In the Entire History of Childhood

…has there ever been a more spectacular toy than

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Halloween Part I

Family Halloween party 2009. A fun time was had by all (well, at least by me). I really need to be better about taking more pictures but I managed to get someone to take one of Quinn and me:



Figure it out?

Quinn is the swine flu and I am the nurse giving him a vaccination. I love that pig nose on him. So did Lola. She couldn't keep her fingers out of the nostril holes.

The babies:



So very hard for me to get a decent picture of these two together. At least they are both looking at me in this one (even though you can't see Forr's eyes).



The downside of the night was the pinata candy. Peanuts and peanut butter everywhere. It was pretty horrifying. He was such a good boy about only eating the "safe" candy in his bag. Now if we can just get through trick-or-treating without having to bust out the epipen jr.

Weekend Update

Quinn and I used Cade's timeshare in Park City this year to celebrate our 8th anniversary. We stayed the night last Saturday and had an awesome time.



Highlights included Quinn's feet completely coming out from underneath him on the slippery tiles in front of a hot tub full of people (including me who might have laughed a little) and me scraping up my face while swimming into the side of the pool (karma is a very mean lady).



I love you baby! Thanks for 8 freaking awesome years and I hope next year's celebration is less painful.

My parents split the week at the timeshare with us and they went up Tuesday night. We crashed their party last night so we all had a big sleepover in the suite. It was quite the party.





Forrest loved the Superman hat Grandma bought him and it was a real tearjerker when he lost it out of the window of the car on the freeway. Still not quite sure how that happened.


And, finally, we just got home from waiting in line for 1+ hours to get our kids vaccinated for the swine flu. We just really didn't want them growing little curly tails and hooves.

The end.

sick day

I had to work today so Forrest and Lola were going to spend the day Grandma and Grandpa's house (I am now working 2 days per week and about 8 hours/week from home). As Forrest was getting out of the car at Quinn's parent's house he began to spew.

As it were, I didn't make it to the office today. Instead we went to Walmart for some Redbox cartoons and Ginger Ale.

On the way into Walmart, Forr spewed again. And again. Don't worry, I didn't turn around. Nope. I still went in for the Redbox's and Ginger Ale. Yeah, and the greeter was giving me some serious looks since she had a pretty good view of me holding my son's hand while he puked and making sure he bent over enough so as not to dribble on himself, giving him a comforting a hug and then just continuing on into the store. Banner parenting.

catching up

Well. Lots has happened since the wedding.

Firstly, Forrest had a birthday. Happy birthday, you big three-year-old! Woah. Glad you enjoyed licking the frosting off of that frosting spreader.



I am also glad that your cousins were able to come up and play for your party and bring you some cool tools along with some super-cool goggles.


Oh yeah, we moved. Here are some pics from the new digs.










Just going to fill in some other highlights from summer '09.

Hike with Dad.



Lots of trips to the zoo (got to make that zoo pass worth the dough). I think this picture is pretty cute save for the gigantic gorilla nipple above Lola's head...








Here's 2 more gratuitous pictures of my children:



There you have it.

hello? hello? hello?

I'm plugged in!! Yippee!!

More soon.