We love candy and Aunt Alli

Most of you probably already know this, but Brian loves candy. Not chocolate, but the sour sticky stuff like Airheads, Now & Laters, and fruity stinky gum. It seems his love of the sour stuff has been passed down to my sweet boys. It's not a bad addiction, just a fun treat they share together. But that almost changed recently. Brian came home with "The Claw." It's a miniature version of the classic arcade game where you use the joystick to move the claw around to get prizes like stuffed animals and jewelry. Brian's is full of candy. Or should I say was full of candy. Not because he ate it all, but because I ended up returning it. Sorry honey, Carter was eating WAY too much candy :) I did snap a photo for history's sake.



Aunt Allison came to visit on a last minute trip. She had some miles that were about to expire and while Matthew was out hiking for a few days in the Guadelupe Mountains, she came here. Yeah for us. Here's a picture of her and Carter eating the trail mix that mom made for her. There was quite a lot to go around.



Carter insisted that Aunt Alli climb in his climber with him. She's so good - she did with a smile on her face. And I'm so mean, I snapped a shot of it and then posted it on the Internet. Bad sister-in-law, bad sister-in-law.



Here is Cole crawling towards his lollipop the other night before bathtime. He's crawling alot more now. He even followed Carter and his friend Awbrey into the other room today. He wanted to play with them, it was so cute.

And this is a picture of Brian putting Carter to bed. Or at least what he was supposed to be doing. They found eye ball stickers in Carter's sticker book and put them on each other. It was funny. Surprisingly, even after all the excitement Carter did fall asleep shortly thereafter.

And Phoebe told me that I can now embed my videos from YouTube so I don't have to edit my videos to make them shorter or compress them. So much easier! Here's my first YouTube video, hope it works. It's of Cole playing the xylophone. Yes, it's 3 minutes long and there are some boring parts but since I didn't have to edit it - I didn't!