I Win

So yes his shirt is too small....the pants fit fine though.  Oh well

Ya here I just had the camera and thought he was being cute talking to Mo-Mo, which now all dogs are called mo-mo

Oliver and the kid! that is what he calls him "Hey Kid"

He just woke up from a nap and he had been sleeping on his hand, I kind of looks like someone slapped him!

NEED GATES FOR THE KITCHEN!!!! MUST HAVE GATES!

I think I have located some from craigslist....I hope.  It was hard because all anyone would post was the gates with the mesh on them and well you have all seen what he dose with those.  I did find some with vertical slats ( one to replace the one at the top of the stairs he has shaken it till I am afraid it won't hold much longer!

The master at work!

ALL I CAN SAY IS "GOOD THING HE IS CUTE!"

So over the past few weeks Edward has stood up on his own, he just didn't realize what he was doing.  Today he stood up in front of me and Trevor and knew what he had done.  He looked so pleased with himself.  Then he did it again and started clapping his hands (he slaps the back of his hands)  We tried to recreate the event and well it didn't happen but we got some fun moments!

What can you do in 30 minutes?

Day 1 : Chipotle Mashed Potatoes & Beef Tenderloin Kebobs

                                                                        

      Day 2: Papaya & Blueberry Salad W/ Poppy Seed Dressing, Chicken Scampi,  and yes he used a boxed pasta because there was no 3rd cook, but they wanted something for placement.                                                             

Oliver

                                                                  

Austin

Together with one more person they plan to compete in Culinary.  They need to prepare a dish in 30 minutes. 

                                                They have been practicing the last couple days.

Yes even Edward want's in on the action however I don't think he will be the 3rd student.  There will be tryouts to see who the 3rd person will be.

 When all was said and done I did get to taste a little of what they made and yes it was yum. But between him(Oliver), Austin, Paul and his mom(Sherri) they got to enjoy most of it!

AMAZING!!!!

Oliver went to get is patriarchal blessing yesterday.  And well I forgot to remind him to fast on Saturday, and I was so worried I had screwed things up super bad, and that the sprite wouldn't be there at all.  I was super worried, and then I totally stressed Oliver out the next morning, and he just took off to get his blessing, and left me and Trevor home (I love cell phones) I call him and ask him to come back to get us.  He thought we had something else to go to, it kind of makes me laugh.  Me up and ready to go some where on Sunday at 9 AM when church doesn't start until 1 pm  what the heck? Only for my boy, he should know better than that!  Well we got there and had a prayer before going in, and I think we were all pretty calm.  The blessing was amazing, all the things I keep trying to tell him and I just can't get it into words.  Again it was just amazing, and I think I was forgiven for forgetting about the fasting thing!  It was truly awesome!  Next week Braden is up for his I hope I will be a little more prepared, and no he does not have his drivers license.

Hey! We have more kids that just Edward!

Adrienne went in Friday to get her wisdom teeth taken out.  She is feeling much better but a little soar because she talked too much at church and after church, they had a munch and mingle and well she stayed for part of it.  She is looking much better,  she still has some swelling on one side but I hope that will go away and things will continue to get better without any complications. 

This is before part of the directions aside from no food or water was no makeup or lotions

Come dressed in comfy clothes and bring a driver. (Diana Cole)

All done and waking up! 

Home safe and sound, Thank you Diana, They even took a little detour and Adrienne was able to get Diana back on the right track by writing notes turn here and so forth and got them home~

She couldn't swallow water which is the wet spot on her pants she would gag and then spit it out.  Diana wanted a picture of it.  I talked Adrienne through swallowing first put the water in your mouth,  Close is breath through your nose and wiggle your toes and your mouth will know what to do....and well it did.  Yes she was very surprised that it worked, and didn't understand why the people at the doctor's office didn't know that trick!

I will take some picture of her tomorrow.... and you will see she looks much better.

Powdered Edward

I made a Pumpkin roll and had it resting on a powdered sugar

covered towel.  Edward, it turns out, can now reach up and take

things off the table if they are on the very edge.  He pulled the

towel off the table with the cake and all it's powdered sugar.

 

Doesn't it look like he's enjoying himself?

 

Even with all this mess I was still able to save it,

frost it, and eat it! And yes, Edward got the first slice :-)

So what is in a Name

So after reading Mary's blog I decided to look up all our names to see what they mean.  I do remember Mary telling us how she chose names as to what they mean, and what their combination mean.  Diana (Trevor's sister did the same thing with her kids) Well as you can see what follows we did not take that into consideration.
First lets take Rice, which means fiery warrior, and Campbell which means crooked smile.

Then there is Trevor which means Prudent, or wise, and Oliver which means Olive tree or peace

 So Trevor Oliver would be a peaceful wise . who is a fiery warrior.

Elizabeth means Consecrated to God.
 So Elizabeth Campbell Rice would be Consecrated to God, with a crooked smile, and a fiery warrior.

 Adrienne means dark, rich, Sary (Sarah & Mary) princess and bitter.
 So Adrienne Sary would be a Bitter princess who is dark, rich and bitter fiery warrior. 

Oliver meaning again is Olive tree or peace. and James means Supplanter or remove or succeed with force and pleasure.

So Oliver James is peaceful suplanter fiery warrior

Braden means Broad, and Paul means small.
 So Braden Paul would mean a broad small fiery warrior.

Edward means wealthy guardian, Stephen means Crowned one

So Edward Stephen means wealthy guardian who is a crowned one who is a fiery warrior.

Well as you can see there is some conflict with the names and their meanings,  I guess that is why there is always great confusion at our house :)
  It was fun though!

Monkey over the Gate

I finally got it! I think it is funny and I could watch it over and over again!

Turkey Day!!

It was nice and quiet, We had Duane, Trevor's dad here for a few hours. After he got here the kids just kept doing what they were doing and he just kind of sat there. I cornered Adrienne and told her to get out scrabble, and well Duane is very serious about his scrabble, he has an official scrabble dictionary (we had it here at our house). Ya he kicked some scrabble tail! Anyway the kids had fun. During that I put together a step by step book for Duane to check his email, and Trevor set up a face book. We will take baby steps here and start with email, then maybe around Christmas or New Years we will introduce face book depending on how email goes. Yesterday Oliver and I made pies me pecan, and Oliver pumpkin. We also decided to prepare a turkey with a brine so we started yesterday and let it soak over night. This morning Trevor cooked pumpkin rolls. As soon as the bird went into the oven I went to work on the rolls, just not hard enough. As the bird got done (so we thought) Adrienne peeled the potatoes, Trevor did the green beans, and Oliver did the cinnamon butter. Oliver got impatient with me and the rolls and took over and finished. It was all after scrabble while watching Pirates of the Caribbean (paused for dinner). Dinner was nice, however Oliver was wolfing dinner down, at that point he said I need to hurry I am going to go on a double date with a friend....WHAT! OH well it was nice while it lasted. They are now here playing Halo Reach. I have everything cleaned up and the Turkey is now cooked and put away, the pie is still out on the table so I guess I better go put that away...It was nice the Weaver's were missed, has they have been since they left, however it was still very nice. :)