More Halloween Pics of the girls

Triaminic Grape Flavored Night Time Cough Meltaway Strips

They work fast!!!

China Doll

So Tori is on a new "Chart System" where she puts up stickers for chores and "tick marks" for doing naughty things or disobeying. So she earned a baby doll. She wanted Amazing McKayla, but I didn't realize that a baby doll could cost $80.00!!! So sweet Victoria told me she could get a different doll because she didn't want to make me buy her something expensive. I about melted! So we found a GREAT doll that Tori says is "even better" than Amazing McKayla. This doll was a $7.88 special at Walmart with all the accessories that she has somehow managed to keep in a ziploc bag and not lose! It's a doctor one where she has measles and they disappear if you rub them. Anyway, so Tori is learning to read and she saw some letters on the doll. She started reading it and she comes to me and says, "Mommy, what does that say?" I helped her read it and said, "China." I kinda snickered. She said, "What does that mean?" I said, "Your baby is from China." And snickered again. She said, "WOW! All the way from China!" So today she went to play outside with a friend of hers that is our neighbor and she said, "Guess what?! My baby is from China!" I just thought it was so cute, its so AUTHENTIC! eheheh.

Halloween Pictures

Okay, so Tori took the picture of me, its not that great, and Tori was barbie for Halloween, pretty crazy. I was a disco chic. Abbie was Dora but she was asleep at the time of these pictures, I'll upload more later when I get them from our friends. :) Thanks!

Pumpkin Carving 2007

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Okay, so we did our little annual pumpkin carving last night and had a BLAST! I'm going to include a little slideshow because there are so many fun pictures, and my husband is SO talented with pumpkin carving, but I had to write a note real quick. Tori wanted to do a pumpkin carriage for her barbie, so her Uncle Mark helped her carve it. He made her take out the guts. Because we needed it long instead of tall, he cut a hole on the side and on the top so he could move the stem. As Tori took out the guts, he kept putting them back in through the other hole (you can see him in the slideshow). It took her about five minutes of taking out the same handful before she realized what he was doing, and we got pictures of all the fun "ewww" pictures! So fun! Mark's friend did a Transformer Pumpkin, Brad did Napolean Dynamite, I did the Candy Corn Pumpkin (it's falling apart now, but it looked great last night!), and Mark and Tori did the Carriage Pumpkin with a door that opens!.

Angel

Something to Blog About

So here is a little questionaire for all of you to blog about since we haven't been doing well at writing in our blogs as much, this is an easy one for you all to fill out, just copy and paste and see if we can learn a little something more about each other.

When did you meet your husband? (Day? Month? Year? Event?) First Impression?
I met him at a Stake Dance, I had heard about him previously, he was a player, but he was pretty cute, and very suave. :) I think I was just barely 15, so that would be 1996. Don't remember what month. I could look in my journal, I know I have some entries in there.

When did you have your first kiss with your husband?
At the airport the day he came home from his mission, March 6th, 2001. We went back to the airport after he got released to pick up a friend of mine. His words before we kissed: "Are you ready?" I just laughed. I slipped him the tongue :)

Do you have a favorite/special song with your husband?
"I can love you like that" from John Michael Montgomery

Do your kids have special songs?
Abbie loves Twinkle Little Star, and they both love Lullaby (Lullaby and goodnight, in the sky stars are bright....) and Dublin's Fair City Mommy Style.

Would you rather talk on the phone or chat in person?
I'd rather email to be honest.

If you had one whole day to yourself, what would you do?
Get my hair done, go shopping, and read a book maybe.

Can you watch scary movies alone?
I'm not one for scary movies at all.

Is anything bothering you?
Finances a little.

Would you rather stay home all day, or be out and about?
I'd say stay at home so I didn't have to get ready and I could stay in my sweats but I'm much happier when I'm out and about.

Are you more likely to be with a large group of people or a few close friends?
~ small group

What are your plans for October?
~ Halloween stuff. Ward Activity, Trunk or Treating, Trick or Treating, Candy Candy Candy... my favorite month!

Cutest moment this week?
~ I'd definitely have to say last FHE, I'll fill you in on tomorrow's adventure :)

What are you doing this weekend?
~ Ward Activity, Birthday Party for a friend, and relaxing.

What is one fear that you can't seem to overcome?
~ Moths? Definitely hate moths.

Are you in a good mood?
~ yep!

What is your favorite thing to wear?
~ My Aeropostale Sweatsuit, anything comfy and warm.

You have 3 months left to live, what do you do?
~ Go on a lot of vacations, make movies and recordings for my family, make a will :) Prepare my family for my departure, and enjoy every day.

You're having a bad day, what's one thing that can make your day better?
~ My husband telling me its okay to have a bad day and giving me a hug and cleaning my house for me :)

If there was a way to know when and how you're going to die, would you like to find out?
~ I think I would, it'd be nice to prepare.

What is your favorite breakfast?
~ crepes or Kneader's Cinnamon French Toast... YUMMY!

Your phone rings at 4am, who do you expect it to be?
~ Andi, saying that its snowing.

What's your worst habit?
~ Being messy.

Family Home Evening

Alright, so Brad and I haven't been that good about Family Home Evening so last Monday we decided to start again with the kids and make sure we do it every week. We started off with our expectations and a short description of what FHE should be like, etc. So Brad read some scripture about having Order and such, and then we introduced job charts and rewards and stuff like that. Okay, so half way through the girls are wired and running in circles around and around and it was just crazy. Mark shows up with his girlfriend at the tail-end of FHE, just in time to see the funniest thing. So Tori just got a "tick-mark" (I'll explain in a second) for hitting the cat and she gets up and says to Abbie, "Hey, that's mine!" and pulls her barbie out of Abbie's hands. I don't think she realizes yet that Abbie is stronger than her, and they start a tug of war with poor Barbie. So they are fighting and poor barbies head pops off and sends both of them flying back with one piece of Barbie with them. Abbie seemed pretty satisfied with the result but Tori was mortified! All four of us adults were dying laughing, it was so funny!

Okay, so we have stickers for the kids to earn, but if they do naughty things they get tick-marks, and 5 tick-marks make 1 BLACK MARK! If they get three black marks in a week, they don't get their reward. It's a good idea and all, but Abbie could care less :) And there are so many stickers and such that I've really only done one day this week all the way, and Abbie ended up with a Black mark. So next week we'll re-evaluate and see how we can actually keep up with chart :) It's a good idea, it just takes a lot of convincing for me :)


I think that Tori got this dress from Nona's inventory, so forgive me for having see-through pajamas on her doll.