Just a little NUTTY!

This is why I cannot leave her unattended and why I can barely squeeze a shower in.

This is also why I love her so much.

She is so tasty.

I love peanut butter. Preferably with chocolate, though.

Surviving AND Thriving

Seriously. What happened to us? You'd have thought we fell off the face of the earth.

Right now we are in the midst of probably our busiest weekend of the year. And we're taking it all in stride and enjoying every minute of it.

Last night was our annual Spooky Dinner. The tradition started years ago on Halloween night, but the kids were so excited to go Trick or Treating that they forgot all about the whole eating thing, so we moved it up a week.

The kids look forward to this every year and get so excited about planning decorations and the menu (and signing off cubscout requirements in the process!!) and choosing the perfect costumes.




And now we're off, busy preparing for the Primary Program on Sunday and the Church Fall Festival tonight. Just call us "Busy."

Halloween Sneek Peek

Our family usually dresses up as a theme for Halloween...

2009 Star Wars
2008 Ninja Turtles (and lady bug and bug catcher)
2007 Road and Road Worker (also a skeleton and ghost and a random octopus)
2006 Pirates

And usually the theme revolves around some kind of obsession of our childrens.

Here's your clue...(The sweet kiss is not a clue, just an added bonus)

Any ideas? (No cheating if you already know) This is a tricky one to guess by just these costumes.

Say It. Mean It. Show It. I Love You.

From Elder Holland's stirring testimony of the Book of Mormon and Elder Hale's sweet testimony of the Savior, I came out of General Conference weekend feeling completely uplifted!

But it was Elder Bednar's words that left me the most inspired to do better and to be better as a person, parent and spouse.

So much that I commissioned my friend, Delilas, to make me some vinyl wall art..."Say it. Mean it. Show it." And "I Love You" underneath. Now to decide where in my house I would want to display it...

And I made a digital scrapbook layout...
And now I can constantly "show" my children how much I love them...It's a little banged up and a little worn out looking, but I love it and I love who it reminds me to be. And I'm finally putting my stamping tools to use!!

Exciting!

I didn't think anything could get more exciting than this day, today...

A preschool field trip with cows, corn, and kids!!! Exciting!
But this just might top it...30 minutes and counting!!