a room again. We have already had 2 boy cousins born this year and with another boy cousin on his way this little guy is sure to have some playmates. Yay.

Broken Car

We just can't seem to get catch a break with our old cars, they always seem to need work, even the toy car can not escape the occasional break down. Not to worry though, Jared has taught Blake all he needs to know to fix his own car.

I just found Blake underneath his toy car "fixing" it and I had to take a picture. How cute is that? Just like his dad.

Oh Liz

Oh Liz I am catching up with you. I had my doctors appointment today and he changed my due date to October 30th. :)