Brushing teeth

These two love it and it's so funny to watch them do it.
Ethan does a pretty good job brushing but Emma mostly sucks and bites the toothbrush.

Hopefully we'll have cavity free check ups for a while!

Ethan (hearts) Halloween

The biggest fan of Halloween in our family is Ethan!

I just had to have a party for him this year and he helped in the preparations.

We made Halloweeny decorations out of milk jugs (I got the idea from Family Fun).

Here is Ethan painting the ghost.

He did a great job, even if he got paint all over the table and him. It all came out pretty easy and it was fun.

Here are the finished products!
Mike got into the decorating thing too and put up a spider web with a spider he made.

It was a lot of fun!! We started out by making bats out of balloons then worked together in teams to put a skeleton together (more Family Fun ideas).

Then we had the kids feel all kinds of monster guts and body parts. This is where they had to enter!!!

And then through the tubes, just to make it even spookier

All the kids waiting to feel all those body parts

guts=oily spaghetti

eyeballs=peeled grapes

ears=dried apples

brains=cooked oatmeal

fingers=hotdogs

Thank you Gavin for giving all the other kids the courage to touch all those nasty body parts!

For treats, the kids decorated cookies and looked at more than drank putrid punch (another Family Fun idea). Yeah it looked gross but it's pretty yummy!

One half of the table decorating cookies and having fun!

The other half of the table.

I just may have to make this a yearly thing for my kids...Emma jumped right up in there and wanted to participate with all the kids too!

Field Trip

Ethan had his first field trip this week to Vineyard Pumpkin Patch! I was lucky enough to go but because I don't have a bigger car, we only got to take one of Ethan's classmates with us. It worked out great because we got to take his best buddy at school, Max!

They were excited to go

and so was she
Funny picture of my boy climbing over stuff and having lots of fun with his class.

Making goofy faces in the castle of mirrors

Had to get one of him with his head poking out of the pumpkin

Most of his class, I zoomed in to just get him

We had a great time! It was fun to see Ethan interacting with all his friends from school and see Emma wanting so much to be a part of the class too.

I just wanted to brag

I was at our un-official Super Saturday for our ward Saturday and had 2 people 10 minutes apart tell me how pretty my ring is. I had to agree!

(the best shot of I have of it)

My budding little artists

When Ethan wanted to color, Emma grabbed a pencil and started coloring on his paper. I quickly got her her own.
She even climbed on the table, I didn't care, I should have, but I didn't.

When she saw the camera she shot me her cheeser!

I can't believe how much she is turning into a little girl and no longer my baby.
And Ethan, I can't believe how big he's getting either. Preschool, field trips, and parties every week!

Out with the old and in with the new...

...and I'm still not sure how I feel about it!

When we got married we got my grandparents' Lott old couch. I had wanted that counch since high school. It wasn't quite my style but it was big (8 feet long!) and comfy and free! It served us very well until just a few months ago. Nothing wrong with it, just when Mike and I would lounge to watch the dvr at night we both couldn't be as comfy as I would have liked. So when my grandpa Callister died and my parents were gracious to share their inheritance we decided to buy a bigger couch. It came today and it was a chore to get it. To get the old one in we took a window out (cracking it in the process) and then took the window out again (crack free!) to get the couch out last night. The movers and Mike figured out how to get the new couch in but I'm sure they cursed us when they left.

The old couch

The new couch
(it wouldn't all fit in the picture but you get the idea!)
I can't wait to watch some American Pickers while lounging tonight!!

Meet X

This is Ethan's newest prize! X the lizard!
Ethan invited a shy boy at preschool to come play with him so he got a special prize for being such a great friend!
Just another one of the great things I love about my boy!
Pat on the back for me and Mike-we're doing something right!