The Fight

So usually, we all get along great over here, but today there was an interesting fight while Kermit and Tink were cleaning up the buddies.

Tink picked up Pluto...

Kermit: "You know that's mine right?"

Tink: "No, you gave him to me remember?" (very whiney)

Kermit: "Yeah, but I miss him, I got him when I was 3."

Tink: "But I really love him." (starting to panic)

Kermit: "Yeah, but I got him when I was THUREE! That was before Mickey Mouse was even a show."

Kermit is old.

Don't worry, Tink's okay too.

GeT YoUr PUmpKiN oN!

My sister and her husband came to visit us this last weekend. We had such a good time with them! Thank you so much for coming up and seeing us Trish and B! We love you.

We did a lot of fun things but one of the highlights of the weekend had to be the Pumpkin Patch. Here's how we made out! Pretty good huh, I could have done a lot more damage. Not a lot of people know this but one of my dream jobs is Pumpkin Farmer. The other dream job is to be the person in and infomercial who's all frustrated with the "regular product".

Movin' on.-oh wait, first I have to say this!!!
THANK YOU
Nana and G-Pa for my Halloween treat. I got this box the other day, check out that stamp job. The mailman and I chatted about the beautiful job that was done on this box. I told him I thought I could guess who it was from, and I was right! Nana and Grampa.

Here's the best part! Check out what they sent me! HOW CUTE!!! I love the movie Nightmare before Christmas-I don't take it to that weird "goth" level that some people take it to. I have no tattoos of Jack Skellington or anything like that (sorry to disappoint my male readers), I simply love the movie and must watch it every year this time of year (since highschool srsly).
They are so thoughtful and they sent these adorable figurines of Jack and Sally to me. I loooooove them. I giggled and jumped up and down and all the things a 12 year old girl would do if she got a note from a boy she really liked.
What I'm trying to say is I LOVE THEM, thank you so much Mom and Dad, you are so good to me. I love you and thank you very much.

Thank you for taking that side-trip with me, and now...
BACK
to the Patch.
Takin' a hay ride. Smalls loved this part, can you tell? She is all kinds of excited to get on a trailer thing and sit on a bale of hay and-well, ride.

And Tink, it doesn't matter where we go or what we are doing, she will always find a bug who needs to be loved. Here's the lucky bug now.

And there's my Kermit with his very own, custom-made jack-o-lantern smile. I love this kid.

And there's Trish and B, are they the cutest USU fans you ever saw? Well, there the cutest ones I ever saw.

Here's the farmer who drove us out to the patch. We got to drive past the apple orchards (where we were a few weeks ago) and we drove past the turkeys and gobbled at them-turkeys stink. They are yummy...but man...they stink.

Kermit jumped right in! My kind of guy. Check him out. He picked that guy off the vine, that's not always easy to do, but he did it!

Trish wanted all of them and she was going to try to pick up all of them at once. I don't know if you can see it, but she's holding 3 pumpkins, and this was at the "beginning end" of the patch. She loves her pumpkins (almost as much as me).

B proved to be quite the pumpkin picker as well. We had so much fun. They were such good sports coming out the patch with us and our munchkins.

Smalls could not get a hold of how uneven the ground was and finally gave up and sat on a pumpkin. I could not believe how many times she fell down, I wish I had a video of it, I was laughing too much though (mother of the year right here).

Doesn't Rambo look like he just saved those pumpkins from an explosion? He could be coming out of a jungle in Vietnam with those guys.

It's very emotional.

And look at B just showing off. He's all, "Yeah, that's right, I only need one arm to hold pumpkins."

"No thanks, I'm just browsing."

I think we've picked all the winners.

Kermit has definitely found his.

And Tink has found her's.

And I found mine.

B, your mom is gonna love this picture.

There are my 2 perfect pumpkins, round as can be.

It was a long day of picking pumpkins, but we made it. We had such a good time.

Tink was so happy with her little pumkin.

Waiting for the pumpkins to get weighed, we bought 40 pounds worth of pumpkins, it was a beautiful thing.

She couldn't get enough...what can I say?

One more picture of these little lovebirds. Look how cute this place is!

And now for the carving! Kermit really wanted to carve pumpkins with his Uncle B, he talked about it for weeks, so in a sense, we are watching his dreams come true...magical huh.

Here's the girl's team carving away. Trish looks like she is having the time of her life. That's just what Idaho offers you-the time of your life.

Gooey pumpkin guts. Kermit looooves this part.

Tink is not such a fan, but she had to try it.

