Halloween was a smashing success this year. I love how the older Eli gets the more fun the holidays are. This was the best Halloween we have had and Eli had so much fun trick-or-treating this year. He wanted to keep going and keep going. It helped that we went with a friend from preschool so they could run around together. 

Eli wasn't so sure of his choice to be a vampire after I had put the makeup on him. He has decided that he'll be a ninja next year because you don't have to wear makeup when you are a ninja. Once he got to school and everyone thought that he was so cool he cheered up.  The 1st picture below is him not having fun before preschool.  The princess below is Eli's friend Grace.  Grace pretended to be scared of Eli so that cheered him up too. 

After trick-or-treating we went to a party that a family in our ward threw. Tonight we are going to the Fall Festival that our ward is having. This is the Halloween that we don't want to end!

Halloween Fun

As you can see we carved pumpkins finally.  Well we carved a little pumpkin that Eli got from preschool.  It turned out to be the cutest pumpkin ever.  He loved scooping out the seeds and he really liked how it felt to stick his hands in there. He drew the face on the pumpkin and I cut it out. It's a "ghost mouth with pumpkin eyes" pumpkin.  

We also made a spooky dessert. Eli called it "chocolate snake haunted stones cake," but really it was pudding and cool whip topped with mashed up Oreos, gummy worms, and Milano cookies.

 I have to say I love the picture of Eli holding the dessert. His skinny neck, cute smile, and raised eyebrows all are SO cute.

200!

I logged on to post tonight and I saw something interesting... this is my 200th post.  Pretty crazy. And what do you think that my 200th post will be about? If you can believe it, it will be about Eli.

Eli and I went to Dinosaur World last week. It was so much fun. Eli loved the statues... from afar. I tried to put him over the white rope and he freaked out. I tried to get him to sit on one of the statues feet and he freaked out.  He keep saying that he was afraid that they'd come back alive. 

Here is Eli in the head of a T-Rex. With 1 being not scary and 10 being really scary this was  a 3. Being on the other side of the white rope with this dinosaur was an 8. I was showing Eli that is wasn't scary but he still wouldn't be on the dino side.

Sitting on the dinosaur whose foot you can see in the background was an 11. The baby wooly mammoth was a 1. 

Love Our Enemies? Really?

In this scene a little boy is watching VeggieTales "Minnesota Cuke." A re-telling of the bible story about Sampson. His mother is sitting on the couch folding laundry. (Hard to believe but true!) The little boy runs to his mother with a look of incredulity on his face.

Little Boy: Actually, we are supposed to LOVE our enemies!

Mother: Yep

Little Boy: But that's CRAZY! They have spears and could kill us! They are bad guys! Why should we love our enemies? 

Some commandments are harder to obey then others.

*In case you didn't figure it out the little boy was Eli and the mother was me and I really was folding clothes.

Fun Times In Kentucky

It might seem like we haven't been doing any fun things lately but we have! Right after I got back from Utah we had a 4 day weekend and this past weekend we had a great Saturday out and about.

We have been to the Kentucky Derby Museum, the Louisville Slugger Museum (SO FUN), we went on a boat ride on the Ohio River, and we went to a farm and did a corn maze.  It's been SO fun when Stewart's home and we can go do fun stuff. Unfortunately, he's going to be out in the field this whole week! BOO. I think I will have to go do some fun things without Stewart other wise the week is going to drag.  

Another new development is that I am now Primary Chorister in my ward. I'm really happy about it because it's my favorite calling and now I don't have to go to boring sunday school. :)

Oh! the red car that it looks like Eli is going to smash was hilarious.  It had red glass stones plastered onto it. It was crazy! I don't know why anyone would think that it is classy.