spooky dinner

Last night we had bloody brains, oozing eyeballs, witches fingers and spiders to eat for dinner, with a bit of blood to wash it all down.

Jake liked the witches fingers

And Grace enjoyed the spiders

We all had fun eating our spooky dinner!

snow!?!

yes, it snowed.  This is what we woke up to this morning. Nothing stuck to the road and it was all melted by lunch time, but how crazy that we got snow in October.

Brooke made a snowball for Jake and then I took the kids out a little later.  We are a bunch of wimps, so we didn't stay out too long.  Just enough to take some pictures

So, Danelle, to answer your question....it is COLD here!

carvin' time

With Halloween just around the corner, we decided to do a little pumpkin carving last night.  Jake isn't too into getting messy, so he pretty much just watched.  Grace was very interested in the process and even scooped out a few pumpkin guts.

This morning, Grace cleaned up....

and Jake ran around with his hamper on his head.

hide and eat

We have been having a good week so far.  Jake is getting harder and harder to take pictures of.  It is more fun for him to run and hide while i am taking pictures and it turns into a game for him.  Grace is still cooperating...but in other areas, not so much.  She has entered the stage of independent eating.  She wants to feed herself everything (which is nice, unless we are in a hurry) and is doing pretty good at it.  Jake is glad to have the long weekend over with so he can go back to school.

Eating beans...a favorite

Hiding

Hiding some more

smiling

smiling some more

playing

sit down please

Grace likes to climb.  She likes to play the piano, then stand up on the bench and climb onto the keyboard (i don't have a picture yet...but i will get one).  She likes to try and climb up the shelves in the pantry to get a snack.  She likes to climb.  Today she was climbing up and down one of our chairs.  I sat back and snapped some shots of her in action.

It's about time!

So another month has gone by without a single new post.  Awful, just awful.  So much has been happening, so i'll go thru a quick rundown of events.

-Brooke finished his training in California...he did a really great job and we were so glad that we were able to go there and be with him.  We had lots of fun together.
-We drove back home to New Mexico
-Jake started Pre-school...and LOVES it.
-We continued unpacking and organizing our new house (we were only in in for one week before we left for CA)
-Lots and lots of yard work

So now that we are back, I am going to try to get into the groove of blogging again.  (I'm sure the 4 people who read this will be jumping for joy)  Our internet access in CA was very limited, so it is nice to have it conveniently available to us again.

And finally here are a few pictures of the kiddos.  Grace has really grown up alot over the last few months.  Tonight after they had a bath, I attempted pigtails on her.  There are a few parts that aren't quite long enough, and they are a little crooked, but she is getting closer!

The other night, we were outside moving rock to the side of our house and the kids were playing in the rock pile.  They love playing outside.

And lastly, I have to say thanks to Marcey...the updated editor is so slick! Thanks for telling me about it.