Here's what we have been doing the last two weeks:

Tammy took us to Arctic Circle for dinner and playland amusement. Faith had come across a dollar store kitty costume (ears, bowtie & tail) in our Halloween stuff and decided she wanted to dress up for the occasion. She was a great helper with her brother taking him on the slide again and again. It was lots of fun!

It was Faith's turn to take home the reading bag which contained the puppet dog "Danny" and a notebook. The kids are supposed to do lots of things with Danny and then (with a parent's help) write a story about what they did. We took a lot of pictures of Faith & Danny's weekend adventure. Christian was enthralled with Danny, too.

One day, Christian came across my stash of extra binkies and decided that one is just never enough!

Faith got her turn at being VIP at kindergarten for a week. We got to make her this poster with her family, her favorite toys & games, pictures of when she was younger, her favorite things to watch and her favorite things to do.

Last Friday I had a party with my friends from my old neighborhood. It was awsome to see all of them!!

We ate soup in bread bowls and pumpkin log roll, showed pictures of ourselves when we were younger, told our favorite fall memories and chatted until late. Since my house was nice and clean, I took the time just before they arrived to take some pictures of my house.

Here is the kitchen (with an extra table set up).

Here is part of the family room and looking up at the "loft" hallway to the play room.

Here is my nearly empty formal living room complete with blue tape, ready for painting (who knows when I will ever get to it).

Here is our bedroom.

Here is Faith's room (just a little girly, huh?)

This past weekend we went to Lagoon. Christian loved borrowing his daddy's sunglasses while waiting to trick-or-treat at the "Spook-a-Boo" attraction they have there during Frightmares.

Tony and the kids tried out some costumes there. And the kids had tons of fun on the rides. Christian even got to ride the cars, baby boats, train and the Kontiki!

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Also this weekend we went to Gardener's village. Unfortunaely, my camera battery was dead so I'll report on that next time when I get the pictures from Tammy.

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The other exciting thing that happened is that Faith started dance lessons. She loves it and is trying to talk us into putting her in tumbling classes starting next month.

Not a lot going on around here the last couple of weeks. I thought I would change things up here on the blog and get a new template. Hopefully then more of you can see the layout as I do on my screen. Apparently only certain screens show the stretched layout the way I want it to look. I also updated the pic of our house to a newer one with GRASS!





Here is Faith just out of the tub helping out her little bro.






Last Tuesday, September 25th I was trying to get a few things done and I found that a certain little stinker pot had thrown most of the items out of the cabinet under the master bath sink and climbed right in! I got him out of there, got the stuff replaced and went back to my laundry folding.









And what do you know? That same someone had found a new "car" to play in! These pictures weren't staged and were taken within five minutes of each other!


















Here are Faith and Christian engrossed in some very interesting T.V. Buddy is holding a rice ball - Tony's favorite autumn snack made with puffed rice and jello.








Here are the kids on Friday at the dollar store trying on cowboy hats. Earlier that day my mom took us to eat at the Greek Festival in South Ogden. Yummy!! Christian ate almost an entire tyropitakia (triangular cheese pie made with phyllo and feta cheese)




And on Saturday when Faith and I were at WalMart she saw this little dog dress and knew that Crumpet just had to have it! We later went to PetsMart and got a new collar and leash so she could be completely decked out.










On Sunday we stopped by Eric's house to see his new bedroom set. It is very fancy with black marble dresser top and marble columns on the bed and dresser front.



















We're so excited for fall to be here and are looking forward to lots of upcoming Halloween activities!