I hope my mom doesn't see this

So this is my newest craft adventure, it is called an Exploding Box. It is a miniture scrapbook. I'm posting it because it was super easy, I already had all the materials and I'm happy with the way it turned out. You can get instructions for it off sugardoodle.net in their craft section. Only problem is it is a surprise for my mom. Hopefully it will get to her before she sees this.

trip to the museum

Kevin has been working most Saturdays, so Saturday has become just another weekday. I've been trying to make it a fun activity day for the kids. Today we went to to Childrens museum downtown Spokane. For those of you in Florida it was the equivalent of Young at Art. We had a good time. They had lots of fun exhibits the kids loved it.

isn't she lovely

Olivia has really started cheez'n it up, here are a few pictures.

Neglect O' Lantern

Ashton's preschool went on a field trip to a pumpkin farm a few weeks ago. He picked out a perfect pumpkin to carve for halloween. We never got around to doing it and then we ended up leaving for Montana. The pumpkin has been sitting in Ashton's room ever since. Tonight for family home evening we finally carved it. We traced their hands and made turkeys out of them. They were mostly interested in the pumpkin "guts". Chloe took a piece of carved pumpkin and said it tasted good. I told her to go ahead and take a bite, she did. She made yum sounds for a little bit and then realized that it was gross. She spit it all over the table which I got to clean up.

She Speaks (kind of)

Oli is starting to chatter a bit. Mostly coos and grunts. She is also putting on the pounds, finally starting to look like one of our babies. We are all stuck inside due to a nasty cold so it is fun to watch her try to talk to us. She loves the swing we borrowed from Kelli and Mike (sorry about the poo pillow, don't retaliate or you are going down!).

Halloween in Montana

We spent Halloween in Montana. We had a wonderful time, Kelli and Mike were very kind in allowing us to stay. We love being able to see family more often and let our kids play with their cousins. It was unbelievably warm so we did a little door to door trick-or-treating, then high tailed it over to the church. The kids had a ton of fun and candy. Here are a few pictures.

Surprisingly everyone knew who Chloe was dressed up as. (I thought we would have to tell everyone)

Dorthy and the Cowardly Lion

We went to our work halloween party dressed as the wizard or oz (see main picture). We had a lot of fun. There was tons of food and a great turn out. I went as the scarecrow, Heidi was the wicked witch, Ashton was the cowardly lion, Chloe was Dorthy, and Oli was the good witch. They gave out prizes for the best costumes at the end of the evening. Asthon won 3rd prize out of the children and I won first prize out of the adult men. On a side note, Chloe spent most of today at an instant care from having her finger slammed in a door. They had to take off the nail and put in 6 stitches. She was a real trooper and did just fine during the party. There is a chance that she will lose the tip of her finger, but we are hoping that it will heal and the finger nail will grow back.