happy halloween!

we went to the pumpkin patch with pat & kelli and matt & bonnie the other night. when we got there we realized the camera was out of batteries, so bonnie took some photos for us. then her camera ran out of batteries! ugh! we had fun but ended up with seven pumpkins. i have this illness where i feel bad for inanimate objects and once i pick out a pumpkin, i can't just leave it in the patch! it turned out that i picked out 4 and will picked out 3 so we had to take all seven. luckily it was dollar night at the pumpkin patch, but everyone else kept looking at us like we were crazy. i guess they are right!

just practicing

i mentioned to tiffany the other day that i waited too long to look for a monkey costume for asher, and couldn't find any. being the master seamstress she is, she just happened to have one on hand she'd made for shaylynn when she was one. the next day soph was over playing with asher and she wanted me to put it on him. once we got it on, i put him in front of the mirror. he looked SO proud and instantly started making the monkey sound. soph immediately asked if we could "hang him from something". here he is... proud to be a monkey:




as everyone knows, all the cool monkeys drive cars.

tagged

tagged
i've been tagged by kory. here goes:

1. Best thing you cooked this last week.
ha! it's been 5 days since i actually cooked dinner, but it was good: artichokes, rice pilaf, acorn squash, and breaded chicken.

2. If money, time, and babysitting were no object where would you go?
italy. hands down. then to eugene to visit jeff and kris : )

3. When was the last time you cried?
it's probably been two weeks. missing my baby girl : (

4. 5 things you were doing this month 10 years ago.
starting my first job as a pharmacy technician
chemistry and physics at uvsc
writing letters to kevin almost every day (he'd only been out two months at that point)
hanging out with amie and gina.
that's all i remember.

5. 5 things on my to do list.
get more wheat (i canned 200 lbs this morning but still need 400 more!)
clean out the garage
take asher to get his flu shot (i have a vial in my fridge, but can't bring myself to stick him... he'd HATE me for that!)
build lockers for my mudroom
finish addi's scrapbook

6. 5 favorite snacks.
easy.
edamame
pomegranates, peaches, or cherries depending on the season
chocolate protein shake with peanut butter added
graham crackers and milk (will took asher home from stake conference on sunday to have a nap and i ate all the crackers from his diaper bag)
cold cereal

7. 5 bad habits.
staying up too late reading
this one is terrible: i buy too much fresh produce and end up throwing it away.
staying late at work to get stuff done
being 5 minutes late for church
getting behind on my blog then posting 5-6 posts all at once; then i change the dates and times. : )

8. 5 favorite foods
artichokes
oregano's pablo picasso salad (daisy, please tell me you have tried this!)
sushi
salmon
oregano's bbq chicken pizza

9. 5 places I've been
florida
kayenta, az; navajo nation
san fransisco
oregon
acapulco

10.5 favorite memories
kangaroo care with addi: the whole world stood still when i snuggled her- she woud melt right into my chest.
getting the amnio results four weeks before asher was born. dr draper called me and said, "everything is perfect."
spending a week in san fransisco with will: the funnest vacation we have had together
marrying will: the day was so perfect and so much fun.
living in arizona: i absolutely loved it there.

now i tag lindsey k, spyderette, jeff, and liz

i LOVE grass!

(and i mean that in a very literal, non-illegal substance sort of way :)
it has been a month since my last post. we have been VERY busy. here is a time line of the work we did in the yard:

september 20th: we hired out someone to trench the yard.

september 22nd: we started on our sprinkler system. i'm really sad we didn't get a photo of it - it looked really cool to see all the pipes running under ground. if any of you are interested, i'll show you the plans. hahaha.

september 28th: we finished laying all the pipe for the sprinklers, leveled the pipes, and started filling the trenches.

october 1st: we finished filling the trenches and started the prep work for the patio.

october 2nd: we rented a compacter and compacted the dirt where the concrete would go and brought in gravel to finish the prep work.

october 4th: we (my dad) poured the concrete to expand the patio, brought in 5 loads of topsoil and rented a bobcat to move the dirt around the yard. then we raked. and raked. and raked.






october 8th: we had the curbing poured and started putting sprinkler heads on.



october 10th: we finished putting all the sprinkler heads on, raked, raked, raked, and layed sod! let me point out that we did the whole yard in 2 1/2 weeks without taking time off work. needless to say i have spent the past two weeks catching up on housework! thanks SOOO much to our wonderful friends and family who came and helped!




this boy is SOOO happy to be able to crawl freely around the yard!

i love this guy!

i was wondering what everyone was laughing about...

after president hinckley finished sustaining the officers
of the church during the saturday morning session of general conference on october 6th, elder eyring had moved into his new seat on the stand. unfortunately, they didn't show this on TV, but when president hinckley turned around, he stood there
for a moment looking at elder eyring, then picked up his cane and "knighted" him on his shoulder and head.

here's the picture of it. i love how elder eyring looks just like a
little boy....