Saturday, November 14, 2009

Definitely NOT a Flake!

The other day Jensen climbed up on one of our "dining room chairs" and grabbed an apple out of the fruit bowl. He just started chowing down - where did this kid come from? Definitely not from the Flake side of the family. We only chow down on hohos and maple bars - ha! He does it just about every day now - it's so cute and so funny!



Do you want to hire this guy as your pharmacist? Ha! I have started to let Luke fill my medicine box every week. He loves it and is so careful to make sure each slot has one of everything and then counts them, etc. He's pretty thorough - I'd highly recommend him to anyone and his labor is cheap.

This is the picture we'll put on the flier to advertise his services - such a trustworthy face!

Here is a picture of the beautiful and SAFE deck Austin's dad made for us! Thank you so much! It has changed our life - seriously.

Austin got yet another cold sore on his face. He couldn't shave for a week or two as he didn't want to spread it all over his face, unlike some people (Joel). The week or two that he had a beard completely reaffirmed my severe hatred for beards - ugh!

It's a very long and embarrassing story (for me) but here is a picture of our two riding lawn mowers. The smaller one is the one I bought - without having Austin look at it! Stupid, stupid, stupid. The bigger one actually works well and was a great deal! We just had to get one. With Austin gone all the time, I have to mow the lawn with the boys and it's just impossible. We have about half an acre and it takes me over an hour to mow the lawn with the push mower, so we bought this baby. Now Austin MAKES time to mow the lawn! Sweet deal for me!

If you're a mother, you've probably felt the temptation to take a picture of you precious, cute, perfect baby when they are asleep. I couldn't help myself...

of course, when you give into temptation, you have to deal with the consequences when I woke my sweet baby up from his nap too early! Woops!


Some videos of Jensen eating an apple - so funny and cute! The other video is of Luke, Austin and Jensen (kind of) playing with this hockey game we got off craigslist for free! I love that page!! So many hours of entertainment! Thanks to the wonderful family who gave it away for free!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Halloween Fun

This is a little late, but we had a wonderful Halloween!

Austin made Luke an exact replica of a 1909 Boston Red Sox uniform. Jensen was a skunk, another costume Austin made. He's pretty talented.

Luke with his loot!

Why does this picture make me think of Pepe Le Pew in tap dance shoes? Jensen is really cute anyway, but skunk is just a great look for him!

This picture took some coaxing, but we couldn't find any red baseball socks Luke's size and we thought tights would be warmer - makes for a great picture!

The boys wore their costumes for three days in a row. The first day we went to Austin's school Halloween party (yes, he is in medical school and not elementary school). I guess they put on a little Halloween party for the students' kids every year.

We never got a good shot of Jensen's costume.

At DMU, painting pumpkins. I think Austin got into it more than Luke.

Halloween isn't complete without decorating Halloween sugar cookies. Can you guess which ones Austin made? I think he was trying to make up for not carving an awesome pumpkin this year. (Austin did the ghostbuster, the cheat (from homestarrunner.com) and an eagle.)

The artist at work.

This was the first time Luke actually frosted the cookies himself. He LOVED it and got really into it...literally! Just kidding...sort of.