bikes+falling+asphalt=stitches

Checking out his new stitches in the mirror
SEE?!

Nice one Lukas!! Now you and Mommy will have matching scars

Seriously, no really, no seriously, what is the deal with little boys and accidents?! In the last 7 days Lukas has been hit in the head by a rock (lots of bleeding and a butterfly band aid), he then fell on the corner of Nonnie's coffee table and the glass cut and bruised under neath his eye, then today he comes in screaming again with blood dripping from his chin. He had the EXACT same accident I had as a child. He was riding his little bike down the driveway ( you know what's coming next...) he hit the junction where the driveway meets the street and BLAMMO, face first (or shall I say chin first) onto the asphalt. Shoot, I thought while trying to nurse the baby ( I really am an unsympathetic parent some times) While the baby lay screaming on the couch to be fed more, I got up to assess the damage. "It's not that bad" I kept telling myself out loud, but as I cleaned away the blood, dirt and gravel I realized "OHHHH, it IS that bad" No butterfly band aid is going to repair this amount of damage. Lucky for me Randy was almost home. I called our Doctor (who is absolutely wonderful) he said he'd wait at his office for Lukas since the office was closing. They had him in and out in no time and Lukas came home with 4 stitches and 4 lollipops. Randy is amazing and is getting used to taking the kids in for damage repair. Remember, he was the one that had to take Mackenzie in to the ER when she broke her arm (very badly, almost needed surgery) because I was in Atlanta... Thanks Daddy!! WHAT A DAY!!

A bit of nastalgia

Hello Gorgeous!! I've been wanting to post some of these old photos of my Mom since I worked on her Scrapbook but it would have ruined her surprise party so, I'm posting them now. How cute are these??

Surprise!! Nonnie turns 60

Mom and the girls
FABULICIOUS Witt girls
A scrapbook of Nonnie's childhood
we even dressed up Nonnie's dog
Grandpa Wheeler chatting it up with Nickolas

Linda J's fabulous glasses
Some of Mom's life long friends
Logan and his fuzzy red hat
Mac, Jack and Luke
Mom and Mac

Isn't this an awesome cake
Before the party we all tried on Nonnie's many wigs, even Randy
Even Jack looks adorable in Nonnie's wigs
The Queen cutting her cake

On Friday we pulled off the best "Red Hat Lady" surprise party for Nonnie's 60th birthday. It was Awesome!! We'd been working really hard to keep this a serious secret which if any of you know us Witt girls, wasn't easy, especially since we talk to Mom at least once a day and sometimes many times a day. Now her birthday is really on September 26th but since she was in Hawaii for 10 days (snivel, snivel) we had to postpone our party plans.

We chose a red hat lady theme (Thanks to Mom's friend Judy) because Mom has spent her entire life serving everyone else and now it's time for her to have fun, which is what the Red Hat Society is all about. We got her a cake in the form of a big red hat, it was so great and everyone showed up wearing red hats too. We had the house decked out in big fluffy feather boas, flowers and Kazoos on strings adorned our necks.

We had one false alarm and ended up waiting in the dark for a couple minutes until we realized they were not home yet. We called Cal to see where they were and he let us know he was stuck shopping ( of course she would be shopping right?) So we let him know we were more than ready. With an extra 20 minutes on our hands we started pulling out all of Nonnie's many many wigs and reading glasses to try on. We played "dress up like Luana" It was hilarious to see some of Mom's friends trying on her wigs and glasses. We had an entire room full of Luana-look-a-likes until our party was interrupted by Mom walking through the door. Finally they arrived!!

With the lights turned off, Nonnie came walking in the door. She stopped a couple feet in the door, noticed Mackenzie and said "hey what are you doing here?" We flipped on the lights and yelled out "SURPRISE!!" Was she ever! What a memorable night for all of us. The food was tasty, the cake moist and fluffy, and the company fun. We had also put together a DVD/slide show of her life and I made a scrapbook including many of the same pictures. What a joy it was for me to work on. One thing I LOVE about scrapbooking is all the time I get to spend thinking about the people and events I am crafting, it fuels my creativity. Working on my Mom's photos was like using premium gasoline for my creative mind, what quality fuel!

So, Happy Happy Birthday Mom, I love you!!

