miscellaneous pictures from January 2011

Who loves the ball pit?

Where's Parker?
Scary Hair
"What's happenin' hot stuff?"
Chillin at the BSU basketball game
Yes, Scott and I have managed to double the number of kids who sleep in our bed.
Parker loves going for rides with his big bro

Climbing high

I think I've got a climber on my hands

If you look really close, he's at the top of the triangle thing in the middle of the ball pit

Christmas 2010

1st time Spence has played the infamous "candy bar game" (played at most every Mortensen Christmas Eve Party)

Nativity


Christmas morning:



Christmas with Pannell's:






A little too much snow for me:)

Merry Christmas

Boise State Flute Studio 2010

A quick look

Here is a quick look at everything that I have been meaning to put on the blog in the last 2 months:
Parker - a.k.a "the parkster" or "pickery"...long story
Spencer was, and still is, a terrible eater. we don't have any "messy eating" pictures of Spence...And so far this is the best one we have of Parker. Apparently we are pretty clean eaters.
For Natalie's birthday party, she had a "baby" themed party. She is all about her babies right now. This is Spencer in the middle of a "who can drink their juice the fastest..out of a bottle" race. It was pretty amusing. Spencer won, and couldn't have been more proud.
Katie turned 18 this year! Every year since Lindsey and I were junior high age, we take the birthday girl out to breakfast. We use to do it around 3 in the morning, so we could go back to sleep before school. Luckily Katie's birthday hit on a Saturday, so we pushed it closer to more sane hours. And we always sneak someone in the car (this year our cousin Tasha..she has been apart of many birthday breakfasts), and we also include the birthday hat. This hat is pretty low key compared to some pretty extravagent ones.
Me: "Spencer, what are you doing?"
Spencer: "Looking for a pants-hooker"
I wouldn't want to sit in the chair either...
Oops...I guess we forgot to lock the seat belt. Spencer didn't mind.

We love the Veteran's Day parade!
Grocery shopping is so fun:)
Spencer drew me a sun:)

Stickers

"Spencer, where did you put your sticker?"

Halloween weekend

This year the boys and I had 4 fun-filled evenings of Halloween fun.It began with a small Halloween party that Lindsey and I threw for Spencer, Alex, and Natalie.
We played a ton of games, including: Halloween bowling, pin the face on the jack-o-lantern, throw the rat into the Calderon, and had a Halloween cake walk. After all of the games, my sister Lindsey came in and announced, "I caught a witch last night!" Spencer's face dropped; and I'm sure that his stomach did too. She put the witch's hair, eyes, and brains into bowls and made the kids reach into a box to feel them. Spencer was so timid, and nervous about the whole situation.
This is his relieved, "trying to put on a smile for the team" face...you can tell he was not amused by our stunt. We had to tell him over and over, "it's not really witch's hair, it's just noodles...or blue jello...or grapes."
Friday night (29th) Borah High's honor society helped out with Monroe Elementary Halloween Party. Since Katie was going to volunteer with Honor Society, we invited ourselves to the Halloween bash.
The next evening was trunk-or-treat down the street at our church. Spencer loves trunk-or-treat...a lot of candy with hardly any hassle. Scott didn't join us as cowboys, he put his gorilla suit on instead....quiet the bunkhead.
The final event was actual Halloween evening. However, it got the least amount of hype. Scott took the boys on their usual rounds while I laid in the bed ill...tons of fun. This is Spencer's 4th Halloween, and it is only the 2nd that Scott has been around for. The 3 previous years he was either out of town for work, or working the haunted woods, so he had no problems taking the boys by himself.