Halloween 2009

Halloween morning we had some of our good friends over to decorate sugar cookies. It was pretty fun to watch all the kids decorate. We had all sorts of candy and sprinkles. Some of the cookies you couldn't even see the frosting on them when they were done. We also made caramel corn and had hot apple cider.

These pictures are right before Trick or Treating.

Ella the turtle

Ethan was Darth Vader

Emma was . . . . ????

Pumpkin Patch 2009

This picture is funny because I got them all blinking.

Each year we have the rule that you have to pick a pumpkin that you can carry by yourself. For some reason we never seem to stick to that rule. Emma's pumpkin ~35lbs, Nathan wasn't very happy about carrying it.

When Ella is quiet, she is up to no good!

Emma left her door open and Ella found the bunny stamps . . .

I love to see the temple . . . .

Since the kids had this last Thursday and Friday off of school I thought it would be a great time to take our last trip down to Utah for the year and visit the great grandparents plus I really wanted to take the kids and go to Temple Square. I invited my mom to come along, it was nice being able to get to hang out with her and get some alone time. Ever since we went through the temple in July, Ella is always talking about going back so I thought she would enjoy seeing a BIG temple. It was perfect weather, not too hot and not too cold. We got really lucky. Considering it was the Friday before Conference it was not very busy, The only thing that could have made it perfect is if Nathan would have been able to go with us.