Today is Good

Today finds me in northern Arizona with my parents & younger brother. After a L O N G day, we pulled in about 9:15pm on Saturday. Mom had some yummy taco soup waiting and so we ate and visited and laughed at Lane squeezing his arms around my neck every time someone would look at him. We enjoyed a relaxing Sabbath day. I did feel a little bit like a teenager when we sat on the 3rd row at church with my dad's stern eyes looking down at us from the stand if we were misbehaving. Only this time we were on the 2nd row and it was my children misbehaving. And Dad's eyes weren't quite so stern. It was good to see some of the good people I know so well, to sit in on Jerry Brewer's SS lesson, and to visit YW with my mom. We spent the evening at Granddad Kenneth & Grandma Hope's house. It was great visiting with them and listening to some stories. I need to go back sometime and record a bunch of stuff so we can always remember.

Today has been spent doing chores to earn some money, visiting Grandpa's store so we could spend our earned money, and making 6-grain sunflower bread in the solar oven. Maddie has been at a "lunch date" with her friend Hunter who lives here and the boys are getting ready to go out to do some shooting and I'll be hanging out at the store with Mom. Uncle Lincoln is going to do some Pilates with me later this evening - maybe we'll be able to limber that boy up.

I love being here. It's been a good day.

Happy Halloween!

Cade still refused to dress up in his costume...but he sure enjoyed getting the loot! After one house, he came running to me and said, "Mom! I got millions!" Later on, he was searching in his bucket for his "millions". I discovered he had gotten "M&M's". Haha. Funny boy.

Cole was the perfect Batman. Except he saw a little boy at our ward's trunk-or-treat who had a purchased Batman costume, muscles included, and so he told me that he wanted to be a "real" Batman, 'cause Batman is strong.

Maddie was the cutest witch ever. My kids must be much better than me at this whole Halloween thing 'cause she informed me as we were finishing up trick-or-treating last night that she really wanted a green face and to be a real witch 'cause witches are ugly. I told her I thought she wanted to be a cute witch. I guess not:)

I just love this picture.

This is about the best picture we got of Lane in his costume - it does not do his cuteness justice. I think I might dress him up later and try some more pictures. No, he really was cute. He didn't actually get candy of his own but he made sure everyone else shared - and he loved it! So cute!

It was such a fun day - I'll have to tell you more about it (with more pics, of course) when I have some more time. I just wanted the grandparents to see the Halloween costumes.