Book Of Mormon ...Halloween?

 So we finished the Book of Mormon as a family!

To celebrate we had a Book of Mormon celebration and

remembered some of the things we learned from that great book!

 We made barges like the brother of Jared...ours were a bit

tastier made with pretzel's, peanut butter and "pitched" with melted chocolate!

 We remembered the great FAITH of the brother of Jared!

 We Remembered the great teachings of King Benjamin

and erected our own "tower" of sorts

 We reviewed several of his Great teachings like...

"when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God!"

"...beware lest there shall arise contentions among you and ye list to obey the evil spirit..."

"Consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God!"

"Believe in God; believe that he is , and that the created all things ..that he has all wisdom, and all power..."

We ate the "tower"! 

 We re-enacted the vision of Lehi the prophet

with our own version of the tree of life

whose fruit was most desirable (candy)

We talked about how we can hold to the Rod and make it to the tree!

We remembered Captain Moroni and what a brave and valiant man he was.

We made our own title of Liberty.

We want to fight for our family to be an Eternal one!

I don't think the girls missed trick-or-treating at all! They went to bed on a

tree of life/king Benjamin tower sugar high. And hopefully with a little

stronger testimony of the truths of the Book Of Mormon!

Hawkey Football

Dan must be living right because all the stars aligned for him this weekend.

1. He got Friday afternoon "off" and came to the girls Halloween parade and Party

(that I was in charge of for Elli's class and boy was I glad he came)

2. While at work Friday a Secretary asked Dan if he wanted her tickets to the

Football game... 10th row 45 yard line!

3. He had Saturday off

4. It was the one game the Hospital threw a tailgate party for the residents...

so He and Abbi got to eat for free!

5. The weather was absolutely beautiful

6. He got to eat all of Abbi's Halloween candy while watching the game!

What a great Daddy daughter date!

I wish the stars would aligne for him every weekend!

HALLOWEEN 2010

 This picture is just because I love Gwyn's eyelashes!

So this year Elli, Gwyn, Vivian and I were CATS... with cute black tutu's !

Abbi had the hardest time deciding what to be...we went through

several costume changes, but we ended up as a Mad Scientist!

I didn't get a great picture of her all dolled up but she was

pretty convincing!

I'm happy to say that I made all the costumes for under 12 dollars!

And the buckets...another after school activity were little spoofs from

pottery barn as were their cat tutu costumes that were selling for 49 bucks, yes and I

made mine for well way less!

Halloween Party

We had our annual Halloween/Fall party the girls

invited some friends and this year because Halloween is on Sunday we decided to

have it be a dress up...one more reason to wear the costume!

We had a blast we...

1. Had Halloween stories read by Abbi and Elli

2. Made spiders (oreos and pretzels) and Bats (crackers and apple wedges)

2. Played Boosical chairs (our Halloween version of musical chairs quite fun...in fact

it was so fun the girls continued to play for days after)

3. Had a toss your ghost into the haunted house game

4. Made our own SLIME

5. And a party wouldn't be complete with out a game of BAT Bingo!

I love my girls!

Frankenstein...and other afterschool fun!

 Creating the Frankenstein pots was so much fun thankfully

we've had some beautiful days here in Iowa...

 I love their little individual personalities!

Abbi's is far left Gwyn middle Elli's far right!

 Our Spooky Halloween tree... a branch and pot spray painted with some cute

dollar candy dishes from target!

Mummies... rice crispy treats with white chocolate chips,

wrapped up like a mummy and put on sucker sticks.

This month I've tried to have fun activities for our girls to do after school and jobs are done

Honestly it's kind of selfish...when they know they

get to do something fun they don't wine about

their jobs as much!

Above is a sampling of the fun we've had!

Who says children don't listen to Conference?!@#

So we're  downstairs wrapping gifts for Abbi and Elli for birthday partys they have today and the following conversation happens while I'm looking up the address to one of the parties...
G: pretend playing a "video game" on a plastic princess phone
E: Gwynie you shouldn't play video games the Prophet said!
A: No, he said we should play them very little
E & G: Oh ya
G: trades for a book
A & E: continue to color their wrapped presents for friends.

Conference was FABULOUS... we love the words of living Prophets!

Fall Lovers!

 This family loves FAll!

I'm all for free fun and this place was so fun we had to go twice.

I forgot my camera the second time! It had a hay maze, corn maze ,cows, horses,

zebra, lamas, pop belly pig, geese, chickens, pumpkins. The funnest

was the hay maze they climbed on top and loved it!

We went with our friends the first time then we took our Pa the second time and

got pumpkins for Halloween!

Conference Weekend... Better than Christmas!

 Watermelon from our Garden!

We had a wonderful conference weekend. We ate like Kings, we listened to the words of living Prophets and we even got to roast marshmallows with friends while Dad was at priesthood session.

What a Fabulous weekend!

Elli's First Field Trip

 First ride on the Bus!

Elli's class took their first field trip to Wilson's Apple Orchard.

Abbi happened to be sick that day and got to come along.

Carmel Apples

Need I say to much more... we made homemade Carmel apples today for our after school snack! They were a hit!

Nothing beats a park on a almost fall day!

 Arn't I lucky!

Dinner at the "tree house" park what could be better?

Broken something!

Went to the ER thinking a possible  brake...

left with a cast splint...a few sets of x-rays later and new
thumb splint they think it is tendinitis and not a break.
 I'm grateful for my right hand!

Brief Explanation: I was slip and sliding with my girls... you know showing them how it was done. When this injury occurred. It progressively got more and more painful until it came to the point
where I couldn't lift pans out of the oven and children...it was upon the advice of a friend
who is an orthopedic surgeon fellow that I went to the ER!

Vivian is ONE!

 We celebrated with fresh cinnamon rolls for breakfast!

 And her favorite food "Mexican" Beans, rice and tacos!

With little individual strawberry pies and apple turnovers!

She is a true joy to have in our home!

She can walk say: Da da, Mom, Jes ss, she has

a super contagious smile.  We feel so blessed

to have her in our family!