Fun Videos

Here are some cute videos of the girls!

If You're Happy & You Know It:



Just Dancing:

Videos

Two little Daddy's girls!

Mike's Magic Tricks

Mike has become a popular person with the kids in our ward since doing a few magic tricks at a primary activity several months ago. It's like he has his own little fan club now. Kids come up to him all the time asking him to make things disappear, or to squeak their hand. It's pretty funny. So I of course volunteered him to do a magic booth at the ward Halloween Carnival, and he was a big hit! Here are some pictures of him at the carnival.

Going Back a Few Years (like, 6)...

Since we're on the subject of Halloween, I found this picture on my friend Stacie's blog, from my BYU days and had to share. Man, I miss these girls!!! We dressed up as the Spice Girls that year - in case you can't tell what our costumes are - most people couldn't figure it out, and I remember we were pretty mad :)

Grandma's Visit

Here are some more pictures of our fun time with Mike's Mom last weekend.

A Week of Halloween!

We had such a great (busy) Halloween week! Elaina was a witch and Erin was a fairy.

On Monday our friends invited us to their home for a Halloween Family Home Evening. We sang songs, read stories, played games, ate & decorated yummy food, and Elaina participated in a donut eating contest. It was hilarious to watch. Was a winner declared?!? I don't even know, I just remember how funny it was to watch her attempt to eat a donut on a string, without hands!

On Wednesday our ward had its Halloween Carnival, and the youth were in charge of the booths. I was so busy that night getting everything else ready for the carnival that I forgot Erin's costume! :( That night I had to split my time between supervising Beehives and watching my own kids (because Mike was doing a magic booth -I'll post pictures later - so Elaina actually spent a lot of the night on her own, and she was great (I think, I hope!). She spent most of the night at the cake walk and I don't even want to know how much cake she ate over there! She spent so much time there because earlier in the day I had told her that there would be a costumer parade and she thought this was it. Oh, she cracks me up!

At then end we did a trunk or treat and Erin helped me hand out candy.

All week long the kids talked about Halloween at preschool and on Thursday we did trick or treating with cardboard boxes as our "houses." Then on Friday we did trick or treating at music makers, and so by Friday night the kids already had so much candy, but they still had to go trick or treating! We had 3 other families come over and eat pizza and then they all went trick or treating in our neighborhood, which was fun for them to go with their friends. And the best part is that Grandma was here to go trick or treating with them as well!

In total, the kids (well, Elaina) dressed up 5 times, and I washed her costume 3 times in one week!

A couple more

I had to add a couple more pictures of our pumpkin patch field trip because these two that my friend got are just too cute!

Elaina & Anabelle

Most of our preschool class (Joseph is missing)

Pumpkin Patch

We went to a pumpkin patch for a preschool field trip last week. Well, it wasn't really a pumpkin patch because we've discovered (after a lot of searching for a great pumpkin patch) that pumpkins probably just don't grow very well in Texas. So it was more like a pumpkin-themed park. Regardless, it was a lot of fun. There was a petting zoo, a park, an old fashioned jail, and at the end the kids got to go on "The Great Pumpkin Hunt" and search for their mini pumkins.

I realized recently that I have a lot more pictures of Elaina than Erin. Since Elaina was more interested in being with her friends than hanging out with Mom, it was a fun photo shoot for Erin this time! :)

At the end of the day I dragged the kids to a nearby mall that I like and they got to ride the merry go round.