Yeah, so I have been really busy lately with trying to rid the world of evil villains (I recently took a new job as a local superhero. The pay isn't great, but you should see the tights I get to wear! You girls would be jealous!). So my point is...I am just going to put up a bunch of pictures on here from the ward party, and let ya see how much fun we had. There were lots of good costumes. One guy even dressed up as Josh Blakeney. It was a very creative costume. He didn't really capture the handsomeness of Josh though. That's a tough one to get right...he's so handsome.
Anyway, I tried to put them all into a fancy slide show, but our camera takes pictures in a large format, so it took too long to upload them into the slide show. We'll try to work on that though. Here are the photos...enjoy........
This is a pic of Morgan that I photoshoped. Thanks to Rhonda for helping us understand how to do cool things like this. She knows her stuff!
Pictures From The Ward Halloween Party
Morgan gets her walk on...a film by mom and pops.
Yeah, so Morgan has been doing some good walking lately. We try to bribe her to walk by putting up chocolate bars in front of her. She really goes for the Kit Kat Chunky bars!! It's so cute when she eats them. Is that bad of us? Well, it's more so me. I don't tell Kelly that I give her chocolate bars. She thinks I am always giving her strained carrots. Nope.
Anyway, just messing. But here is a short clip of her walking. It was a tough morning to get her to walk on camera. She's a diva already...not willing to get filmed if she hasn't had her cereal. It took a while, but we finally got a good one. Here is her film debut, playing the role of a walking baby.
(Emma seemed to think saying "CooCoo" would help her walk. It got old really fast.)
A Funny Story (well..I laughed a lot)
So last night around 9pm or so, Kelly and I were tired out from the week and decided to go to bed (I only usually go to bed so early on Sundays, cause I am so worn out). So Kelly went down ahead of me, while I did a final check on how my fantasy football team was doing.
When I get down there I went into our bedroom and noticed that Kelly was already in bed with the covers over her (which she does a lot...cause apparently it gets cold some nights-I find it warm most times). Anyway, so I thought nothing of it. So, I started singing "We all live in a Yellow Submarine", thinking she might find it funny. I don't know why I sang that song, it was in my head for some reason. Well next I decided to make up a new verse for the old Beatles tune. So i started belting out "Kelly smells like a moldy sub-sandwich".
Next thing I realize, after looking over in her direction, was that there was a big bump in the bed. I realized she was under the covers PRAYING!! So I ask her, "Hey, are you praying?" To which she says, "Yes!" So I started busting up laughing, thinking about the fact that she was praying the whole time while I was singing that song, and during the made up verse about her being stinky like a moldy sub!! I couldn't stop laughing. I kept thinking about this poor girl praying under the covers, while her idiot husband is singing "Kelly smells like a moldy sub-sandwich".
I AM A CLASS ACT!! At least we had a good laugh about it after.
So I turned 28 today.
Yeah, so today was the day i was born in '79. I miss the 70's.
It was a typical day in the neighborhood. I got up with Morgan at 5:30 so that Kelly could sleep in (she has been sick with a cold). And of course, Emma slept in, too (it always happens when I am gone to work early or when I can't get back to sleep. I swear...she is hard wired to wake up early when I am trying to sleep in). Morgan even went back to bed about half an hour after getting up. So, I had peace and quiet until I woke everyone up at 8am. I was too worried about my fantasy football team to go back to sleep. I knew I should have taken Cleo Lemon. Ah well. I guess I can't have the same record as the Patriots anymore.
We had a dinner here at our place, and my parent-in-laws were over for it. It was a nice dinnner. I helped Kelly out a bit with it. I was so tired out though. Oh, I even fell asleep in Sunday School class today. I can't tell you how many times I struggle at school to stay awake in class, and now it is transferring to church. I need more sleep!!! We should have a national "Let Rob Sleep" day. All Rob's everywhere get to sleep all day. Maybe girls named Roberta can too, since they are closely named.
I have no pictures for this post. I feel sorry for everyone who reads this. Sorry. Oh, so Kelly got me an "inexpensive" theatre-in-a-box for my brithday. We might take it back. I like surround sound, but we dont' really watch movies often enough. We might hold out a while and get something better anyway. Eventhough I trust the Coby brand...I have the sneaking suspicion that it is made by aliens. You should have smelled the smell when I opened the box and took everything out. It was definetly extra-terrestrial. No doubt. No doubt.
Anyway, so another day, another year older. I still feel like I am 17. At least that is how old I act most of the time. Except, I don't go driving around with my buddies throwing frnech fries from MacDonalds at pedestrians. And I don't play "nicky nine door", or get in trouble with the police. Well, maybe I act 15. I was better behaved then (and I still can say I act older than my kids...for now)
Guess who is 9 months old?? and starting to stand...
