Time has flown by and we have not kept up with the blog as we should—oops! Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching, along with Emily’s birthday and all the Christmas festivities. At least for the time being Kylie’s life has settled down enough to make room for the upcoming fun-thank goodness!
Last week I took the kiddos to McDonalds. Apparently on Tuesday afternoons they have a clown that comes and face paints and lets the kids sing karaoke. They asked Emily to sing Twinkle Twinkle. No surprise for those of you who know her, she refused and sang with all her might... I am a Child of God. How can we not be proud of that kid? Anyway here is a picture of the outcome of that afternoon. Dallin is looking a little cranky, it was well past naptime, by the time we got home.
We found this bathrobe that someone had given us and put it on Kylie. We think she is very stylish.
Last week we packed up the kids and car and headed to 
Jeff''s son Jordan
Emily getting sword fighting lessons from her cousin Jacob.
A couple of weeks back I made a blueberry pie to take out to my parents house for Sunday dinner. I gave the kids the leftover dough to play with and boy oh boy did they have fun. They made a disaster of the kitchen floor, but those budding little chefs had a blast.
The end of October came with a bang in this house hold. The kids decided long ago that Disney’s JoJo’s Circus had to be our theme. Unless you are a parent of a toddler/preschooler you probably have no idea what I am talking about and that is fine—bask in it! With the help of eBay and Disney online we found the costumes. Since Emily insisted that David, Kylie, and I all dress as clowns, we looked a little ridiculous trick-or-treating, but the kids loved it. We had our BooBash at Church that night and most everyone was dressed up there, so some of the embarrassment subsided. Also, to make it all right we won the best dressed family—yea, the icing on the cake. J
Don't drop Kylie!
Emily had a Halloween party at her preschool which all the moms and siblings were invited to.
Of course Halloween was preceded by a night of carving and scooping and mess. Aren’t our traditions weird? We had a good time, and for about a week following Dallin kept asking why the trash man took his pumpkin away. Poor kid.
Kylie loves beads--we just discovered this. This is how she spent the evening.
Well wouldn’t you know that the weather had been unbelievably perfect, so on October 26th we decided to take the family camping. Just our luck, it was the coldest night we’ve had so far this fall. Wow, we always seem to know how to pick them-same thing happened last year. Each kid went to bed with 14 layers on, we said prayers and we survived. Really it wasn’t that cold (the low was about 44), but it sure seemed to be when it had been so warm. We went to Brazos Bend State Park and spent the following morning going on a nature walk and scaring our kids silly of alligators!
Dallin is staring at one alligator, not noticing the other once over his shoulder.
We hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!
