Trick or Treat

Here are the kids before we went to trick or treating. We only went down the street and back and their pumpkins were full. Alex was trying to keep up with Aaron and Aimee... he thought he was so big. Now we get to sort through the goods and see what we like. My favorite part!

WV and Halloween

Hello everybody. Here are some pictures of our recent adventures. We met up with Ken and Michelle in a tiny town somewhere in West Virginia last weekend and we had a lot of fun exploring. There are also some pictures of the aftermath of the ward Halloween party we had last night. The little monkey sure loves candy. It's too bad I'll have to confiscate it and eat it myself!

Gramma and Emma. Little buddies. They are definitely kindred spirits.

Don't they look so cute? Even Joan looks purdy. Ahh, special. We had a great visit with Joan, as always. We just love her. She's so fun to tease. It's good to have an aunt who can take it and dish it out too.

Fall Festival

Aaron and Aimee had their fall festival. They were excited... we took them. We had hot dogs and chips. Aaron and Aimee had a pony ride, and played some other little games. They had fun, but we were glad when it started to sprinkle. It gave us an excuse to go home! Here's some pictures.

It's here...

My brother's mission call came today. Greg will be serving in the Belgium Brussels mission and speak Dutch. He enters the MTC on Feb. 1st. His mission includes The Netherlands, Belgium and a little of Northern France.

He is very excited and a little nervous. He has heard that Dutch is a harder language to learn.

Anyway, thought you might like to know.

Christmas assignments

Kristen and I were talking today and trying to figure out who had who for Christmas... this is what we came up with.

Mike and Mindy have Bryan and Kirsten
Sean and Keli have Michelle and Ken
Jared and Kristen have Mike and Mindy
Bryan and Kirsten have Sean and Keli
Michelle and Ken have Jared and Kristen

Hopefully this will work for everyone. Next year we will add Spencer back into the mix.

The results are in...

and It's a GIRL!!!

Mike was right, I was wrong... but it's all good. Now we're even... 2 boys and 2 girls. Aaron will be excited, and I'm sure Aimee will be soon... but she wanted a brother (she didn't want to share her room.)

So, Andrea (Andee) is on her way, and will make her appearance near the beginning of
March. Can't wait!

TO THE "DUMPITY" PATCH WE GO...

Here are Emma and Maggie at the dumpity patch. Yes, I said dumpity. That's what Maggie calls pumpkins. I don't know why, I guess because she's so silly. Anyway, we had fun, and they each got a pumpkin. I guess we'll paint faces on them for family night on Monday. It's easier and cleaner than carving. And safer. And now I get to do a cute scrapbook page for their books. I know, I know, I've crossed over. Shame on me. I resisted as long as I could, but the peer pressure was just too much. Thanks, Min. Looking forward to Tuesday.

an update...

Hey everyone!

Just so that you know... we are having our ultrasound next Tues the 25th. We'll let you know what we find out soon after that.

I was talking to Michelle last night, and she mentioned something about Kristin having an ultrasound soon... what's up?

Things are going well here. We had a little drama here yesterday... Aaron got home from school and told me that Aimee was still on the bus. She was busy talking to a friend and didn't get off. Aaron. Alex and I walked back down to the bus stop and met up with another mom from down the street that knew Aimee didn't get off. The other mom was got in her car to go look for Aimee while I waited at the bus stop. As she was leaving the bus came back with Aimee. The bus driver was very nice, and Aimee was in tears. Aaron now has strict instructions to make sure that Aimee is off the bus and walking with him before heading home. Their instructions before were to walk home together, so I didn't think they needed more instruction than that... I guess they did. Anyway, they all got home, and I got to know one of my neighbors a little better.

Our New Furniture

See what you think. Notice the paint as well. It's been hard being without furniture for so long, but it was worth the wait. I love it!

Any fans of "Earl" out there?

This is my new favorite show. Just wondering who else loves it as much as I do? Go Earl!!

Home again, home again, jiggity jig....

Well, here I am. I had a great time in San Francisco. It's a very "cool" city. People there are very nice. For some reason, wherever we went, we were noticed. People just couldn't believe that we were family and we all got along well enough to go on vacation together. It was weird. But mostly we were just lost and needed help finding our way. We did get to see all the S.F. has to offer, including the "alternative lifestyle" that is quite prevalent there. My poor mother, she was in shock. But even though we had a good time, it's always nice to come home.

Aaron's school play

Aaron was in a school play tonight. It involved kids from 2-5th grade, so he was just in one of the groups of dancers. In kinder and first they had a play all to themselves and he had speaking parts. For some reason the school's AC was turned off at 4 pm today and wasn't turned back on until after 6 (when the PTA mtg started... the play was after the mtg. that's how they get people to come to the meetings.) Needless to say it was more than a little warm in there and noisy. Here are a few pictures that Mike took tonight.

What to plant?

What to plant? I need to take a poll. Tulips, Daffodils, Hyacinth, or Crocus? I don't want too many of each because I don't have much room. Pick 2.

Keli's new blog!

Keli's new blog!

This is so true.

I figured it out!

Now I know how to post a pic! Wow, the things you can find out by accident! I think I'll post another just for fun! This is Emma and Mags playing at Lava Hot Springs. And the other is the red slide Emma couldn't stop going down. Up the stairs, down the slide, up the stairs, down the slide.... You get it. I tried the green one....Too scary for me. It's dark the whole way down! I'll stick to the kiddie ones, thank you very much!

Picture Day!

Well, today is school picture day. Emma is quite excited, she's been practicing her smile, and she brushed her teeth especially long today. Maggie will also be participating even though she is not in school yet. She'll be wearing a cute new outfit she got for her birthday party from Nunn last night. Yep, that's right, birthday party. She's almost 2! We had to celebrate early because I, being the great mother that I am, will be gone vacationing in San Francisco over her actual birthday. I'll be gone with the girls, no kids. Mom, Meg, Jill, Kelli, and I will be gone from the 6th to the 10th. Yeah!!! Although one thing I am not looking forward to is I have to work all night Wednesday from 7PM to 7Am on Thursday, and catch the plane at 8:30 AM on Thursday. Should be fun! Hopefully I can get out of work a little early so I won't miss the flight. But, as life goes, we'll see what happens.