T-shirts

Mia being her usual naughty self...

Happy Halloween!!

We kicked off Halloween week with a fun Monday night. We tie-dyed t-shirts and the girls drew on pumpkin faces (got the cool idea from Kaysha who makes these every year). Mia is excited to wear hers to preschool tomorrow where they are going to pick pumpkins. She thinks pumpkins have candy inside them. She's going to have a
rude awakening tomorrow :(

Happy Birthday Mia!!!

Mia had a great Birthday. Hard to believe she is already 4. We decorated her room and woke her up early so she could open presents before she left the house. So, she was pretty tired while opening presents, but struggled through :) She had a lot of fun presents-a dress and candy (all gone) from Auntie Karren, crafts (already assembled :) and an outfit (wore to church last week-very proud of herself) from Grandpa Duane and Grandma Sharen, money from Grandma and Grandpa which she used to buy Beauty and the Beast DVD (already watched 3 times and loving it), and money from Dadcu (used to buy an Ariel doll which she is currently pushing around in a baby stroller and calling Sweetheart). Jo, her babysitter got her princess dressups which she loves and we got her a Littlest Pet Shop house and little Pet shops thingamees. Ellie is thrilled that she has her own Pet Shops so she can "quit messing with my stuff!!" The girls had donuts for breakfast which got the day started just right!

Fall In St. George

YAY!!!! It is FINALLY cooling down. I used to think I would grow to love St. George summers. Maybe when I get my very own swimming pool in the backyard, this will happen. Until then I double hate, triple hate, quadruple hate the summers here. It is just TOOOOO HOT!!!!
But joy of joys, it is only 75 today. Oh joy. The sunflowers are blooming behind our house and it looks soooo pretty. Mia and I went walking and picked some for the house. I pledge to be happy with the weather (until May).

Best Friends

Mia still loves her Minnie Mouse. She's always there-for movies, for breakfast, lunch and dinner, dentist and doctor visits, for church and most definitely for sleep (but not, amazingly, to preschool). We left Minnie at Jo's house last week and she had to wait a little while before we got it back. She was sooooo sad. She told Rod she wanted to suck her thumb. Rod pointed out that her thumb was still attached to her body. She looked at him like he was dumb and screamed "I need my Minnie to suck my thumb!!" We bought a "back-up" Minnie at Disneyland. Mia is not impressed with her.
Hmmmm. This is going to be a hard habit to break. I bought some "Thumbsters" online last week (not here yet) that are supposed to help break the habit. Wish us luck!!

Laboring on Labor Day

We had a busy Labor Day. The girls wanted to do some crafts so we went to Michael's and picked up some things to do. Mia painted scary masks and Ellie made some "cootie catchers", you know, pick and number, then pick another number, then the paper thing opens up and you get a "fortune". They had fun.
Rod started work on my window seat. It is going to be GREAT! I have always wanted a window seat. The cats seem to think it belongs to them, but I shall set them straight :)