The Middle Finger

The other day I told Tom and the kids that the house was a mess and that I was not going to help them clean it. This bold statement came after Tom had been gone for about a week in California. I was tired and wanted to make sure the kids and Tom had some quality time cleaning. :) Any way...

This is the conversation that what went down-

Me: Kids, you and your father are going to clean the house and I am not going to lift a finger.

Katie: Well, I am not going to lift my middle finger.

Roaring laughter ensued....especially since Katie is still not sure why we do not put up our middle finger at someone.

Halloween 2011

This year Katie was a vampire and Kellen was Woody from Toy Story. We went to several Halloween parties and got a lot of candy! Kellen called his candy bag his "load". It was awesome!

Notice the awesome vampire teeth. They didn't last long; the teeth were slightly annoying.

If you look closely you can see that Katie is pretending to bite Kellen's head.
Carving pumpkins....so fun!

Katie wanted to show the progression of opening her little pumpkin.

The finished results! The pumpkin on the right is Kellen's pumpkin. He outlined his jack'0'lantern face for me to cut for him. I guess I misread his drawing and I cut out a too many shapes on his pumpkin's face. The top two shapes are actually eyebrows. Oops! My bad!

Katie is walking in her elementary school parade.

Kellen found some funny glasses at the dollar store. He loved them so much that they became part of his costume.
Woody with funny glasses at his preschool halloween party.

Kellen playing musical chairs at the preschool party. He actually won this round! Yay, Kellen!

Moves Like Jagar

Last night, during scripture study, we were reading about when Nephi and his brothers went back to Jerusalem to bring Ishmael's family into the wilderness with them. The kids were not totally sure why they had to go get another family. We told them that Nephi and his brothers needed to have wives in the wilderness. We were teasing the kids that one day they would have a boy or girl friend. THEN Kellen busts out "I am gonna have MOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVES like Jagar." It was so hard to regain composure after that one. Love ya, Kellen!