Cameron's Adoption Day

We love to celebrate.  We celebrate everything.  Three years ago today Cameron became a part of our family.  We adopted Cameron on 10/10/10 at 10:00 in the morning.  So we had to celebrate his adoption day.

 A candle in breakfast is always a must.

So happy that he could blow the candle out.

For lunch we had some of Cameron's favorite foods.

He helped me cut a fresh pineapple and then proceeded to eat the whole thing himself.

He loves yummy pineapple.

That evening we headed to the desert park for a walk and to feed the ducks.

Hiking up the hill and getting a little help from daddy.

At the top of the hill are telescopes and the boys loved looking up at the moon.

Then the boys gave the ducks and fish a little snack. 

It was so fun to celebrate Cameron and how happy we are that he is in our family.

Taking Care of Baby

These two boys are so cute.  They are both way into babies right now.  We were over at Grammie and Papa's house and when I went to check to see how they were doing in the toy room, Hunter was feeding the baby.  He was so excited they had a baby and a bottle (we don't have any dolls so he thought it was awesome he could take care of the baby there).

 In the morning Cameron often gets up and wants me to swaddle all of his stuffed animals in their blankets.  The other morning I heard Hunter in with Cameron saying "don't worry Cameron I can waddle your babies for you".

They are going to be such good helpers and are so excited for a baby.  Hunter was obsessed with having a baby brother but after playing with his cousin Emma he said it might be okay if we get a girl.  Boy or girl they are going to have some loving older brothers.

More Halloween Decorations

The boys are determined to have the spookiest house and love turning everything into ghosts, pumpkins, or bats.  We have been doing a ton of projects. 

On Monday night for Family Home Evening we made ghosts out of milk jugs.  Cameron loves to color on the milk jugs to make a masterpiece.  He is way into making masterpieces, the other day he was playing with yogurt on the table at breakfast and when I went to wipe it up, he told me not to destroy his masterpiece.  So funny, I didn't even mind the mess.

The boys are always turning these milk jugs on to glow at the house.

Grandma Susan helped Hunter make this scary ghost.

So when Cameron woke up from his nap we made a ghostmaking factory.  Hunter was in charge of cutting out the faces and Cameron glued them all together.  They are both getting so old and are able to do so much on their own.  I love watching their personalities develop.

Then we decided to try some smush painting.  You swirl paint on paper and then cover it with plastic wrap and smush it all around.

The boys were excited to get started.

Hunter was a little tentative about smushing.

Cameron was ready to dive right in.

Hunter really liked watching the colors mix.

Cameron just liked making a mess.

Then I made a print of their pumpkins and let them use a cotton swab to make a face or pattern.  Hunter loved his jack o lantern.

Cameron just liked making a fun design.

The boys want to make more pumpkins and have a pumpkin patch on our back door.

Next we decided to make bats.

I think Hunter liked becoming the official photographer more than painting even.

We decided the bats turned out a lot like spiders so Hunter calls them our bat spiders.

We also decided to get our feet in on the action and turned these cute toesies

 into ghosts.

The boys were so good while we did our projects and love putting them up all over the house.

Hanging Out at Home

 Cameron is still working on potty training so we decided to spend a lot of time at home this week to focus on this little guy.  We pulled out all of our favorite toys and had some fun hanging out at home.

 The giant marble towers are always a big hit.  The boys love building them and swirling all of the marbles down.

 We also made our own stop and go signs and had a lot of red light/green light fun.

Cameron thought drawing pictures was a necessity.

Dressing Up

The boys are so excited for Halloween.  They can't seem to decide what they want to be so they keep on trying different costumes out of our dress up box.  Each day Hunter has a new idea of what he wants to be and Cameron goes back and forth between a couple things. 

Either way they both make pretty cute lions.

General Conference Fun

We had an awesome General Conference weekend.  Saturday Patrick and our brother in laws had a semiannual golf trip and then they got back before conference to make us breakfast.  It was fantastic.

Sunday the boys were so excited for conference.

 Cameron carried around Patrick's scriptures all morning and the boys found General Conference tickets and were excited to bring tickets to conference.

 The boys were so excited to watch President Monson talk and were so cute.
We also had some playdough fun.

 It was a fun time together as a family and very inspiring and motivating.

Feeding the Ducks

During the priesthood session of conference, the girls and kids decided to go to the park for a picnic and to feed the ducks.  The park was pretty crowded but the boys loved feeding the ducks and fish.

Cameron was the dictator over the bread and Brody was excited to pet Nemo (Tammy wasn't so excited about him petting Nemo).

Cameron liked feeding the ducks but Hunter only wanted to feed the fish and be silly.  Hunter is so good at being silly.

I just love getting outside with my boys.