Baby belly

My good friend Terri of Terri Z Photo(www.terrizphoto.blogspot.com)
recently took some pictures of my baby belly...so for those of you who want to see..here they are. The belly might be gone tomorrow...6 days and counting until my due date of 11/26/08!!!!

I love this shot, Owen, Grant, Jeff and myself all have our hands on Pifer #3!!!

Owen gets bottom braces

I just had to take a picture of Owen in the Orthodontist's chair waiting for his new bottom braces to dry! Poor kid!

The doctor says we are making really good progress with his overbite so far. Don't worry Owen it will all be worth it in the end.

Den 15 Participates in Vetran's Day Parade and Dedication Ceremony

Owen's boy scout den participated in Celebration's Founders Day activities which included a parade honoring our vetrans and an "unveiling" of a new vetrans memorial that was an local Eagle Scout project. It was a great experience for the boys and even Mom, Dad and a few friends were moved to tears by the events!

Football trophy's

The "O-Train" and Coach Scott Holstein

Last Saturday 11-15-08 Pop Warner had their end of season bash which involved each coach giving out trophy's to their players. Owen was so excited and proudto recieve his trophy that day!
Way to go Owen--O-Train!

First Heartbreak

Remember Grant's love from a couple of weeks ago, Tiffany? Well, they have since parted ways when Grant overheard her telling her girlfriend she loved another( Nick)!
Grant was heartbroken and in school decided to put his feelings into art. Grant's teacher was very impressed with his ability to show his emotions through his art and even kept the drawing to copy it! Here is the front and back of his drawing below:



This is the front: It says " That's Nick--That's Tiffany" "I hope you will like it"

This is the back with a drawing of himself and 4 hearts, 3 of which are "cracked." "krak"= crack
"Krak mor" =crack more a
The 3rd and 4th hearts say ""kraks som mor"= cracked some more

I think Jeff and I were more heartbroken than he was when we saw this! Poor baby and all before 6 years old! Tiffany you don't know what you are missing! Ha,ha!

Since then Grant and Tiffany have made up and become friends but no longer "love" each other!

Fun weekend!

Drew, Jake and Grant playing Wii at their sleepover.


Rib cook off relaxing!

The rib entries!

After cookoff fun--Heather Nancy and pregnant Melissa!

While we wait for baby #3 we had some fun with friends this past weekend. Grant had 2 buddies spend the night while Owen had a great time sleeping in a tent for his friend Ryan's 8th birthday party Saturday night. Owen and the birthday group even got to toilet paper our friends house that night(they literally asked for it!) He thought it was great fun but we did have to explain some of the consequencess of doing that to other people who aren't expecting it when and if there is a next time.

On Sunday we got together for a "rib cookoff" at the park with 50 of our friends and kids. We had 5 entries for the rib contest and Jeff and our friend Rob tied for 2nd place! Our friend Tim took the grand prize with his Georgia rib sandwich! It was awesome and who Jeff and I both voted for as the winner! Owen and Grant tried Daddy's ribs and were qite biased and really loved Jeff's ribs and thought he should have won 1st place! (Yeah a new food added to the list!!) It was a georgous day and the kids had a blast and so did the adults. Thanks to everyone for the dishes they brought! What will we make for the next cook off? It was a hot topic of discussion that day.

23 Days and counting!

23 days until my official due date of 11/26/08. I am hoping to have baby- X early of course not only because my body and mind are ready but because Grant's birthday is 8 days after my due date. It would be nice for these two brothers to have birthdays that aren't so close. Jeff and I really need to get our name list in order!! Still no official name yet. I think we'll wait to meet him.
Today I am hoping for this birthday to be on 11/11, then again that's only 7 days away. Maybe I should rethink my dates! We have several friends and family with November birthdates. I have already missed Aunt Kim's birthday of 11/3 and our friend Kathy Arce on 11/1 but next is Grandma Anna's on 11/7, then we have Grandma Nanny's on 11/16 and Grandma Gee-Ma on 11/23. Ryan Erickson is on 11/11 and Ryan Sweeny is the 26th. Sounds likely that I could have this baby on somebody's birthday we know!! We'll see!!!

Halloween 2008

We had a great Halloween this year. It started with carving pumpkins on Halloween eve, then Grant & Owen got to dress up the next day at school. Grant had a Halloween parade in front of his school complete with Halloween songs. When they came home we all dressed up for our friend Nancy & Scott's pre-trick-or-treating party and then we all went Trick -or-treating together as one big group.

Then we came home to pass out candy to unsuspecting victims from Grant's "Scary's" restaurant curbside in frron of our house. Daddy surprised the boys after school where he set up "Scary's" in our driveway complete with jack-o-lanterns, plants and caution tape marking off our yard. The boys passed out candy from "Scary's" drive in window while Daddy lurked around the corner waiting to jump out with a ban saw (minus the blade of course) running and scare the daylights out of the tween trick-or-treaters. Most were really surprised and scared to death. They then would say said "that was so cool" "that was scarier than Halloween Horror Nights!" The boys got a kick out of it and so did Dad!!! Grant would exclaim after the trick-or-treater left scared.... "Yep that's why I called it Scary's!!!"
Daddy was quite the Halloween hero this year! Thanks Dad!!

Meet Tiffany

Grant & Tiffany at school

Grant's drawing to Tiffany

Grant's teacher has been informing me over the last several weeks that Grant is quite the popular boy lately. He has several interested girls his age who "fight" over him daily. Grant was shocked earlier this year when one of them told him they loved him. He was just appaled and said he did not love anyone other than his family and he could not understand why she would be telling him this--they barely knew each other!

Well I guess he has now chosen "the one" and has told her he loves her. He talkes about her every day and has drawn pictures for her, given her gifts and he even composed a song about the two of them together the other night. I wish I could remember the lyrics to the song because it was just hysterical coming from him. I guess we'll see if this is the future "Mrs. Pifer!"

Owen's Cub Scout Den

Owen joined the Cub Scouts earlier this year and somehow it didn't make it to the blog yet! We are in Pack #125 and Den #15 with our awesome friends and leaders Rodger and Heather Robbins. We have been busy this year with several activities. I have included pictures from our popcorn sale and from our outing to the "fossil hunters show."

The boys have earned a few badges and belt loops for their accomplishments this year already! Right now we are working on "scouting for food." We delivered bags to neighborhood homes this weekend and then next weekend we will return to those homes to hopefully find full bags of non perishable food items to donate to a local charity! We'll keep you posted and thank you to all who helped Owen with his popcorn fundraiser!