Don't I Look ...................Innocent

Tate is in a STAGE. Yes, he is the cutest baby around(Mommy and daddy's opinion.)But, he has a mean streak. Last night while changing his diaper, he took a toy helicopter and threw it at me. It chipped my tooth and cut the roof of my mouth. All this before Thanksgiving and family photos next week. Of coarse, the dentist is booked and the tooth aches like crazy.
Here is a picture of the toy that has been recalled from Tate. He is also into EVERYTHING! I run around the house picking up his latest disovery. I do have a wonderful husband who response was, "ya honey, I think I need to take you out to dinner or something." I would agree! I had to take these cute photos to remind me how sweet Tate can be even though there is pain and agony associated with motherhood. Like every mom says, I hope this stage passes by soon.

Welcome Home Elder Rowley.....or Uncle Nick

We welcomed Uncle Nick home from his mission this past week. It is so good to have him home again and it has been really touching as Dylan has watched him closely and has caught a glimpse of a missionary. We were not going to make the drive down to St. George, originally, when he came home from Argentina. However, Dylan kept asking me to take him, "to see Nick get off the plane." I was talking to Jenn and telling her about my brother coming home from his mission and that Dylan keeps asking if we can go. Jenn convinced me to go down and now I am so glad we made the 5 hour trip. I loaded up the boys and drove to Parowan on the spur of the moment @ 4 pm on Tuesday. We stayed with Grandpa and Grandma Rowley and then traveled to St. George on Wednesday and met up with all the Rowley family. Nick's plane was supposed to arrive @ 12:30 pm. However, his flight was delayed and postponed until 3:45 pm. We all went to the park and ate lunch and the cousins played with each other. When we all arrived @ the airport the flight was delayed until 4:15 pm. I thought my mom was going to need a massage or something because the flight kept getting delayed and she was so anxious to finally welcome home Nick.
When Nick arrived it was awesome. He hugged my mom for such a long time and I thought that must be how Our Heavenly Father longs for our reunion with him someday. There was about 25 members of the Rowley clan at the small St. George airport.
We all went to dinner and then the boys and I stayed the night in Parowan before making the trip home on Thursday. I am so glad we went now and Dylan confirmed the fact that we made the right choice by going when he said, "Mom what do I have to do to be a missionary." It was the perfect opportunity for Uncle Nick to tell him about serving a mission and Uncle Nick took the opportunity to do so. I am thankful for a wonderful brother who has set a great example for my boys. I know Dylan watches closely. We went back to Parowan on Saturday for his homecoming address and then returned on Sunday. It was great to see everyone, I only wish that we lived closer. Thank heavens for DVD's and the radio. The boys were great travelers.

Oh no, is it snowing again?

I live in Utah and I am not a fan of snow. Dylan, however, loves the snow and keeps asking Mike and I to take him skiing. We are hoping to be able to take him to Brianhead when we go to Parowan for Thanksgiving. I was tagged by Amanda. 4th picture in 4th folder. I tag Lindsey, Jenn, Chelsey, and Amy.

My funny boys.........

Dylan found the camera today and decided to start taking pictures.

As you can tell, Tate was not sold on the idea and so Dylan then layed down by me on the floor and insisted I take a few of him and I. My silly Dylan. I guess he was bored and I thought the pictures turned out pretty funny.

I had to take this cute picture of my funny boys, using Dylan's idea of course.

Check out our M&M pumpkins

At my work they had a pumpkin carving contest and I fell in love with these pumpkins that were M&M's. So I used my creative copy cat techniques and we painted our pumpkins like M&M's(with permission of course).
Dylan was amazed at the pumpkin seeds. He really liked helping daddy carve a face on one of the pumpkins.

The Pumpkins looked awesome on Halloween night

Happy Halloween.........

Our family was the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. We had a blast dressing up and going trick or treating around our neighborhood. Mike was a great sport and Dylan loved that everyone dressed up.


Tate made the cutest little pig and he also liked the candy!