HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Best-Ofs

Some "best-of" pictures as of late ...





Is Fall not the most decadent of all seasons?







Explanation: I find some funky stuff while on my thrift shopping sprees and this liederhosen thing is no exception! For 25 cents it was worth it just to see him walk around in it while it still fits!



My mom and I joined Brig at Claire's preschool costume parade. He makes the most adorable monkey with that dimple, no?



I love how you can hear him saying, "Brrrroooom, brrooommm-"



I think I have little memory flickers here and there of preschool... Claire's expression is about how I must have felt.



And then the teacher is trying to get you to do the hand jive, that's a tall order



Our stump little pumpkin patch experience, but the sky was awesome



And yes this one was "best-of"... SAD!



Dad and Crosby time



Watching me blow bubbles

Fall Thrills

Enjoying our Fall so much!

D has been extra busy trying to get a batch of classes under his belt this semester plus working full time plus doing tile... haven't been seeing much of him ):

I was very sick over the weekend... who knows... flu? Costa Vida salad left out too long? Either way it was a beast but I feel so good now!

Croz and I have been doing our normal thing, getting outside has been so nice on these crisp days. I met some friends at Red Butte the other day and was it ever a perfect weather day; C playing with Charlotte:



I was lazy and my pics are out of order, oh well! We spotted some witches at Gardner Village the other day. This one resembled a little witch I've recently seen... she could be Lucy's sister!



THRILLER! was lots of fun as it is tradition every year. I was bummed though that the big guy who wears the spandex wasn't in it. Also one of my favorites... the lady who plays the little girl who has a monster pop out of her belly... SHE wasn't there.



Croz spying on geese under the witch bridge



Me, Autumn (my friend Sarah's little girl), and Croz. Autumn and Crosby play so well together; they laugh and have a blast



Pumpkin man. Any store we go to Croz spots the pumpkins and says, "Bumpo, bumpo!" he goes over to them and pats 'em



Sophisticated Halloween



Christina and me with our precious B&D shakes, we walked around Fashion Place looking at weird mall fare



Anyone know what's up with all these Halloween megastores? It reminded me of being back in Bangladesh with some of the weirdo outfits. Like Robinhood meets J-Lo



And... what the?!



We had some good laughs



No shortage of witches when you hit Gardner Village on a Saturday October afternoon



... they were EVERYWHERE!



A little snippit from ODT's Thriller! I love to see them dance for Thriller, but also Shut Up and Dance in the Spring.



The crew and our ghoul ;)



HAPPY HAUNTING EVERYONE!!!!

Da Guys

He felt special hangin with these construction guys waiting for our pizza at Little C's

Anger Management

Crosby has a daily to-do list and it includes tantrums.



I had told Croz we were going to watch Thomas and I actually had my camera close because I've been wanting to document how DARLING his reaction is and how excited he gets about it. I told him too soon I guess because I hadn't even taken the DVD out of the case yet but he wanted the case. As D's mom would say, "Crosby DIE for Thomas."

But besides the getting-close-to-two-years-old multi-daily meltdowns, our Frog is 100% angel.

He's a pro at chocolate chip cookies now



He reads on his own quite a bit; finds a cozy spot



How cute. I had given him some grapes, turned around and there he was loading up a grape in his dump truck.



Happiness for Crosby when bedtime rolls around is a cribful of stuffed animals. He has me kiss EACH ONE through the crib slats before going to sleep. Gus is still his #1 favorite, as you can plainly see.



He willingly gives me kisses on demand! And on the mouth... bonus!



Never ever have I touched Hamburger Helper. The little hand cartoon is spooky, the picture on the box of the hamburgery food is even more spooky... D has always wanted it but I just never could go there! Well after seven years of marriage I finally bought some and made it for him. Chili-cheese Hamburger Helper with chili-cheese Fritos on top. Let me guess, sounds like your worst nightmare? IT WAS SO TASTY! Croz dug his hands into the food and fed it to D the other night, ha!



Baby Guy, we love you to pieces! Even if you do need some anger management ;)

Gems

Gems from the weekend:

* Never suppress a generous thought (from the LDS General Relief Society meeting, quote from Camilla Kimball)

* Watch out for "toxic perfection" (from a talk given in our church meeting yesterday)

* Getting excited for General Conference this weekend. No need to fear hearing those talks coming from the mouths of people we think are perfect. They aren't! They are messengers telling us what we should aim for in our lives. I'm happy to testify from past experiences how my personal questions, sorrows, or need for peace is answered because my heart and mind are open listening to conference.

* One of my yoga teachers, Meryl, (whom I LOOOVE!) always ends class with the formal version of namaste. It never fails to mean SO much to me each time I hear it. "I HONOR THE PLACE IN YOU IN WHICH THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE DWELLS. I HONOR THE PLACE IN YOU WHICH IS OF LOVE, OF TRUTH, OF LIGHT, AND OF PEACE. WHEN YOU ARE IN THAT PLACE IN YOU, AND I AM IN THAT PLACE IN ME, WE ARE ONE."



*And last but not least... the circus is really not as scary as I thought. D's mom took D, me, and C and we absolutely LOVED it! Especially second row where Frog could see everything up close.










Really it was everything I dreamed a circus would be. D and I were like little kids afterward in the car saying, "So how do you think they did that?" Like the picture above where they're upside down... they were up on the ceiling walking around, watering the flowers... hmmm... popping heads off, cutting people in half, tightrope walks, hamster wheels, maharaja dancing, elephants GALORE!, disappearing wizard acts, Japanese acrobats... I am SO joining the circus.

A bit tuckered out at the end, good thing we brought Gus.

Buds

As Catherine and I were watching our little ones run amuck, she said, "Hey they're 19 months today!" WHERE is the time going?