9 months

Don't mess with her, she's spent time on the inside...

Penny Ray turned 9 months today. How can this....

...turn into this, so FAST?!?!

I like when my kids turn 9 months, they have officially lived in the outside for as long as they lived in the inside. It's just neat to think about.

Penny is crawling, climbing onto short things like boxes and stools and the first step of the stairs. She's pulling herself up to stand by things, she's letting go and balancing. She chews and chews and chews. She has the eyes of a hawk and picks up the tinyest little things off the floor to pop right into her mouth. She's clapping and waving and drool-y. She's sprouting teeth and her hair is getting all luscious. AND in 3 months she will be one year old.

Stop it already!

policemen

We like this video in our house...

What is a Policeman?

Narrated by Paul Harvey

buds

It's safe to say , that these 3 are crazy about eachother and I'm enjoying it while the feeling lasts.

I love Penny's face in the bottom picture, It screams out..." excuse me......WHY THE "H" ARE WE SITTING IN FREEZING SNOW?!?!"

Remember Remember the 11th of November

Have you ever had a person in your life that is AWESOME?

My Grandpa, Burns Wood is one of those people. How could you not be awesome with a name that is a verb and a noun?

My Grandpa's house is full of cool stuff, he like to collect things like indian artifacts, neat owl figures and glass grapes.

He has the best stories, he tell the funniest jokes, he can juggle and I for a fact have seen him walk on his hands (he used to be a gymnast). I could hang out with him all day and never be bored. He's smart and interesting and I love that guy.

I remember once in Grade 1 or 2 we were learning about Indians and my dad took our class down to the coulees, we were all gathered in a group of trees and then from behind a tree, steps a REAL indian chief, in a head dress and everything. It was Grandpa , he told us legends and I thought that my Grandpa Wood was native until I was at least 10 years old.

Not only is my Grandpa Wood all of those awesome things above, he's also a Vetran of WWII. So yesterday he was asked to give a speech at a Remembrance Day ceremony. It was wonderful. I've never REALLY appreciated the meaning of Remembrance Day, because like so many people in my generation, we've never fought in a war or lived in the time when the world wars were happening. Wars don't affect me, to me they are being fought far from where I live. So therefore don't really have a large impact on me. Yesterday at the ceremony I was thinking in my head how many of these things I've been to and how many times I've taken for granted the men and women who fought to make the land where I live a safe and peaceful place. Then 3 names came to my head....

Burns Wood

Ray Evanson

Bruce Bullock

In my grandpa's talk he mentioned that the greatest things that came from the war were children, he talked about the Baby Boomers and how their children are your grandparents today. He had Inga's kids and my kids join him up at the front and talked about how sometimes from bad things, LOTS of good things can come.

He spoke about Standing on Guard and what that means, and he really spoke in a way that helped the kids of the Barnwell School to relate. His speech was fantastic.

Burns Wood is a fantastic person.

sheer intensity

Best Picture of Aubrey's Life Time so far.

the fly swatter

I can't believe I'm actually doing this, a pictureless post AGAIN, this goes against everything I stand for. I just wanted to share a funny thing that happened at our house today...

Our big bay window is some sort of a breeding ground/vacation spot for flies this time of year. So lucky Will gets the job of being in charge of the "fly patrol". This morning there seemed to be an abundance of flies on the window so I told Will to, " Go and get the fly swatter!" After saying this Aubrey jumps up and says "I'll get it!!!" Great, this is going to be bad I think. As I imagine both kids running to grab the swatter and inevitably getting in a HUGE fight over it. But suprisingly, Will took off towards the closet where we keep the swatter and Aubrey ran into the kitchen (which I thought was weird, but whatever) So Will runs back and says " I got it!" then Aubrey says " NO, I GOT it.", she walks into the living room carrying a bottle of water.

So Will heard, " Go and get the fly swatter!"

and Aubba heard, " Go and get the flies water!"

So cute. I haven't laughed as hard as I did in a long time!

spooks.

Happy Belated Halloween!

I've once again been having a hard time uploading pictures, so these are just a titch late, like you REALLY care anyways. Unless you all were just DYING to see our awesome halloween costumes, then I apologize. So here we are all decked out...

Penny the Hunky Bat.

Aubrey was "Sally" from the Nightmare Before Christmas movie. I can't even remember how many times I had to explain who she was to people, I guess I thought EVERYONE whose ANYONE had seen that show, I guessed wrong. I guess. But for anyone who has seen that movie, Aubrey's costume was AWESOME, a dead ringer. Plus I sewed it! Pat on the back to me :)

Sorry about Will's inappropriate Ghostbuster Pose, this was the only one where Penny is looking, and boy is she CUTE or what?!?!

and this year I even got into the Halloween spirit, dressed as my favorite thing of all, a cupcake!

We trunk or treated on Saturday at the church and then on Sunday we stayed home and handed out candies, lots and lots of candies! Halloween Love.