Two

This post I had a hard time coming up with a title. Yes, it is another birthday post. This time for our little Katherine. She turned 2 on Friday the 13th. Not a fun day for some, but we managed to have decent luck that day. This post almost isn't fair to Katherine. Normally I would post things that I love about that person that amount to the number of years old they are. For Katherine that just means two, but it is hard to pick just two things about her. There are just too many things that I love about her. These last two years have definitely flown by with her. Looking back over those years, there are things that stand out in my mind about her:

1. She is the first child that we have had that needed surgery at a young age (10 months) and the first for that particular aliment, although all the children had it (clogged tear duct).

2. Her teeth have come in really oddly although the dentist tells me that this is okay and quite acceptable. She got 4 molars before she ever had top front teeth.

3. She is a quick study....she watches a lot before she tries and so when she does try she can usually accomplish it quite easily.

4. She has the most beautiful smile.

5. She is the first of my girls to be able to put their hair up at a very young age (at 3 months).

She is a special little girl and we are glad to have her in our family. I am not sure what I will do when it is her turn to go to school (I know a long way off), but in the mean time I am going to enjoy this one as much as I can.

Another Year older.....

This is a hard post to write. Not because I don't know what to say, but because I feel like I already said it once. Today is Gabe's birthday. Normally I would have a list of all the things that I love and admire about him (one for each year of his life), but I have already done a post like that (see May 26th for our anniversary post). So I am not going to repeat myself, if you want to know some reasons why I love this man see the previous post for 14 of them. I would also post pictures of him, but if your really know my husband.....he HATES pictures and will do anything to get out of them. Most of the ones that I have are of him making faces at the camera or of the back of his head because he turns away. So I guess that the point of this post is just to aknowledge that today is the birthday of my dear husband. What more can I say that I haven't already said?

Halloween 2009

We really haven't done a lot this Halloween season, but the kids sure did have fun. Wyatt and Amanda had a piano recital. This one is really different than most recitals that you have been too....the kids dress in their Halloween costumes and play the spookiest music that the teachers can find. And it is a combination of several teachers not just ours. Then the kids also had their parties at school. This year I was brave enough to go, but not sure I will again without giving children a nap. Since I have 3 kids at the same school I had 3 parties to go to and I had 2 kids that did not get naps.....you do the math on that one and decide how well I enjoyed myself there. On Halloween morning I decided to try something different for breakfast and like anything different I was met with resistance. I had the idea that I would make our french toast into spooky french toast. I had some cookie cutters that I thought that I could use to cut out some shapes after the toast was cooking. For some reason I was really hesitant about cutting them out before they cooked and wasting all the bread. So it ended up being just a ghost shape cut into the toast. Jacob was my first to say that he didn't want a ghost in his toast. Then Gabe tells me that he doesn't want one either.....until he saw that it was only the toast with a ghost in the middle. After that I think the kids ate more than normal. I personally thought that they were pretty cute. What do you think?

I was a little disappointed this year as we didn't have a ward Halloween party. Usually they have one and have the trunk or treating---didn't happen this year. So for the first time in several years, Gabe and I took the kids out trick-or-treating. We didn't want to be gone too long as we had lots of candy to give away, but we did hit a few houses of people that we knew. We were gone long enough that the kids were satisfied that we went. Unfortunately we were also gone too long that we didn't get any trick-or-treaters at our house. I personally think that we didn't get any because no one really knows that our houses exsist. The subdivision we live in is a new one (only 5 houses and 1 more almost complete) and we don't even have a road sign that tells you what street we live on. So our kids got more candy than we had intended for them to have as they now have the stuff that I bought to give away. All in all we had a wonderful time and the kids looked so wonderful in their costumes. I think that next year I should try and get on the ball and have a theme for them and make their costumes. Kelli did that with her kids and it was really cute to see all her little "bugs" come trick or treating to our house.