Frankenstein 2012

Happy Halloween everyone!  I made the mistake of asking our next door neighbor girl if she's excited for Trick-or-Treating, then went on to tell me they don't celebrate Halloween.  Ahh!  That's cool, we don't need all that candy either:)  But it's sure fun to get our girls excited about pumpkins and trunk or treats etc!

The above photo is a little gopher we caught.  After talking with a few neighbors, it seems like this guy(and possibly a family of them) have been leaving their mark on all of our yards.  They're pretty ugly.

We visited the Irvine Park pumpkin patch with some friends.  It was a lot of fun!  

Their best scary faces for Frankenstein. 

 

Pony rides.  They loved, loved these little ponies!  Lauren kept saying, 'giddy-up horsey!'

Maren kept telling me she was going to choose the biggest pumpkin she could find.  I kept saying she could get any pumpkin she could carry:)  Luckily our wallets could afford that size!

Rolling away our pumpkins.  Happy Halloween everyone.

Rain!

My blog might be boring, but my life isn't.  So if you're bored reading my blog...stop, and come on over and spend some time face to face, and we'll entertain you:)  This grasshopper chose Andy's shoulder during some yard work.  We have a few large insects around here.

Rather than make our fridge into one huge art paper project, we got this stainless steel wire set at IKEA, and love it!  The girls love to see their art displayed.  They are constantly drawing and coloring, and me?  I'm constantly switching out old ones with the new.  (Only a few times has Maren discovered the eventual fate of most of the papers:)  But we love what they draw.

Recent adventure to Knott's.  Serious faces...

Silly ones.

Maren was a little nervous of this ride, and the girl with her arm in the air wasn't helping.  Neither of us knew what she was up to:)  I'm noticing this is a funny picture all around.  The boy closest to Maren looks like he might fall out once the ride starts moving bc he so tiny!  The end girl and boy could be brother and sister, and she's like,"give me back my quarter!" Not to mention the hole in Maren's pants...Good laughs though.

I really enjoy getting to know people, of any age and type.  Leslie in our ward is a young Grammy who is retired.  She had us over yesterday for a fun morning of crafts, dolls, and snacks.  She is awesome.  She also makes American Girl doll clothes that are incredible.

Last night FHE game.  Lauren's choice.  My Little Pony board game.  What this picture doesn't show is Andy's head 1 minute earlier as he was banging it on the coffee table.  I love him for what he does for us girls!

I'm feeling pretty good as far as baby number 3 goes.   The Dr. says I'm carrying super low, and hopefully that will change as the baby grows bigger, because carrying low is not comfy by any means:)  It's a fun time of year to be a mom though, I am blessed.

Girls weekend retreat

Last weekend I flew to Utah to be with my Mom, sister, and sister-in-laws for the weekend.  Our husbands were in charge of the kiddos for the weekend, and it felt great!   Above: Mom, sister Carrie, sister-in-law Marianne.

Sister-in-law Melissa.  Cheesecake es delicioso. (funny side note: When Melissa and my brother Brad were delivering their wedding invites to neighbors, a few people wondered why Brad was delivering them with his sister(me)...it was Melissa:)  I think we look alike too:)

We got to see the Relief Society General meeting in the conference center which was incredible.  Living so far away from this special temple always puts me awe when I do get to see it.

All of us together.   It was wonderful being able to talk to eachother for long lengths of time without interruptions!  It was also super strange waking up in the mornings on my own and thinking, 'maybe I'll go back to sleep?' hehe.

Happy Halloween!