What a Turkey!

At preschool today Adelynn learned the letter "G" as in GOBBLE. So cute. Check out the little Turkey's they made...

AWWW! I love my little turkey!

Crafting

Last night me and my sister-in-laws and my mother-in-law got together to craft. We made watchbands and hairbows. I tried them on the girls and couldn't resist a few pics. I tried warmifying a couple and doing some touchups on a few, but I'm not quite good at that stuff yet, but still...aren't my girls the cutest ever? (yes...I'm biased, but still!)

Seriously long day

Is it really only monday? Today I had extra kids, and it wrapped up to be quite the day. I won't go into too much detail, but let's just say it was LONG! ...ok, here is a little detail. It started out quite well. One of the little boys I was watching was being quite sweet and melancholy, and I was rather enjoying him. But when I put the little ones down for nap, he woke up and said "Ashley, me's puked." I went downstairs to see the damage, and sure enough, power explosions all over my brand new bed set. I stripped him, and stripped the bed, and shook off all the chunks. While I was starting a load of wash, I went upstairs to help in the bathtub to find him trying to go potty on the toilet! Good boy, but with diarreah...it was everywhere. I got him cleaned up and the bathroom cleaned up, and put him in the tub. I've done 5 loads of wash trying to clean all of the pillows, shams, towels, bath rug, comforter, clothes, rags, etc. After all of this was said and done, another little boy told me I looked like I was going to have another baby. :) That always helps your day! Then I was trying to do a little prep for dinner and was making some cornbread and ruined the whole batch by adding a 1/3 cup oil instead of MILK! AGH! Am I already this scatterbrained and it's only monday?! Wish me luck for the upcoming week, I will need it.

Halloween Post Overload...warning...this is LONG!

Halloween! Eek! It's my fave. We have had so much fun this month doing festive things, and we are sad to see it go, but the next two months are full of just as much fun. Here is about a bizzilion pictures to re-cap our fun.

Here is Adi posing before church...It has nothing to do with Halloween except it's cute, and it was this month.

Adi loves to rock her kitties like they're her babies. Prince Louis loves her!

Caleb and I got Halloween footie jammies. They have skulls on them, and they are the BEST! If you don't have a pair, you should get one!
Adi got a pair of $.50 skull glasses. They were a hit!
Here is Adi before her dance class on wednesday. They got to wear their costumes and have a party.
Emi got to go and dress up too!
Here is her group. Such cute kids!
After Dance class we went to Boise to spend the rest of the week with family. It was great. Gayle and Charlie and Craig got to come too. We missed Chelsey and Cory and Kristen and Mitchel tho. It was so full of fun and festivities. We went to the pumpkin patch. Here is Jed pretty proud of his pumpkin.

Shana pushing around all the kids and their pumpkins.

Emi and Daddy with the pumpkin they picked.

Me and Emersyn in the hay maze afterwards. Adi was so brave in this. She kept charging off on her own, and we'd have to go search for her. It was fun.

We made sugar cookies and decorated them.

Emi got to help too.

Adi loved this activity, especially the sprinkles and candy part!

Here are her finished cookies...don't you love the bite out of the purple one.
That night we went to a ward trunk or treat with Shana's ward. Caleb and I were a Roman warrior and his Roman Goddess.

Jed was the most adorable little penguin!

Emi and Adi went as BSU cheerleaders that night.

It's so hard to get the 2 of them to look normal at the same time! :)

We straightened my sisters hair because she was a witch for the trunk or treat. AH! Straight hair....it looks so witchy! :) heheeh

On Halloween we got to together and carved and painted our pumpkins. My friend Heidi came too, so Adi got to see her friends Tawny and Greyson.

Reese liked the guts!
Grandma was sweet to help Emersyn feel involved.

We made edible magic wands. Again, the sprinkles were a hit!


Here are the kids with some of their handy work.
We played in the leaves, and Jed wore Reese's jacket, he's so cute!

Raking them up to jump in, the funnest!

That night we had a party for my Dad's birthday. All the men are decked out in their BSU attire because they went to the game that day. Of course we won!

Daddy and Sissy "hee-yawing" before the party.

The birthday boy with 2 of his grandkids and his sister, my Aunt Andy.

Then it was on to Halloween fun. Here is the pretty princess!

And the most adorable Bee ever!

Apparently I am a Halloween nazi, and I made everyone dress up somewhat. Come on people, it's Halloween! Here is the group.

And here are the grandkids. We really missed Mitchel man and his Mom and Dad. They couldn't be there.
While we were trick or treating there is this crazy decked out house by my parents that we went to. SO AMAZING! That's the spirit!

