Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeeen

My mom was here for Halloween. She came to watch our kids so I could go with Daniel to San Antonio. I had to cut my part of the trip short so I could go home and take the kids trunk-or-treating since Halloween was on Sunday. I came home early Friday morning and then that night we took the kids to our church Halloween party.

Staucie was originally going to be Cinderella and then Little Mermaid. She was going to wear her Sleeping Beauty dress to her friend's princess birthday party, the day before, but then changed it to Little Mermaid. So then for trunk-or-treating she was Sleeping Beauty. It is a good thing we have all these dresses already.

Parker wanted to be a green dragon with brown pokies. We were not successful in finding any dragon costumes and ended up with Pablo from Backyardigans (whom he loves). Since my mom was here I made her alter the Pablo costume, it was too small. Bensen was whatever we put on him which was Parker's dinosaur costume from last year.

Bensen had been running fevers that day so we brought in the double stroller so he could just hang out in that.
I took the kids around while my mom passed out candy with Addie.

Then the kids joined her for a little while. Her leg is in the air because she was afriad Parker would fall off.

Then we came home and looked at all the candy and tried some.

Daniel came home when we were about ready to get them to bed, it was late. They were all nice and sticky.

On Saturday we had a "Halloween Party." Just us. We had pizza for dinner, painted pumpkins, decorated and ate cookies, had a bath and went to bed. Cleaning up was super fun when they all cried about frosting all over their hands. Sprinkles were everywhere. I just hope they had fun...

Bensen was still sick. I showed him how to paint and then he had fun with it.

And then on Halloween, Sunday. We went to church, my mom and I left after Sacrament meeting to put the babies to bed. Bensen was still sick. And then I had to take her to the airport later that afternoon. Boo. When I got back we decided to be naughty and take the kids trick-or-treating to a few houses since Daniel missed the trunk-or-treating. We went to like 6 houses. Then the kids helped us give out popscicles to all the trick-or-treaters. It was a pretty warm night and the popscicles were a big hit. We had a box of 100 and went through most of them.

Happy Halloween!!

Pumpkins

We went to a church down the street on Friday to pick our pumpkins. We have been driving by it for a couple weeks and so the kids were excited to finally go. They just have a bunch of pumpkins laying out on the lawn. It amazes me that they can just leave them out like that all day and night and no one comes and smashes them. We must live in a good town.

It was a bright day so Parker was having a hard time looking up at me :)

And Bensen just never holds still for a picture.

I was holding Addie the whole time so this picture was funny to try and get. I made Staucie hold Addie (she didn't want to). I told her to hold on tight and right after I took the picture, Addie tried to jump off and was hanging upside down while Staucie hung on for dear life. I am glad Staucie hung on tight. After I rescued Addie we laughed about it.

We will be painting our pumpkins again this year. So much easier with little kids :) It will be interesting with Bensen this year though... I am sure he will taste the paint. And they picked really small pumpkins.

She is 5 Months

Addie is already 5 months old. Life is just flying by. The days go by too quick and not much gets done. I would like to keep Addie just like she is forever. She is such a sweet little baby. I just love her to pieces and I love kissing her squishy cheeks!

While we were in New York, Addie found her feet. That is how fast these little things can grow up. You leave for like 3 days and they reach another milestone. Addie is happy to just have her hands and feet and roll around.

Such a cute sleeper.
It is really easy to make her smile.

Parker did it.

Blueberries stain, Parker falls down

Staucie tried to use blueberries for lipstick...
I told Bensen to smile with his blueberry lips and I got this...

Parker is always falling. He just trips a lot while running and falls flat on his face. This time his hands did not stop his face from hitting the pavement. His lip got nice and fat. He didn't mind once it stopped bleeding though. This is the day after...

New York

Well, we went to New York. I have always, always wanted to go to New York. Daniel came home one day and said that he was going to New York for a training. He didn't even want to go and knew that I had been dying to go for years. Then a few weeks later he came home with flowers and said, "Here's your early birthday present. (flowers, roses) They were on sale." I thought, "what the?? I get flowers because they were on sale and not even on my real birthday, which was a few weeks a way." He kept telling me to put them in water. So, I finally did and the card fell that said, Happy Birthday, and when I picked it up I barely saw the back so I flipped it back over and it said, "What state flower are these (roses)?" I looked it up after dinner... New York! So, Daniel's wonderful mom and sister took care of our kiddies and we went to New York on September 15th-18th. It was so fun.

Coming out of Central Park

The first day we got there in the afternoon and we went to the hotel, dropped off our luggage and took off around the city. Our hotel was right next to Times Square. We walked to Central Park, which is huge. It was just like I thought. It was crazy to get into the park and it didn't even seem like it was surrounded by a big, crazy city.

Taxi Cabs. They were everywhere.

We found the LDS Temple. It was crazy to see it sitting in the middle of the city. The first thing I saw was the Angel Moroni. While we stood there looking at it from across the street, I was thinking...'Here sits the temple of God right in the middle of Manhattan, where thousands of people walk by everyday and most have no idea what they are walking right next to.'

Giant statue by Central Park.

We finally found a good pizza place. John's Pizzeria. It was so good and looked way different inside then I thought it would. This is the celing. It had stained glass windows and was really high.

Pretty.

I had a picture of Daniel too, but I must have skipped it when uploading...

Bummer. His was funny too, but now mine is just dumb...

Random.

There was a 3-story Toys R Us in Times Square.

It had Jurassic Park. The T-rex really moved and looked real. We thought it was looking at us.

There was a ferris wheel in Toys R Us.

And Candy Land.

5th Avenue had all the stores like Prada, Saks, Juicy, etc. And the Trump Tower.

In the middle of all these buildings there were churches too.

The NBC store in the Rockerfeller Plaza had lots of stuff from their shows.

I thought The Office bobble heads were funny.

And the Dundie Awards. Daniel doesn't think some things are as funny as I do.

The next few pictures are of Times Square.

Friday afternoon we took the Subway to Canal street. I can't believe that subway system is under the city. It was crazy. We did not fit in. It was all the new yorkers and we were not one of them because we had no idea what we were doing. We were just hoping to not get lost.

Canal Street is near Chinatown. It was crazy as soon as we stepped up from the subway. (It is not like Chinatown in San Fransisco.) At first I had no idea what the little chinese lady was yelling at me. I later figured out that she was saying something about Gucci, Prada, etc. "what you looking for?" ha ha.

To ge the 'real' stuff you had to follow them to the back where they said there was "no security." We didn't follow. I didn't feel good about illegal merchandise. We did barter with them and I got a bag that I hope wasn't illegal. There were tables with bongs spread out to buy and guys handing out free drugs. No thanks. People were constantly asking you what you were looking for and shouting out what they had to sell you. Rolex, Prada, Gucci, jewlery, sunglasses. I offered $15 for a purse and the lady said, "Ha. You can get a wallet for fifteen." It was hilarious.

This is the entrance to the Apple store which was down a spiral stair case.

FAO Schwartz. I made Daniel take off his shoes and play The Big Piano.

Don't worry, we found Quality Quidditch Supplies.

Soldier outside of FAO. He was funny.

Night time in Times Square.

It was so fun and there is so much to do in New York. We needed more time. We got there Wednesday afternon and Daniel was working from 9-5 on Thursday and 9-3 on Friday, and we left Saturday morning so we didn't have much time. I hope we can go back someday and go to more places. Happy Birthday to me! Thanks Daniel, mom-in-law, and Brittany. It was fun.