The Phillips Family

We've continued going to the park after school even though it's starting to get cold.  Cade is loving that he can somewhat play with the boys now instead of just staying in the swings, my arms, or the stroller. This is a screenshot from my phone when the boys and my mom did Face Time.  They are all smiles and laughter the whole time.  Aiden and Sam fight over who gets their head in the screen more or who can show Gwamma the best trick.  It's a hoot watching all this go down! This is what our prayer circle looks like on the nights that Rex is out of town.  Aiden and Sam make sure that Daddy's place is filled with some other valued treasure.  This night it was their fish from the bathtub.  Other nights it's been dinosaurs, the Hulk figurine (they even knelt him up), or even their favorite story book.  It's pretty cute. While I was out grocery shopping, Cade got hungry.  I didn't quite get the hint until he tried to drink the enti...

Cade started off the Halloween spirit while still in Oklahoma when he found Gwamma's treasure chest of costumes.  He LOVES to drape things around his neck and put things on his head.  (He had help, of course, with this get-up.) I found this cute idea from Pinterest (duh! where else??) to get white beach balls and make eyes out of them for your bushes.  I think I'll get some bigger eyes for this monster-of-a-bush for next year.  After drawing the pupils a little bit bigger after taking this picture, our bush looked like a muppet character.  The kids in the neighborhood loved it! Aiden's school put on a Carnival before Halloween, so the boys got to dress up early.  Sam was the Hulk (which is very hard for a 4 year old to say!  He kept calling himself "Hook" all night.)  And Aiden was Captain America.  They didn't really know who they were at the time so Rex decided to educate them before impersonating them in public.  He let ...

 Yes I have been a slacker lately when it comes to blogging, but ya get what ya get!  I'll try to catch up before Christmas :)  In October we went to Oklahoma to see my family.  For one Saturday morning, Uncle "B" (as the boys like to call my brother Brian) took all of us fishing.  We got Aiden and Sam some cheap little fishing poles and a bucket of worms and headed out with their cousins Austin and Kimber.  They had a blast playing with their fishing poles and holding the worms.  But the fish just weren't biting.  After 45 minutes of the adults trying to fish while the kids ended up running around the pond, my mom (Gwamma Jeanie) finally caught a fish - or snagged its back more like it.  It was a total fluke, but it was enough of a success to call our fishing experience good for the day.  The kids took pity on the poor fish and tried feeding it a worm as it was gasping for air.  As Brian put it, "Sweet... or cruel??"  We ...