Mount Airy Hot Dogs

Elsie in her bumbo at 3 months.

We made the hot dog of all hot dogs (Mount Airys) to celebrate Grandpa Marions birthday earlier this month.

Mike eating the hot dog with a fork.

By popular demand . . .

You asked for it. . . . . Mr. GQ

What is different?

What is different?

Halloween - The Wizard of Oz

In case you can not tell, we are the characters from Wizard of Oz.

Mike is Lion, Lisa is Dorothy, Isaac is Tinman, Lucas is Scarecrow, Ariel is Glinda and Elsie is a white Toto.

This is a street in our neighborhood.
We ran from home to home to keep warm.

Pumpkin Picking

Right now Ariel and Isaac are outside playing in the snow. Issac is home feeling sick. Proof Tylenol works. Isaac got off the couch and insisted on playing in the snow. We have already had 5 or 6 snowy days this early in October. It then rains, so not much accumulation.

This is the way we picked out our pumpkins this year- out of very large boxes.

It was about 28 degrees outside and strong wind so we did not stay long.

We did enjoy the big blow up slide, hot apple cider and pumpkins donuts.

The kids helped me set the pumpkins out on the front porch. We even added some scary spiderwebs. The snow does not look real cool on the webs though.

Here is sweet Elsie who was left out of all the fun. She is growing quickly. Off the top of chart for length and 75% for weight.

Baby Sling

The boys walking home from school. So cute I had to share.

Katie picked up this baby sling pattern and I made one during conference sessions this weekend. Isaac is gladly modeling it for me.

Getting into the Halloween spirit. FYI Halloween is the second biggest holiday in this country right behind Christmas.

Last week

We are alive and kickin'.

Happy Birthday

Happy 33rd Birthday Mike!

Birth Announcements

I am sending out birth announcements this week. If there is a chance I do not have your mailing address please email it to me. My email is lmhmarion@hotmail.com.

For Laura

Laura just sent a text telling us to post more pictures of Elsie Anne. Tonight Elsie turned six weeks. Here are some interesting number facts. Elsie is the 41st grandchild in the Marion family and 21st in the Hawkes family. Before Elsie's birth, there were 20 Marion grandsons and 20 Marion granddaughters. She also broke the tie of 10 Hawkes grandsons to 10 Hawkes granddaughters.

In these photos, Elsie is wearing her cute new hair bow from Aunt Diane and lying on her beautiful quilt from Grandma Hawkes. Elsie is smiling now on a more consistent basis. We really love her.

Sisters

First Day of School

The boys on their 75 yard walk to school.

"Who do you see in the coconut tree?" Lucas!!!

Lucas got this beautiful shiner while wrestling Isaac down the stairs yesterday.

Ariel was feeling a little left out this morning while the boys were packing their lunches into their backpacks. I had not even thought of making one for Ariel. Mistake. Isaac noticed and ran and grabbed Lucas' old backpack for her to wear to school. That meant a lot to her.

Ariel's friend Solenne on their way to the park. Solenne too lost a big brother/best friend to all day kindergarten today.