cheap-o family pictures

I was looking at the coupon blogs for the first time in a long time and I came across some codes for free holiday/christmas cards. I started the cards and realized we had no family picture this year. So Brock and I took off after Wyatt's nap, on a very cold and very windy day....with no photographer. We just used our 10second delay button on the camera. We figured Wyatt never smiles in pictures and hardly ever looks at the camera, so what the heck we'll try it ourselves. He actually liked looking at the red blinking light on the camera as Brock would run (across the road) to be in the picture with us. We probably would've had a ton more good ones, but the wind was blowing my hair all over the place. These are the ones that turned out, MINUS THE 2 BEST ONES that I used on the christmas card, I wanted those to be a surprise :) So obviously these would have turned out 10x better with a photographer and an editing program, but we are cheap-o college students so we make do with what we have. I was actually happy with how they turned out, the 2 best ones not previewed here are actually pretty cute!

Trick Or Treat

This year was the first year I got a taste of what my Birthdays will be like til my kids are gone. My birthday was kinda pushed aside because of the Halloween events. I was so excited to take Wyatt to the Trunk or Treat at the church. We had tried his costume on a few days before Halloween, and he cried and pulled on it til we took it off. He just hated it. When Monday came we did birthday stuff in the morning before brock left for classes (he got me a new set of plates/bowls/cups...YAY!), Wyatt and I just watched a movie and relaxed. It was verry cold and rainy outside, so we didn't do much. Around 3pm we decided to get outta the house and we went for a drive. We went to Union and Cove, which are tiny little towns about 20mins from La Grande. It was fun and pretty. We came home thinking we had about 45mins until the chile feed at the church, but realized the clock in the car was wrong and we were 5mins late! UGH! I still had to make a salad, get ready, get Y ready, take pictures, and get the candy together. We were able to do it all in about 7 mins and we were out the door. Since we were so rushed Wyatt didn't have time to complain, and once we were at the church he was in heaven running around with all the other kids. He actually did great trunk or treating too. He had his own little bucket thing and he would just go right up to whoever had candy and grab one and put it in his bag. I didnt think he would want to because he still doesn't like candy. I think what prompted him to keep going was the suckers he got. It was a VERY cold night, so we got home around 7:15 and dumped out his candy for him to see. He surprised us in wanting it all. He immediately tore open a sucker, wanted another one open, and cried when I moved the candy to a high place. We took his sucker away about 1/2 gone and replaced it with some dinner, which he actually didn't mind. That was it for the candy eating. The next day after his nap we let him have another little sucker, but that only got about 1/2 gone before we took it away too....lol I know mean parents. But he didn't really mind and he was getting everything sticky! :)

I don't know how brock got wyatt to stand still and smile...but I'm glad he did!

Cade Kissler and Wyatt. Cade put on his mask and Wyatt wouldn't take his eyes off of him. So funny.

Ok, I konw his costume looks tight. LOL. I got it for cheap and thought it was going to be too big, it's size 3T-4T !!!

He was loving this sucker! Normally this kid gets little amounts of sugar, so he was crazy that night. Like literally running around with his toys and throwing things all over.

my little girl

Poor Wyatt. As you can tell, he didn't like having this headband on! Brock had to hold down his hands so I could get a decent picture. I made this headband for me, and wanted to try it on Y to see what a future Gibbons girl (I HOPE I GET ONE!!!) would look like. I thought he looked pretty darn cute! haha.

Carving Pumpkins

Last Monday night we all got together at the Merrill's house and carved pumpkins. I knew Wyatt would need attention most the night and opted out of the carving fun. Brock was all gung-ho and put together a really nice, very Brock-typical, motorcyle pumpkin. He found a random picture on the internet and went to work. When I saw the print out I thought no way he could make it look good, but he is very artistic and it turned out great.