A child's prayer

After we finished our family prayer the other night, Nate decided he wanted to say one of his own. It went a little something like this:

Heavenly Father, please help us to have another Haloween party so I can get LOTS of candy, please help my muscles to get really big, please help my dad to get home safely even though he didn't go to work today, and please help me not to have the scary dream where I am in the lake with the crocodiles, ...Amen.

I think that about covers it.

Halloween

I think I've mentioned that I love Halloween.  And this year was a great one.  I loved my kids costumes!  For once we didn't have the lamest ones!  Bubb watched The Nightmare Before Christmas right before Halloween and latched on to the idea of being a skeleton.  You should hear him say, "skel-eh-ten" with perfect pronounciation, it was so cute!  He was so proud of his costume and wore all parts of it, the gloves, shoe covers, and mask included.

We got the idea off familyfun.com for Cami to be a fortune teller.  I loved how it turned out, she looked so cute!

Her aunt Court was a fortune teller too, and came down to go to our ward Trunk or Treat party with us.

Emma was a witch.  She is such a teenager.  Her hat kept falling off, so she didn't like wearing it, and then she borrowed some random clothes from her friend and ended up not looking like anything.  It bugged me but she was happy.  Oh well!  At least I can post my favorite pic, haha!

The Elders quorum was in charge of the ward party, and they were supposed to all dress up like pirates.  I had fun penciling in Justin's moustache and soul patch.

They did an amazing job decorating the church for the party.  They had great music and everything, it was so fun!  And is Trunk or Treat not the best invention EVER?

Basherton wanted to be a jellyfish, another familyfun idea, but I couldn't find the stuff so we switched to Cruella at the last minute.  I think she turned out pretty cute!

Man I love this kid!

California...knows how to party!!

Justin scored some cheap tickets and we took Papa to the UCLA vs. ASU game for his birthday.  Brett and his girlfriend Lisa came too.  It was our kids first football game, and they ate it up.  We arrived early and got a great spot for tailgating.

Soaked up some rays.

I made the sliders and Papa manned the grill.

How lucky to see your first football game in a famous stadium.  We had such a ball.  It was so cold, but we brought lots of blankets.  We had to bribe Nate to wear his coat.  He says he never gets cold.

Nate clapped any time the crowd cheered, it was pretty funny.

This is Camille's favorite thing lately, EVERY time the camera comes out...

Legend Nate

We use the gospel art kit to teach Nate scripture stories.  We tell him the stories then review them by letting him show them to us and ask the questions about them.  Tonight he showed this picture:

Nate: Emma!  Who is this?

Emma: Jesus

Nate: And what is he wearing?

Emma: A robe.

Nate: No, Dad what is he wearing?

Dad: Its a robe.

Nate: No...

Dad: What do you think it is?

Nate: A flight suit.



Inspired

My sis has been posting tons on her blog, and I love reading it.  She inspired me.  Plus, I have to get some more things on here because everytime I look and scroll down it makes my heart hurt a little to see our moving pics from Dallas.  As much as I love Anaheim, we had good times there and I miss it.

We are in the middle of the SECOND week of spring break.  I have no idea whose idea a two week long spring break was, but if it weren't for our friends the Pells we would not have made it this far!  We do all kinds of stuff with them: swimming, BBQs, shopping, swimming, eating cereal for dinner because we hung out swimming all day, going to the beach, and today, the Los Angeles Zoo.

The Mamas

Joy and I promised, when it gets this bad we will let each other know.

New Digs

We have been getting settled at home and working on making friends in our new spot.  We have the worlds best neighbors across the street.  The kids play outside all the time.  They ride bikes all around the culdesac.  I'm preparing for Ashley's birthday party this weekend, and trying to organize and clean...yes, still.

Justin took all the girls this afternoon and went to a baptism in our ward.

Ahhhhhhhhhh. :)

Sunday morning suprise

We woke up to a little squatter on the back porch today.

He must have had a wild night, because he was so sleepy he didn't even bolt when Nate pounded on the door and yelled at him.  (And these old windows are not sound proof, or cold proof for that matter).

I have never seen a raccoon this close before.  He had a nice little spot in the sun and was not about to move.  He didn't respond to the beeps of my camera when I snuck out the dining room doors and crept around to take better pictures.  He tossed and turned in his sleep a bit, and it made me laugh when he curled in a ball but with his head and tail tucked underneath him to keep warm. 

We left him to finish his nap and by the time we got home from church he was gone.