Trick-or-treat!

Libby getting her face painted

Showing me her butterfly

I think the kids are more excited about the candy than taking a picture

Guess who we ran into? THE PRINCE! Liberty was pretty excited and wanted a picture with him. We also saw a grown up cinderella which Libby thought was pretty cool.

Elliot the Dinosaur

I didn't get a pic of him (so I stole it from Facebook), but Zach aka: mini Nacho Libre came with us too and he was pretty much the coolest kid there. He moves a lot, so that's why this is a little blurry 

On Saturday, a business park in town had trick-or-treating, cider and donuts, face painting, and a creepy Witch who read stories to the kids. Libby enjoyed it. We didn't have the memory card in our camera, so we could only take a couple pictures. The Higginsons and Janelle came along too and we had a lovely afternoon together.

Yesterday we hosted a little Halloween party for Libby and her friends. It was pretty fun. I made some cool food: mummy hotdogs, ghost bananas, pumpkin muffins, cups of dirt (pudding/oreos/gummy worms) and juice boxes wrapped like mummies. We were going to do some games, but when your audience is 2-3 yrs old and they all have siblings who are babies and you are all squashed into a small apartment....it's better to just play with toys and eat snacks. It was a lot of fun though! Unfortunately I didn't take pictures except some of the festive foods on my phone after the kids left....

The weird thing is, today is Halloween and we didn't do anything. The car was in the shop till the afternoon and we are going to Utah tomorrow, and by dinner time Libby was have a meltdowns about everything...so we put the kids to bed and are sort of getting ready for the trip. I should probably wash bottles and clean up a bit...or watch a movie.

Snow day

It snowed a ton yesterday. Liberty loved it! Elliot seemed kinda neutral about it. He wouldn't eat it since it is cold, but he didn't really mind sitting in it. I think he enjoyed watching his Daddy and Libby throwing snowballs and having a fun time in general. Libby was burying herself in the snow and having a blast until she realized she was drenched to the bone and freezing. Then she was all about going inside for popcorn and hot cocoa. :)

Elliot :) He immediately took his shoes and hat off when I put him down

The best part about snow is eating some

Even Richard thinks so

I love Elliot's funny faces

and Libby's

i'm actually in a picture

Snuggling while the hot cocoa was being made. It was sweet, although Libby looks a bit creepy

My cousin Jill gets home from her mission in a week. Since we can't be there, we made a sign and took a picture.

Elliot

holding on with one hand

how cute would elliot be if he wore glasses?!

I love this one

Elliot is getting so close to standing alone. He wants to so bad! The last couple days when I lay on the floor he crawls over and pulls himself to standing, lets go and stands for 2-3 seconds and then sits down, claps for himself and does it again. It's pretty adorable. He probably did it 20 times in a row. i love that he claps for himself. It's really cute. He also dances on command which is my favorite thing. It's such a goofy dance, I can't help but laugh and ask him do do it over and over again. I sure love that kid. Can't believe his birthday is in 1 1/2 weeks!

will teething ever end? Libby got her teeth in pairs, Elliot is getting them one at a time which means endless teething. This time around he is being super picky and spits out everything I give him. All he wants is the bottle or yogurt melts. So frustrating some times. This is random, but Elliot makes the funniest faces while he eats. He HATES cold things. He won't even let us give him ice cream, even though I'm sure he'd love it. He cringes when he tastes something cold even if he likes it. Any food that is a weird texture too he makes a funny face and then opens his mouth for more. Silly kid.

Parent Fail

Libby went to the dentist for the first time last week. She did great! They had a slide/playground thing in the waiting room a t.v. on the ceiling with Cinderella playing while they cleaned her teeth. (Pretty awesome dentist office) She was so good and opened when they asked her too. I am very proud of her. But, as I expected she had a cavity. The only people who can be blamed for this cavity are me and Richard for letting our children eat way more sugar than they probably should and being terrible about brushing their teeth every single day. Parent Fail :( Well, we are doing much better at that now. Yesterday was the big day for Libby to get that darn cavity filled. She once again amazed us with her braveness and did great. They didn't even need to give her laughing gas, that's how awesome she was. This time she got to watch her favorite movie Toy Story 2 and Daddy was there with her favorite blanket and her Jessie toy to comfort her. Richard said she looked like she was going to fall asleep for part of the time.

Elliot loves getting his teeth brushed, so hopefully we will be better about his keeping his teeth clean and not have to deal with cavities for him so early.

Richard update

This post is just about me (richard) so if your looking for cute pictures of the kids, sorry you have to wait until next month after Elliot's b-day. For the past month I have been working on starting a business/website with a few other guys from school. It has been time consuming, but I think it will be a really good resume builder. Our group presented our business plan at a CEO crowd pitch event. By audience vote we won overwhelmingly. There were about 10 presentations and we got 45% of the votes. Also this week I had an interview with the church IT dept for an internship with their software development team, I think it went really well.