So our ward trunk or treat was this Saturday night and I decided to dress up too...as Sarah Palin. Here is my take on the governor. It turned out to be really funny and I got a lot of comments from everyone, mostly favorable. :)
I am pretty sure I’ve never typed that before...not since I started a blog anyway. Well, weeks late, but here they are. Some of you may have seen his costume on Cheryl’s blog (same-day-blogger!) already, but I am ONLY 17 days late here! :) Slacker...
Anyhow the story is this: I asked Owen what he wanted to be for Halloween this year and he said a Blue Witch. I wasn’t sure what that meant, or how to go about that costume, until one day we were watching Fantasia, and I asked him if THAT was the blue witch and he said yes. So he wanted to be a wizard! Not that he will answer to wizard, he is a BLUE WITCH. Much like me, when I’m at the hospital I won’t answer when someone calls me nurse (because I’m female). He will correct anyone who tried to call him a wizard ... crazy people ... can’t they see he’s a blue witch! This kid is a blast. I looked high and low for a blue wizard costume in size 3T. I finally found one that was purple at Old Navy and just had to get something. He, of course noticed, but it didn’t seem to bother him. He still asserts that he was a Blue Witch, but will throw in a comment about purple from time to time just to make me feel a twinge of guilt ... I can’t make them all come true ... but I think it turned out really cute and he ended up having a great time.
We went trick-or-treating with the Puzeys this year in their neighborhood, which was just perfect! Thanks Puzeys!
Friday, October 31, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Trip to Washington
So, as promised, I have a report on our trip to Washington. The day we took off has a story of it’s own, which I will share later. Our first full day in Mount Vernon, Missy and her cute kids took us to Gordon’s Pumpkin Patch. We went there last year too and I wanted to put it on our List Of Things We Must Do In Washington (it’s a long list...getting longer every time we go...). Here are a few pictures we took there. I also got a really cool print of Gordon’s Pumpkins from Missy, which I have framed (I’ll post a picture later...).
I know, I know...I have been terrible at posting lately...my apologies and I promise to do better. I have a lot of catching up to do, so let’s get started. Back to our trip to Washington last month. Again, we had a great time. One of life’s greatest pleasures is to introduce a new family member to your family and this trip we were able to do just that! No one in Washington (except my mom and dad) had met Olivia, so that made the trip even more fun. Here she is in my little sister Heather’s arms, wearing her bunny coat from Aunt Missy. We met up with my mom and some of my sisters at the co-op for lunch and then meandered around their little shop for a while. It was a lot of fun and I wish I could do lunch with them more often! I miss you guys!
Cute Karen and her daughter Jordan showed up one day at my mom’s house bearing gifts for Olivia: a new outfit with matching sweaters for Jordan and Olivia. Aren’t they so cute? I had to snap a pictures of the girls. It was so fun to have my kids play with their cousins. Olivia was held and held and held and held and she loved it and I LOVED it!
When my sister, Kristen, and I talk on the phone, she asks me if my kids have any funny new puppy tricks. While in Washington I discovered a new one: when the red-eye reduction goes off on my camera, Olivia smiles. She, at the tender age of 9 months, knows how to “say cheese!” How funny is that? I was going through all of the pictures I took in Washington and there were at least 20 pictures of her on there, so I could show everyone her little trick.
One of life’s great pleasures is having your family fawn over your children, and we had so many opportunities for that in Washington. One such opportunity was in our visit to Slesk Acres...Jamie’s house. We spent a few days at Jamie’s house last year too, and this year while we were there Jamie and Billy hosted Oktoberfest 2008. All of my family members (in Washington) came to her house and Jamie had an itinerary packed full of FUN things like: face painting, making cider with her press from apples in her yard (YUM!!!), decorating sugar cookies, building a greenhouse in her garden, visiting the Appel Dairy Farm and a pumpkin patch. It was super fun and we had a great time. Thank you Jamie and Billy! Here are a few pictures from Oktoberfest, and there are more on Jamie and Karen’s blogs...
I know, I know...I have been terrible at posting lately...my apologies and I promise to do better. I have a lot of catching up to do, so let’s get started. Back to our trip to Washington last month. Again, we had a great time. One of life’s greatest pleasures is to introduce a new family member to your family and this trip we were able to do just that! No one in Washington (except my mom and dad) had met Olivia, so that made the trip even more fun. Here she is in my little sister Heather’s arms, wearing her bunny coat from Aunt Missy. We met up with my mom and some of my sisters at the co-op for lunch and then meandered around their little shop for a while. It was a lot of fun and I wish I could do lunch with them more often! I miss you guys!
