Happy Halloween!

What Beauty Is...

"Beauty is Love Between Two People"


This year Levi, Addie and Bre entered some art for the Reflections contest. The theme being: What Beauty Is. I thought Addie's was quite good! I have to brag 'cause I'm her mom. I thought she might just do flowers or scenery or a pretty girl, but no, she came up with this all on her own. Love between two people...very thoughtful.

Bre's Special Dream

Last night Bre came into my room because she had a bad dream. Her bad dream was that she fell off the houseboat. I thought that was funny. I am glad that no one really did fall off the houseboat with so many little kids and all. However, here comes the special part; this morning Bre told me that she had a dream about Grandma Palmer. She said that Grandma came and gave her a special locket with a picture of the family in it. I asked for more details. She said that we were all over at Grandpa's house when Grandma came and we were so happy. Bre said Grandma asked her about her broken arm and Grandpa told her what happened and that Grandpa took some pictures of them. Bre was only 4 when Grandma Ellen died. I think Grandma wants us and the grandkids to know how much she still loves them and how important family is. We miss her so much! Here is a picture of baby Bre with her Grandma.


Here is our special little Bre with mom earlier this year.

Lake Powell

We had our last Indian Summer vaction at Lake Powell. We rented a houseboat (off season winter rates started after the 13th). It was kind of a last minute trip we put together because the weather was going to be so nice that weekend of Fall Break. We are so glad we did. There was hiking, finding lizards and sea shells, fishing, boating and swimming for those who wanted to brave the chilly water. There were 7 adults and 7 children. It was a full house. I've got a great Arizona Summer scrapbook kit that should work perfect for these pics. I only took 145 pictures. There's so much to do and so little time!

Girls & Curls

Card Class Fun

Above is a cute little owl treat that I made for my gals I visit teach. On the back it says "Guess whooo loves you? Your Visiting Teachers!" And for below:
Just thought I'd post some pictures from my last card class for those of you who missed it. I am still looking for at least 2 more people to to join my card club. We will be meeting on Tuesday the 20th of October for some cute Halloween stuff! Over conference I made a bunch of Christmas tags. I am going to do an additional Christmas tag class. Tallie saw some of them and said they were super cute!

12 Years Today!

Happy Anniversary honey! Thanks for fixing our router for our internet connection so I could post this tonight. (See how handy he is :) Since this year's anniversary fell on a Sunday and we didn't do anything out of the ordinary to remember it I thought I would put this little page together for us to have something to remember. (click on the page to view it bigger)

When We're Working We're Happy and We Sing As We Go...

This weekend we worked on getting the basement ready to build two new bedrooms. Yes this is the long unfinished room where I had my craft/stamping stuff. Now that my new room is all finished we were able to clean out and start on this room. It's so nice to have a handy, smart, hardworking husband. Hopefully, soon Levi will be able to have a real bedroom as opposed to the basement playroom which has been his room. And I realized I never posted any pictures of my new stamp room.



We put in french doors where the borded up old sliding glass door was, new window, tore out paneling, finished the walls, put in carpet etc.. I love it.

Howdy

Howdy y'all! Last Thursday was the Daddy Daughter Activity. Since I was one of the moms in charge of it I got to go. We did a cute western themed activity in the McInctyre's back yard. The weather was supposed to be good that night. However, a huge thunderstorm rolled in and it blew and then poured on us. We scrambled to get some canopies up and continue on through it. Our fire survived the down pour and we were still able to roast marshmellows at the end. I wish I had pictures of the game, but being in charge of it I didn't get a chance to take any. Anyhow, the girls got to put shaving cream all over their dad's faces and then there was a contest where they got to toss cheetos at their faces and see who could get the most stuck to their dad. Then they got to "shave" their dads. (with safe razors with the covers still on them). Because of all the rain and delays we didn't finish the second part where the dads get to do the girls hair. That would have been fun to see but it was getting too late.

"My Juice is Coming"

Ok so I've got one more post today. This is the potty update. Hopefully we are making some headway with Leia. It was the funniest thing. I was here at the computer and she was near by me on the ground watching TV and she says, "Mom, my juice is coming!" It took me a moment to think about what she was saying and then I realized I need to rush her to the potty. I remembered that the other day I told her when she drank her juice it went down down and then she would need to pee pee it out. So, I guess "my juice is coming" translates to I need to go potty. That was the first time she actually told me and I got her to the potty and she stayed dry. Horray! She is getting more conscious of it.