Clothes, Bumbo, and a Big Problem

A few days ago, after I got Jordan out of bed, we went to Jack's room to tell him it was time to get up. This is what I found when I walked in:

He picked out clothes for Jordan and him to wear and laid them out. I thought it was pretty cute.

Kenzie sat in her bumbo for the first time this week. She was only able to hold her self up for a few minutes before she was leaning to the side. So we'll wait a little longer to really start using it.

I saw this article on yahoo news yesterday. Just the title of it caught my attention and I had to read it...

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/108191/leggo-your-eggo-theres-a-waffle-shortage

I'm not sure how we'll handle this. We might have to start eating homemade waffles or even cereal for breakfast. Hopefully there will still be enough waffles at Sam's Club to supply our 3 boxes a month that we go through... :)

Smiles

Mackenzie has started smiling more this week. I've been trying to get a good one on camera and today I did. Isn't she so cute? It's fun to try to make her smile.

(sorry for the crooked picture... someday I'll figure out why this happens. But not right now. I'm a busy mom :))
Pretty much everytime Kenzie smiles she first makes a little grin that turns into a full out smile. I love it.

Another smile from a couple days ago.

Jordan and Jackson

Jordan, Kenzie, and Jack

Mackenzie's Blessing Day!

Doug blessed Mackenzie on November 1st.

Mackenzie in her blessing dress. My sister Michelle made it and she looked beautiful in it.

Jackson, Jordan, and Mackenzie. Jackson shared his testimony for the first time that day. Doug was going up and he asked Jack if he wanted to go too. I only heard it, not saw it because I had to feed the baby. But it was very cute. Doug said he wanted to do it by himself first. But after saying a phrase he watned Doug's help. Last Sunday he wanted to go do it again. And yesterday he was holding an empty toilet paper roll as a microphone for me and telling me what to say. I told Doug he's going to have to go up every month now :)

Jackson, Doug, me, Jordan, Mackenzie.

Doug and Mackenzie

Alli and Mackenzie after Doug changed Mackenzie's close. Alli loves Mackenzie and is always asking if she can hold her.

Grandma and Grandpa Come Visit

Grandma and Grandpa Dance came up last weekend for Mackenzie's baby blessing. We took them to Seattle on Saturday and walked down Pike's Place Market and rode a ferry to Bainbridge Island. We ate walked around on the island, ate lunch, and rode back to Seattle on the ferry. Luckily it was a beautiful sunny day, and we didn't get rained on at all.

Grandpa Dance, Doug, Grandma Dance, Mackenzie(although you can't actually see her), Jackson and Jordan outside of Pike's Place. We had just bought them the balloons they are holding. They're both fish balloons.

Jordan, Grandma, Jackson, Grandpa, me, Mackenzie. After Pike's Place we walked along the water front to the place where we got on the ferry.

Jackson and Grandma on the ferry looking out at the water and land.

Grandpa, Jordan, Jackson, Doug on the back end of the ferry. Everyone but Mackenzie and me walked all around the ferry. They said the back end was better becasue it wasn't windy like the front was. It was everyone's irst time on a ferry except for me. They didn't really know what to expect from it, but they all loved it. Doug thought it would be boring to go on it, but as soon as we walked on he thought it would be fun. He thought it would be more like a train or bus. And since he rides the train everyday for work, that wouldn't be very fun for him.

This is the only picture I have of Mackenzie in either of her costumes by herself showing the full costume. I think she is so cute in it.

Mackenzie and the water. I tried to get a good picture of both Mackenzie and the water/land, but one of them kept turning out dark so this is the best I got. I think Mackenzie is very cute in it.

Our family on the ferry.

Thanks grandma and grandpa for coming! We loved having you here. Come again soon :)

Halloween

For Halloween we went to Trunk or Treat parties, one the day before and one the day of Halloween. The kids had fun at both parties. They loved getting all their candy. Jordan had a hard time holding his pumpkin up by the end of the night though. It was too heavy for him.

Superman showing me his candy at my sister's ward's trunk or treat.

Grandma Riding and Catwoman

The kids and me. My sister made me be in the picture so Mackenzie would be in it. I tried to say no, but since she's the oldest she's still is in charge :)

Superman and Spiderman

Our two little Skeletons. Jackson refused to wear these pajamas for awhile. He said they're scary jammies. But then I made him wear them after he wet his pants (which he did probably at least twice a day last week) and he decided they weren't so bad.

Our three little skeletons.

Jackson, Jordan, and Mackenzie ready for the Halloween. We let them wear their costumes all day on Halloween.

Jackson, Jordan, and Mackenzie at our ward's trunk or treat.

Jordan trunk or treating.

Jackson trunk or treating.

Jackson and his friend Tristin after trunk or treating.

Jackson and Jordan with their friends Tristin and Serenity.

For Grandma Dance...

Carving Pumpkins

Last night we carved pumkins at my mom's house with my sister's family. It was fun. Jackson and I carved a sad pumkin and Doug carved an alien.

Doug, Jackson, Ashlee, Allison, and Kimber taking out the insides. Jackson actually helped some with that this year. Last year he thought it was too gross. He still wouldn't touch them with his hands though... He just used a spoon. Ashlee's girls loved pulling it all out and getting their hands all gooey.

Konrad, Ashlee, Kimber, and Doug carving their pumkins. You can see my and Jackson's finished sad pumpkin on the table. Jackson said he wanted it to have a sad face.

Doug with the alien.

Mackenzie wore this cute skeleton outfit during our Halloween festivities day.