Cute Karen and her daughter Jordan showed up one day at my mom’s house bearing gifts for Olivia: a new outfit with matching sweaters for Jordan and Olivia. Aren’t they so cute? I had to snap a pictures of the girls. It was so fun to have my kids play with their cousins. Olivia was held and held and held and held and she loved it and I LOVED it!
When my sister, Kristen, and I talk on the phone, she asks me if my kids have any funny new puppy tricks. While in Washington I discovered a new one: when the red-eye reduction goes off on my camera, Olivia smiles. She, at the tender age of 9 months, knows how to “say cheese!” How funny is that? I was going through all of the pictures I took in Washington and there were at least 20 pictures of her on there, so I could show everyone her little trick.
One of life’s great pleasures is having your family fawn over your children, and we had so many opportunities for that in Washington. One such opportunity was in our visit to Slesk Acres...Jamie’s house. We spent a few days at Jamie’s house last year too, and this year while we were there Jamie and Billy hosted Oktoberfest 2008. All of my family members (in Washington) came to her house and Jamie had an itinerary packed full of FUN things like: face painting, making cider with her press from apples in her yard (YUM!!!), decorating sugar cookies, building a greenhouse in her garden, visiting the Appel Dairy Farm and a pumpkin patch. It was super fun and we had a great time. Thank you Jamie and Billy! Here are a few pictures from Oktoberfest, and there are more on Jamie and Karen’s blogs...
Sunday, October 12, 2008
8 Months
Actually more like 8.5 months...I cannot believe how quickly she is growing! She is the sweetest baby ever! She is just such a happy girl and she looked so cute on Sunday, I had to snap a few shots to share...
Bounce
Our neighbors recently bought (yes, bought!) an inflatable jumping castle. This Saturday they put it up in their front yard and by so doing, thus invited all the kids to come out and play! We happened to have a huge bag full of plastic balls to add to the fun. It was a little kid’s dream come true. Thank heaven for neighbors.
Oatmeal
Olivia has officially be started on cereal. We tried rice at first, and just like Owen, we had some GI upset with that one...so we tried oatmeal and are loving it. Owen wants to feed her, which makes a really messy job, REALLY REALLY messy, but very cute to watch. We are now getting more oatmeal in her mouth, than on her. Our girl is growing!
Monday, October 6, 2008
Happy Birthday Nate
Happy Birthday Nate
Here are just a few reasons I lvoe you:
1: words cannot express. i love that those were the first words you used to try to tell me how much you love me. i agree whole-heartedly: words cannot express…
2: you have the most wonderful heart. i feel so happy at the place i and our kids hold within it.
3: you are fun. you are young. you enjoy the here and now, which especially is endearing now that we have our little people.
4: speaking of those little people, you are an AMAZING dad. i always knew that i was giving my children [to be at the time] the greatest dad in the world, when i married you. boy was i right. you are amazing.
5: you are a SUPER husband. i cannot believe my luck [read: blessing] in that i found you and somehow captured your wonderful heart.
6: you are spiritual and strong. i can always rely on you to give me good direction and advice when i most need it.
7: you listen. to all of us and really try to understand. you are a great listener and i appreciate your always being willing to lend your ear.
8: you hold and honor the priesthood. that is such a comfort and blessing to me and to our little family.
9: you are a very hard worker. and a smart worker and i love the way you think.
10: you have amazing patience for me, for us, for others.
11: you are creative, in every way and to me it is one of your most attractive qualities.
12: you have a great laugh. you know the one i mean. the one when you are watching wipeout and are laughing so hard it hurts. i love to be listening from another room, to your bursts of laughter.
13: you funny nate!
14: you have dreams about the kind of dad you want to be. i love that you dream. i have always been particularly fond of the fact that you have looked forward to reading to our kids at night…
15: you are a perfectionist that knows when to call it quits. i admire your sense of perfection and quality and i appreciate your ability to know when something is perfect enough.
16: speaking of perfection, you love me, even though i am far from the person i would like to be for you and our kids. i feel the same about you.
17: you are comfortable. i love where we are right now with our marriage, our friendship, our relationship and our family. you are the best friend i have ever had.
