Trick or Treat

We went trick or treating with my sister and niece in Greencove Springs. Julia’s favorite house was a big 2 story historical house. They had both stories all decorated, the owner stood out side, a guy in a blow up suite that made him real fat, and he had on a tutu and was dancing. Julia thought that was the funniest thing. This year the kids got to dress up for trunk or treat at church on Wednesday, for trick or treating on Friday and Saturday we went to the last day of Spooktacular at the zoo. They had so much fun wearing their costumes. Julia loves to dress up so of course she’s wore it everyday since Halloween. At Spooktacular she loved the animal costumes. She hugged the poor tiger about 6 times, he almost tripped over her trying to walk away . They had several areas set up where they played music and let the kids dance. Both Julia and Haley loved these areas! It was a little crowded for mom’s taste but the kids had fun!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

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FHE fun

For family home evening a few weeks ago we went to the pumpkin patch and picked up some pumpkins to carve. The kids had fun running around looking at all the different shaped pumpkins. After we finally chose our pumpkins we took them home. They sat on our porch for about a week and on Halloween we carved them up. Bryant had no problems sticking his hands in to clean out the pumpkin. Julia on the other hand wanted nothing to do with cleaning out the pumpkins. She said it was gross! She stuck her hand in but wouldn’t pull anything out. Bryant had fun he said is was spooky!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Strangers in the Box

I was trying to find questions that I could ask my grandparents to do an interview with them to get as much information as I could from them about them, (my grandparents are all still living, and I have a great grandmother still alive!) and stumbled across this poem. I shared it with Lonnis before she left on her mission I believe she had it posted somewhere in the FHC library. I actually have a box full of pictures I got from my mom. I am suppose to be putting them into scrapbooks for her. I’ve had them for almost 5 years and there still sitting in the box. I need to get busy! Thought I would share it….

Strangers in the Box

Come, look with me inside this drawer,

In this box, I’ve often seen,

At the pictures, black and white,

Faces proud, still serene;

I wish I knew these people

These strangers in the box.

Their names and all their memories

Are lost among my socks;

I wonder what their lives were like,

How did they spend their days?

What about their special times?

I’ll never know their ways.

If only someone had taken time

To tell who, what, where and when,

These faces of my heritage

Would come to life again.

Could this become the fate

Of the picture we take today?

The faces and the memories

Someday will pass away.

Make time to save your stories;

Seize opportunity when it knocks,

Or someday you and yours could be

The strangers in this box!

Author unknown

Boats

My kids love to play pretend. They are always dressing up in what every they can find to put on. A few weeks ago I brought down 2 king size pillows I was going to get rid of. Julia and Bryant decided they could make toys out of them. One day they were bridges they could walk over. The next day they were boats. They would stand on them and the other would pull it. Well Bryant pulled it right out from under Julia and she fell and busted her chin on the tile floor. When she first come to me crying I seen this thin red line under her chin where it was starting to bleed and I just thought it was a scrape. But as she stood there sobbing the thin line opened up into a gash about the size of my thumb. She probably needed to have a few stitches, but since I stay at home now our insurance has ended and Paul’s doesn’t take effect until the end of the month so I put some butterfly band-aids and Neosporin on it. She’s a tough little girl! She only cried for a few min. until I got the band-aid on it, and that was it. The is under her chin so it’s not that noticeable. They play way too rough with each other. But I can’t seem to stop them.

It's healing up good!

Day after it happened! This morning!

Tagged Again 7 fact about me

Tagged by Jarvis girls
Here are the rules...
1. Link to the person who tagged you and list these rules on your post.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post, by leaving their names, as well as links to their blogs.
4. Comment to the people you've tagged and let them know they've been tagged.

