Birthday cakes

Quinny watched the kids so Nick and I could go on a date to Tucanos for his 31st birthday. While we were gone they made a couple birthday cakes for Nick! Isn't that sweet? :-)

This is Ashleigh's cake she made

This is Preston's cake he decorated

Today Preston wanted to eat some of his cake
here is him "before" eating it

And "after" eating the cake...funny kid!

Thanks, Quinn!!! :)

Monday randoms

This is what happens when you have a big sister who likes to paint fingernails...sigh...Preston insisted on having her paint his nails too. so pretty!

Then he smudged them....look how upset he got! sheesh...what a "girl". Lol

It's a rarity to see Preston eating anything healthy, so I figured I should take pictures to capture this event.



When I came downstairs this morning I found a letter in my purse that Ashleigh snuck in there. It's a letter to Santa. isn't that cute. :) I'll open it tonight after she goes to bed to see what she asked for. Can't believe Christmas will be here in 1 month! wow!

9 years....

2 days ago (November 18), Nick and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. What an amazing 9 years it's been.

We've had incredible, wonderful, exciting UP's,
We've had horrible, awful, disastrous DOWN's.
But for the most part, we have been happy, secure, comfortable, and lovey.
I can honestly and seriously say that I am MORE in love with Nick today than I have EVER been!

I thought I would put on here a little photo Montague of the past 9 years together (oh, how we have changed!!!):

Nick and I--first time we met--EFY 1996 in Corvallis, OR

Inseparable at EFY 1996

Our wedding day---November 18, 2000
Happiest day of my life!

Our first born
Christian Nicholas Call
August 30, 2001

Our second "first" born
Ashleigh Elizabeth Call
November 5, 2002

Meg, Ash, and Nick at Seattle Mariners game
2004

Bought our first house in Vancouver, WA
October 2004

Nick and Meg
2005

Nick and Meg at a friends wedding
2006(?)

Our third baby
Preston Adam Call
September 14, 2006

Ash (age 4) and Preston (age 3 months)

Nick and Meg
Living in Utah--2008

Meg and Nick
"Picture time"
Sept 2008

Meg and Nick
November 2008

Nick and Meg
Nick's 30th birthday
November 2008

Nick and Meg
(Annoying him) May 2009

Ash, Nick, and Preston
June 2009

Meg, Ash, Nick
Kindergarten Graduation--June 2009

Ash, Meg, Preston
July 2009

Meg and Nick
Halloween party
October 2009

9 years married
13 years together
I LOVE YOU HONEY!!!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!

Male Bonding

Preston's train "Victor" ran out of juice (battery died) so he asked Nick to fix it. Instead, nick showed Preston how to fix it himself....the pics aren't too good--I took them with my phone, but if you click on the pics they get bigger so you can see them better. It was a sweet loving bonding time between daddy and son. These moments fill me with love and joy! :-)

Look how much Preston is concentrating! He does the "sticking out his tongue" thing like Ash does.

Preston screwing in the screw....the job is done! Good job boys!

Baking time

After going to Cookie Cutters (see post below) the other day, Preston has been asking to make cookies so he could use his cookie cutter that he got from Cookie Cutters to cut out his cookies. (Haha...that's the worst sentence ever!)

Well, I decided we needed to make sugar cookies....the kids put together ALL the ingredients, and mixed it all and laid out the parchment paper on the cookie sheet, etc. The only thing I did was roll the cookies in to balls so they could pressed them out with a sugar-bottom cup.

After we were done with the cookies, I gave them each some dough so that they could roll them out and cut them with their cutters. I loved watching them work together and interact and get some confidence in their "master pieces". ;-) We had a lot of fun today!

End results:

Let it snow....

Today I woke up to snow falling and about an hour later it was coming down pretty hard. It snowed on and off the whole day--by the time the sun set, we had about an inch or 2 on the ground. I let the kids go out and play in it for a bit... other than the fact that it was BONE cold, it was really fun...and, Preston got his first taste of snow this year! (which he loved! Ah, a kid after my own heart!)



Ash got too cold and came inside, but when we looked out at Preston he was doing Snow Angels. Lol. He was so cute! I think we'll be going out to play again tomorrow. yay!

Haircut

The time came again for me to take Preston to get his hair cut. (yay!) I secretly love taking him to Cookie Cutters---they always do a fabulous job, and are SO great with him. Preston gave himself a little pep-talk before we arrived and told himself not to cry and that it wouldn't hurt. It was SO funny listening to him in the car. I had a hard time trying to stifle my laughing!

I was very proud though--he did really great, no crying or whining, and completely interacted with the girl who cut his hair! :) Pfew...I am SO glad. :)

The end result (with Ash). We just LOVE it when his hair is short!
I love my kiddos!