2011 Ursic Family Craft

The day after Thanksgiving for the last several years all the girls get together to make a Fall or Christmas craft. This year Lisa found the design and got all of the material for all of us and we met at her house. It took me about five hours to finish it but I really like the way it turned out! Here is my new wreath!

Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving I thought we should try to take a decent picture of the four of us so we took a few pictures at my dad's house. They actually aren't bad, not professional or anything but everyone is looking at the camera and smiling. Here are our latest pictures.

Our family

Rexford

Austin

Rexford's Email

Today Rexford wanted to type an email so I opened his account and got it ready for him. He typed this message to Alyson:

to aly

school is redicylis it is to naste i do

not like it there are to much bugs in it

:) It made me smile

Caleb and Catie's Wedding

I was able to go to my brother's wedding in New Jersey the first weekend of November. I left Friday morning but didn't get there until evening and then I came back home a few hours after the wedding Saturday night. It was cold there! I was freezing but it was great to be there and see everyone. I flew into Philadelphia and since I had to wait awhile for Wayne and my Dad to pick me up (they were at the rehearsal dinner) I spent some time reading, eating dinner, and buying the boys souvenirs. I was staying in a hotel room with Shannon, Wayne, and Anderson, and Christina, and my dad and Alyson and her boys were down the hall. At about 3:30am the fire alarm went off forcing us out into the freezing cold in the middle of the night with three little babies/kids. The kids were actually really good and went back to sleep after we finally got back inside. The next day was the wedding so we got ready and headed to a little church near Catie's mom's house. I was supposed to help Aly with Jacob since Matthew was the ring bearer but Jacob was fussy for me so poor Aly ended up missing the ceremony with both kids outside after Matthew did his part. After the wedding we all went to Catie's mom's house for the reception where they had a tent set up with a heater (thank goodness!). We all had a great time talking and eating and enjoying the day. Here are a few pictures from my quick trip! I'm glad I was able to be there for their big day!

Cute Jacob all dressed up!

Caleb and Catie coming to the reception

The food was delicious!

Matthew playing bubbles with Terrell and Chad

Shannon, Alyson, Me, and Christina

Cutie Anderson

Cutting the gorgeous cake (and it was so yummy!)

Me with Catie and Caleb

Congrats Catie and Caleb!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween evening we headed over to Papa's house to trick-or-treat in his neighborhood with Alyson and Matthew and Jacob. First Austin said he wanted to be Superman so got dressed and we took pictures but right before leaving the house he changed his mind and decided to be Spider-man. Matthew was a little doctor and Jacob was a pumpkin. The boys were excited to go trick-or-treating and they knew just what to do. They walked together and wanted to do more houses than last year. Near the end though, Matthew just wanted to eat a lollipop and walk and didn't care to go to any more houses. After we were finished we headed back to Papa's house to eat some candy and Rexford enjoyed helping Papa pass out candy to the rest of the trick-or-treaters.

Superman and Darth Vader

Rexford looking scary :)

Matthew, Rexford, and Austin

Jacob

Austin looks so happy here :)

Now everyone is facing the camera!

Here we go

Ready for some candy

Mommy and Me Party

Since Halloween was on a Monday we had Austin's Mommy and Me class party on Halloween. I made some fun pumpkin cookies to take to the party and Austin was so excited about them. It was pouring rain that morning but we made it there just before it got too bad. The party was fun and Austin loved that they had a little bounce house inside for the kids to jump around on. Austin loved seeing the other costumes of the other kids. They walked in a parade around the room and collected candy, did some Halloween crafts, and ate yummy food. We had a great time and then went and surprised Rexford for lunch.

The boys loved these pumpkin cookies!

Austin LOVED this bounce house

Ready to trick or treat

Austin with his bag full of candy

Our Mommy and Me class

Pumpkin Carving

The boys had small pumpkins that they painted by themselves but we also bought a big one to carve. Instead of using an already-made design, Rexford wanted to design the face. So I let him draw a face on the pumpkin and then I carved what he drew. He wanted it to have a scary mouth. Rexford helped dig inside the pumpkin to get out all the seeds but Austin wouldn't touch it. I tried to make him touch it and he freaked out so he just watched. Rexford did a good job separating the seeds for me. After carving the face, Austin was scared of the pumpkin and said he looked too scary. After we were all done we put a candle inside and turned out the lights. Austin didn't like the pumpkin and wouldn't get too close but Rexford loved the pumpkin and wanted the candle to be on all the time. After a few days Austin got used to the pumpkin and wasn't scared anymore :)

Rexford's design

My helper

Our pumpkin

Scary pumpkin

Trunk or Treat

The boys were excited to go to Trunk or Treat this year with their friends in Conway Ward. Brian passed out candy while I walked the boys around to all of the cars. They loved dressing up and got lots of candy!

Darth Vader and Batman

"Trick or treat"

Rexford with Grace and Elijah

Papa's Birthday

My dad wanted a chocolate chocolate cake so I made one and we celebrated his birthday with Aly and family. Matthew and Austin wanted to be close to the cake and help blow out the candles. Here are some pictures of our little birthday party.

Happy Birthday Papa!

Austin, Papa, Rexford, Matthew, and Jacob

Halloween Party

One of our friends hosted a Halloween party again this year and the boys were excited to wear their costumes and see their friends. They had fun playing pin the mouth on the skeleton, making green slime, and eating yummy food.

Darth Vader and Spider-man

Getting ready to play the game

Not too bad

Rexford's turn

Rexford making slime. Austin would not touch it at all :)

The whole group

For the second year in a row, Rexford guessed closest to the amount of candy corns in the jar and won!

Haunted House Brownies

We had fun for FHE decorating Haunted House brownies. The boys loved putting on icing and candy and of course they loved eating it!

School Carnival

We went to Rexford's school carnival and the boys had lots of fun bouncing, eating pizza, sno cones, cotton candy, and popcorn, and getting temporary tattoos :) We scored by bidding on a family tennis membership and won! We've been having fun playing tennis a lot lately.

Austin and Rexford jumping

Austin climbed this all by himself, I didn't know he could...

Rexford loved this horse race

Austin couldn't quite do it by himself

Rexford with the Chick-fil-A cow

Showing off his tattoo

Austin with his messy face and tattoo