18: you are good pioneer stock, with a great family. what more could a mormon girl ask for?
19: you inspire me to be better. i admire your commitment to scripture study, prayer, running, parenting, work, happiness and family and it makes me want to be better too.
20: you are thoughtful about everything, especially our family.
21: you are my partner in our little adventure. i wouldn’t know where i'd be without you. i love that we are in this together and there is no one else i would rather walk with [holding hands, of course].
22: you are kind and considerate.
23: you take such good care of our kids. i know it is not easy being at home at night with two teeny kids, but you never complain and you do such a great job of taking care of them, which does my mothering heart good.
24: you make things more fun with your humor. i appreciate that and it helps us to all see the silliness and fun in life.
25: you are methodical in the way you approach everything, even a burger. it is cute.
26: you are really kind in the way you wake me up in the morning, and in letting me sleep in, even when you are really tired too.
27: you make every day a better day just because you are mine and ours.
28: you let me take the best bite, and don’t complain much [sorry].
29: speaking of bites, you are willing to share, and you are really good at it. i love that we share.
30: you are a sucker for your kids, just like me. and they will use this against us at some time or another, but we are just plain suckers for our kids.
31: you are the absolute best and i love you. all 31 years of you!
happy birthday hon.
love, alli.
Here are just a few reasons I lvoe you:
1: words cannot express. i love that those were the first words you used to try to tell me how much you love me. i agree whole-heartedly: words cannot express…
2: you have the most wonderful heart. i feel so happy at the place i and our kids hold within it.
3: you are fun. you are young. you enjoy the here and now, which especially is endearing now that we have our little people.
4: speaking of those little people, you are an AMAZING dad. i always knew that i was giving my children [to be at the time] the greatest dad in the world, when i married you. boy was i right. you are amazing.
5: you are a SUPER husband. i cannot believe my luck [read: blessing] in that i found you and somehow captured your wonderful heart.
6: you are spiritual and strong. i can always rely on you to give me good direction and advice when i most need it.
7: you listen. to all of us and really try to understand. you are a great listener and i appreciate your always being willing to lend your ear.
8: you hold and honor the priesthood. that is such a comfort and blessing to me and to our little family.
9: you are a very hard worker. and a smart worker and i love the way you think.
10: you have amazing patience for me, for us, for others.
11: you are creative, in every way and to me it is one of your most attractive qualities.
12: you have a great laugh. you know the one i mean. the one when you are watching wipeout and are laughing so hard it hurts. i love to be listening from another room, to your bursts of laughter.
13: you funny nate!
14: you have dreams about the kind of dad you want to be. i love that you dream. i have always been particularly fond of the fact that you have looked forward to reading to our kids at night…
15: you are a perfectionist that knows when to call it quits. i admire your sense of perfection and quality and i appreciate your ability to know when something is perfect enough.
16: speaking of perfection, you love me, even though i am far from the person i would like to be for you and our kids. i feel the same about you.
17: you are comfortable. i love where we are right now with our marriage, our friendship, our relationship and our family. you are the best friend i have ever had.
18: you are good pioneer stock, with a great family. what more could a mormon girl ask for?
19: you inspire me to be better. i admire your commitment to scripture study, prayer, running, parenting, work, happiness and family and it makes me want to be better too.
20: you are thoughtful about everything, especially our family.
21: you are my partner in our little adventure. i wouldn’t know where i'd be without you. i love that we are in this together and there is no one else i would rather walk with [holding hands, of course].
22: you are kind and considerate.
23: you take such good care of our kids. i know it is not easy being at home at night with two teeny kids, but you never complain and you do such a great job of taking care of them, which does my mothering heart good.
24: you make things more fun with your humor. i appreciate that and it helps us to all see the silliness and fun in life.
25: you are methodical in the way you approach everything, even a burger. it is cute.
26: you are really kind in the way you wake me up in the morning, and in letting me sleep in, even when you are really tired too.
27: you make every day a better day just because you are mine and ours.
28: you let me take the best bite, and don’t complain much [sorry].
29: speaking of bites, you are willing to share, and you are really good at it. i love that we share.
30: you are a sucker for your kids, just like me. and they will use this against us at some time or another, but we are just plain suckers for our kids.
31: you are the absolute best and i love you. all 31 years of you!
happy birthday hon.
love, alli.
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