So this year my boys have been getting in the spirit of Halloween since the beginning of October and have asked to wear their costumes everyday. Like I said in an earlier post- This alternate reality for these boys has some benefits since I usually can get them to do what I want by threatening to put Superman away. I also have enjoyed watching their imaginations take off. They LOVE hopping around "flying" and they fight bad guys all the time. Lately their newest game is to "Save" the other brother usually from Daddy. That means that while the one boy is being held captive (Getting tickled) the other boy launches off the couch on top of daddy and yells "I saved you!!!!!" (Or in Hyrums case "I-I-I-I-I-I SHAVED NO-NO!" N0-NO is what Hyrum calls MD these days) It is fun to watch all my guys rolling and wrestling on the ground.

Anyway back to Halloween. So this year we had two supermen-One was dressed in a spiderman outfit but that was just a disguise-he really was superman. (Hyrum Picked out the spiderman costume earlier this month for Halloween and I am too much of a stickler to go get ANOTHER costume-especially since MD picked out "The Thing" from Fantastic 4 and would only wear it under the costume I got for Hyurm LAST year.)

Halloween morning found the two crankiest boys around. They pitched huge fits and didn't want to do anything except be supermen. However we had a Birthday party to go to in the morning, a Ward Halloween party to go to in the afternoon and trick-or-treating in the evening so they didn't get much chance to just play. At the end of the ward party MD informed me that he didn't want to do anything else and that he just wanted to go do bed-room time. However once the trick-or-treating started he got way more enthusiastic and the rest of the night both boys were excited and hyper as they first received their buckets of candy, and then inhaled it. When we got home some friends came over and we played cards while we handed out candy to the trick-or-treaters (Which were WAY more in abundance then I have ever dealt with in my life)

MD does not enjoy getting his picture taken so this is about as good as it gets for him-at least on that day
So I thought I would throw in a picture I took a couple of days before at His Preschool Halloween party. Love his face :)
Hyrum "flying"
It kind of stormed right before we went out and so we got to enjoy some of natures beauties
MD was really impressed with these pumpkins and was asking non-stop to go look at them again.
Me (looking awesome) and the boys. It was still sprinkling and so I was wearing Michael's jacket that kept me nice and toasty. Also made me look ridiculously huge- Well that and the baby :)

Kind man who not only let me take his picture but gave away HUGE bags of candy to each kid. I have never lived in a place this serious about Halloween.

The boys enjoying their spoils.
Happy Halloween!

Last night for F.H.E. (Family Home Evening) We finally decided it was a good time to decorate the pumpkin we bought weeks ago from the pumpkin patch. Once again this year we used edible paint which prevented most of the mess you would come to expect letting toddlers paint. It was fun to watch MD who was very serious about what he was doing and slightly amusing to watch Hyrum who just licked his paint brush most of the time and occasionally would put some paint on the pumpkin.
Here they are hard at work.
The cool paint
In this picture you can see Michael's subtle tribute to Eric Clapton.

The Great Pumpkin. This is what it looked like when the boys got done with it.

Blah Blah Blah and more Blah.

So I might have jumped the bullet a bit on getting everything ready for boy #3 (And when I say a bit I mean everything was ready around 25 weeks.) Realizing I had left myself a lot of free time to just sit and look at all the tiny baby stuff I decided to rush the next exciting thing- Christmas. Yes Christmas for our boys (even unmet person 3) has been completely taken care of... And so I sit here with about 3 1/2 weeks left bored out of my skull staring at all the things still unworn and unused..........

I am sick of blogging-but unfortunately I am even sicker of staring at my unchanging Blog so here I am at the computer while my sources for entertainment pretend to take naps. What should I Blog about???? A couple of things have crossed my mind over the past couple of hours/days so I am going to put them up to air them out.

1) MD. First of all I have two thoughts when it comes to him- One he is a HANDSOME little boy. Am I a bit biased-definitely, but even still sometimes I look at him with his beautiful baby blues and just have to give him a kiss. It's an uncontrollable urge-I have seen it work on other little girls too. Thought number two is about what has comes out of his mouth lately. No- no swearing or anything along those lines but I am becoming the source of some speculation to him. He seems to be fascinated with my weight gain and while he acknowledges that there is a baby in mommy's belly (Who he thinks he can talk to through my belly button) he also can't help but tell me that I look like a tomato. YES MY BOY IT'S TRUE! And apparently he has been watching me eat. I don't completely understand why but the other night during our prayers MD decided to have a 5 minute conversation in which he asked Heavenly Father to bless our food and that mommy would not eat all of it.