A day at Bishops Pumpkin Farm

Who doesn't love a fabulicious ice cream cone??
where they farm the GIGANTIC pumpkins

Cheese boys!
Lukas having trouble with his ice cream cone
One tooth coming in on top, one to go...
where we ate, and how we felt (like piggies)
All in the family
Mommy and Lukas
Jumping in the hay
It was our cousin play date

Randy and Peter

Spent some time Saturday at Bishop's Pumpkin Farm in Wheatland, Ca. We love this place and go there every year with the kids. This year we decided to make it the spot for our October cousin play date. We met up with April, Peter and girls for the afternoon. There are no pictures of the kids in the actual pumpkin patch because we are going again in 2 weeks for their school field trip where we'll get pumpkins. Bishop's has hay rides out to the patch and back, a corn maze, train rides, a petting zoo (Mackenzie's favorite part of the day) gold panning for marbles, jumping in the hay (they have this big area of mattresses covered with hay) which the kids loved! (maybe it was all the dust they created, those piggy little kids) They have bakeries on site with every yummy fall creation you can think up including fresh apple cider and of course anything pumpkin. The kids and cousins really enjoyed themselves and so did we.
We'll be back the day before Halloween. Happy Pumpkin Carving everyone!

It's only a flesh wound

Ok, so I'm realizing that I don't have to post a picture with EVERY single blog I write (although I am a visual person and like to) Is it bad when your 3 year old son comes in the house with blood streaming down his head and onto his shirt ( a white shirt of course) that for a second (after you've collected yourself and realize he's not going to die) you want to take a photo and post it to your blog?! Okay, I have serious problems... So, I didn't do it (I know, it was the right thing to do in Luke's moment of horror) So, no picture to show you the flesh wound he sustained thanks to the hand of the neighbor kid who (along with our son Jack I will add) was throwing rocks at the other kids while hiding in the bushes. SERIOUSLY boys... We thought it might need a stitch because it's pretty deep but put a butterfly band-aid on it instead and it looks okay this morning. Poor Lukas!! So, there was our drama for the evening yesterday. Will there ever come a time when a day goes by that at least one of our kids doesn't come running into the house crying (or screaming) about something?!

I can't believe it's been 2 months!!

Our friend Rebecca took these photos at a party last week and they were adorable so I had to post them. I don't think we've had a baby that smiled so early (@5 weeks) But he's so engaging. We are loving his wise spirit and sweet personality. What a joy it is to see the world again through the eyes of a newborn. I LOVE IT!! He's cooing (which is my favorite baby trait) and will turn his head to see who's talking. He's finding his hands (and desperately trying to get them in his mouth or rub his eyes) He just started sleeping 8 hours at night ( you can't see me, but I'm doing the victory dance right now!!) We love our little Nickolas and are so grateful to be parents.

Hand-Some

So this morning I was talking to baby Nickolas and saying something like "you are so handsome" then realizing that Lukas was sitting next to me I turned to him and asked "are you handsome too?" Lukas turned to me, put both his hands up and said "yes, my hands want some too!" Isn't it funny how quick minded these little ones are?!

These are Dewishes

It's family night at the Onstine house and we are making caramel apples!! Maybe when the kids are older and more patient we'll be able to "really" make caramel apples but for now we are making the 5 minute version thanks to our local grocery store. We found round sheets of caramel which you simply wrap around the apple, insert a stick and bake for 5 minute and presto!! Yummy yummy to our tummies. Luke took one look at his apple and said "Mommy, these are delicious" in his little 2-year old voice which sounded more like "these are dewishes"

Conference Bingo

Isn't it every LDS parents dream that their small children will quietly and attentively sit and watch General Conference every 6 months ?? Okay obviously we are a few years off from that dream coming to fruition but we are getting a bit closer. This conference our kids played bingo (Thanks to our Primary President) and it worked!! The kids listened as best they could to hear words like tithing, scriptures, temple, family, prophet, etc then they'd put something edible over the square until they had an entire row complete, which gave them license to gobble up their tasty treats. They had a lot of fun and it reminded us that even at such young ages we can get them to participate in the spiritual feast with us (or at least some kind of feast be it candy or otherwise) We'll take whatever we can get.