For Sandy & Christine

Sandy, per your request on the family website, here are our pumpkins from the Great Pumpkin Carve Off!!!! The top one is Nellie's Frankenstein, the Winner. The middle is Jeff's house window looking out over a graveyard. The bottom is my 'gobblin' that ended up looking more like an owl. Either way, it was a good time!!

Halloween Festivities

Halloween was pretty much awesome and crazy busy for 3 days. We started off on Thursday with a trip to the pumpkin patch (which was FREEZING!!!) then back to my mom's house for the great pumpkin carve off. Nellie won the carve off with an awesome frankenstein. Then on Friday we dressed up and went to Boo at the Zoo which was so cute. The zoo was all decorated in lights and pumpkins and the mokey cages had cardboard pumpkins and blow up decorations in them, and there were trick-or-treat booths set up all over the place. Right after that we went down to the river where Nellie was part of a free city trick-or-treat carnival type thing. So we played the cakewalk and got more candy! On Saturday we went to Roz's for a hay ride which Alex loved, then to my moms again for a eating/getting ready party before trick or treating. All in all the weekend was a lot of fun and Alex is STILL recovering from all the activity!

Leaves are awesome

Since it is fall, it is time to play in the leaves right? Of course. Alex loves playing outside and didn't even seem to notice the leaves until Jeff started sweeping them on him, which he LOVED. It was pretty funny. Tomorrow we are having the great Pumpkin carve off. Apparently Kyle wins every year so Jeff is determined to knock him off his throne this year. On friday we are going to a mini-carnival at the river, then on Friday we have a Halloween party at my mom's house then Alex gets to go trick or treating for the very first time. We are also hoping for a hay ride if we can talk Roz into it. Should be a pretty fun rest of the week. Will post pics when I have them!

Pics that make me laugh.

I went through mom's pics this past weekend up at the cabin and found a few of them that made me laugh pretty hard. I mean really!

Finally!!

So this has been one busy busy month. We have been working our tails off doing everything under the sun. Sothen as soon as our lives started to slow down my camera battery died and I couldn't find the charger so I couldn't post any pics or anything. I finally found the charger (after I borrowed my moms) in the camera bag where it should be it had just fallen underneath our other lens so it was hiding from me. Anyway, an update over the last month.... We have moved out of mom's house (thanks for letting us stay Mom!) and are now living in the other half of Jill and Kyle's house. It was the house we lived in when we first moved back from CA and has since been renovated into a duplex. It's pretty nice having the telfords next door 'cuz Alex loves him and just follows him around laughing and he ADORES Lorali... (I am pretty sure I spelled that wrong. Jill feel free to correct me..... again.) He just wants to squeeze her and gets all excited everytime he sees her. It's really cute. He still isn't talking.... I think. He says words like mom and dad and wow, Hi, yes, fine... etc. However, he doesn't say them often and will go for days without saying a single word. But then like today he looked over Jill's shoulder at what she was holding and said what sounded exactly like "What is it?" But he just doesn't say anything regularly enough for me to believe it isn't just an accident. So hey, he did everything else really early, it's about time he slowed down I guess. Other than that, Jeff is doing well in School, and I have decided to go back to school starting in January. I have applied for an LPN program at the technical college here in town, so pending acceptance I will be starting that. Idaho Falls is pretty alright, it's really nice being around family and always having something going on. It's starting to wear on Jeff a little bit, he's getting tired of not having any time to relax, but I function better this way. Keeps me out of a lazy rut. Christine, alex and I will look at your blog and everytime alex sees a pic of Chase he just points and laughs and gets all excited. It's is REALLY cute. Anyway, I think that is about it for us, take that Nellie.

My Favorites

So the last week has been super busy, Jill had her baby yesterday, they named her Laurali.... hmmmm.... I have no idea how to spell that.... anyway, Alex is in LOVE with her. He was so fascinated by her he just tried to grab and love her the whole time we were in the hospital. So, that was pretty much the coolest thing that happened. Other than that it's been busy work and running around. So due to the lack of cool things to say I just posted some of my favorite pictures from the last few weeks. Enjoy!!!

Boring Updates

So, blogger says it's been two weeks since my last post, but it has actually been closer to a month. And what a crazy month it has been. We had gma & gpa Koch in town as well as Christine and Chase. That was a good time. We saw lots of fish, we squished pennies, ate pizza, swam in the pool (which alex loved which was a total shocker since he HATED water up until then....) and had an all around good time. Rhianna went home to start her year in First grade, so we won't see her again until Christmas. Then we moved to Idaho Falls. We are currently crashing in my mother's basement until we find a job and a place to live. It's pretty awesome, feels a little bit like we are 19 years old. Jeff was accepted as a transfer student to ISU and is currently registering for his classes, so hopefully that goes well. I think that pretty much catches us up. Will post some pics when I have some cute ones.