Halloween Party/Birthday Party

After walking down Harrison, we headed over to Heather's house to celebrate her sister, Heidi's birthday. It was costumes (of course) so we dressed up as referees and Dallas as #43 Troy Polamalu from the Steelers! He was the CUTEST little football player ever! It was a fun night with yummy food (like always) and good company. Happy Birthday Heidi!

Heidi P and Robin

Heather the Cat

Jothan was a ref too! We had to get a photo with all three of us and our whistles! Plus the little football player too. :)

Cade was a Rebel Rocker and Heidi the birthday girl was a Joker

cutest boys ever!

T, T, D and Heather

Heidi and Annie as the Jokers

Annie, Jodi (an inmate) and Jennetta (a mouse).

Robin was a punk rocker. She works with Toby in the Cath Lab.

He was plum tuckered out by the time we got home. Good little game buddy! We love you #43 (even though your missing a little bit of hair. Oh well, Polamalu would keep you!)

***Non Polamalu fans-

Harrison Blvd

Dallas and I. He wore his "I Love My Mummy" shirt. Too cute!

Toby and the Pumpkin. Love how his face is covered. Oh well. He made for a cute pumpkin anyways!

What a fun Halloween! We started off walking down Harrison Blvd, and what a beautiful street! There were sooooo many people and the costumes were great. We snapped a few photos to show off the street and the festivities. We dressed up Dallas in his Pumpkin costume but we didn't trick-or-treat-we'll do that next year.

Scary house

This is one of my most favorite houses on Harrison. They dress up the dogs for every holiday.

Someone likes Sarah Palin!

Love this house! Every year they have a pumpkin carving party. I think there are over 60 pumpkins this year. Plus-not one of them was smashed the next day. Now that's pretty cool!

There were many creative grave yards

Love the tombstones.

It's the Wheaties Man! And a chicken.... sadly we didn't take too many costume photos!

Happy Halloween!

We went to visit Toby at work today and brought him pumpkin sugar cookies. It's become a tradition-three Halloweens in a row! Dallas was in his orange "I love Mummy" shirt and they sure thought he was cute!
We'll be walking down Harrison Blvd early tonight and I can't wait. It's like a scene from a movie--all the houses decorated and the fall leaves, it is just beautiful. We walked down it last night and I took photos, but I'll take more tonight. Dallas will be a pumpkin for the walk down Harrison.
Then we're off to two parties. Toby and I will be referees (I got us shirts from Footlocker), all decked out with whistles, yellow flags and black pants and Dallas will be #43, Troy Polamalu from the Steelers. He has Polamalu's jersey and then we have a Steelers football, blanket, pacifier and socks. It's perfect! Can't wait to post photos of our fun night. Happy Halloween!!!

5 Months

My, my, my-how time flies by! Dallas is already 5 months old and growing so much. He is such a character and is always making me laugh at the silly things he does.

Things for me to remember:
~Started eating rice cereal on a daily basis. He has it for breakfast and for dinner. Does pretty good at keeping it in his mouth but every once and a while, he'll catch my hand or the bowl and then it's all over from there! Today he sneezed right when I fed him a bite and it went all over my clothes. It was disgusting! He just smiled which made me laugh. (by the way---both Toby and I tried the stuff. It's gross! Can't wait till I can mix some fruit in it......but Dallas doesn't seem to mind it. Poor kid-doesn't know what he's missing!)

~He is talking sooo much! I love how he is finding his voice. He'll talk to mostly anyone and he talks the most to his daddy. What a lucky guy! It's so funny to hear his voice change and I love to hear his laugh.

~Eczema is not our friend......he seemed to have gotten his daddy's skin and now it has become a game to figure out what creams I can use. I am getting pretty close to calling his doctor to get a prescription. Not fun. He started to get a bad rash on his bum and Desitin wasn't working too good. I have used other brands in the past and they don't work as good either....so when I was back east, I tried my aunt's stuff and it work perfectly! The only downside is that it's $30 a tub!!!! What the heck?!? Why is it that only the super expensive stuff works on this kid?

~Stranger anxiety is kicking in a little bit. For the most part he'll warm up and talk to anyone, but every so often, he'll get shy and bury his head into my shoulder.

~Sleep.......wish I could say he is sleeping wonderfully, but he's not. Enough said.

