Happy Halloween!

We began our Halloween celebrating last Saturday. The Frisbys (awesome family) invited us to a party. It was so much fun. Thank you for letting us tag along. Their costumes were really good. I loved them all! Their boys, so ADORABLE! I loved watching Peter and Brianna play together and watching Johnathan walking. Ben had the camera the entire night, so no pictures. Well, he did take this one of Mikayla in the host's bouncy chair. She loved their chair. So cute to see. I also saw her clap for the first time in it!

Then later in the week we decided to carve a pumkin with the girls. We have such good helpers! It could have taken us hours to empty the pumkin of the seeds, but they both dug in and got the job done in no time! The tablecloth is covered in jack'o'laterns so Ben let Brianna pick the facial features off of the tablecloth for our pumkin. She was so proud of it.




And tonight we went trick'or'treating! Brianna loved it! We let her go with aunt Emalee. It was so much fun. I may not think so in a few years, but it was tonight! If you can't tell Brianna was a mermaid (I sewed the entire costume) and Mikayla was a kitty (I made the ears and tail two years ago). I'm pretty proud of the mermaid costume. Ben (not pictured) was a ghostbuster. I love my family and everything we get to do together!

On a different note. I was listening to radio on my way to work when they anounced that there are 60 days until Christmas. Crazy!!!

No More Nursery :(

Two Sundays ago our nursery teachers kept bringing Brianna to me. Brianna was completely inconsolable every time. I would get her calm and just to find out that another child simply took a toy she was playing with, so I'd take her back and find that no one was playing with the toy so I would leave her to play. Every few mintues this would happen. I was getting very frustrated and talked to the teachers about it. They said they were watching her and could not see a problem. Well, thankfully church ended and I just figured she needed a nap. This behavior has never happened before. However, it happened again yesterday. After a long singing time with her help, I decided to sit with her for a few minutes and during those few minutes I discovered the problem.

At home she has a doll house with little people that came with a slide, swing, and other items. She likes to set them up and play with them. She even has the little people talk. It is so cute to see and hear. Well, at nursery she tried to do the same thing with other items, like a car, couch, rug and bed thing. As she was playing with something another child would take a different item that Brianna had set out and was playing with.

Needless to say, Brianna didn't stay in nursery. I hope our new nursery goes better, but we have no idea how to handle this. We don't think the, "If you put it down, you're done playing with it," rule is going to work.

We Are Actually Moving!

Ben got a new job. Managing a storage unit facility which requires us to live on site. So we are moving all next week. We are so excited! At first I really didn't want to because I've noticed that storage units are surrounded by businesses. Not a fun place to live at. However, this place is surrounded by neighborhoods, which I like. I'm still nervous about living at a storage unit place, but we'll be in our own place. So it'll be worth it, right? I hope so.

work contest

well, Intel is doing annother desk decorating contest at work for a paid day off and this is what I did. Most co-workers told me I had there vote, but then I tured in my 2 weeks notice and my last day is the day we vote, so Im pretty sure I wont win.

WE'RE MOVING!!!

Eight Months (tomorrow)

It still amazes us how different they look.

Good News Day!

My exercise plan is working! To the right I'm wearing pants that I haven't been able to wear since before I got pregnant with Brianna (3 years ago). You can't see this, but I could even do up the fly! And now the unveiling of my exercie plan which includes no dieting.

All our things are downstairs and we usually spend the day upstairs. So I decided that I would run downstairs to get anything I needed. Like clothes to get the girls dressed or diapers or toys. So I literally go down and up the stairs twenty to thirty times a day, but it's working and I'm excited.

Alleviating My Boredom

Brianna was such a good sport with this. I don't typically do her hair, except for brushing it. However, yesterday I was bored. One would think I would have finished Brianna's costume for Halloween in 15 days and a party we've been invited to in just 9 days, but no. I played with her hair and came up with this cute hair do. The best part is, I didn't even have to bribe her to let me do it. She was excited to get her hair done. Since she'll let me do her hair now I might start doing it more often. This hair do would probably be cuter with more hair and longer hair, but hey I can only work with what she has. The blue flowers in front are there because Brianna needed them all in her hair. If anyone wants me to do their hair or their girls' hair like this, I'm there.

I even did Mikayla's hair into a ponytail. So adorable!

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Tah Dah!!!

How darling is that!?!

Tagged

I'd give the rules, but this tag will probably end with me. I don't know seven people, but I'd like to hear Michelle's answers.

1. Where is your cell phone? PIANO
2. Where is your significant other? GONE
3. Your hair? UP
4. Your mother? UPSTAIRS
5. Your father? ANNOYING
6. Your favorite thing? FAMILY
7. Your dream last night? DISTURBING
8. Your dream/goal? HOUSE
9. The room you're in? SPARE
10. Your hobby? LOTS
11. Your fear? FAILURE
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? ESTABLISHED
13. Where were you last night? BEDROOM
14. What you're not? DISCOURAGED
15. One of your wish-list items? COAT
16. Where you grew up? KEARNS
17. The last thing you did? ROCKED
18. What are you wearing? SPARKLES
19. Your TV? OFF
20. Your pet? FISH
21. Your computer? HERE
22. Your mood? RELAXED
23. Missing someone? YES
24. Your car? FIXED
25. Something you're not wearing? SKIRT
26. Favorite store? MANY
27. Your summer? SHORT
28. Love someone? MADLY
29. Your favorite color? RED
30. When is the last time you laughed? NOON
31. Last time you cried? OFTEN

Festive Dinners

Ben didn't even tell you the best part of the shepards pie mentioned below. Every once in a great while, I can come up with something really out of the ordinary to surprise Ben with and this dish was it. However, you can change it to celebrate every month of the year! How awesome is that?

November-turkeys (green beans as the feathers sticking up in back)
December- ornaments
January- snowmen
February- hearts (of course)
March- green potatoes
April- eggs
May- tulips
June- put the potatoes on like normal (talk about a surprise, they won't even see it coming)
July- fireworks (most likely will look like stars or snowflakes)
August- two wedding bands for our anniversary! (don't want you to forget it)
September- pencils
October- ghosts

Amazing! The possibilities are endless. If any of you do this for your families I want to hear how it went. Ben and I thought the ghosts were a lot of fun and Brianna thought it was great to get to eat a ghost. She loved it too!

My Amazing Wife!!

Tami is so talented and she dosn't even know it. I got her a sewing machine about 4 months back with some cash from a comission and she has sewn some great things... She started with a dress that has hidden zippers for ease of nursing because she wasn't able to find a modest dress to nurse in for church.....Well any way... She has been working on a halloween costume for Brianna. I'm not going to say what it is yet to see what people think it is as they see the progression. Here it is from earlier today (on its side)
She came up with the pattern by herself and has done an amazing job so far!

She also made me my favorite meal.. a "spook tacular" shephards pie!!

She does stuff like this for me on a regular basis. I'm so lucky!

I love you so much Tami, and I am greatful for all the little things you do to spice up my life!