Halloween

 A little pre-Halloween fun.  

What can I say, Jared in a tutu, I couldn't resist.

Mommy's Cookie Monster Pumpkin.

 On Monday night we carved pumpkins for Family Home Evening.  

Sadie truly is happy in this picture, she just doesn't know what we mean when we say "smile!"  :)

 I tried to get the kids to look at me but they were too excited about the pumpkins.  Sadie kept telling us there was a cookie in Cookie Monsters mouth.

 I wasn't very smart and offered to count all the pumpkin seeds after we all took a guess on how many there were.  

Any guesses?

How about 1123 seeds!!!

Holy Moly Guacamole!

 Jared carving his pumkin

Kinsley decided to practice crawling while we carved.

She's not really crawling yet but she can kind of pull herself along with her arms and she is rocking back and forth.  It's pretty cute.

This was just last night.  Not Halloween related but so cute!

Kinsley was a lamb Chop!  

 So cute!

 Gomez and Morticia Addams

 The whole crew. 

 All the cousins.  

 Novalee was a vampire.  

I snapped this while she was eating her dinner.  :)

 Awww, Grandma!  Jared asked me if Grandma and Grandpa were going to dress up and I told them probably not since I hadn't seen her dress up in years.  Then he said if she did it would be "EPIC!" (Oh yes, we have a preteen on our hands).  Well it was EPIIIIIC!  :)

 Our little Baterina

 Princess Leia and Vampire, a deadly duo.

 Daddy and baby girl.  She was so good.

 After stopping and getting candy from each house, Novalee would run away yelling, "They gave me my FAVORITE!"  It was so cute!

Afterwards we went to Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa's house (the kids').  

Anyways, it was noisy, I'm sure they were pleased to see us and pleased to see us go.

Grandpa even dressed up for a moment.

We hope everyone else had a lovely Halloween too!  

Lunch In a Paper Bag

During the summer Jared told me to get rid of his lunch bag because he was too old for it.  And I agreed for some reason.

But then school started and I still hadn't purchased a new one and so I started drawing on his paper bags to make them more fun.

My hope was that they would be a little better than me just writing on a napkin that I love him.  I was hoping that he would see the drawing at lunch and know that I love him and that I am thinking of him.

Well I think it works because his teacher relayed to me a conversation she overheard him having with another student in his class.  Basically the other kid was trying to get Jared to throw away his lunch bag and Jared replied, "No, I won't.  My mother drew this picture for me and it is special to me."

So sweet.

Anyways, I kind of also really enjoy it, it's fun to be creative, even if it is just doodling.  I've been taking pictures of them for fun, so here they are.

 

Novalee even got into it and made this Spiderman and glued it on a lunch bag.  Hers is way cool!

I should also just say that I'm not a very creative person when it comes to thinking up on my own something to draw or to draw from memory.  I had to cheat and look at something to draw these.  :)  But they are fun and Jared likes them.  :)

Sadie's Second Birthday

Sadie turned two in September.  I can't believe it was only a month and a half ago, it feels like forever ago. 

 Novalee made a balloon face for Sadie.  She also drew most of the Sesame Street characters for Sadie.  It was pretty sweet of her.  

 She loves Elmo!

 And she loves Cookie Monster.

 Grandma and Grandpa Pectol got Sadie a Trike for her birthday.  She can't reach the peddles enough to move the bike yet but she know who Barbie is now.  :)

 She's so pretty!  We love her!

I want to take a moment and write a little about Sadie at two.  Her vocabulary has exploded since she has turned two.  It is amazing to listen to her talk and say new things.  She loves her older sister Novalee so much.  She loves to mimic her, which sometimes isn't so great.  Let's just say that she likes to shake her booty just as much as Novalee.  She loves Winnie the Pooh and Elmo.  They are her favorite things to talk about or watch.  She loves airplanes.  She has loved them ever since Wesley took her to the International Airshow in Hillsboro this year.  She loves to point them out in the sky and whenever we drive by the airport she talks about them.  Sometimes it is that they have gone night night and sometimes it is about Daddy taking her to see them.  She has become more set in her ways but she is her Daddy's daughter through and through so that is to be expected.  She is still very sweet and loves to help.  She also has recently become a fan of the boy band One Direction and if you ask her if she thinks the boys are cute she will say "yep."

Happy Birthday Sadie Lady!