1. I do not like to have my faced touched by anyone.
2. Whenever I read one of President Hinkley’s books, I can hear his voice in my head as I read it. Isn’t that crazy only happens with his books though.
3. I love to cook and hate to clean up afterwards. When I first got married after I finished cooking, Paul would always clean up the kitchen. Not anymore :(
4. I read this book by Gary Chapman called The 5 Love Languages. Loved the book but I couldn’t figure out what my love language was. So I discussed it with Paul (because he’ll never read the book) and he had to tell me what my love language was. (Acts of Service.)
5. I rarely finish a project I start. I have a closet full of stuff I never finished, going all the way back to an outfit I was making in a sewing class in 8th grade. Even when cleaning I get distracted. I can be cleaning in one room and go to another for something and start cleaning something in there, then go for something else in another room and never finish the first room I started on.
6. I hate to look at pictures of myself past or present, because it makes me realize how much weight I’ve put on in the past 5 years. It’s depressing.
7. I am not a morning person. I much prefer staying up late. Probably because every job I had always required it. Julia wakes me every morning around 9, saying Mommy the sun is shinning in my room it’s time to get up.


So here we go -Afton, Brandon, Melinda, Savannah, and the Thompsons - Tag - you're it!

The ABC's of Me

A. ATTACHED OR SINGLE? Attached 8 years
B. BEST FRIEND? Paul
C. CAKE OR PIE? Cheese Cake
D. DAY OF THE WEEK? Sunday
E. ESSENTIAL ITEMS? Wet Wipes
F. FAVORITE COLOR? Purple
G. GUMMY BEARS OR WORMS? Bears
H. HOMETOWN? Jacksonville
I. INDULGENCE? Japanese food
J. JANUARY OR JULY? July, I like warmer months.
K. KIDS? 2 girls Julia Eve 5 ½ , Haley Storm 1 ½
L. LIFE ISN'T COMPLETE WITHOUT? My Husband
M. MARRIAGE DATE? June 3, 2000
N. NUMBER OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS? 3 sisters and 2 brothers
O. ORANGES OR APPLES? Oranges
P. PHOBIAS OR FEARS? Spiders
Q. QUOTE? Whatever
R. REASONS TO SMILE? My girls
S. SUPERMAN OR WONDER WOMAN? Superman
T. TAG 5 PEOPLE? I don’t have anyone to tag everyone I know has already done it.
U. UNKNOWN FACT ABOUT ME? I do not like to have my faced touched.
V. VEGETABLES? Asparagus
W. WORST HABIT? Picking my cuticles on my thumbs
X. X-RAY OR ULTRASOUND? Ultrasound
Y. YOUR FAVORITE FOOD? Supreme Pizza
Z. ZODIAC SIGN? Aquarius

Baby pictures

I guess you don't really realize how much your kids look like you until you pull out baby pictures. I really think Haley looks more like Paul and Julia looks more like me when we were babies. But this says they both look more like me.

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Geneology

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities - Collage - Morph

Who is this?

My husband, is so funny. He just called me and told me about a few jobs that he did this morning. Since he installs cable, he gets to go into people's homes. Normally he's telling me how unkept most of them are, occasionally he tells me how nice they are or different. Today he got to go onto a yacht to fix their cable. He also got to go to a really expensive home where he said everything was nice and they had a Mercedes parked outside. He said he didn’t have to do much there, and was out within about 15 min. He said they had Miami Football Jerseys hanging on the walls so he figured he was a football play for Miami. He asked me to look up the name on the internet a few hours after he left, you wouldn’t believe who it was……the new QB for the Jacksonville Jaguars #17 Cleo Lemon and Paul was clueless! Guess he needs to watch some more football!

Ok this was crazy trying to set this up. Talk about obsessive, I was determined I would figure this blog stuff out. I stayed at my computer for 5 hrs until I got it all set up. I didn’t make it to bed until 2:30am. Paul would have a fit if he knew what time I finally came to bed. Good thing he is a heavy sleeper, and the typing didn’t wake him up or the light that was on over the computer. I actually heard him laugh in his sleep a few time. But he said he didn’t remember what he was dreaming about! This is the best I can do hopefully it’s good enough. If not maybe someone can send me some pointers on what I’m doing wrong.