Halloween

We had a fun Halloween. Ellie was a "butterfly" (Fairy Princess) and Colton was a BIG BAD Wolf. Ellie loved going around our little neighborhood loop saying "Trick or Treat!" to the neighbors. After Trick-or-Treating we went to our 2nd annual Red Robin Halloween dinner with Uncle Nate and Aunt Linda where we ate WAY too many french fries. It was a fun night.

Election Day

Well, I had big fears of standing in line for hours in the cold wind and rain waiting to cast my vote with two kids in tow. Guess I worried about nothing because we walked right in, grabbed a ballot and I was done filling in my ovals before Colton even realized he was strapped into a stationary stroller!

Ellie was pretty confused by the whole voting thing. I told her we were going to vote today and I immediately realized she thought I said boat. So I thought I did a really good job explaining to her that we weren't B-Boating we were V-Voting. Well, before we left the house to go vote she said, "Mommy, are we going to take a lunch to eat on the Boat?". Hmmm, guess I didn't explain it as well as I thought I did.

Our polling place was at our library so since it went so fast Ellie was able to go in and play on the library computers for a little bit. She even got to "vote" for her favorite cartoon character. Hopefully she's not confused about why we didn't get to ride on a boat today.

Happy Fall!

Pictures from trip

Well, I didn't take very many pictures of our trip. : (
And I'm very bummed that I often forgot my camera when we were visiting people. But here are a few...

Lunch in the airport

Ellie, Haley and Riley

Dan, Colton, Erik and Coleman Rogers

Ellie and Jordan

Ellie, Wes, Colton and Kim Blackwood

Nikki, Ellie, Stephanie, Dan and Colton

Checking out the loot from Old Man Turtle's Candy Room

LifeGroup Kiddos

Rt. 56 Alumni

There's no place like home...

...and I have two homes, one in Idaho and one in Texas. I'm blogging from Texas where we are enjoying a visit back to where we lived for five years. I'm overwhelmed by how comfortable it is here. Even though we have been gone for two years everything seems the same. I'm not good at keeping in contact with people so the communication has been limited over the past two years yet there is no awkwardness and it feels like we never left. The only reminder of the time that has past comes when I look at Ellie in Texas and she is a little girl now. When we moved away she was still a baby.
Our time has been wonderful so far and we are looking forward to a couple more days here. Tomorrow we will go to church and it will be so much fun seeing more familiar faces.
Even though we feel so at home here in Texas we are still so happy to be living back in Idaho. No regrets. I just wish Texas was a little closer to Idaho so we could visit more often.

Will blog more about our trip and will share a few pictures in a couple days.

Pumpkin Patch

How convienent is this??? My Grandma has a pumpkin patch right next to her house! She rents out some of her land to a man who runs a produce stand. In the summer he grows watermelon and in the fall he grows pumpkins. We took the kids out to pick out a pumpkin. Not the greatest pictures but oh well!

Dan and his two pumpkins
Ellie loves the little ones
Colton was more interested in the dirt

great-grandma's house

We had a nice visit with Great-Grandma Peggie yesterday....here's a few pics.

playing in Great-Grandpa's chair

hanging with daddy and a pill bottle full of rocks (great-grandma's favorite baby toy)