Lindseyisms

Lindsey wanted to wear Preston's helmet and she left it on for a long time. I took it off and she wanted it back on! And she's getting into her favorite thing...markers! I should move them up higher, but I usually just put the gate up so she can't get into the office.

Lindsey likes playing with Elmo and I thought it was cute she was hugging it.

She's pushing the buttons to make it do and say things.

Oh, all done! Bye bye Elmo!

She's 15 mo's old and saying a few words now like "ha" for hi, "uh oh" and she likes to drop stuff so she can say that- fun game, she asks for "more" and "milk" using sign language. She folds her arms and jabbers like she's saying a prayer and she likes to dance. Put some music on and she's dancin'. She climbs onto chairs and the table. She was scooting the stool over to where I was making some cookies and I thought "aren't you too young to be doing that now?!" Yikes! She's finally getting her 1 yr molars in on the top. She loves books and will bring a book to us constantly for us to read it, but when she's done with sitting there she'll take it out of your hands and walk away. And she's gotten squealing down pretty good when she wants something. :) We love having her in our family. She's so fun to watch and her smile is contagious.

After Party and First Assembly

My Mom came over after Halloween and did a Halloween party for Kate and we invited some of the neighbors over. We played bean bag monster man, stick the wart on the witch's nose, Frankenstein walk and eyeball toss.

My Mom made orange play-do for the kids and made it look like little pumpkins. Cute. Thanks Mom for coming over!

Kate sang "The Grand Ole Flag" at school in their Veteran's Day assembly. She is in the middle of the (dark, horrible) picture holding the white paper. I didn't know that song and with Kate singing it over and over I know (most of it) now.

Kate was shy and didn't want me to take her picture. She was never shy before so this must be a new phase. :) They honored the people that were serving or have served that were in the audience and it was a good assembly. Makes me proud to be an American!

Out of the Mouth of Kids

The other day Kate told us we need a bigger house. One with 5 bedrooms so she doesn't have to share a bedroom with Lindsey. (I wish!) Well, last night I was telling her that we will move someday to a bigger house and she got all sad and started crying and said she likes this house and she doesn't want to move. Can't win! :)

Yesterday, we were driving through a school zone and Preston told me to go faster. I told him we couldn't because we were driving by a school and there might be kids walking. He said, "it's so annoying!" he kept saying it over and over. haha. He also tells us now that we are mean and we are rude if we make him do something he doesn't want to do. It makes us laugh. His vocabulary is growing so we think it's funny when he says these things.

Zoo and Pumpkin Farm, Oh my!

Saturday was our "cram everything into one day" day. Our zoo membership expires on Monday and I'm not renewing it right now so I wanted to go there before it ended. Then, this is our last weekend to go to a pumpkin farm and have some fun. The kids really wanted to do both so we did! We went to the zoo in the morning, then home for naps and then the pumpkin farm in the afternoon. It was actually a pretty nice day, the kids were good and we had fun.

Everything so thrilled waiting for the giraffes to cross the pathway. Can you tell Kyle was the most excited?! ha!

Kate had to climb this and get a picture. Funny thing is is that I didn't take any pictures of the animals this time. oh well. We did watch a elephant get a bath. The worker sprayed him down while the elephant layed down, put up his feet and turned around. It was pretty cool to watch.

Our next place...The Farm in Snohomish. We were going to try our a new pumpkin patch, but decided to stick with what we know and we knew the kids liked it. We are SO glad we did. It only cost $10 for all of us to do everything we wanted to do! Last year when we came we had a free voucher for our family so we didn't have to pay. So I was expecting to pay a little more based on what the website said, but the children's playground fee included everything. Sweet! We even got to watch a pig performance (their rendition of the 3 little pigs, but with a pig for the big bad wolf) and a duck race. They have tube slides, sand pit, a hay jump place, animals, yummy food- we got kettle corn and a free caramel apple (I went to buy one at the end and they had already taken their tills away so they just gave it to me for free!!! It was so good!)

They have this 2 story hay maze in an old barn and then they come down a slide at the end.

Weeee!

Horse swings

Corn pit- actually felt good to walk on. Some guy lost his cell phone in it while we were there. (P.S. I cut Kyle's hair for the first time today during nap time! Big ordeal when he was lucky enough to have Melanie the awesome hair dresser as a sister. He said "it's probably just as good as Great Clips so thanks." He goes to Great Clips when he doesn't see Melanie. haha!)

This was perfect because it kept her in one place- it was hard for her to move around. haha!

Corn Angel

Cow Train- Lindsey rode with Kate and the kids liked it. They went for 2 rides. My Dad and brothers need to rig something up like this for Boulder Resort!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Our Ward Halloween Carnival and Trunk-or-treat was on Friday night. We ate chili and corn bread, played games (fishing game, duck pond, pumpkin ring toss, pumpkin bowling, cupcake walk, face painting, bean bag toss and one where you stick your hand up a big monster nostril and go through gooey nose hair to get a treat) then had a trunk-or-treat and it wasn't raining! I invited Darbi to come with us and since Mat was working late she decided to come with the kids (they are our neighbors and good friends). Kate was super excited that they came. Kyle had to go early to set up the fishing pond (elder's quorum was in charge of that- each auxillary did a game) so I met him there. I had made chili and corn bread for the potluck (I made both since I invited someone and didn't make them bring anything. I wanted to make sure there was enough food) and then I made halloween cupcakes for the cupcake walk because Young Women's was in charge of that. Along with making all of that, Preston had a well child doctor appointment in the morning and I had to run some errands so it was a busy day.

Kate the ballerina

Preston as Thomas the Tank Engine (he didn't want to wear the hat, but wore it the whole night!)

Lindsey the ladybug

Our friends that came with us. L-R: Dallas (cowgirl), Kate, Logan (runner), Asher (rhinoceros), Preston and Lindsey in front.

Mummy and Monster cupcakes. I found both ideas online. The green frosting got soft over time so next time I would make the frosting thicker so those peaks stay and not "melt". But these were both fast to make.

I saw these owl cupcakes on Pinterest a while ago and loved them. So I was excited to have an excuse to make them. Well...little did I know that pulling apart oreos would be hard to do! I broke them or pulled off half of the white cream trying to separate them. In the picture off pinterest they are perfectly white, but yeah right. It's hard to get them apart without some brown still on the white part. I ended up taking a small paring knife and cutting them apart. That worked the best. The nose and eyes are reeses pieces. Pretty simple once I figured out how to separate oreos!

Our trunk for the trunk-or-treat. :)

Afterwards, Preston said "that was a fun night. I had fun." He kept going back to trunk-or-treat more. haha. Kate was having fun trading candy with friends and overall it really was a fun night. Now we have lots of yummy candy and we get to go trick-or-treating more on Halloween night! Woohoo!

Pumpkins

We are set for Halloween...are pumpkins are carved. Kate loved doing it, Preston hated the feel of the innards and told me "that's not nice" when I made him reach his hand in to feel it (hee hee), Lindsey climbed up on a chair to watch and we even found her sucking on a pumpkin seed. The kids picked out what shapes they wanted for their faces, it was easy and they were happy. Now let's hope it doesn't rain too hard on Halloween. :)