Evan Came running home from school through the back yard with all his Turkey Day paraphernalia. Jake started squealing out the back window to Evan. He loves when Ev comes home. Lucky Boys!

ME TOO, ME TOO MOM!

Yea, I thought I was going to get some mixing help? Which he did until he realised it was cookie dough.....Then all he wanted to do was eat the batter. Good thing I wasn't delivering any cookies to friends. He just kept digging his little fingers into the dough! Such cute helper!

I came out from down the hall, Jake had found some headphones and was tuned into Barney like never before. The band aid was from a hurt "finger"??? For some reason he wanted it on his head, go figure?

Evan entered a contest at school called reflections. You could enter in any of the arts arenas. photography, dance, music and art. Evan chose photography. The theme was "WOW." He decided to take pictures of all his friends saying,"WOW." To us it was first place! Great job Evan. He has really taken to the art of photography and loves to capture little moments on film.
We love you Ev.

Some Funny Jake sayings today!

*Jake pouts at almost everything! Though cute....very annoying! So Mommy says often, "Let me see your happy face? -So today at church we waited against the wall for Daddy. The halls were really crowded so I needed the boys to stay right by me. Jake of course gave his token..."Awe!!!" with lower lip out, Mom then replied with, "Jake stop fussing!" -He immediately yelled..."HAPPY FACE, HAPPY FACE!" Evan and I started busting up. No one around us got how funny it was that the little 2 year old corrected him self and showed his HAPPY FACE!

*Then tonight we were all around playing in the T.V. room. The dog scratched at the door and Daddy asked Jake if he'd run and let her out? Jake ran quickly past me to let her out. On the way past me he bent down and picked something up and handed it to me. It was a little tuft of P.J. Hair. Jake said, "Oh No, P.J.'s tail." Then gave it to me and ran to let her out!!!! Evan and I were laughing so hard. :)

Oh that funny Jake!

The Great Pumpkin Smash !!Ready? Set?


Go!





Cool!!!!

OK, well I guess it wasn't as GREAT as we thought...yet fun! Daddy thought it would be cool to throw the Pumpkins out the window?? The boys of course were up for it!

After the very eventful throw....Evan had clean up duty. He said "this stinks"....Yea right, good excuse to try to get out of cleaning up Pumpkin goo.....

Sorry, the link isn't working.....It was on lds.org in the newsroom catagory, under Elder Cook and Ballard video.

http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/media/mediaplayer.swf?media=http://broadcast.lds.org/newsroom/video/flv/California_Broadcast_8Oct08.flv&type=FLV

Prop8 clip from general Authorities. I couldn't get the actually Video to post, kept having errors. So try this link. ~Karen

It took Jake just 1 house to figure the whole Trick-Or-Treat thing out...Little Karate man was on the run, knocking and yelling trick-or-treat at every house. With his added squeaky "Thank you" at the end! At our house, we went through 4 XL bags of candy. The weather was unbelievable. Long sleeve tees and that's it. I think it was like 68 that night? Crazy, we usually have snow! Easily it could have been in the 20's. The great weather brought extra numbers to the usual car loads of kids. Many houses ran out of candy as early as 7:30.

:) Fun, Fun, Night!

Notice below on the right, there is a pumpkin carved with a little "spit up" accident (house of all boys) .....Jake was a little worried!

Jedi Evan and Batman Bo!

"Hey Ev, let me get a quick picture...

No thanks Mom you have like 50 already!" ...true

Popcorn Party at Jakeys

Most of it landed on the quilt, not in their mouths.

The Dog was cool with that....:)