Halloween 2008

Oh, Halloween-one of the best days of the year. We started out by going swimming in the Dennet's new pool. Yep, it was warm enough to swim. MJ made sure Tigger and Pooh were buckled up for safety.

Then we went to trick-or-treat at Mark's work.

Uncle Clark and Uncle Carlos went too. They were a lot of help.

My Dad was an even bigger help and washed the car and gassed it up for us while we were visiting Mark.

We did go Trick-or-Treating. Jens favorite house was the one that just left the candy bowl out. She went to that house twice. MJ thought everything about it was fantastic. She loved handing out the candy just as much as getting it. (They didn't get any soup though :))

Check this out

Have you ever thought, we can do this project, it wont take too long. And then forever later it still isn't done? Last week we had our carpets cleaned. While the furniture was all moved Mark and I thought it would be a good idea to paint our room. Our room isn't that big, and we have painted every other room in our house. Only problem, we knew we couldn't do it with the kids around. So after they went to bed on Friday night (10/24) we started to paint. At about 4am we called it quits. We have worked on it just about every night since. We still have some touch ups to do but here are the before and after pictures:

I almost forgot to take the before picture

I love it!!

Halloween is my FAVORITE

Ok, lets be honest. Does it get any better than an abundance of candy and dressing how ever you want? Oh no. Halloween is by far the best holiday. We went to a fall festival (and the camera fell out of my pocket in the car, so this is the only picture I got), and this is MJ showing off her Hello Kitty painted arm and balloon sword. The picture I wish I would have gotten was MJ finishing the obstacle course, or Jens in pure delight blowing on her "loot" as MJ would say (I think the rest of us say flute).

After the fall festival we went to a Halloween Party. They had a bunch of different themed rooms with things to do. It was well decorated- they had spooky decorations, and they had a bunch of things to do.

pumpkin patch

We went to a pumpkin patch with some friends. It was super fun. MJ loved everything about it, but mostly she loved the slide.
Jens like the animals. She kept signing dog though. That was about the only thing she liked. Oh, except when we went home :)
PS- it was HOT?!! So much for fall weather.

And that's all I have to say about that

Thanks for the buttons Mom.

My pumpkin

Today MJ wanted to wear her Halloween shirt. Only one problem-- it is too small. We went round and round about changing. She is soo stubborn- and I have no idea where she gets that from :). You can see who won this battle.

Harry Reid

We went to listen to Harry Reid today. What I heard was interesting, but I didn't hear too much. MJ was more interested in crawling on the library floor. I know, gross. And, all MJ wanted to see was my cousin Tessa. Jens slept almost the entire time. I dunno, I think this could be a cover pix for a magazine.

Cans

I would love to say that I have instilled a great sense of environmental responsibility in MJ by teaching her to recycle. But the real story is she loves to take the cans out to the recycle at my parents house. I think it is a game she plays with herself, how many can she possibly hold.

Fall time

We thought it would be fun to go to a pumpkin patch to get a pumpkin. We must have missed the memo that said you should go a week earlier. Pickings were slim, but it was still fun.

DC Day 6

I was truly bummed we were not able to spend more time in WV. We got up early (5:30 am-- thanks Jens) and got on the road. This picture is taken outside the awesome resort that Mandy and Matt put us up at. The fog is from the lake.

Google suggested we take highway 50 back to DC. Had I looked at a better map I probably wouldn't gone that way, but I am so glad we did. It was phenomenal. The colors were so vibrant it seemed fake. I was so freakn tired, but didn't want to sleep because it was way too beautiful. Sam got most of the pictures, so I will have to snag some from him, even though I don't think they do it justice.

My favorite lunch was this day because we met up with our Uncle Mark in Winchester VA. It was great to see him and Ginny- even if it was short.

We rushed to the airport. It was sad to say goodbye to Sammy. We had so much fun, and made so many unforgettable memories. Good times, good times.

I almost forgot to add that the best part of our trip home was randomly running into our favorite Utahan Mike! Made the whole trip worth it :) hahaha.