2) Hyrum.....is a monkey. That and he reminds me of my brother Samuel and my dad all rolled into one explosive package. Also baby puberty has hit which means on top of his "making trouble is fun" attitude- I have to deal with him getting furious at me if I try getting in his way or intruding AT ALL in his life. He however seems to be able to turn it on or off at will and after getting into trouble usually calms down withing seconds to let me know that he is happy now. He also is a cutie but usually I have the urge to squeeze him rather then kiss him probably because he hates it. He looks just enough like a baby that I feel like I can get away with pinching his chubby cheeks. He refuses to come to me now when I ask for a hug though so usually I have to grab him as he races past me.

3) Superman- I can't stand him. Guess what my children are going to be for Halloween?

4) I want to hermit inside my house until this boy (If you can't tell names are eluding us for the moment) makes his appearance. I just hate getting dressed these days and would rather sit in my house and laugh at the kids and read. Probably eat too if I didn't have MD watching....

5) I hate asking for help. Isn't that a form of pride? Well All I know is yesterday I was getting such bad pains in my leg that I couldn't even walk. Michael made me stay home from church and then called his parents to ask for help. I sat and cried and cried. Why do I feel humiliated when I need help? I certainly don't mind giving help.....I don't know.........Pride......probably. I know I sat and thought about my problem while left alone in the house and realized that it was an issue.

On a lighter non-complaining note I am making some french bread to go with a new recipe for meat loaf I am trying. My house smells pretty awesome and it makes me feel all accomplished. Cooking is one of those tasks that actually gets me excited when I am trying something new. I always feel like no matter how little I have accomplished during the day if I have a good yummy dinner then the day was a success. And it helps that my hubby thoroughly appreciates everything I cook and makes me feel like a million bucks when he walks in the door (He also cleans up my food mess that I make-making it even more fun to cook :)

Hyrum "Man Boy" Huish

OK I was getting sick of getting onto my Blog and seeing my pregnant self everytime, so I decided to put up these pics to give me something else to look at.

Gotta admit he's pretty cute!

5 weeks to go

And I am so done. Seriously this baby has taken such a toll on my body that I can't even remember what it must be like to not have to push yourself out of bed, or to not have your leg joints pop when you start to walk, or what walking at a normal pace feels like. Add the nausea, back pains, and false labor and you have a pretty good idea on how my days are going.
In the babies defense he moves pretty well so I don't have to worry to much if he is alive, He is still measuring 2 weeks early (According to ultrasound) so I feel like at least he'll be a good healthy sized boy with cheeks to rival his uncle Daniels when he was a baby. And the truth is I feel like there was probably a reason I felt so motivated a couple of months ago to get everything ready for the baby then because there is no way for me to do it now.

I do not resent being pregnant (I know I probably sound like it though :) I am just ready to be done. I am grateful I have the ability to be able to have kids-especially these little boys that the Lord keeps sending me. Also on the plus side I apparently am on my way to getting a free ticket into heaven for having so many boys (according to a woman in Michael's class :) That's always a plus right?

Family Home Evening at the Pumpkin Patch

Once again just want to say how much I am enjoying all the activities that come with this time of year. I feel like I am almost on a 3 month Holiday with my family as this time of year generally fosters a lot of activities for us to do as a Family (As opposed to just me and the kiddos.)
I have always wanted to go to a pumpkin patch and so when our friends invited us to come along with them we jumped on the wagon! (Literally :)
Starting out on our hayride out to the Pumpkin Patch
Kids starting out in the maze
I think Michael might have had an unfair advantage in the maze :)



Hyrum holding our pumpkin (Well trying to at least)
MD wanted to try to hold it too
A smaller one worked better
The kids had so much fun-almost as much fun as the adults :)

Quality time

It's starting to feel a lot like fall here (And sometimes like winter) and I have to admit that the cooler weather brings out the holiday spirit in me! Not so much for Halloween, but for things like Hot chocolate, pumpkin patches, holiday cookies and treats and everything that the next three months brings!

Yesterday I had a startling realization that my time with just my two boys was rapidly coming to a close. This is the last month that I can take advantage of all the one on one time I get to spend with them before the next 2 months get devoted to a new baby and recovering from a c-section.

So with that in mind today I decided to soak up as much time with the boys as I could.

Today we baked

Played with trains and train tracks (thanks Aunt Meg!)

And had some quality conversations about thunder, fans breaking and not hitting :)

The computer camera

Every once in awhile I pull out the computer camera and watch the boys discover that they are watching themselves. I always end up with some fun pictures :)

Yes this is ANOTHER superhero day :)


I can't even begin to express how much I love these boys. I love their energy and enthusiasm. And I especially love their innocence and fun loving spirits!