Thanksgiving

Kelsey's parents and grandparents came to our house for a great Thanksgiving. We played a lot of cards, watched a lot of football, and most importantly ate a lot of food. The highlight was the delicious turkey dinner, and a beautiful table setting provided by yours truly. Spencer, Grandpa, and I also took on the ambitious project of building a sandbox. Thanks for coming everyone- we had a lot of fun! I put some pictures below:

Thanksgiving

The Hostess, and I'm not talking about ho-hos
Turkey anyone?

Why don't you go take a nap. No, no, I'm not tired. (this photo was not staged)
Warmin' up down by the fire

A few more years and I'll have tenure

Thanks Dad, but couldn't you have built this sandbox in May?

Kelsey's New Doo

Kelsey's new haircut that I gave her. Yeah right, if I gave her a haircut it would be way cooler than this!

Jude Is No Dummy

A very special, loved caterpillar is dying a slow death in this picture.

Jude looks forward to brushing his teeth almost as much as eating. Pay no attention to the nudie in the background.

Well it turns out that Jude may not be a dumb as we thought. He woke up on Tues. and pulled his pacifier out of his mouth (yes he still takes a pacifier) and made the sign for eat. He wakes up every morning starving and will do nothing but cry until we get out of bed and feed him. He now signs to me all day long that he wants to eat. The sign is always accompanied by "nndi", this is his word for everything except dog which is "dah". Evidently I was starving the kid because I was only giving him 3 meals a day and 1 snack. Now that he has discovered communication, he eats 3 meals a day and 4 snacks. Seriously. Its a good thing Justin has a job because we couldn't afford to feed him off student loans. He is a much happier baby now.

Who says America is the land of excess?

Surely a one year old and a four year old can eat all that candy.

Marriage? Overrated. Children? Not recommended. This post is not for the faint of bowel.
I cleaned up more than my daily allowance of throw up yesterday. Which did you know that my daily allowance is 0? Yesterday, Justin was in quite a state. He threw out his back, he had terrible acid reflux and a head cold and he started the day out with a friendly morning barf. Jude has had diarrhea for days and is getting 4 molars so he will not let me put him down. Eden started the day out by throwing up all over her bed. Anyways we had quite a Halloween. This picture was taken on a happier day. Luckily I haven't seemed to catch anything. I haven't even started to cut my molars. What would these guys do with out me?
Eden vegged out in front of the TV all day, and I could hardly get her to put on her costume for the ward trunk or treat. I knew if I didn't make her, she would regret it later. She missed Halloween last year because we were in Australia, so she has been looking forward the this year's for almost 2 years. The trunk or treat lasted about 20 minutes. Eden wouldn't say a word to anybody there, and was the most forlorn ballerina ever seen. Jude did well and even carried his bucket for a little while, but dropped it for a sucker as soon as he spotted one. When we got home Eden wanted to go to bed, but a few neighbors had wanted to see her. So I carried her to three doorsteps. She hardly opened her eyes, but it was a good thing that we went because they had chocolate. Jude got the hang of it pretty quick and would carry his bucket up to the door and grab a candy and then promptly turn a round to go the next house. He was very businesslike. Justin even brought him to our door (where I was passing out candy) and he did the same thing to me. There was no sign of recognition in his eyes. I believe his sweet spirit had been overtaken by the evil candy spirit. Anyways we still managed to do OK in the candy department, I'd say. We have about 6 pounds too much, and all of it was gleaned in the space of about 30 minutes of trick or treating.