Making Cookies

I had both Asher and Giya help me make cookies for her birthday party. We were going to make sugar cookies, roll them out and make shapes and put icing on them. Sounds simple, right? Well, apparently when making the cookies with 2 small children you have to concentrate really hard to follow the recipe. These cookies turned into giant flat blobs on the cookie sheet....so I guess I need more practice, right? It will only make it seem worse when I tell you that Lance AND his mom were home to help and we still didn't get it right.

Halloween

We didn't really do anything on Halloween, but dressed up in our costumes periodically throughout the month - then they threw a fit this day to let me take pictures and had them on only 2 1/2 minutes.

Pumpkin Patch

Seriously, in the second picture, I'm not pinching either one of them in the leg....but they clearly didn't see the importance of getting a picture taken with me in a field near some pumpkins. Asher got to go on a school field trip to a really cool pumpkin patch with a slide, giant barn full of corn to play in, etc. This trip we took a few days later with dad and was a little more anticlimatic. I also learned that walking through a field of corn still isn't fun and that pigs are incredibly stinky (we watched a pig race).

New House

We are finally moved, unpacked and getting settled. Except for both kids regressing for about 2 weeks in forgetting how to go to the bathroom, we made it unscathed. They now love their new house, and ask on the way home all the time in the car to make sure we are going to the new house and not the old one. Asher is very happy all his things made it here including some he forgot about and some new stuff. There is a "circle" for them to play chase on the main level and right now the entire basement is dedicated to toys and play. The backyard is huge and they have a great time in it. Their other favorite thing to do is race down the slope of our driveway on their tricycles into the cul-de-sac. We are so blessed to be here and thank God everyday for making this happen.

Big Trucks and Machines

We went to a free "Touch a Truck" event for kids last week and every big piece of machinery you could imagine was there to climb in and honk the horns. The kids loved it.

Moving

Asher was really worried for weeks that mommy was going to forget to pack his toys, so a few days before the move he loaded up all these toys onto his wagon to take to the new house.

Asher's Class Trip to Zoo

Here is Asher (seen on the head of the Komodo Dragon statue) with his first class trip to the zoo.