Pumpkin carving

Tonight for FHE we carved pumpkins. It was lots of fun. Holly carved her initials. Shelby's was a cat before she dropped it and broke her pumpkin. The kids were so excited and had fun.

 Chris's pumpkin

 Riley's cry baby pumpkin

 Carson's

 Holly's initials

My sweet tooth pumpkin and Shelby's is next to mine.  (After it broke)

Halloween Carnival

Tonight we took the kids to their school Halloween Carnival.  They were so excited to wear their costumes finally.  They went around the school to the different classrooms and played games and got prizes.  Carson went into the spook alley and after 30 sec. came running out and he was white as a ghost, then started crying.  They make the spook alley way to scary for little kids.  Shelby was covering her eyes when she saw a scary thing and said "Scawy."  I had to explain to Shelby that it wasn't real.  So-we stayed away from any of the scary stuff the best we could.  After the carnival we went to Kiwi Loco... our favorite frozen yogurt place in Rexburg.  I think the kids felt better after that.  All the college students were coming up to them saying how cool they looked in their costumes.  I think they had fun seeing their friends, dressing up, playing games, getting prizes, and then getting some frozen yogurt.  I hope Carson doesn't have nightmares!!!

 Holly as Medusa.  Everyone said how cool her costume was.  A couple boys pretended to turn to stone! 

 Carson was a cool skeleton... reminds me of Karate Kid.

 Shelby as a cute pink poodle.  She hated wearing the headpiece.

 Riley as a cute pink kitten.  I love that Shelby is a puppy and Riley is a kitty.

School pictures

Holly and Carson got their school pictures back. Holly is in 3rd grade and Carson is in Kindergarten.  Holly looks so grown up. Carson cut his hair before his pictures so I had to style it like that. I think it turned out cute though. Carson and his underbite smile. He looks so handsome. 

Riley is 3 mo. old

Today Riley is 3 months old.  The time is going by so fast and she is getting so big.  She's such a good baby.  She is on a good schedule now.  She sleeps about 6-7 hours at night, sometimes longer.  She's such a happy girl.  She loves to have her family around talking to her.  She smiles and makes all kinds of noises.  She laughs a lot too.  She likes watching TV- all the noise and pretty colors.  She is pretty easy to read now-I can tell when she's hungry, or tired, or needs to burp more .  She's doing better with not spitting up all over and I'm able to control the colic issue better.  She is moving so much-kicking and lifting her head up really well.  She's trying to roll over already.  She's very strong.  She isn't much of a cuddly baby.  She likes to be held facing out so she can see everything.  She stiffens up her back if she is being held the wrong way.  She let's you know by fussing if she isn't happy.  She is grabbing at things and holding onto things.  She loves chewing on her fists.  Today she measures 25.5 in. long and weighs 13 lbs.  She's growing very steady.  We just love having her in our family.

 

Suburban (or our BMW)

Here is our new family vehicle.  Since Riley was born the Durango was just too small.  We had no trunk space and we had to flip the seats down.  It was difficult to get all the groceries in the Durango.  We decided it was time to look for a bigger vehicle.  A friend of ours works at one of the car lots here so we had a better experience with buying a car.  It took us two days to decide on getting the Suburban.  I miss my Durango and the extra things that it had, but I can live without the little extras.  The Suburban doesn't have leather or heated seats or Satelite radio, but that's ok.  *SIGH* I love the space and how comfortable it is.  Chris fits better in the driver seat.  And we can put both car seats next to each other and not in the way back-like we had to with the Durango. So now we are like every other Mormon family here and have a Suburban.   Bye to our Durango-it was a great vehicle and we have lots of memories. 

The damage is done

Ok I would rather post pictures of the kids.  But my blog is my scrapbook and I should post what's going on with the entire family.  Here is an updated picture from my BCC surgery.  My black eye is starting to go away now.  My scar is healing and looks better, but it's going to take awhile for it to completely heal.  It won't be too bad when it's completely healed.  I'm still mad at myself for not going in sooner to the Dermatologist.  I think this would have been a lot smaller and easier.  Oh well-live and learn.