Family Pics 2018

What Elias Has Been Up To

Being a hipster baby. 

Holding babies. Tonight he got hurt and I asked him if he wanted me to hold him. He said, “I want our baby to hold me.” and awkwardly cuddled my belly. 

I asked Elias to turn around and smile for the picture and he kept right on cutting paper while saying “I has to get this budget done for Daddy!”

Snow goes a long way with this guy. Snow and sprinkles go even further. 

Time at Home

The big boys had a few days off of school, so we enjoyed all of Lewis’ new art supplies he got for his birthday. I’d say Lewis’ love language is glitter glue. 

Grandma’s Bowl

My Grandma used to put her famous potato salad in this bowl. We’re not much for potato salad, but we like stuffed eggs a lot, so we decided to make it our stuffed eggs bowl. In my mind, potato salad and egg salad are similar. 

He did a really nice job! Delicious!

Grandma’s Chairs

They have quickly become the favorite spot(s) in the living room. 

Halloween 2018

We didn’t make it to the orchard this year to pick our own pumpkins due to me being so sick, so I was very excited when Hy-Vee had giant pumpkins for $4 each. Each boy picked one out. 

A few days later we open them up to carve them, and unfortunately they were somewhat rotten and moldy inside. See Lewis’ face? Accurate. Turns out they had some cracks in the bottoms. 

Elias really enjoyed scooping out his pumpkin. We were able to scoop them out and carve them anyway, but someone was quite disappointed nonetheless.



Team breakfast was at our house on Halloween morning, and Jack was in charge. He wowed is all! He made his family’s sausage soufflé recipe for us, which was amazing. He also decorated the tables and hung a sign, had festive paper goods, AND dressed up like a shark. Elias wanted the shark to read him a book (see pic above). 

That evening we went trick or treating with friends, and Augustine was adamant that the kids have a dance party afterwards. I think because he recently made up some sweet moves and he wanted to wow his girl. ;) Lewis went trick or treating with us for the first time ever! He usually stays home and passes out candy with Grandma. And Logan threw together an impressive last minute costume...a traffic cone (he wore the pointy hood on his jacket to complete the look).

The pumpkins turned out great despite being quite mushy by that evening. We had fun trick or treating a few blocks away in the old ‘hood. 
As always, we visited the Sisters and Jesus on our trick or treat route. 

And Augustine got his dance party in at the end of the night!

Boo at the Zoo

Grandma got to join us this year! We took the SWAT team and a fire fighter along for safety. ;)

They were excited, as always, to see the fire fighters and the police. 

Of course, Grandma got to see some good friends!

Turns out a person assisted by a wheel chair is as good as a VIP (early bird) ticket, so we were done in an hour! We got dinner on the way home and sat down to check out the treats. 

Elias was wide-eyed the whole time, but understood quickly that this was a sweet gig. He was really good about giving up everything with dairy in it, and still very happy about his safe treats.