This Is Halloween

Halloween 2010 happened something like this:

For me, my insides were still a tad unhappy from being on my outsides (love me a little c-section). Thus, I had the poo-poo prize of being the treat passer-outer.

Cole slept his way through ALL. Of. Halloween (we obviously need to work on his Halloween enthusiasm levels if he’s going to be a member of this family).

And Dave and Kate braved the ferocious monsoon with one goal—to fill the pumpkin bucket. Goal achieved, by the way.

This is us in our costumes. As you can see, Dave and I called our costumes good with wigs and not much else. Kate was Super Girl, and Cole was a bat...a terrifying one.

And how Dave and I are able to make such cute kidlings, I’ll never know.

3 creepy babies—I think Dave was proud of himself for thinking up this clever shot.

By the end of the night, we lured in 138 trick-or-treaters. It was 40 less than last year, but I think given the icky weather, we did okay. We passed out prizes from Oriental Trading, which seemed to be a hit.

After all the festivities, Kate washed all the “pink” out of her hair and was able to wear matching jammies with her new little brother. Pretty darn cute.

Baby Cole Visits the Hospital

All suited up…

And ready to go…

Fresh from Momma’s belly…

All cleaned up and irresistible…

Proud Momma…

Proud Daddy…

Proud Sister…

Happy family…

Leaving the hospital…

Home at last (and can’t wait for our new life together)…

Introducing Cole David Blackhurst

Cole was born October 24, 2010 at 8:05 am. He weighed 8 lbs 5 oz, 19 inches long. Mother and Baby are both doing great, Dad and Sister are both exhausted. I'll keep you updated with more pics soon.

A Little Glimpse…

 

into our weekend:

Count them.  That’s right. SIX.  Six children all under our care for 4 whole days!  This wasn’t our first time parenting the 6, just the first time with 2 of them puking (one of them being Kate), and the rest of them with colds.  Lovely.  Luckily, everyone was mostly recuperated by Saturday, allowing us to get out.  Buca di Beppo and Cornbelly’s provided for a nice escape.  

So here we are posing with the pumpkin man.  As you can see, Kate bravely sat right next to him.  But you better believe, she wasn’t about to take her eyes off of him!  After the photo the dude told her, “Someday you’re going to laugh at this picture.” I know it makes me laugh.

And what would a good time be without standing behind a cutout and getting your picture taken?

   

And the last thing I’ll say is DARN that Boy Scouts of America Corn Maze!  That thing was near impossible.  Lucky we had my resourceful husband!  He used his phone to upload an aerial view of the maze, enabling us to escape our fate of becoming children of the corn.

Inspite of the BSA…always a good time to be had at the Cornbelly’s.  One of my favorite events of the year, that’s for sure.

Princesses and Blue Kitties

This morning as Kate’s waking up, I hear her talking to herself in her room for several minutes.  When she comes out, she’s holding her Sleeping Beauty doll and says, “Mom, I’m pretending Sleeping Beauty’s the Avatar girl.

Confused. But once I saw the upside down crown, I had to admit, the resemblance was spot on!
  

Kate’s brilliant. I’m pretty sure. And me, what a good parent I am! My child references her dolls to creatures she shouldn’t have ever seen. Oh, well.

Here’s the true sleeping beaut!  I snapped this a couple days ago.  Napping is such a rare occasion for this child anymore.

Ruth, Ruth, and Shawn

 

Well, life has improved immensely ever since our Williamson friends moved back to the mothership.  This weekend, Mark treated us to a stay at his sister’s condo in Park City.  Tisha’s little sis came along and babysat the kidlings while the adults went out.  Of course we graced the Ruth’s Chris and had ourselves a lovely time.  And, of course, Kate loved her time spent with her ‘big girl’ friend and now wants an older sister.  Hmmm...

The next morning, we hit up Ruth’s Diner for breakfast.  She’s grabbed the Best of Utah’s Best Breakfast Award for years now, so we thought we out to give it a whirl.  Of course breakfast hit the spot, but more worthy of mention would be our CELEBRITY sighting while there. 

***Now, before we get into who it was…let me just start with how very proud I am of myself.  Usually, celeb sightings turn on some switch inside of me, causing me act in the most shameful of ways.  Let me elaborate…

Instance #1: The mere sight of Oprah Winfrey caused me and a complete stranger to senselessly cry and hug each other (apparently, this stranger has the same switch).

Instance #2:  Upon seeing my all-time favorite actor Sean Astin exiting the restaurant we were waiting to get into, I yelled and chased him down (I wasn’t going to not introduce myself).  Good thing too.  He was very nice, said, “Well, it’s nice to meet you, Ashley,”(mmmm….) and then introduced me to his wife:)

Instance #3: After meeting Karl Malone and Bryon Russell I felt compelled to ask if I could steal a kiss (this would be in my teenage years, mind you).  Both men obliged (I have the pics in my photo album to prove it) and there you have it.  I’m a nutcase.

So anyway, we saw Shawn Wayans (star of Kwality films such as White Chick and Scary Movie). 

He walked into the diner at the same time as we did wearing a bandana and sunglasses.  Mark immediately recognized him, but the rest of us couldn’t be sure until he removed the headress.  Sure enough.  The trouble is…I could not grab a photo for the life of me!  He sat inside the train car and was all too aware of us eyeing him down.  And, once we got seated outside, there was no hope for photo opps.  Oh well.  I was glad I let him eat in peace….I guess.

Anyway, we had some fun times this weekend.  So glad we have good friends to make lots of memories with.

How can I have "s'more" when I haven’t had any yet?

On Friday I had a Dr.’s appointment.  Upon stepping on the scale, I was both shocked and relieved to discover I hadn’t gained any weight!  My first thought, “Well, hallelujah!”  My second, “Wait…WHAT!?!” The doc said it was typical for the mother’s weight to stabilize during this last month.  With Kate I was a bounteous marshmallow packing on an 20 extra pounds during the last month alone. So to say I was elated would be an understatement.

I can’t believe we’re so close to getting our Baby Ferb here!  It’s been a breeze of a pregnancy this time around, and we still can’t believe we’ve been so lucky to not run into any complications again! We’ve got the nursery all set up, which has been a fun project, and have lots of cute boy clothes that we’ve been stocking up on since we found out Baby’s gender. We’re not sure we remember how to do all the baby stuff, but are excited about giving it another go*

*so long there’s no cholic involved :)

This is Baby 3 months ago.  I never posted the pic, but thought it needed to be. I cannot believe the resemblance to his daddy. Looks just like Dave, huh?