Monday, October 31, 2011

Halloween Greetings

This year we received Halloween well wishes from

The pumpkin patch!

The North Pole!

The Italian Renaissance












The neighborhood black cat

and Mideval Times.

Everyone had lots of fun and way too much candy, we just wish we could have trick or treated to all of your doors!

PS Sorry that formatted so weird...not sure what I did, but it's 11 and I have been up since 5 writing a grant for the kids school and I am exhausted so I am not going to try and figure out how to fix it!

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Happy Halloween!!

Tonight was our ward's "Trunk-or-Treat" and Chili Cook-off. Every year we say we/I say we're going to plan out our costumes way ahead of time,...but NO!, night before or even night of comes around and we scramble around the house. The kids are awesome sports about most outfits that are part of the final outcome.

Nathan even sacrificed some of his precious sleeping hours this morning after the kids went to school to make an awesome chili! He has become quite the chef around here, especially in the soup and chili dept. And you must know that he cannot cook in silence,...no fail Pandora is blasting through the kitchen. Actually the whole house and maybe even the neighborhood can listn in to Andrea Bocelli or Josh Groban, accompanied by Nathan. Love this man! He is amazing if I do say so myself!!!

Here are a few pics as we headed out the door. Had to document their costumes since we might change things up for the next party on Saturday! :)ha





***Little side-note: Check out our amazing new vinyl siding and windows (at least part of one).....More pics to come. We have been working, working, doing all kinds of projects. Of course working together on projects has it's challenges, but in the end I am so grateful to be able to spend time and work along side my best friend. We make a pretty good team! :)

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Corn Maze





We had a fun family afternoon at the corn maze. We went a couple years ago to a different one, and I must say it was much more fun now that the kids are older. We managed to make it through the whole thing, filling in our whole worksheet, with 18 missing words and 9 rubbing images. It took just over 2 hours.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Christmas Exchange 2011

So I don't know if any of you even look at this anymore...but I thought I would post our Christmas exchange names so we are all thinking the same thing. We are at 2 younger than us, so:

Scott gives to Nathan
Shannon gives to Megan
Nathan gives to Amber
Megan gives to Cassie
Amber gives to Scott
Cassie gives to Shannon

Love you guys!
Amber