"Bleck" is what she said.

Doesn't Aunt Tricia look beautiful? It's amazing how hard it is to take pictures of kids and dogs.

Here is Aunt Tricia, Uncle B, Gordon, Arnold, and my 3 stooges.

And here are our pumpkins. I have to concede to the boy's team, their's looks amazing, and I love how they added that finishing touch to their masterpiece: pumpkin guts.

We miss you already and hope you come back soon! We love our Uncle B and Aunt Tricia!!!

FHE & a Surprise Treat!

We had such a fun time Monday night! Dan and Diane came over and did a FHE for us. They had a really cute lesson about the Holy Ghost, below is a very blurry picture of Rambo and Tink with their arms tied together so she can pick up a great big turkey roaster with help from her daddy (who was playing the part of the Holy Ghost).We then made footprint ghosts.

This was the cutest and stinkiest idea ever! My feet were the stinkiest by far, okay, not by far- I was pretty evenly tied with Kermit
Here are Dan and Kermit working on his ghost.

Then Diane helped Tink make her's

And my sweet little Smalls raring to go with the glue and her foot. She did a really good job I might add.

And look at Rambo, he takes his crafting very seriously. See the concentration on his face? That's my man!

With all this talk of feet (one of Smalls' favorite words) she had to do some feet dancing with her daddy. She is SUCH a daddy's girl, and he just eats it up.

And here is our ghost/foot family! Aren't we the cutest things you ever saw???

I tried to get a good picture of the babies with D & D, but they are too wiggley. However, they look quite nice in this photo, so I went with it. Aren't they the cutest people? We love having them come to our house. They are so loving, full of hugs and kisses, and my family just eats it up, we are so starved for family up here, we practically ambush them every time they come over.

Thank you Dan and Diane, we have so much fun with you!

SURPRISE TREATS!!!

So, I got home from running errands today to find 2 packages on my doorstep. One is for Kermit for his birthday from Grammy which he will not stop begging to open.

The other was from Nana and Grampa. It was addressed to all the kids, so I felt safe in openning it, and look what we found! Yummy See's Candy's, and better still, they are Halloween themed. Look how cute this is!!!

Each box has this inside! How stinking cute! The kids were going nuts!

Tink played with her ghost chocolate until I told her it was made of chocolate...then, he met his fate.

Kermit dove right in, he knows better than to play with his food.

And back to Tink, who has to take the time to appreciate the cuteness of it all-is she my girl or what?! I love this pic by the way, she has a cute little pumpkin nose.

Smalls recognized and called out for her favorite SUCKERS!!! It took her forever to get through this guy and she loved every minute of it.

I had to hurry and get a picture of this cute ghost, he only has one bite out of him, but he went fast!

Thank you Nana and Grampa, we love the sweet Halloween treat! (I say "we" including myself, I admit, I "helped" with the burden of all these treats.)

You are the best and we miss you thank you for thinking of us!

Bounce & a Haircut

So, this week, my kids had 2 extra days off (yay). I thought to myself, "What am I going to do to keep them entertained, and not killing each other?" Then I answered myself, "Go throw them in a bouncey house."

It was perfect.

There was so much to do at this place, there were inflatable castles and slides and an obstacle course and a boxing ring, then there was a sticky wall-where you put on the velcro suit and jump into the wall and stick...and that's pretty much it. You couldn't pay me to put on that sweaty gross suit-okay, you could pay me, but it'd have to be a lot.

This place was too exciting, but it was no match for a little tiny bug on the floor. Smalls knows what real entertainment is. Upon further inspection, we discovered it was just a piece of lint, but did that stop Smalls from being completely consumed by it?

No siree.
Here's Kermit in the boxing ring, he had such a good time. He got in there and just started whomping on all the other kids in there. They were all able to get out some serious 3rd grade aggression.

And here we are in the bouncey house maze/obstacle course thing. Smalls loved this, but it took her forever to get through it on account of she could not stay on her feet. Every time she fell down and got bounced around, she would just laugh and laugh.

Next day! Here she is after her first haircut! How cute is this? Don't even answer cuz I know already!

This is her binky smile (yes, she still loves her binky, don't judge).

Thank you so much Melinda for doing her hair! We love love love it!

Here's the view from the back.

And another view with no binky. Actually, I'm quite excited that I caught this expression on her face. She is so funny. We had to feed her like a whole bag of suckers just to keep her in the chair, then Melinda was walking around behind her snipping here and there, it was so funny.

I know.

Just me, still being in love with this hair.

Last one, I promise.