October 2010

The Fall arrived right on schedule here in Chattanooga. The leaves were beautiful gold, red, and orange starting in October and now we are starting to see the beginning of winter as the leaves are pilling up into nice jumping stacks.

We've been having so much fun, I forgot to stop and blog about it!

My mom came out for two weeks in October, and as always it was wonderful to have two sets of hands on deck 24 hours a day! I was a little spoiled with all the help, it was wonderful.

Max decorated some pumpkins for halloween. A pirate and a mummy.

Decorating with out the mess = perfect.

Pirate Max. Sooo, Max, I thought, had moved on from being a pirate for Halloween. He said he wanted to be a skeleton. So I bought Max and Lorelei matching costumes. Well, when my mom got here Max decided he wanted to be a pirate. So, with two days until Halloween we went exploring to find a pirate costume. And boy did we find one or what! Hat, hook, sword, belt and all. He even got to wear his skeleton pajamas after all.

Fighting pirate Ryan at their house. Here in chattanooga everyone went trick -or- treating on Saturday, so it worked out well since we don't trick-or-treat on Sunday. 

Philip, I mean Dr. Scherer the hippi, I tye-dyed this white coat for Philip to wear to work for the Halloween celebration at the hospital. He was a hit.

The Halloween party with friends in TN. We love our Tennessee friends!

They even had a bonfire with marshmellows to roast. To top it off, our bishops wife was handing out full size candy bars from costco. It was alot of fun! Max trick-or-treated the entire neighborhood.

The bonfire

Max put together a gingerbread haunted house. Then ate it.

 You know you're in TN when an arachnid is outside your house and it's bigger then your hand.  

Philip took Max trick -or-treating around our neighborhood on wednesday before Halloween. It was fun to see all the kids dressed up. 

 Lorelei went from sitting to crawling, to crusin' in a matter of weeks. So she is into everything now. Especially the food. We had her tested for food allergies and now she can eat a larger variety of food. She especially likes, cheerios and green beans. Unfortunately, she is allergic to nuts and dairy, so that limits her food quite a bit. The allergist felt that her numbers were low enough that she'll probably grow out of the dairy allergy with time. Only time will tell.

 Our happy baby. Lorelei is a happy baby - as long as she's fed and she's moving! No holding still.

Yeah Max! Max filled in an entire section of his Backyardigans potty chart so he earned a prize for his success. Which was a trip to target to get a seamonster/pirate toy. We're making progress in the potty department. He is doing very well. Philip and I told him he could have a guinea pig when he filled in the whole chart, so now we can't get him off the potty. Thank you G-Force.

 Scurvy Dog Max. That's what he calls himself.
So max has names for all his pirates; captain hook, scurvy dog, heros, knight, Max, Mikey, and I don't know where they come from. He also has a gun that he likes to carry in his "holster". I told him there were advantages to wearing underwear...

This is captain hook Max, wearing scurvy dog hat. That's what he told me.

Lorelei. She's ever attentive to Max and growing up so fast! She's so much fun and quite the talker.

Silly kids. Always having the best of time together.

Lorelei 9 months

Photography Skills 101

The Photographer - Max found my camera the other day and took almost 100 pictures of random things and toys. Here are a few things he captured.

His pet cockroach. He keeps it in his plastic container, because his mother finds bugs totally gross.

 Max loves bugs. He's always looking for bugs and sometimes he gets lucky and Grandma Lake will send him a bug in the mail.

The nose shot.

More of his "pet" bugs. Max says they "aren't walking anymore". Thank goodness.

A Dead bug is one thing. A Running bug is completely another.

Max even took this picture of his sister making her oh-so-famous krinkled face and trying to smile, but only achieveing the straight faced looked due to her heavy cheeks. Pretty good shot for a 3 year old.

Lorelei Loves Max. Here is her response to Max. She watches everything he does and always ends up laughing at him.

THE Wedding

This past weekend was Jakob and Heidi's wedding day! It was so much fun to see all the family and get to go to the temple and party like we never have before!

It all started with a 7 hour drive to Gainesville from Chattanooga. We stayed with Kurt and Allison and family. They were so nice to be a hotel for the night for us. The next day we woke up and drove to Orlando, another two hour drive. It was fun to see their family!

In Orlando we had the boys get their hair cut. This is Max's first professional setting haircut. He did really well as long as he had a lollipop in his mouth. The haircutter was fast and did a really good job.

Then we went to Downtown Disney. We love going to Disney. It's just so magical. We didn't have time to go to a park, but we were in the area and it was still fun.

They had their pirate displays out on the sidewalk and in the store. They are getting ready for Halloween.

Then we had the dinner the night before the wedding. It was at Macaroni Grill and it was really fun to see everyone. There was a lot of family from both sides there.

Kurt and Allison with their kids Isabella and Joshua and our niece Julianna.

Philip and Lorelei

The Orlando Temple

The kids waiting outside of the temple. The girls were flower girls. They are so cute!

Andrew, Max, Julianna, Ashley, Isabella and Tommy

This is Aunt Masami and Aunt Marlene with Max and Julianna. They are so beautiful. It was great to see Erik and Masami. We haven't seen them since before Max was born. We're so glad they could some to the wedding.

Lorelei fell asleep. It was really hot and humid, but we braved the weather for the beautiful day!

The Bride and Groom.

Heidi and Jakob (Philip's little brother)

Aren't they a beautiful couple?

A close up

Philip was a Groomsmen. Philip you look fabulous in your turquoise vest.

The Scherer family at the Temple. What a really fun picture for our family to have.

Mom and Lorelei. The Orlando Temple is so elegant on the grounds and on the inside.

Max and Tommy. What cute kids.

Philip and Lorelei.

The Roberts Family. They are such good picture takers! It was so much fun to see them! They are a beautiful family.

Mom and Dad Scherer and Heidi and Jakob

The Reception

The Scherer siblings played some very lovely songs. Then the audience chanted for an encore...

So Jakob, the groom joined the trio and all four of them played! It's always really fun to watch all the kids play together.

Cutting the Cake. Heidi was a champ and smeared it all over Jakob's face.

The Bride and Groom Dance.

Marlene, Philip's sister.

A picture is worth 1,000 words. And yes, shes' really that stunning in real life.

Her beautiful daughter Ahmari.

The dance floor was exciting everyone was dancing!

Mike and Ingrid dancing with their son Andrew.

Erik and his lovely wife Masami

My kids all fell alseep. They partied too hard all day.

It was a beautiful day and the reception was a great party. It didn't end until 12:00pm. Some people just know how to party!