Saying good-bye to my sister I was trying to get caleb to take a pic for us, and if you know my hubby at all, you probably don't have to guess why we look like that, we were laughin so hard at him.
Then we tried to pose again, and this time he was video taping, so we bust out laughing again, and he snaps a picture! ha!

Finally after crying from laughing so hard he takes a pic, and I look ridiculous from laughing so hard. Oh well, great memories.

This is Emi when we got home the next day and I was feeding her lunch. Do you think we wore her out?

It was such a great holiday. I am really blessed to have a beautiful family with a great husband, and not only that, but great Family on both sides. Ok, now bring on the rest of the Holidays! WOOHOO!

Preschool Halloween Party

I was in charge of Adelynn's Preschool this week. Since it is the week of Halloween, we did a party. Before each holiday we are going to have a party for the kids and their parents. I did the letter "H" and the color orange. We had so much fun, and so did the kids...and Mom's too! Here are some pictures from our fun today...

These are the scary monster jaws we had during snack time. Super easy, and nutritious...just apple wedges with almond slivers for teeth, and pretzel sticks with peanut butter to stick on the eyes. The kids loved them.

These are just hot dogs cut in half to be bite size, with crescent rolls wrapped around them to be mummies. The eyes can be ketchup or mustard. Super cute for little ones!

We also drang Orange juice to go with our color.

This is the craft they made. Since the letter was "H", we made scary Hands.

We also strung orange and black beads onto orange pipe cleaner. For letter time they were given a VERY LARGE letter "H" to apply scary stickers too. They loved that, and most did very well. Some stuck stickers everywhere, but most were able to stick them in the shape of the H. Circle time we talked about weather, and it started snowing while we were doing so, and that was kind of fun for them. They also got to each take a turn and talk about their costumes. Adi LOVED that part. She stood right up and went into detail about her being a princess.

During singing time they got to hold pumpkin faces while we sang "The pumpkins are everywhere". It's sung to the tune of "The farmer and the dell." ....

The pumpkins are here, the pumpkins are there, the pumpkins, the pumpkins, they are everywhere....included is up and down and in and out etc. It was very fun and interactive for them.

We also tied orange ribbons on their hands and sang "The Hookey Spookey". It's done to "The Hokey Pokey". ....

You put your orange hand in, you put your orange hand out, your put your orange hand in and you shake it all about, you do the "hookey spookey" and you turn youself around...etc. It was also perfect for their age group.

We also read the book "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything." It is such a fun interactive book that lets the kids become a part of it by clapping and stomping and nodding and wiggling etc.

And here is the happy group. We were missing a few people due to sick kids, but it was certainly a blast for all of us that came! And Sorry to Heidi for being cut off of the pic...my house is not big enough to get a huge group shot I guess!

This is a busy week with lots of fun halloween stuff, so be prepared for blog overload! Tomorrow is dance class, and they get to wear costumes there too!

Upside Down

Take a minute and watch this. I promise that you will feel moved. You must watch the whole video to get the entire message though. Inspiring!

Don't you just love the part where it turns everything around and it comes to the "misguided" part? And instead of being misguided by believing in Him, it becomes misguiding to NOT believe. AWW! I love it!

Pledge of Allegiance

The following words were spoken by the late Red Skelton on his television program as he related the story of his teacher Mr. Laswell who felt his students had come to think of the Pledge of Allegiance as merely something to recite in class each day.

Now more than EVER, listen to the meaning of his words, and maybe it will hit you like it did me.

"I've been listening to you boys and girls recite the Pledge of Allegiance all semester and it seems as though it is becoming monotonous to you. If I may, may I recite it and try to explain to you the meaning of each word?

I
me, an individual, a committee of one.
Pledge
dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self-pity.
Allegiance
my love and my devotion.
To the Flag[of the]
our standard, Old Glory, a symbol of freedom. Wherever she waves, there's respect because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts freedom is everybody's job.
United
that means that we have all come together.
States [of America]
individual communities that have united into 48 great states. 48 individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose, all divided with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common purpose, and that's love for country.
and to the RepublicFor Which It Stands
Republic ... a state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people and it's from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people.
One Nation
One Nation ... meaning, so blessed by God.
Indivisible
incapable of being divided.
With Liberty
which is freedom, the right of power to live one's own life, without threats, fear, or some sort of retaliation.
And Justice
the principle or qualities of dealing fairly with others.
For All
For all ... which means, boys and girls, it's as much your country as it is mine.

And now boys and girls let me hear you recite,the Pledge of Allegiance.
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country, and two words have been added to the Pledge of Allegiance - "under God."

Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said, "That is a prayer," and that would be eliminated from schools, too?"

Red Skelton