Jump AND Bounce

Jon's brother Ryan and his family came into town this Halloween weekend and we spent some time goofing off. On Friday we all went to this place called "Jump and Bounce," where there is a lot of jumping and bouncing... ha ha. Jon was pretty happy that Nixon needed help on most of the toys because that meant he had to do them too:) So we ignored the KIDS ONLY NO ADULTS signs and had a lot of fun.


Nixon liked the stairs the best part... no shock there!

Here they come down the slide... weeeeeeee!

Crawling through the tunnels!

There was a play area for JUST TODDLERS and it was nice because he could do most of it by himself.

He liked the little ramp that he could go up and down, up and down.

A mini slide.

There was a boxing ring... that was funny to watch the kids in.

More slide fun. Nixon LOVED the slides.

Pompa and Nixon going head first... this might have scared Nixon a little bit.

Katie and Brandon.

Kathleen being silly.

Everyone ending up in a big pile at the bottom.

Going through a big maze. Man if this isn't a great way to wear your kids out... Nixon was exhausted after all the fun... PERFECT for mom:)

Pumpkin Carving

It's that time again where we go up to the Grandparents house and carve a bunch of pumpkins. We love this tradition and I think it's a lot of fun as a family. This year was a bit different as I had to keep an eye on Nixon who wanted to explore and be a big boy. And as you will tell I took a lot of random pictures of Nixon at this event. Jon is a good pumpkin carver so I let him be the carver and I was the watcher this year, just the way I like it.

Here is Jon's skeleton face... It looks awesome!!

Nixon liked the big pile of pumpkins in the garage. He went from one to another checking them ALL out.

The best is when he tried to pick them up, he would do a big grunt and his face would go all red. It was adorable and of course I missed it on the camera... but you can imagine it:)

Here is Jon carving his second pumpkin.

While I was inside making our homemade pizza ( a tradition on carving night) Nixon found himself a sweet onion and carried it around the house. I found him in the bedroom trying to EAT the onion... yuck! You would think I starve the boy of all his vegetables or something.

This is Nixon's FAMOUS way of telling you he needs help. The little hand gesture is adorable and he uses it ALL day long of course. But I caught it on camera... he needs help down the stairs like a big boy.

Cute face ... oh man he looks so big in this picture.

Here Nixon is sitting on the pumpkins, he tried them all out and they were ALL HARD of course.

The skeleton face again...

Cameron and Rachelle with their pumpkins on the porch.

The second pumpkin, a fire face.

Halloween Dinner!!

I am really getting a good use out of the ball cake pans!! We made spider cakes out of them!! Jon missed his calling in life, he makes a great cake decorator.

The orange punch!!

We made BONE bread sticks.

The jello had spiders on top of them, which were very good:)

AND we ate ALL the casserole... before I took a picture hee hee!

I love making this Halloween Dinner for Jon's family. It is a little tradition and I have a lot of fun thinking of things to make scary to eat!

Black Roses Please...

So I love watching the show NCIS and if you watch this show you know the lab tech Abby... hello LOVE her. So I always tell Jon I want black roses, because Abby on the show sometimes get them. Well come to find out.... you can't buy black roses, who knew? So while I was at knitting group last week Jon found a way to make me black roses for Halloween.

You get white roses and spray paint them.

I was so surprised!! They are so awesome.. I LOVE them!! Thanks Jon, you are the best!

Fall Fun!!

Nixon and the dogs in the back yard with the leaves. It is turning cold here in Spokane and we are having some fun in fall weather.

Nixon wanted to pat the dogs and give them kisses while we were taking pictures... he is so silly.

Tanner has been playing football this fall and we went to his last game on Saturday. He is number 59, if you don't know he is the tallest boy usually.

He is the kicker... all the kids said he kicks it "REALLY hard."

Go TITANS!

My boys in their football hats AT the football game... they are so cute!

Jon loves his boy and Nixon is a total DADDY's boy!

Me and Nixon .. he didn't want me to take a picture of his bear hat.

Nixon has so many knitted hats.. I really need to find something else to knit.. haha:)

Nixon playing with the HULK HANDS!!

He is ready to box, watch out!