We may not need speech therapy for this one...

he is finally learning to talk! Hopefully he won't need two years of speech therapy like Tyler (who speaks perfectly fine now). Yaaaa for Austin!

Sunday Morning

This is how they like to hang out, in their diaper and underwear. They like to wrestle too.

Yes, I am 31 years old

Some of you may think I'm joking when I tell you what I did last Thursday. You will also question how old I am. I was an extra on the new 90210!!! My wonderful friend Harmony ( in Illinois) and I were talking about the golden years of the original 90210, and she mentioned that her sister in law did some of the extra casting for the new show. I jumped right on that bandwagon telling her if they ever needed someone past their high school prime, that I would be delighted to be an extra. Okay, I will shout it from my blog- I LOVED/ still LOVE 90210! This was a 15 year old's dream come true. Okay, so it was 16 or so years later, but a girl can pretend she's 15 every once in a while right? Truthfully, I never really thought that my pipe dream would come to reality. However, last Wednesday Harmony called and asked if I would star, um I mean be a background extra for 90210. I called up Mike and after some teasing he agreed to take the day off work. (Thank you Mike!) I had to be in LA by 6:30 AM. It was about a 12 hour day, and my starring role will be wandering the halls of West Beverly High with a briefcase. You may be able to see me walk behind Jenny Garth in episode #111. Keep your eyes on the background people, I am there! I was a fun experience for a nerdy stay at home mom to have. I will remember you all at the Emmys!

Good Times on Halloween

Here is our Halloween scrooge. He wouldn't wear his costume at trunk or treat, or on Halloween. He did trick or treat to 3 doors and seemed to enjoy getting candy put in his bucket. Here he is at home after trick or treating checking out Tyler's bounty.

Here's Tyler at the ward trunk or treat. He wanted to be Indiana Jones, and I couldn't find a cute costume. I eventually found an ugly, cheap looking (but not actually cheap) costume at Target. His costume was so ugly that even Mike made a comment about how ugly Tyler's costume was. I had in my mind this really cute looking Indiana Jones, but it did not come out that way. Tyler still had a great time (that's what it's all about anyways). He and some friends ran from house to house filling up their pumpkin buckets until all the parents were too tired to go on. I think Tyler could've gone till midnight.

Fall Photoshoot

After a fun, but photographically challenged day at the pumpkin patch, I wanted some cute pictures of Austin. I'm also practicing with my camera on manual, so I'm messing up 90% of my pictures. Hey, practice makes perfect, but it won't make Austin sit still. I have mommy goggles on because I always think my kids are cute, but I'm always striving for better pictures. Here was our practice photoshoot today:

This is their tradition every day when Tyler gets home from school.

Fire Alarm

Last Tuesday my next door neighbor, another friend right down the street and I were all at the park. My neighbor's husband called and said, "the hill by the water tower is on fire. " We looked up and saw the helicopters descending. We could see flames and tons of smoke coming from the direction of our houses. It looked pretty close to our house, but we didn't get too concerned. After about 1/2 an hour later the fire seemed to be out. My friend got a text from the school saying they had evacuated, but the fire was out. It was an option to come get your children. I didn't go to get Tyler because I honestly didn't think it was a huge deal. When I got home, it did smell like smoke pretty bad, and I dicovered that the fire had been pretty close to our house. When I went to pick up Tyler, over half of his class was gone, and he reeked of smoke. Tyler thought it was his best day of school yet. They all evacuated to the field and got to watch the helicopters scoop up water from the pond by their school to put out the fire. Everyone was so organized at the school, and with responding to the fire that I was so impressed. Tyler kept talking about the "rush" fire (he meant BRUSH fire).

And I just have to post some pictures or I don't feel complete.

This is the solemn face I always get now when I want to take his picture.

Teeter Totter Boy