Happy Halloween everybody! We hope that all of you had a wonderful time trick or treating! We were so excited to be going around in just our costumes and not covered up in jackets and gloves. It was quite a change from Utah! We went around with our neighbors and had a great time. (Now I know that some of you will look at the back drop and think that I couldn't possibly have my Christmas tree up already, but YES I do. My sweet husband was dying that I would put our tree up on Halloween!)
Because we were unable to attend the annual Livingstone pumpkin carving party this year we held one of our own with all of our neighbors on our street. It was so much fun and everyone loved it! Note to self for next year; in less we want molding pumpkins on Halloween night, be sure to carve pumpkins a couple of days before halloween and not a week before. Our batteries were dead in our camera when we had our party so we couldn't get any pics, but here are the fruits of our labors from that night!
We missed being with our family and friends for Halloween this year, but loved making new memories with our good friends out here! Happy Halloween everyone!
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Trick or Treat!
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Did You Say Rancho Cucamonga?
How fun is this! Last sunday we got a new sister missionary in our ward. She was sitting next to me in Ward Council and she looked so familiar. When the meeting was over I saw her in the library and told her that I thought I knew here from somewhere, (which we all know I always think that someone looks familiar to me) and she told me that she thought she knew me as well. When I asked her where she was from she told me California and then made the connection. She told me that she was from Rancho Cucamonga and that we were in the same ward when Brackon and I lived there. Who knew that I would run into someone that I knew in Cucamonga all the way over here in the South! Anyways, we had them over for dinner tonight and had such fun catching up. Her name is Sister Olson and she is the sister with the darker hair. We wanted to put her picture on the blog so that her parents could see some pictures of her and know that she is doing fantastic and is a wonderful missionary, as I'm sure they knew she would be! Sister Olson wants her parents to know that she is feeling better and only had a cold. She also got cursed out in the parking lot for the first time. She says, "Apparently people don't believe that we have a living prophet on the earth today." She just wrote her parents so they should be getting a tape soon. Hugs and Kisses from her!!!! (We did not break any mission rules in this creation process. Sis. Olson did not lay her fingers on this keyboard.) We have great sisters in our ward and it has been so fun to have them in our home every month.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Still a girl!!!
Well I went for a doctor's appointment today and got another ultra sound and our sweet little baby is still a little girl! When we first found out she was a girl, the doctor said that it was a 90% chance. Brackon still doesn't want to name her yet because we still "don't know for sure" if it's a little girl! He is holding out a glimmer of hope that the 10% could give us a Curtis salute sometime here and be a late bloomer, however, with each ultra sound given and still no bits and pieces, I think that he is slowly coming to the realization that his hopes for a boy are not to be. I have two more ultra sounds in November. One on the 15th and another on the 22nd. I will be 20 weeks at that point so if nothing else presents itself then we'll probably name her. Bless his heart for being willing to live in a home chuck full of estrogen!!! I've always joked that if we had another girl he could get a dog. Perhaps we'll have to buy him one, but with his luck, it too would be a female. We love our daddy and are grateful that he is excited to be having yet another little girl to pull at his heart strings! She too will have him wrapped around her finger! We'll have to wait until they are married and then we'll have four boys!