~Tummy time still stinks unless we're in the tub. Then he'll stay on his tummy for ever. He is however starting to rock back and forth when he's on his tummy. Wonder how long it will be before he crawls. (not that I'm hoping any time soon....then I'll have to baby proof!)

~Still loves to be outside. He loves to take walks and see everything. Such an active baby!

~Loves books! I read to him at night (and during the day) and he loves to look at the pages and he'll get excited and pat the book with his hands. I hope he continues to like books when he's older.

~He is starting to sit up by himself. He still needs a little bit of support, but is doing quite well on his own.

Love this kid!

Pumpkin Party

We're having a blast here in Moorestown. Kerry and Alison have been so sweet and great hosts. We've done so much in the short time that we've been here and we're looking forward to a great week too. We were able to go to Dallas' football game and to New York City (such a fun and busy city!) and tomorrow we're going to Atlantic City to see the ocean and walk the boardwalk and go shopping. We'll also head into Philly on Wednesday and see the old sites like Liberty Bell. Toby wants to get a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich from one of the vendors so I'm sure we will be doing that too! Lots of fun out East. The colors are just beautiful and I love the falls out here.

On Saturday night, David and Char came over for a dinner and a pumpkin carving party. We had such a great time! Kerry played Halloween music and we got busy carving. Char brought electric carvers. I had never seen them before, but they sure made carving pumpkins easier! Plus, she had gloves for everyone who didn't want to get their hands all pumpkin gutsy. We all laughed about that one! :) Logan and Lilly just painted faces on their pumpkins. We had a great evening laughing and having fun. Enjoy the photos! I'll try and post again. I choose to do Cinderella. It turned out pretty cool!
When in doubt, bring out the drill!

Toby helping with our pumpkin. Baby D just chillin' in the high chair. It was fun having the two D's there.
Nice Kerry.... :)
Toby and Dallas getting the "guts" out!

David helping Skyler, Char helping Lissa

The finished products! Cinderella, Trick or Treat, Ghost, Skull, and a Crazy Face. Great job everyone!

Chillin' back East

We're back East in New Jersey, visiting my uncles. I'll try and post this week of all the fun adventures we having!

Dallas' football game

We went to my cousin's football game on Friday. Dallas is such a good player! He loves sports and has got his dad's skills. He's great and we really enjoyed the game. I had fun taking a few photos, but my uncle Kerry got the best ones. He has this awesome lens and looked like a pro out there on the fields shooting photos. Thanks for letting us cheer you on! Hope my baby takes after you Dallas and is a great football player. :) My babes-all bundled up! It was chilly in the shade.
Uncle Kerry and his awesome camera!
Dallas Clark- #44
Such a beautiful day! I just wanted to show the trees and the green grass. They play on turf-very nice field! Uncle Dave up in the box.

Char and Lily

Logan

Dallas, Toby, baby D, Tammy and Alissa. It was a fun cold morning!

:)

Got to keep the Grandma Love happy!

Rockstar

Dude-looking for playmates. Have your mom call my mom!

Cute t-shirt that Shalee and Eric got him. Thanks guys!

Sleep..........

I long for sleep.

My Dearest Dallas,

Why oh why have you all of sudden decided that you do not need sleep....ever??? What happened to my sweet baby boy who would sleep for 10 hours at night and give mom her VERY NEEDFUL beauty sleep? Why have you chosen to wake up at all hours of the night every night for the past week? Just wanted to let you know that you're making your mother crazy and cranky. This needs to stop.

Love,
your bags under her eyes mother

photo tag

This was from Coronado High School graduation, June 2006 when we lived in Las Vegas. I was the Senior ASB leader.

Post your 4th photo from your 4th file. Thanks for the tag Monica!

I tag mom, alicia, lindsey w, and ashley.

A new cousin!

Ryker Douglas Thornton

October 14, 2008

6 lbs

19 1/2 inches long

We went up to see him and snap a few photos. I posted for Elizabeth so you can go to her blog to see more. What a sweet baby boy. I was amazed at how tiny he is! Makes Dallas look huge!Congrats Tory and Elizabeth!

Little baby.
Look how big Dallas is! Guess that's what happens after 4 1/2 months!

Proud twin bros-holding their favorite boys!