we should all vote this way...

Brooklyn came home the other day excited because she got to vote for the president of the U. S.
She told me about the 2 guys who were running. Her freind Dallan voted for Obama and she was upset, he was supposed to vote for John McCain. I asked her why she liked McCain better and she said "because he has blonde hair just like me!"
She watched the news all last night and was so sure he would win. When she woke up this morning her first question was "did John McCain win mom?" When I told her no, she actually started to cry!

more halloween

I wanted more pix on my blog but could only do so many in my last post so here's more.



The kids thought the pumpkin carving was smelly. Brookie was gagging ( but that could have been partly cuz she was sick) She did a cat and Tanner chose Thomas the Train (of coarse) for his pumpkin.

Preston was kept entertained with a sucker. He was so excited to eat it too. And sticky. He ate the whole thing and wanted more. The kids had one in front of him and he was bouncing like crazy, he was so excited.
He was very giggly for a while after too.




We dressed him in a warm lion costume and
I think he was pretty stinking cute.
Tanner was spiderman with the large boo boo's (he came up with that on his own- "Look mommy, I have boo boo's!) He has been wearing that costume all month. He even wants to watch spider man movies all the time right now. so silly. brookie was a fairy this year and a tiger at the fair that we went to. You know, you can't show up at 2 events wearing the same costume!
I was a southern bell. I borrowed my mom-in-laws hat and dress from her singing group for my costume. Daddy was a pirate. His was last min. and we tried to find an eye patch, but no luck. o well.
Now we have enough candy to last us the next 6 months or so and then we can start to look forward to the next halloween!

Halloween!

We went to a fair that Draper city put on and the kids had their faces painted, went fishing, made cool glittery pictures and a bunch of other fun things.

I am the homeroom mom for Brookies class so I'm in charge of doing the parties and we had an awesome party! The kids went fishing for pumpkins and bats, made cute bats, had halloween stories. We did a relay race where they had to put together a skeleton, a neighbor put together a cute book for the kids to color that was similar to brown bear but was brown owl instead. It turned out really cute. Then we made monster head apples. This one is brookies, the eyebrows are the best!
She was sick with the flu all week. I was worried she wouldn't be well in time for Halloween and then miss out on the fun, but luckily she was well enough to go! She was so tired though. She didn't last long with the trick or treating. That's ok though we still ended up with tons of candy!!
This is at Gardner Village. We went to the Witch-a-Palooza or whatever they call it. The kids love to go and see all the silly witches they have on display. All the pix I took of them infront of the witches, one or both are not looking though. This is the best I got that day. This year they didn't have as many silly displays we were a little dissapointed but the kids still had a good time.