I think I wanna marry you

Brooke and Keith are officially married as of February 12th. Yea! It was so much fun to have the whole family together. I wish everyone could have stayed longer, but that's life. Welcome to the McDowell Family, Keith. :)

Saturdays

So this is how I spent last Saturday morning - building a bulldozer and jackhammer out of kinex/legos. My boys begged and begged for me to build it until I finally gave in. I think it lasted all of 12 minutes before the boys started taking it apart, but I learned that I have a talent for building toys out of legos. I think I missed my calling in life - I should've been a professional lego builder. :)

I'll say a little prayer for you

Lately when I make the boys lunch, Hudson looks at me, folds his arms and scrunches up his little face. That's how he tells me he's ready to say a prayer. It melts my heart. :)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

When we were at the store the other day we had to walk by the holiday section (okay, I had to) and the boys found these singing Christmas hats. They wouldn't take them off until the hat was done singing Jingle Bell Rock. It was pretty funny.

In other news, my husband and I just celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary on Saturday. My terrific parents took the boys for a night and Randy and I were able to stay at the 3 Palms hotel in Scottsdale. It was very nice. Thank you to my sweet husband for arranging that! :) And thank you to my parents for watching my crazy boys! :)

I'm so excited for the holidays! I can't wait to see my sister and brother-in-law for Thanksgiving! We'll have most of the McDowell side of the family together - so game on! My family is big on playing games, especially on the holidays, so I'm excited.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Halloween 2010

This year Cooper was the Incredible Hulk and Hudson was a skunk for Halloween.

Birthdays

October is the birthday month for our family. Cooper turned 4 on September 30th. My mom's birthday was yesterday and my birthday is today. We have more later this month, too. It's crazy, but I love it. Cooper made out pretty good this year in the gift department.

He had 2 parties - one in Thatcher and one here in Mesa. His grand gift was the Batman Castle that Randy and I got him. He's been talking about it non-stop for the past few weeks, so he was pretty excited when we brought it out. He's also been having a blast with the nerf guns my sister Brooke and her fiance Keith got him. (In all honesty, I think the adults had just as much fun with them, if not more -- see the picture of my mom below) :)

Grandma and Grandpa Conrad got him some spiffy new Toy Story underwear that he loves. He told me the other day he was on his last pair of Toy Story underwear, so I had to do the laundry so he would have a clean pair for tomorrow. His drawer was filled with clean underwear, but he didn't want to wear any of them. Only the Toy Story ones would do. :) And thanks to Grandma McDowell & PopPop for the fishing puzzle. Poor Coop hasn't really gotten to play with it too much, because his brother thinks it's the best thing in the world and won't give it up. :) Anyway, thanks to everyone for the gifts and phone calls and cards. We love you all!

Sneaky Snacker

This is what my 18 month old does while I'm in the shower. I came out this morning and found him like this. He cracks me up. :)