Pumpkin Carving

Saturday we did our yearly Halloween pumpkin carving. I was way impressed with my kids this year who for the most part drew the pictures for their faces, and they scooped out all the insides by themselves. I also surprised myself and TeJay by actuallyenjoying carving pumpkins. Every year I've left it to him to cut our pumpkins up, but this yearI tried my hand at it and LOVED it!

(from left to right) Emma's, Nate's, and mine and TeJay's (We decided to share this year)

My Antonia

As you might already know I LOVE to read books! I feel a little lost if I don't have a book to read. And as a rule, I always give a book until page 50. If it hasn't caught my interest by that point I give it up! I belong to a neighborhood book club, and last months book was My Antonia by Willa Cather. I guess a lot of people had read it in school, but I hadn't. It wasn't my favorite book, but I liked it so much more listening to my group talk about it (Thanks Mandy) that I had to share it with you, if you're in need of a good book.

I must warn you that it's not this picture perfect book of life, which is why I think that I didn't like it at first. I was looking for an escape, and it paints life as it really is. Antonia goes through so many hardships, that I wonder if it wasn't me if I would have given up long ago. But yet she never complains, and finds the strength to better her life. I think the most of what I took away from our discussion the other night about the book, is that even when things aren't going your way, and you can find so many reasons to wallow in pitty about your life, to just get up and go to work!

For those of you who buy diapers....

This is for any of you who buy diapers, and believe me I BUY diapers! I don't want to count the number that we go through in a day! But I found a deal (although it might only be a deal for one time, but I guess one time is better than nothing, right?). I bought diapers this last time at diapers.com. If your order is $50 or more you get free shipping, and if you're a first time customer you get $3 off, and enter code PTG1 (that I got from the partenting magazine) you get $10 off your first order. With all these discounts (even though they are only for 1st orders) I got the diapers that I usally get at Sam's Club or Costco for $3 less AND they were delivered to my house within less than a week! Now I know that $3 isn't much but the delivery to my house is a BIG Deal right now!

Ahhhh.....Sundays!

Yesterday we reached a huge milestone for our family. Or at least Parker reached it. He is now officially 18 months and entering the nursery life during church. It was so nice to just have Abby to take care of for the 2 hours of church. And luckily Parker is liking nursery so far.

We got this cute little outfit from a friend when he was born - and he looks like such a little man. Don't you think? We went to the Timpanogos Park in Provo Canyon to take his picture. I had never been there before but it really nice. You should go if you live nearby. The only thing I think is missing is a kids playground, but it is very pretty.

Anyways, HURRAY for Nursery!

The PRINCESS has DECLARED!

So today I asked Nate and Emma to clean up their toys in the living room. And Emma said, (and this is a quote), "I delcare that we no longer have to clean up our toys." I'm not sure where she learned about the word DECLARE, but I think the Princess has spoken. Now she can learn that the Queen (that's me) can always over-rule what ever the Princess has declared. Especially when it comes to our living room. Enjoy the picture of our little PRINCESS