Christian's Blessing and Fall Fun

We blessed Christian yesterday during church. He was asleep for most of it, but was awake by the end of the blessing was happily looking around. We had a nice time with Sherrie's family and Aunt Mel. Thank goodness for Aunt Mel's fancy camera that can take a bunch of pictures really quickly. I don't think we would have gotten any nice pictures otherwise because Nathan and Clara had the wiggles.


Nathan and Clara love taking baths! Clara likes getting her princess hair clean.


We carved one of our summer squashes and named him Pepe. We gave him one eye and one tooth and an old pepper from our garden for a nose (thus the name Pepe). He fits right in with our crazy family.

Our aspiring hair dresser Nathan worked his magic with Clara. She won't hold still for her parents to do her hair, but apparently Nathan is acceptable. He did a pretty good job and even added bows and berretes (spelling?). He did a great job. If he's not careful he'll find himself with a new daily chore.

Christian hanging out with Grandpa Manwill.

Little did we know that over conference weekend our house would be invaded by pirates. Uncle Stephen was one of those pirates and David, Joshua, and Nathan went on pirate extermination patrol. Uncle Stephen didn't stand a chance.

We've been cleaning up our garden and Nathan's always a big helper. Nathan decided that he was going to use "his" hacksaw to cut up the old sunflower stalks so that they would fit in the garbage can. He cut a bunch of them and only cut himself once. His toolbox is gradually adding tools while daddy's toolbox seems to be gradually losing tools.