Trick-or-Treat

~Happy Halloween~

Well you had to know that pictures were coming. Spencer had a little pizza party at school and he said he had fun. Then later tonight Spencer and Jamison (with the help of dad) went to a few houses collecting candy. The neighborhood is still very new and so the houses are pretty far apart. They went down one street, but they sure seemed to enjoy the load of treats.

Bragging

I'm just going to take a moment and brag about what a very neat sister I have. Ashley called on Saturday on said that they were in the area and I made her stop by to say hi. While she was here we got this idea to run to Michael's to buy some frames. While there she convinced me that she could make me a fall wreath in no time at all. So we bought all the stuff and less than 2 hours hours later this is the finished product. Isn't beautiful? She did a great job, thanks Ash!!

Time Out

On Saturday I had the opportunity to go to Time Out for Women (with my grandmother, mother, and friends Kris and Shannon). This is a day Deseret Book has put together for women to gather together to listen to speakers and be inspired to be better women, wives and mothers. I have been to this event now three times and every time I leave with a strong desire to change something in life to help me better. One thing that really impressed me that was said, was by Dean Hughes. He said that all to often we measure ourselves by the worlds standards as to what we should be and what we should do with our lives. But if we are true followers of Christ we would only focus on measuring ourselves on the Lord's standards. We need to be concerned on what He thinks than what the people around us think. He also said that the Lord is going to measure us on the Beatitudes. Then I went to church today and a sister in our ward gave a talk about the Beatitudes. It is so true, the beatitudes are the formula of how we should measure ourselves and how we should live. Look them up and read over them again and constantly think about those things that the Lord said about how we should live.

Also for fun I had to get my friends to get their picture taken with Kenneth Cope. I had never heard much of anything he had done until this day. For Easter this year our ward choir sang Alleluia, that he had written. However my friends Kris and Shannon knew his music very well and own several of his CDs. So before the event started Kenneth Cope was walking around greeting people and getting his picture taken with them. I kept teasing my friends that they needed to get their picture with him, but they wouldn't. So when he walked down our row and said hi to them I found the moment to be a golden opportunity. However they made me stand in it too. He sang a couple of times and by the end I was converted to Kenneth Cope and bought a CD before leaving. (Which I later had him autograph!:))

I really love getting the chance to be rejuvened and up lifted by these speakers. I had a wonderful day.

Pumpkin Patch 2007

Last year I decided that we as a family were going to make a tradition of going to the pumpkin patch in October. Well, although I am sad that we could not go back to the one we attended last year, we again had a very fun experience this year. Jamey took the day off from work and went with us along with my sister Ashley and her family and my dad. We had a good time riding the barrel cars, running through the hay maze, looking at the goats, chickens and ducks, and going on a tractor ride to feed the cows, and buffalo and pick out a pumpkin right out of the patch. After we came back from the tractor ride we went into the corn maze, just to walk around for a bit. My sister did tease me, because I said that I wanted to just walk around for a bit, and she asked, Are you crazy? You don't just walk around. She was concerned that we would be in the maze for hours. We didn't make it to any specific destination, but we worked together and made it back out quickly.

I wasn't sure what Jamison would think about the barrel cars, but we quickly decided that if he could he would have done that the whole day. Every time the cars would pass us, Jamison would chase after them and then cry for a while becasue he couldn't get back on. Spencer loved touching the cows horns and their fur. What a surprise to me, I htought he'd be scared of them, but he wasn't. I know that as the kids keep getting bigger, it will be more and more fun. Dealing with the elements of weather (cool in the mid morning and warm in the afternoon) and nap schedules make it hard on the little ones, but over all they loved the day.

The NEW Nerd Test

Erica wanted me to take this test to get to know me better I guess. I thought she knew me already, but aparently not. So here is my new nerd test score. I'm looking forward to seeing all of your test scores so I'll know what I'm up against.

Take care!

Weekend Get-A-Way

Thanks to our awesome friends the Briggs- we left our kids for the weekend and enjoyed 3 beautiful days in Seattle, Washington. We could not have asked for the weather to be any better. It was sunny and in the 60's the whole time. Then after our plane landed, we were welcomed to Denver with very cold rain and weather in the 40's. While in Seattle, we went to the Pike Street Farmer's Market, ate at the top of the Space Needle, went to a session at the Seattle Washington Temple, visited Seattle's underground, and took a ferry ride to Bainbridge Island. We had a wonderful time seeing the great sites, and enjoying a few days with no kids. We left the day after Jamey's birthday so we celebrated it with a really neat dinner at the top of the Space Needle. The room, very slowly, turns all the way around while eating so you get the chance to see all of Seattle. We planned it just right so that we saw the city during the day, but also seeing the sunset, and the lights in the city at night. It was the neatest experience. We really enjoyed our quick little get-a-way just the two of us.

What is this?

While I was on the phone with my sister this morning, Spencer came down stairs looking like this. I asked- what is that? Lotion he replied, nonchalantly. Not just any lotion though, the very thick cream, Eucerin. He said that he put it on so that nothing would stick to his hands. Well he would probably be right with as much as he used. What about the reasoning behind loading it on his face? In the mist of being upset at him for getting into the cream, I was laughing at how ridicules he looked and had to take some pictures and share.

Spencer's Field Trip

On Thursday I had the opportunity to go with Spencer on his class field trip. It was my first and I needed to capture every minute of it. It was fun. The morning started off with Spencer riding on his very first school bus. He and his friends thought that was pretty cool. When we got to the farm we started that adventure by riding on a wagon with hay bales, pulled by a tractor. The tractor stopped at all the different crops, and we were able to get out and pick as many of the fresh vegetables that we wanted. The farm supplied all the plastic bags that you could ever need or want. We went to town filling our bags. We got corn, red potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, onions, cabbage, and some very cute little pumpkins. This farm that we went to really tries to attract people to it, so it has other very fun things to do too, like jumping castles, go carts, and several tractors and cars to look at and get your picture taken by. Many of the children quickly got bored with picking vegetables and kept asking when it was time to go play. Unfortunately for them, the field trip was not about playing so there was not time for playing. Last year my sister and her family, and my parents and our family all went to a really fun pumpkin patch. This reminded me a bit of that. I can't wait to go again this year. We have decided to try to make it a yearly event. Fall is most certainly my favorite time of year.

Friends in the picture: Allie, Jenna, Jamie, Spencer and Chandler

The Nerd Test

OK, so some friends of ours told us about the "Nerd Test". Well when I heard about it I KNEW Jamey needed to take the test. Boy was I right. He scored higher on it than one of our other friends, whose score I thought was ridiculously high. However Jamey being the bigger nerd scored even higher. My score was low, but the answer said that I am not a nerd, but not hip either. Well I could have told you that without even taking a test. I knew Jamey would score high, he has a wealth of information. His latest past time, since getting the satellite TV, entails watching the Discovery Channel, the History Channel and working on his laptop. Isn't it oblivious why he scored so high? Take it and see what your score is, then make sure to post it.