Birthday Wish(es)

Sorry folks, Nathan asked that I write down my wish list for my birthday, and put it somewhere where he won't loose it. The only place I could think of was here. So, in no particular order (except for the first) here ya go Nathan . . . .

This one is a little tricky. I want a necklace, but it's "between" what these two look like. For more info please contact your wife.

Time to start reading again. . . (no I did not choose this because of the dogs name!)I don't know if you've noticed, but for the last few years, I have always gotten Christmas music. I would love this one. It was one of my favorites growing up. Unfortunately I don't think this one will have the skip in the record, ". . to kids from 1 to 92, (skip) 92 (skip) 92 (skip) - many times many ways, Merry Christmas . . ."This sweater looks yummy. Yes, I said a sweater looks yummy. And of course in BLACK!! P.S. It's on sale this week.I am in terrible need of a handful of these. . .And in desperate need of this . . .I recently remembered this book and decided I must have it to read to the kids. I think the boys would enjoy the silly (warped) sense of humor. "Misses McTwitter the babysitter, I think she's a little bit crazy. . . " (well, now that I think about it, maybe I'll skip that poem till Elijah's a bit older). lolAnd if I'm dreaming real BIG, I would love one of these . . .

The Neighbor

So we have a neighbor. He's kind, and keeps to himself. Most of the time he's quite too, except for two times each year. The first is late spring/early summer. He always gives Nathan a hard time about our trees. And he always asks us when we are going to cut down our trees. He does not like them. Not at all. The other time of year he gets noisy is when the leaves fall off the trees that he does not like. Then he gets really noisy. That little leaf blower of his sure is loud! For some reason he thinks that he can blow his leaves into our yard for us to pick up. IT DRIVES ME INSANE!! So, he gets his leaf blower out, and starts blowing away. I don't mind the extra leaves so much, really, look at the pictures. We have so many leaves that another bag of them from his side really won't hurt. But, for some reason it just drives me crazy that he blows them over the fence. AHHHHH. And no, we won't confront him about it, I don't want to have the, "Cut down your trees" conversation. So, I'll just complain a little here, get over it, and start raking the leaves.

There is a little boy hidden in this picture, can you find him?Ooohh, there he is!!! Noah was having fun hiding in the leaves.

Day 21 (waaaay behind!)

So, only 9 posts left to finish my challenge of picture posts. I'm looking forward to getting it done, so we can do our annual "I am thankful for . . ." posts.
Nathan took these two photos a couple weeks ago while we were driving through Ogden Canyon. It was a beautiful afternoon!! I love fall so much, the leaves changing colors and the crispness in the air. It's perfect!

Halloweeeeeeeeen!!

Here's our Halloween post: better late than never, right?!! A week before Halloween, Sarah and Seth came over to "carve" pumpkins. We cheated/opted out of the carving part, and did potato head pieces. It was easy - the kids could do it themselves, and clean!! We liked how our monster pumpkins turned out. It sure is hard to get a decent picture of our kids together. Someone is always looking the wrong direction, or pulling a weird face.Halloween was a blast!! I was a gypsy, but kids these days don't know what that is, so they all thought I was a "girl pirate". Isn't Nathan's, costume awesome?!! He's a Mexican wrestler. Elijah did not like him with the mask on. Van's the ghost, Noah's the spider, and of course little Marlee is Snow White.We had a great night. The weather was warm and mild (for the most part). We didn't have to bundle the kids up (which was nice not to have to cover up their costumes). We started out the evening at South Weber's 'Trunk or Treat'. (our old ward) Marlee and her friend Katie thought they were so big because their dad's let them walk around the street on their own!! Look out!! They're 6 going on 13.The kids got a ton of candy, but we wanted them to do the "real thing". So we headed home and went around our neighborhood. We ended the night having to call Nathan to come and rescue us - it started pouring rain!! Of course by the time he got to us, it had stopped, but the kids were tired, so we called it a night. Isn't he the cutest elephant ever? Even if he won't smile for anyone!! Noah and Vance loved Trick or Treating!! They understood it this year. And Marlee had a blast being out with friends!! Now the candy's gone, so are the tummy aches, and now we can begin to look forward to the next few weeks full of holidays and birthdays!! Hoo-rah!!

Look what I can do!!