Halloween

Here are the final pumpkins. Rich and I had pumpkins too, but they never got carved. They will become pumpkin bread, pumpkin cookies, and pumpkin pie instead.

And the final iterations of the kids' costumes before we went out the door. Noah and Karen just went around the block, then Sarah and I went out a little more.

Sarah really wanted to go see a talking skeleton decoration she'd seen before, so we walked over. Unfortunately, the talking one was turned off (probably too scary for little kids), but at the same house, someone was dressed as a skeleton and pretending to be a robotic decoration. He scared Sarah a little at first when he suddenly moved toward her, but then she wanted to go back and shake his hand. She was highly entertained.

General Cuteness

The kids put on a homemade marionette showing of the Three Bears. I took a video, but...I was holding the camera sideways, and I can't figure out how to rotate video.



Aww...the kids love their sister. Also, in the picture with Sarah, Karen had her first pigtails. Not that you can really tell, but there you go.

Halloween In Progress

Noah's costume was pretty much done at this point... I cut the arms a little too close, so the front doesn't come up as high as it should, but c'est la vie.

Sarah also wears wings and carries a wand as a Fairy Princess. My favorite part is the bloomers, but you can only see the bottoms. Karen will more or less match (with fewer leaves/flowers).

Random "About Me"

Just for fun, this is my refrigerator surface:

Top: Visiting Teaching Route, rose magnet, 2 dry erase markers, Domino's magnet, annual work/payday calendar, reward stickers, pictures of my in-laws (a niece and 3 families), a cutesy Relief Society magnet

Middle: Magnet clip (holding voter cards, gas bill, cash, & stamps), magnet frames (Sarah at 4 yrs, Noah at 2 yrs, all 3 kids last Dec.), picture of Sarah at 2 yrs., BYU magnet, picture of a niece, credit union magnet, Sarah's Primary program part, USAA insurance contact number magnet, clubhouse hours


Bottom: magnet hook holding (in-law) family calendar, emotion faces magnet, picture of kids for Father's Day 2006, dry erase square with outdated shopping list, blank shopping list notepad, #5 magnet, Babysitter notes/info sheet and emergency treatment release, rose magnet, cutesy tin magnet

Sarah's 5-year Pictures

Noah's 3-year Pictures

Resemblance at Home

I'll never admit to staging this.
(Hey, look...the girls are even wearing the same dress!)

Blogiversary

So, as of earlier this week, I've had a blog for a year. As of the official anniversary on the 23rd, I had written 81 posts. That's an average of about 1 1/2 per week!

Some things I've learned:

• I say "cuteness" a lot.
• My posts are all about the pictures.
• Which is why I get into posting blitzkrieg modes.
• My template is narrower than I'd like, but I'm too lazy to change it.
• But not too lazy to spend forever trying to see if I could hack the HTML.
• I couldn't.
• I love getting comments.
• Most of my commentors are friends or fellow-bloggers.
• Despite the fact that my sisters obviously read my blog, they never comment. *sniff*
• My kids are dang cute.
• Blogging is fun.
  

Why I'm a Mom

For every "Ew!" "Yuck!" or "What IS this?" there's a "Mom, you make the best lunch!"

She moves!

Yes, Karen crawls now. She's been going strong for a couple weeks now...followed immediately by trying to pull herself up on things.

She's even become a fan of walking, holding on to hands. She's especially cute because she lifts her knee way up before placing the next foot. Sometimes it leads into more of a lunge. As we walk, I've been saying, "Step, step, step" to her. So, this week, she started talking along with me. "Bap, bap, bap." You might think it's just babbling, but she only makes that particular "bap" while walking. I started enunciating the "step" better, and she starting saying "Sssss Bap!"