Hey blog friends...it's true, my little baby is now 9 months old. She has grown a lot in the past few months. She crawls everywhere, and is now starting to stand. She walks around hanging onto furniture with lots of confidence. So we expect her to start walking sometime soon.Although right now she is sitting at my feet crying, and trying to stop this blog from happening...she can be quite cute at times. I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't love waking up early but she can be pretty fun to be around at 5am. She even is making good attempts to say "pops" now. I am very impressed. Of course, it's hard to be super excited that early.
Kelly and I are also very pleased with her hair now. I mean, about four or so months ago her hair was UGLY! It was long on top and balding on the sides. Nasty stuff. But now it is getting curly on the sides, and looks like a typical little girl hair cut. PHEWW. I didn't want to have to buy her a wig at this early an age. Anyway, just thought I would throw a little 'shout out' to my baby girl.
ps-Emma is doing great. Loves school. She is growing up fast. Love my girls!!
Just Another 12:47am Update....zzzzzzzz
Well, I wanted to get an update in here while I can. I mean, Kelly has me on a strict diet of cooking, laundry, watching the kids, etc. So, the only time I have free is when she is asleep. Okay, maybe I don't do ALL that, but I do my fair share. Well, I do a share.
Anyway, so here are some updates...
Morgan is crawling faster, and learned how to get up stairs now. Wow, that is fun to watch, especially when she falls backwards (don't worry, I catch her). She is walking along the couch now, too, holding onto the couch, of course. She has gotten so active. I am thinking of putting her in a basketball league. Really though, we have to watch her carefully. She is still not the most balanced, so she bumps herself a lot on things. She's a tough one though. Oh, and she got her first two teeth this past week. Yeah!!
Emma had a photo shoot the other day, for her school photos (which Kelly did). They were much cooler and economical than the ones she got done at school. We shunned the school-done ones. I heard Emma was quite good during Kelly's photo shoot with her (due to some intense bribing). We were pleased with a lot of the pictures, here is one below.
Well, the most fun part of the past week was our big huge Yard Sale!! We had a yard sale Saturday at Ralph and Debbie's (my Father and Mother in-laws). It was great of them to let us come there. We had a bunch of stuff out that we were getting rid of, so even if we only made 60-something dollars, it was good. The rest of it went to Value Village. We are going to have one there this Saturday, again. We found a bunch of good stuff in our storage closet that we can put in the sale. So if anyone is in Cole Harbour Saturday morning, come on over. There will be signs all over Colby!! WOOHOO!
We Went to Mexico!!
Well, we finally did it...Emma and I finally went to Mexico!!
Whenever her and I are on our way to the car, and we are waiting for Kelly to get in gear and get out, I ask her if we should just take off to Mexico. Of course, we have never done it. I mean, who in their right mind would leave thier wife and take the kids to Mexico?? Lucky for Emma, I don't have a right mind!!!
So we hit the road for Mexico. Let me tell you, Emma sure is good at driving!! There were times when I couldn't stay awake to drive, so I had to let her take over. WOW!! For a five year old, she stayed on the road for like ten seconds. We had to get towed out of the ditch, of course...a few times.
So when we got to Mex (now that Mexico and I have a strong bond, I like to call it "Mex"). So when we got there, we went to see my great grandma Guadalupe. She's so sweet. She couldn't remember me, and was yelling something that sounded like "policia". Not sure what that meant. She didn't seem to want to catch up on what is going on with her Canadian relatives though. I think she's getting old...senile old. This is a picture of her...
Well, after that I thought I would take Emma to do something fun. So I found a guy who was selling ponies for about twenty dollars canadian, so I bought her one. She always wanted a pony!! Then I got her dressed up in Mexican garb, painted her face to look like a Mexican child, and took her through the city on the pony (which she named Feo). She loved it!!! We had a blast. Here's a picture of her...
So just before we were leaving, I took her for a campout in the woods of Mex. Well, it was great, but then all of the sudden out of nowhere, this guy jumps out and is yelling at us. He kept saying his name, and telling us that he was tired of getting dirt kicked in his face. Anyway, he challenged me to a wrestling match. I told him to meet us in town in an hour. Needless to say, I didn't meet him. We took off back to Canada.
The crazy guy in the woods
Well, it was a fun trip. Emma missed the week of school...but does it really matter, she's in grade Primary?? Anyway, Kelly was shocked when we got back (i forgot to wipe the paint off Emma's face). Kelly thought I adopted a Mexican child. Silly Kelly!!
