Get Better!!

Dear Grandpa Brownell,

I am coming to your house in two weeks! You need to get lots of rest so that you will be ready to play with me. I hope you and Grandma had a Happy Thanksgiving! We are in Washington D.C. We went to the Jefferson Memorial today and at first I thought he looked like Jesus, but then my mom told me it was Thomas Jefferson. We get to go to a museum with airplanes tomorrow. I am excited. I can't wait to see you... get better!!

Love, Jack

Twilight

Here is a picture of some of us

I went and saw the Twilight movie last night at the midnight showing with a big group of girls. I think there was about 20 of us. I really liked the movie! There were a couple parts that I thought were kind of cheesy and definitely better in the book, but overall a good movie. It was 3am before I got into bed and for some reason I couldn't fall asleep until 5am!! It must have been the Diet Coke I was drinking during the movie to make sure I wouldn't get sleepy. I am not a happy camper this morning...just ask Justin. :)

Forever Thankful

My Dad had quadruple bypass surgery today. It was around a five hour surgery that was very successful and everything went as planned. The doctors said the surgery was pretty boring, which in the medical world is definitely a good thing! He found out a week ago that he would be needing the surgery. It all came on so fast, but both of my grandpas have had bypass surgery when they were the same age as my dad. It runs in the family. I am so thankful that we live in a world where the medical technology is so amazing and that they are able to save so many lives. The area where my Dad's blockage is, is in such a bad spot that if they wouldn't have found it now, he would have had a fatal heart attack. We are definitely blessed and ever so grateful that he didn't.

We love you Dad!! We hope that you will have a speedy recovery and we are counting down the days when we get to see you!! ...only three weeks left! :)

Little Smarty Pants

Jack started talking pretty early. Ever since my parents came in May, when he learned to say "hello" and "grandpa", it seems like he has learned a new word everyday since then. My friend, Janelle, asked me one day how many words he could say and I had no idea. So over the course of the next few days, I kept a notebook with me all day writing down each new word I heard him say. After I got above 200, I stopped counting. Not bad for just a little guy! :)


He gets distracted in this first video when he hears Justin coming in through the front door. :)

Don't worry Mom and Denise....now that he knows who both his grandpas are, we are working on the grandmas. :)

A week late...

So since Halloween was a week ago, I decided I probably shouldn't put off blogging about it any longer.

Can you guess who we are? :)

Spencer probably had my favorite costume of the night. He was the "Duct Tape Man". And his wife, Suzy has had her little baby since this picture was taken!

Most of the clan, minus the Sanford's who were taking the pictures. :)

Cute little Hailee

Stupid squirrels ate my pumpkin after it had been out about 24 hours. If you recall my incident with the squirrels last year, I was pretty mad when they did it to me again this year. Next Halloween, I think I'm going to cover my pumpkins in squirrel poison! ...if there is such a thing.

Pumpkin Carving

We had the Gowan's over on Sunday to carve our pumpkins. As you can see, Jacob has mastered his pose for the camera....nice Jacob. :)

We all had to go outside to see the finished product!

Justin's is on the left, mine is in the middle, and Kat and Jacob's is on the right.

Ooooo......scary!

Trunk or Treat...kind of

We went to our ward Trunk or Treat on Friday. It was raining though, so we had to move it inside to the gym. Jack was super cute in his lion costume! He does not like wearing the hat but I have been making him put it on everyday hoping that he would get used to it. I was so surprised because he left it on all night!
Jack and his friend Bennett the pirate.

His friend Samuel, the ER doctor. His dad is in a medical residency here, so I thought his was super cute!

Jack and Crew were looking at each other like...."Why do you have that weird thing on your head?" It was hilarious!

There were so many cute costumes there and I am retarded and only took a few pictures. Jack caught on pretty quick that every new person we went up to would give us more candy to put in our bag and he was having a lot of fun. The good thing though, is he doesn't even really know what candy is so basically I have been eating it ALL!! Justin helps a little, but I definitely am the one caught red handed in the candy bowl throughout the day. There's no limits on candy at Halloween....right?

House Hunting

We went for a drive yesterday to look at some more beautiful homes in our area. I think I am going to live in Ohio. Well, not really...but I do LOVE all of the beautiful homes there are to see.
These first two were in the same neighborhood that had the most beautiful landscaping.

And this last one, I think we have decided to buy. We'll see if they take our offer next week.

Hee hee.... I wish.

5K

We ran a 5K with some of our friends on Saturday in Lakewood. It is a really cute town right on Lake Erie.

Here we are gearing up for the race and trying to warm up in the 45 degree weather! So much for our 80 degrees of the week before!

Jack was the youngest participant. :) Justin pushed him in the jogger. He's mad in this picture because he couldn't get his mittens off.

The race was in an awesome location. We ran through a neighborhood where everyone's back yard was Lake Erie. How fun would that be? It was nice to catch a glimpse of it in between the houses.
Our goal was to not be dead last......we did it! :) We definitely didn't finish first but ended up somewhere in the middle. That's good enough for me!

After the race with the lake behind us.

It was really fun to do it with so many friends!! Thanks guys for bearing the freezing cold weather!! Maybe we should make this a tradition?

My new favorite fruit

Apples!!

We went to the Fruit Farm (again!) and Jack's friend, Lily was loving the apples. I had never just given a whole apple to Jack to eat, but I did and he would not put it down. He loved it! It was cute to see him work really hard to get a bite. He was not happy when it I took it away because it had got so dirty from him trying to play in the sand and eat the apple at the same time. Gross...

More apples this way!

Yummy!

Lily, in on the action...

Lily is one of Jack's best friends. He is ALWAYS asking for Lily and Lily is ALWAYS asking for Jack. They are really funny to watch. They play so good together. I never have to worry when Lily is over. It is endless entertainment for Jack and she is always so sweet. She even gives him kisses...often. :) Hopefully her dad doesn't mind.