Finally!

Kennady has been WAITING and WAITING to lose her first tooth. Most of the kids in her 1st grade class have already lost several teeth, but our kids seem to be extra slow in this area. -Austin has only lost 9 and Spencer just lost his 8th- Anyway, last night was a great day at the Halls' house.

And this is what Kennady left for the tooth fairy- picture taken post tooth fairy visit, of course.

Getting in the Spirit

The kids and I spent an evening at the Festival of the Trees. We started at the gingerbread houses (their favorite part) and then continued on through rows and rows of beautiful trees. Here are some pictures of some of our favorites. The kids were tired and ready to quit after just a couple of rows, however and were fighting over who got to ride in the stroller. Cydnee just wanted to sit and watch the dancers and singers who were performing on stages nearby (not a popular idea for her brothers). We managed to get in the Christmas spirit a little bit and had a fun time.

This tree was called Kinetic Christmas and had balls that moved all throughout the wooden tree. So cool!

Maybe if we had a treee like this one, Dave wouldn't complain about decorating at Christmas time!

This was taken just as we were about to leave. Of course they were fighting me about taking pictures, so I said the quicker you stand there and smile, the sooner we'll get out of here. Are those some natural looking smiles or what? What we do for a picture, huh?

Big day at church

Kennady was asked to sing a little solo part in the song the Primary is singing in Sacrament Meeting today, so we've been practicing. The first line she'll sing on her own, then the other kids will join in for the rest. She's way braver than I was at 6- there's no way you could have gotten me up in front of that many people! Yeah Kennady!

Happy Halloween

It was a relatively easy costume year. Yeah!! Cydnee announced last week she wanted to be a pumpkin, andTif lucked out at the fabric store and was able to find just a scrap of orange, green and black fleece to make this cute and easy costume. All the rest were either borrowed or remnants of past Halloween costumes. We did buy Spencer's spy hat and Austin's nerd pants (a great D.I. find). Anyway, they seemed to be happy with how it all turned out and enjoyed a great evening trick or treating.

What a picture!

Rachael tagged me and this is a tag I could actually handle. You choose the 4th picture in your 4th folder and write a brief description of it. This is a bizaare picture, but my sister Lisa gave me back a few of my maternity clothes that she thought might sell on e-bay. So, here's the picture I used. I made about $20 on the stuff I sold, so it was worth it. I tag Heather, Layne, Amber, Dale and Erin.

Happy Birthday Spencer!

Our house was full of a bunch of crazy 8 and 9 year old spies Friday night! We had a mission impossible party, which turned out to be a great success. The invitations said each secret agent had to dial a secret number (our phone number) and if they chose to accept the mission, to leave the code "Giddy-up cowboy" along with their agent name. We got such a kick out of listening to our messages all week as each boy called to RSVP.

Our amazing and extremely talented friend Amy created another masterpiece cake for the party. Thank you, Amy!

Our secret agents enjoying a little cake and ice cream.

One of our missions involved extracting agent "Chocolate bar" from it's currently assigned location. The boys rolled dice and whoever got a six, had to put on the spy gear and eat the chocolate as fast as they could with a fork before the next boy rolled a six. A messy, wild and fun game. Our other missions included gathering various items from the neighborhood and returning them in the secret envelope for authentication- (aka scavenger hunt) and a mission to find the missing treasure (goodie bags) with clues they had to figure out around the house.

The birthday boy.

My Con-Man

Kennady came home today with a little bag of candy from school. Spencer sat by her in the car on the way home and was trying to get her to share with him. Of course, that wasn't going too well for him. When they got home, they both disappeared. After a little while, I started looking for them and bugging them to get started on their jobs. I discovered them in Kennady's room where Spencer was munching on some candy, and had 2 pieces in his hand. I asked him where he got the candy, and he said, "Kennady gave it to me." I asked him what he'd done to get her to give it to him and he told me, "I told her I'd be her manager." WHAT? What in the world does that mean? "I'll color with her and play with her," he told me. Nice, huh? Of course he got the lecture about playing with your sister just because it's a nice- and the right thing to do. Kennady seemed to think she got a pretty good deal. BROTHERS!!!!!