Thursday, November 5, 2009

Lazy days...

Well, it's felt that way at times, anyway. Like I said previously, my mom and grandmother had came up for about a week to celebrate spooky festivities with us. My dad actually came up with my mom for the weekend before flying out on business. It was nice to have him see the house all set up since he had helped us move out and get all the preliminaries in order for us to start moving in. These were more the lazy days I was referring to. My parents pulled in late Friday night and we decided to chillax at the mall the next day. We had fun walking around, going to the best stores (i.e. Disney store, Hallmark). We even made someone's day a little better by fishing their child's $6 bouncy ball out of the mall fountain (and when I say "we" I mean Christopher with a little anchoring help from my dad).


Back home, we hung out playing, coloring, talking, eating and watching college football, of course (it was a Saturday, after all).
Sunday morning, rise and shine!



Christopher and I had been asked to give a talk that Sunday so it worked out well to have the parentals there to keep the kids in order for Sacrament meeting :). We left early so we could get lunch and then drop my dad off at the airport. I loved how crazy Alexis's hair was in this picture. I just had to share.

Oh, and we had to make Halloween cookies, too. You know, to send off with Grandpa on his flight.

Mmm-hmm.

We had such fun...thanks for coming, Dad. Wish the visit could have been longer!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Happy Halloween...

This Halloween, Kira called all the shots. Months ago she decided that she would be Jessie the cowgirl (Toy Story 2) and Alexis would be a black kitty cat. I wasn't planning on going along with Kira's costume mandate for Lex, but it was an easy costume to put together and she looked super cute...so I caved.



We attended the ward trunk or treat Friday before Halloween. The whole walking-in-the-dark-to-get-things-from-strangers scenario didn't quite catch on with Lex, but Kira enjoyed it and raved over her little bag of candy. The rest of the time, she was content to help me "make kids so happy" passing out goodies at our car. On Halloween, I guess we kind of abused our kids by not taking them out to trick-or-treat in the neighborhood (it was cold, one child had absolutely no interest, and the other was excited to be the benevolent candy-bestower). But Kira had fun seeing all the teenagers kids dressed up and dumping handfuls of treats in pillowcases.

We weren't complete loser parents, though. My mom and grandmother (who came to fulfill the annual tradition of coming to see granchildren for Halloween) took Kira to a Halloween activity up at the library on Saturday afternoon. Alexis HAD to take a nap so I didn't get to go but saw great pics. The local library is attached to a museum, which is actually an old mansion. Perfect for Halloween! The attic was a bit too spooky for some.

But pretty cool otherwise.

Hope everyone had a purr-fectly "Yee-haw" Halloween...these two did!

Happy Fall...