Halloween 2009

The 3 older kids...

Noah chose to be a mad scientiest. Little did he know "mad" really meant crazy.

Jackson chose to be a policeman because he wanted some sort of weapon.

Alora chose to be a "Princess Witch". She saw this costume in a catalog and had to have it.

Mr. Max was a monkey for no real reason at all other than it being so freaking cute!

Max is 3 Months Old!

Can you believe it? Mr. Max is now 3 months old and he is huge! He is just over 25" long and is pushing 15 pounds. This puts him in the high 90th percentiles on the charts and he still just continues to grow and grow. At least he seems to be pretty healthy, which is awesome considering everything he went through a little over a month ago. His biggest accomplishment most recently is that he pretty much sleeps through the night... not in his own crib yet, but he'll get there!

Look at this adorable chunky belly!

Pre-Halloween Fun

Noah with one of his frosted pumpkin-shaped cookies.

Jackson and one of his Halloween cookies.

Alora got more frosting on her (and in her mouth) than on her Halloween cookies.

Max's 1st Halloween pumpkin.

Alora DID NOT like Jeremy scooping out the guts with his hands.

Nor did she like it when Jeremy put the guts on her arm. She much preferred the spoon method.

Alora's Jack-o-Lantern

Jackson wanted a scary Jack-o-Lantern.

Jackson's finished product.

Unlike Alora, Noah loved scooping out the guts with his hands.

Noah's Jack-o-Lantern

The kids with their completed pumpkins. Right before we went outside it started snowing, hence Alora's rain boots.

Diggin' for Dinos

Way back in March of this year, Noah got this dinosaur extracting kit from his Grandpa and Grandma Frye. We had never opened it, partly because we had to keep the house clean since it was on the market, but last week when he complained he was bored (which he does a TON now), I brought out the kit for him to do. Holy cow, even though he had fun doing it, it was one very messy project!

Noah showing where he had already chiseled the outline of some bones out.

Noah working to extract the bones. Notice Jackson's arm on the side... he was the official duster. (That's probably where most of the mess came from. Dirt was flying everywhere!)

Noah and Jackson with one of the ribcages they pulled out. (See how messy they got? That was only the beginning...)

Halloween Stories

It seems like lately our boys have developed the "I'm bored" syndrome. All the ideas we give them simply just aren't good enough. Today, however, I found something for them to do that they actually liked. I made them little blank books out of plain white computer paper, told them they were to pretend they were authors and illustrators and that I wanted them to make me some Halloween books. It actually entertained them for quite some time and the finished products were pretty funny. (Jackson's might even be considered a little "graphic.") Following are their stories, complete with spelling mistakes. Each sentence depicts one page of their book. (Sorry, I couldn't scan in their illustrations.)

Halloween Stories

by Noah Fuls

One morning I woke up and it was halloween. I went to school with my costume, a mad sientist. he wanted a halloween party so we did. all thew the school lots of games and other stuff. too many games. all day long. we have candy, lots of it. We went home and got ready for treak-or-treating. Lots and lots of candy, more then school candy. We went home and ate are candy. Pizza, mmm... good. Someone at the door, what? (Bam, bam, bam, bam) Kids! They said candy, ymm... CANDY!!! We watcht halloween movies like Jack Skelinton.

The End

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The Scary Pumpkin

by Jackson Fuls

A dead person got bit by a vampire. And then a crocodiles heart fell off. And a vampire was right there flying. Actually, it was playing a game with a Zombie on it. Then, a mannequin came by. And so did a giant robot so he could talk to the mannequin. There were a lot of pumpkins scaring people. Then, a vampire with headphones and a cell phone, that he stole, came over. Bats and bugs came out to eat. Then, a man got tied by the bats. Flags were coming and his body was on the floor. The man was dead and it was raining blood. The guy had wings. A crocodile and a mean worm were trying to eat people's legs. So a monster, that had claws, was trying to make a little egg into a human. The mannequin and a ghost were laughing at a skeleton because he was trying to eat them. The vampire changed to a mean snowman and he was eating people's heads off so he could see their brains. Finally, the vampires arms got cut off by the monster with the claws and the pumpkins blew up.

The End

Max's Baby Blessing

This past Saturday, October 10th, Jeremy blessed Max at church. We had planned on doing it sooner, but my sister wanted to bless her baby at the same time so all the family could be together, so we waited. It ended up working out pretty well since her husband's family were able to come in from Idaho and Northern Utah, and my family came up from Arizona.

Our kids along with their cousin, Emorsyn (6 months old), who was blessed the same day.

Alora holding Emorsyn.

It's a Hard Knock Life

Jeremy is now officially in Hawaii again. This year instead of Oahu, he's in Maui; staying at the Sheraton. VPD, who works in conjunction with Blockbuster, once again flew Jeremy and some of the other District managers, Loss Prevention, and Human Resource people in his region to Hawaii for some fun.

Tonight he is participating in a Hell's Kitchen activity, tomorrow he is helping build a home through Habitat for Humanity, and Thursday he gets to go para sailing. Who knew work could be so hard? Following are just some of the amazing views from his hotel room.

So Far So Good

Max was discharged from Primary Children's Hospital on Saturday, September 19th, 6 days after his first turning blue episode. After several consultations with a group of cardiologists, it was decided that Max could go home as long as he wore a heart monitor (a.k.a. holter monitor). Luckily, he only had to wear it for 24 hours before we had to send it back in. We are still waiting for the final results of that test.


As for now, everything seems to be going well with Max. His follow-up visit with our pediatrician went well and he'll go back again this coming week for his 2-month shots and well-baby check-up. We should know more about everything then. The overall consensus right now is that all of his turning blue spells were caused from his reflux. The doctors seem to think that because our family all had mild colds the week before this all happened, that perhaps he too had one and that caused his pipes to swell up a little and the flappy thing that prevents food and water from entering your lungs just got stuck. (We aren't sure how the heart accelerations plays into all of this just yet.) That being said, as long as he takes his Prevacid medication he should be okay. Reflux typically lasts throughout the first year of birth, but luckily as he gets older, his pipes should expand so that flappy thing shouldn't get stuck again. So far so good! Let's just keep praying that this was just a fluke thing that happened and we won't have to experience it ever again!