Pumpkin Carving!

On Monday we carved pumpkins. Sheldon and Tucker are dressing up as matching pirates, and we are decorating our car for the ward trunk or treat pirate-like, so the pumpkins kept up the pirate theme.

Sheldon's pumpkin:

My pumpkin: (I accidentally knocked his mouth out while I was carving so we had to perform oral surgery to reattach it.)

Tucker's pumpkin: (For some reason he only wanted to put stickers around the stem of the pumpkin.)

We had Avery and Tucker decorate pumpkins together, Sheldon is sewing Tucker's costume in the background. I have such a crafty husband :) he has done everything for his and Tucker's costumes. The costumes are going to be awesome, I can't wait to get some pictures. Tucker can even say "Arrr, Matey"

26 Months

One morning Tucker was working so hard on lining all his cars up. It was the cutest thing so of course I took a picture. As soon as I take pictures he always wants to look at the picture on the camera, this time he actually went back and posed for me and smiled! That never happens, Tucker never poses and smiles for pictures. It was a momentous occasion.

Yesterday Tucker went to the Doctor for his 2 year appointment, yes I'm a little behind on scheduling it. Here are his stats at about 26 months:

Head: 19.5 in 67%

Weight: 26.08 lb 20%

Height: 34.5 in 36.8%

I was so surprised when they told me this kid only weighs 26 lbs. He totally feels like 35 lbs, I guess that means it's time to lift some more weights.

Fightin' Dirty

On September 24, Sheldon and I had the chance to go to a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fight. Don't judge, I already know you're thinking what kind of person pays to see a fight? But in our defence, we were supporting a girl in our ward who was one of the main fighters that night. You can read about Tandi here http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/north/pleasant-grove/article_68f2a6cc-06fa-588a-968c-446256cc0306.html. We think she would make a great Mormon.org video, "I'm a mom, I'm a wife, I'm a fighter, and I'm a Mormon." Anyway, she was great during her fight and easily won even though the other girl was very much over the weight limits. Sheldon and I both had fun since we went with a bunch of people from our ward and the fights were pretty cool even though I wanted to close my eyes half of the time. I made sure to go talk to Tandi the following Sunday just to make sure with my own eyes that she was ok, but I don't think she even got any injuries.

The following day, September 25, Sheldon participated in the 10k Dirty Dash Mud Run/Obstacle Course. Since the theme of the run was pigs because of the Mud, Sheldon and his team (he ran with a group and they had to stay together during the race) decided to dress up as the 5 little piggies. With Pink shirts and pink hair they were looking pretty hot.

They made sure to say "Weeeee, wee wee, Weeee," from that funny geico commercial. If you haven't seen it, it is pretty funny, watch it here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F_G2zp-opg

Tucker played in the dirt while we waited for Sheldon to get to the finish line.

These kid were almost as dirty as the runners after playing in the dirt for a while.

Here is Sheldon and his group getting close to the finish line and you can see how muddy they are. Right after this they got to slide down a huge water slide.

I really liked this pig that could do tricks. He could sit down, walk in a circle, and shake hands with you. Who knew you could train a pig?

Right before the finish line there was this huge mud pit the runners had to go through. Of course, the boys jumped right in.

Oh so dirty and gross. I didn't love Sheldon enough to let him kiss me ;)

Tucker isn't a big fan of messes, so he wasn't too excited to see Sheldon covered in mud.

Of course the line for the showers was huge! Next year they are definitely going to have to get some more showers.

It was a really fun race and I think Sheldon plans on running it again next year. I don't know if he will be able to talk me into getting that muddy.