Jeff is 29!!!

Really weird picture. I don't know why he decided to bite the balloon but that is one of the reasons I love him so much is because he makes me laugh. when you are married, and have children that is a very very beautiful skill.

Here is Jeff making balloon animals for our family home evening activity that he was in charge of.

He heard Hannah coming down the stairs and decided to scare her. (How cool is it that there happens to be a UFO on the tv right then)! These are random pictures because his actual birthday was not quite as peachy as I had hoped. I had volunteered to help with a taster's table for a Relief Society night that ended up being scheduled that night so I was trying to do his birthday dinner, wake up the kids from their naps so they would go to bed nicely for Jeff since I would be leaving for the afore mentioned meeting, (they were screaming like banshees), and then make soup for the now twice afore mentioned meeting. Not fabulous and did not need any pictures to remember that evening. We are planning on going to dinner together without kids sometime this week and I am very excited for that.

I love you Jeff.

The Halloween Candy personality profile

Here is the official report on what the kids did with their candy:

Hannah promptly gave some to Mimi, Baba, and Jacob. Made a baggie of candy for Nana and Baba, and then made a treasure hunt for Jeff for when he got home. She used all her candy bars to make a trail from the front door up to his pillow.

Jacob opened up M&Ms and tootsie rolls to use as tender in his trains, then made a pile out of the rest of the stash for Percy to plow through.

More spookiness

My parents and Nat, Brian, and Henry came over for dinner and trick-or-treating.
Does my lipstick look weird to anyone else? Why didn't anyone say something!

Nat and spooky Henry, before Brian arrived. Check out my new table in the background!

Happy Halloween

Determined to be more thrifty I had resolved not to spend over $10 on each costume. Jacob was in luck that I found his at a thrift store for $6 bucks. He seriously is getting a new bucket for next year. (Yes, it is a hot pink pumpkin).

Hannah wanted to be wonder woman which I thought would be AWESOME except that she meant a pink superhero with a W on the front. Pink and Silver fabric: $6. Finding out that I could actually make a decent costume: priceless.

Halloween cinnamin rolls for breakfast. Mmmm. What's up with always looking somewhere else big guy?

More on the fair

Jacob won a horn and discovered that if he just kept it in his mouth he could inhale and exhale, thus making a continuous noise while breathing.
Jeff and Jacob are on the blue slide and Baba and Hannah are on the pink one.
Mimi was at the fair also but we have discovered that the women are the photographers in this family.

Hannah decided that riding a pony was worth shelling out five of her own bucks. Jeff and I went on the ferris wheel and I discovered that I freak out real easy since I have had kids. Jeff found this hilarious but those things go crazy high. After a couple times around I calmed down and told Jeff we had to kiss at the top. It was more like a quick peck, Jeff confessed he was fearful I might upchuck and didn't want to kill the magic. Loved the fair food. I had my funnel cake with chocolate on top and was very happy.

Tardy fair photos

Went to the fair two weeks ago and had loads of fun. This is my favorite photo.
This is my least favorite photo because I look like such a weirdo but it is good for one's sense of humility to have a really awful photo every now and then.

The kids were rather daring, which was fun.

Jacob decided not to get too crazy and rode the bench on the carousel

Hannah rode a carousel horse that went up and down (I am telling you, she was fearless)!

The Good Life

We finally moved Hannah back into her own room. Jacob had been tormenting her at bedtime for weeks, licking her, getting in bed with her, pretty much anything to make her scream. We would come in, try to restore order, sometimes move Jacob to our bed so that he could fall asleep before transplanting him back to his own bed. We kept saying that it was probably time for her to have her own room again but she would cry and say: "please let's give him one more chance."

Eventually I had enough and bribed her with glow in the dark stars on her ceiling if she would move back to her old room. Bribe accepted. After moving her furniture to the other room (Jeff was very kind to understand that Yes we need to move her dresser with the full fish tank this very evening even though you just got home from work) she was settled in. The next afternoon I came upstairs and found her looking at a book while lounging on her bed. She had Snow White and the Seven Dwarves playing on her CD player. She looked at me and said:

It never gets better than this.