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We had so much fun at the Jubilee of Trees. It's an event organized every year to raise money for different programs at the hospital. This year they were raising money for breast cancer. Businesses and (wealthy) individuals donate the trees which are designed and put together by people with more creativity in their little fingers than I have in my whole body. Then they auction off the trees (to more wealthy people) and make a LOT of money. The girls LOVED the trees. Ellie took about 182 photos with my camera. Only featured a few here-thanks Ellie!
Need I say more?...
We LOVED the "Joshua Tree". It was so original-I heard it fetched $9000 at the auction.
Yummy ice cream cake...
Liah looking a little freaked out...
The Birthday Girl
We had a blast on Halloween! Mia was a witch, Ellie was a 
cushion (laughed until I almost peed myself) and I was a "serial killer". Get it? Hey, it was easy, o.k? We went with Troy and Janae and the girls to Santa Clara. Rod talked Mia into going into the Haunted House which she of course) came out of screaming. But now, a week later, she's talking about it like it was the coolest thing ever. Go figure. Ellie didn't set a foot near the place (since she got scared out of her mind after Rod talked her into doing it 2 years ago...) We stayed outside and ate food that a wonderful group of people put on every year. The girls got a tonne of candy and loved hanging out with their cousins. I have since eaten all the good stuff from their Halloween stash and am eagerly anticipating next year!
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 
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!
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!!!!
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.
