Trick or treat!

Here are our picture from Halloween. We had lots of fun being a super family! And the kids LOVED getting candy!

Black eye!

 
Poor Brienna had a rough Halloween. She bonked her eye on the edge of my bed. I didn't realize how bad it was until later when it was all swollen- In the next couple of days it got really black :( I am guessing this won't be the last injury we see out of our crazy little girl!

My little pumpkins

Here the kids are searching for the perfect pumpkin at Maceys :) Brandon of course found the funniest looking one and couldn't be conviced to choose another one. He has a strong will and is very determined once he has made up his mind! We had lots of fun carving the pumpkins too (mostly Justin who is creative and gets very into it His is the pumkin on the end with a bat, a spider, and frankenstien carved into it)

Six things about me...

Okay, so I was tagged by Kristen to post six random things about myself (I'll have to narrow it down). This was good since I needed to post again anyway, although I am not sure who to tag since everyone has probably given up and stopped reading my blog and won't know I tagged them, but I will tag Andrew and Emily Smith. Now we will see if they actually check this (I admit, I would have given up too). Okay, here it goes... 1) I don't really like fall. I always miss summer, I can't stand the smells (this is left over from pregnancy) and I HATE it getting colder and darker, and mostly I hate that Justin is back in school and never home- I miss SUMMER!!!
2) I am horrible with directions and anything to do with technology... and I DON"T REALLY CARE (I guess this is more of a confession) I am sure I could do better at both if I really tried, but I don't have time to do all the things I REALLY enjoy, and I just don't care to learn. That is why I married the smartest man in the world! He downloads our pictures, fixes the computer (and my car) and helps me figure out how to get were I need to go. I would be truly LOST without him (ahhhhh). One little plug for myself, I do know the important things - how to email pictures to Costco to be printed, how to find directions on mapquest, and how to buy and sell on Ebay (my new obsession)
3) I love to eat out. I don't care where (usually) as long as I don't have to cook it, it tastes better. I ecspecially enjoy Cafe Rio (mmmm pork salad), and anywhere with a good steak!
4)I want a big family, but I am not sure if I can handle more than two kids, actually I don't know if I can even handle them :) I love my kids more than ANYTHING! I spoil them rotten and they are the light of my life. I love to watch them sleep and I think about all the amazing things they will become and the cute things they did that day. BUT, around 4:00 pm each day, after attempting to go to the store, keep the house clean, and trying to make dinner- I wonder if I have what it takes to be a mom. Sometimes I feel it is a miracle that they are alive and fed at the end of the day (please don't call the authorities, I change their diapers too) If only they weren't soooooo cute, and just when I am ready to give up, Brandon will say, "I love you mom, you're my best friend" or Brienna comes over with a book and a smile and plops down on my lap for a story- then I smile and wonder what I would ever do WITHOUT them. I love my babies!
5) I am already almost finished with my Christmas shopping. I don't care for fall, but I can't wait for Christmas:) Plus I don't like fight through crowds of onry Christmas shoppers.
6) I always take a bite out of Justin's sandwiches. It started when we were dating and I wanted to see what his food tasted like. When he would go away to fill up his drink or something I would take a big bite and then wrap his sandwich back up. A few times he was seriously freaked out thinking some crazy worker had given him bad food, or tasted it themselves (I am very convincing) But now I do it everytime I make him luches or we go out to eat, he knows it means that I love him (and his food).
That is enough from me, I am going to bed- good night!

 

I love this picture of Brandon at Spirit Lake. We had fun there with the Wallis crew over Labor Day weekend. Brandon did some more fishing, hiking, eating, and playing. He loves the great outdoors and camping (He gets this mostly from his dad since my definition of camping includes a toliet and preferably electricity :)) Brandons favorite part of fishing was playing with the worms!! My favorite part of camping is seeing the excitement and wonder in his eyes with each new discovery- it is enough to make me like camping a little more!

 
Yeah! It worked! Here is another phot from this summer. Mom and Dad are into fossil hunting now- I guess they didn't have anything to do (ha ha) They got all the kids excited about it too, and even took them on a special fossil finding adventure. We think they are a little crazy, but the kids just think they are fun!!!

testing testing 1 2 3...

 
Okay, I am trying to learn how to post individual pictures. Hopefully when I push post we will be looking at a picture of Justin, Brandon and I in a canoe at our summer campout this year. We had lots of fun! The only pole that caught a fish was Brandon's fisher price pole from Wal-Mart that says "not for sport". Brandon didn't really like actually having a live fish on his pole, and it was all Justin could to to get him to poke them before they were tossed back into the lake. Now Brandon thinks we catch fish simply to poke them. :)