11.04.2010

Zoe and Zander--Welcome to the Family

 
So we got  ourselves 2 new puppies in September.  We first met them in August on our travels to Utah but they were just a week old then and we had to wait to get them till they were 8 weeks old.  I only wanted one but the girls decided to pool their money and buy another one.  So we have 2 new babies who are perfect in every way except for the potty training part!  I figure with a life span of about 15-16 years, these will be the last puppies I ever train, yippee! 

Tiny Zander
Tiny Zoe
Lewis is really loving them.  He lays by them, goes in and out the dog door with them, hand feeds them food from their bowls, cleans up their poop off the carpet (he does a really good job too!) and pets them constantly.  He calls them the "blue one and the pink one" because of their collars.  He even remembers them in his prayers.  He is in heaven. 
Lew with the blue one

The girls are really happy to have a puppy they can call their own.  They got Zander.  Brad and I are happy too because we can make them clean up, wipe up, scoop up and wash up any accidents because it's "their dog!"

Griffin is so loving to them.  He gets them to play and run around and has a super fun time with them.  
Dinner Time

Sleepin with Daddy
Zander trying to sneak to school in Grif's backpack
Zander
Zoe
We are so happy to have them because it will make putting Daisy down that much less painful because we have them to cheer us up.

11.01.2010

1st week of Nov. Forecast...SWEET!

Can't beat this time of year, although true perfection would be no 90's!

10.31.2010

Happy Halloween

We had a fun Halloween week with lots of class party's, church trunk or treat's and scoring lots of candy. (Just in time for my diet to end!)  We even went to the State Fair with Grammy, Leksi, Amie and Brax.  It was one busy week and we loved it!!!


This year we had a Mario, a Luigi, a Witch and a Wal*Mart Greeter.  So fun!!  Lewis wore his costume everywhere we went, except the fair, the whole week.  He only answered to Luigi and he loved his outfit!! Mario had a birthday party and a class party that he loved and he has eaten his body weight in candy since Friday night.

Halloween has been a hit!  Now on to Thanksgiving and Christmas!  Let the fun begin.
This is our Daisy pumpkin.  It's gonna be her last halloween with us so we had to pay tribute to her.  She's had a good run but her health is really declining and it's time to make the tough decisions!  UGH.

10.30.2010

Auntie Paula and Pirate Island

This past summer Auntie Paula took the kids and I to a super fun place....Pirate Island.  We ate yummy, delicious food and got lots of tokens to play games with, win tickets and claim prizes!  It was our last day with Auntie Paula and she made sure we went out with a bang!!!  THANK YOU Auntie Paula.

Auntie Paula and kids.  She ROCKS!
quote at front of store
winning tickets, Grif shows Mary what to aim for.
Our "money maker" for tickets.  Slam a winner rocked!

10.28.2010

Pumpkin Crafty-ness

So my friend Jo got this super cute pumpkin from one of her friends and I thought I could copy it and give it to some of my friends.  So she sent me a pic and I showed it to Brad and he decided to 1 up it.  He did.  It is great!  I made some for my mom and she liked it so well she put in an order for a few more that she'd pay us to make.  She wasn't very specific so we made her 20!  (We really needed the money!)

It was fast and easy and I think it's so cute.  I gave them to lots of people but I am thinking the shape can be made into a Christmas ornament or Santas face and Brad can probably make some egg shaped for Easter so be looking out for those!  It was a fun, inexpensive but cute way to decorate for Halloween.


10.25.2010

Fall School Pictures

Here are my 3 lovelies.  Aren't They co cute?!


10.21.2010

my baby is 4

It is so weird to think that we have lived in Phoenix for 4 years already!  I keep good track of this because Lew was born 3 months after we got here.  He is an Arizona Desert Rat as my friend calls himself and all those born in Phoenix. 

Since Lew doesn't really get birthdays yet we didn't have a party.  My parents were down here for a meeting so they took Lew and I to lunch at BJ's.  Sooo delish!  Lewis was in Heaven with Grammy and Pap as his lunch dates.  He really enjoyed the men's bathroom with my dad because it had the urinals that go all the way to the floor and then "the waterfall" came down to flush the pee all gone. He had to do the bathroom twice while we were there just for the pure fun of it!
say cheese
makin a wish

i love Percy

We did take cupcakes to preschool so Lewis considered that his birthday party. Grammy and Pap got him a McDonald's gift card (which we plan on using today!) and he used Grandma and Grandpa's money they sent to buy himself a Percy the #6 engine train. Daddy and Mommy and Griffin got him a huge train set, because 6 buckets of train tracks is clearly not enough, and the girls got him some Toy Story 3 action figures.

He is one happy boy!

10.20.2010

1st day of school

Here are the kiddos on their 1st day of school this year!
3 happy back to school kids!
Helen has the huge bandage because the Sat before school started she got a huge road rash riding sitting down on a skate board at my bro's house.  Her shoulder was all scraped up and her elbow/arm took the brunt of it.  The giant ace bandage keeps on the giant bandage that never wants to stay on an elbow!
Grif and Mrs. Bulger
  
Lewis is doing preschool 2 days a week and loving it!
Yeah!  My 1st day of Preschool!!
Lew and Mrs. Sterr

10.04.2010

Lewis' birdhouse art project

the master at work
 Lew found himself an art project one day.  Mary has had this little gem in her room in a box for 2 years.  Lewis decided it was time for it to come out and be painted.  He got it out all by himself and started painting away.  I was able to talk him into letting me open the paint, set him up with a plate and give him a little water to wash the paint brush with but other than that, he did it all by himself.  I like it!


10.03.2010

Nephew Missionary in the General Conference Choir

My nephew, Elder Joseph Cruz, is 3:23 into Priesthood Session of General Conference. Joseph was in the MTC choir which got to sing for the evening priesthood session. He's the handsome Elder in blue tie next to Elder with yellow tie when song says "truth", so listen for..."all may rejoice the long night is o'er, truth"...and bam...there he is!!! Yeah for my missionary nephew!!!!   I might be tearing up just a little as I type, I won't lie, it was a thrill to see him and then to listen to the words to the song to Hark, All Ye Nations. . .   "Chosen by God to serve him below to every land we'll go!"  (Yep, I'm fully crying now!)
Click on the link below to see him.
http://new.lds.org/general-conference/watch?lang=eng&vid=621787340001
He is in the next song, Go, Ye Messengers of Heaven too, beginning of 2nd verse 8:29, 9:15 and 9:34 in I believe. 
and last song Called to Serve 1:52:14 in case you were wondering.