Dinosaur lurking

So Jonah finally wanted to wear his costume. YEAH!!!!!! And he was sooooo cute in it. We took the kids to the local rec center for their Halloween night. He walked around and got candy and said "Thank You" and was totally adorable.

Jonahsaurus

All my cute kids in costume (except Nytis).

Root canal, really?

So my poor little Megan had some dental work to do. Ok, not just some, 6 cavities. Yes, she goes to the dentist every six months and yes, she brushes her teeth, but obviously not as much as we should. With this last pregnancy, I admit, we really slacked. At her age, we still brushed Catherine's teeth 95% of the time and let her only brush her own teeth a little. We let Megan brush her own teeth way too much and now she had to get them fixed. Because there were so many we opted to have it done at a surgical center where she'd be completely put out, which turned out to be a good thing, because one of those poor little teeth ended up having a root canal. So now she's only 4 and she's had a root canal and has a crown, which she doesn't like. I was in my 30's before my first root canal and I just now had my first crown and I have bad teeth. So now she says it feels weird and she can't eat normal. So, back to mom and dad doing all the brushing for the kids.

First Snow of the Year in October

My snow angels.

My kids favorite thing to do is eat snow.

More snow angels.

This is Jonah's first time he's really gone out and played in the snow. Last year he was a little young and didn't really enjoy it. This time, when he woke up from his nap and I showed him it was snowing outside, he said, "my 'at pease" (my hat please) and wanted to go outside. I'm so excited that Jonah is trying to talk more.

Picking Pumpkins

Dan found this family owned pumpkin patch that we took the kids to so we could buy some pumpkins.

They had a cute little kids corn maze to go through.

Catherine so proud of the pumpkin she picked. Our rule is they have to be able to carry it, which she did, though not very far.

Mom & Nytis

They had old tractors the kids could climb on. Jonah was in heaven.

Catherine on a tractor.

Megan on a tractor.

Our family picture at the pumpkin patch.

This is Halloween

Here is Dan & my (and Nytis') costume for our party this year. Dan and I actually won best couple, though this is also the first year we coordinated outfits. Also, Nytis won the cutest costume (though I didn't mean for him to be in the running). His outfit did turn out so cute though.

Ward Halloween Party

I was impressed by the effort made for our ward Halloween party this year. They had a kids spook alley and lots of games, dinner and a trunk or treat. Unfortunately, Jonah had come down with a flu bug and couldn't go.

Our Cinderella.

Our Mermaid.

A day at the zoo

I know I can fix the lighting on these pictures, I just haven't yet and I was so excited that I could post pictures to my blog (which I haven't been able to lately, for some unknown reason). On the elephant trunk.

Jonah didn't want to go near the gorilla.

The cute baby giraffe.

Jonah would sit on the tigers though. They did have a cute baby tiger, but it was asleep and hard to get a good picture of.

Three of my cute kids. Did you notice the animal print on the girls? They insisted on it because we were going to the zoo.

The girls on the Rhino.

The cute baby elephant.

It was actually "Talk like a pirate day" at the zoo, so we had Nytis in his cute pirate hat.