A Turkey And A Tree

Aaron and I are really looking forward to getting the month of December going. Aaron has finals next week and then he'll return to work for a few days before taking his vacation for the year. It's going to be fun to have Aaron home with us for a few weeks. I'm sure he'll be plenty ready to return to work after New Year's!

I'm trying to be better about taking Olivia's picture with her different craft projects...that way I don't feel guilty when I don't save them. She made this crayon-feathered turkey in her art class at the community center. (Olivia informed me that she has angry eyebrows for this picture. )

Goofy face!

I grew up sleeping in this hair-do every Saturday night. Olivia didn't seem to mind it and so she could be sporting this look more often.

Have I mentioned to you that Carter's sleeping habits are making me a little crazy? Okay, I haven't blogged that...but I have vented to many of you on the phone about it. He's transitioning from two naps to one. He's been getting up around 5-5:30am and his afternoon naps are filled with tears and then finally zonking out on the couch.

Zzzzz....

If I could duplicate Olivia's tree for my own home, I would...I think it would be bigger and more evenly decorated than my own is.

Olivia colored this to give to a friend, but when she showed me the finished product, I kindly asked if I could have it. She happily said "yes."

They love to...

Carter loves to help Daddy eat his breakfast. He will gladly put his breakfast aside to help Daddy eat his.

Olivia loves to play outside and loves to hide. It's great when she can combine the two in the middle of our front yard.

Just DO NOT cover her face.

(She made that clear as Aaron and I raked leaves around her.)

Ba, Ba, B!

Olivia's learning to read!

"Come to our house"

We had a great Halloween. It was a normal day until dinner was over. Then we got the kids dressed up and played outside for a couple of hours. The weather was beautiful in the mid 60's. The only thing that lacked was Aaron. He had a mid-term today and so had to spend much of his Halloween night studying for a scary exam.

When I uploaded our Halloween pictures, I found this picture on the camera too. What a sweet surprise. This was taken the day we got home from our vacation. I think Aaron missed Carter, what do you think?

Saturday night was our ward chili cook-off & trunk-or-treat. All the kids dressed up and paraded around the gym before heading outside to get candy.

Olivia and her friend, Conner.

Olivia and another friend, Kristen, grabbing candy.

Our family and the trunk

Olivia and Carter cleaning out a pumpkin

digging in and getting messy

Olivia and her happy (not scary) pumpkin.

Since Aaron had to study during our annual pumpkin carving, I did a simple pattern.

Happy Halloween kisses from Carter

Let's go trick-or-treating

Olivia dressed as a scary witch (she told us she's not a nice witch).

Carter the monkey

Monkey bum

Olivia loved handing candy out to all the kids that were dressed nicely. She informed me that I had to give candy to anyone dressed scary though. Whenever she would see someone dressed cute or fun walking down the sidewalk, Olivia would yell "come to our house!" It was pretty cute.

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!

Too much candy

I let the kids eat pretty much whatever candy they wanted last night. These were the results with Olivia...she was crazy silly for the camera. It started out as trying to get a picture of her long eyelashes (that had mascara on them) and turned into a goofy photo shoot.