Volunteering

 Eden and I were able to have a little mommy/daughter date on Saturday.  Our ward gave us the wonderful opportunity to do some community service.  A Lutheran church group in Kansas City holds a service project every year and they ask the LDS church to come because if there's a service project that is child friendly, you can count on us to be there.  They take food from a food pantry, fill up bags of Thanksgiving-ish food, and give it out to those who are less fortunate.  We put the food in bags, decorated the bags, and also made Christmas cards.

When we got home, Eden went to work decorating our refrigerator in the same way she learned to decorate the Christmas cards.  I love it.

What's Going On

Walking...that's what going on.  And boy does she love to be "big" like everyone else.  She also blows kisses which is one of our favorite things in the world.

We also added a few new members to our household....fish.

Eden has been BEGGING for pet fish for ages and we kept saying "When we move to Kansas City" and then we got here and we had to pay for this and that and fish kept getting delayed.  But we could break her heart no longer and finally got her fish.

We ended up getting guppies from a neighbor after her fish had babies.  So, they are teeny, tiny little guys....six of them to be exact (obviously they are small since the first picture looks just like an empty tank.  The biggest one (shown above) is named Bruce.  He is the only fish with a real name, partially because he's the only one we can tell apart from the others since he is quite a bit larger than the rest.  Eden is pretty insistent that she wants to name one of them Gloria...but we are unsure which one.

The girls love their little fish.  They supposedly get their fun colors as they grow older, but for now they are pretty colorless.  Eden doesn't seem to mind.  She loves feeding her fish and being with her fish.  It was well work it to get these fish.

Halloween...and the Rest of October...

Its strange how Halloween ends up a bigger and more exciting holiday for us.

Perhaps its because its the beginning of the BIG holiday season events...and its time to get our craft on.

Monsters...

 "BEWARE" signs (I wish you could actually read them...the kids made them up.  They say things like "Beware!  Vampires and Zombies live here!")

 Other little critters and creatures to decorate our windows.

 Pumpkin muffins with spider cream cheese frosting.

 

 Laura, Eric, Trey, and Ramona were able to come visit..which definitely added to our fun and excitement.  The kids were thrilled to see cousins again!

 We celebrated Tyson's birthday.  For his birthday present, he got 2 days off of work!  Wahoo!

More crafts...

 There were a few Halloween party get togethers that we had and were tons of fun.  With face painting, tons of candy, games, etc.

 Lady bugs are now EVERYWHERE.  The girls had a hay day trying to look at and collect ladybugs.  Although, we were warned to NOT touch the yellow ones cause apparently they bite.

 I end up making all food with a Halloween theme.  I actually made these with eyes...then Eden took one chocolate chip out of each and said, "they are eyeballs!"  I actually think her idea was better than mine.

 I found this online for meringue ghosts and wanted to try them.  They were fun and cute.

Daddy took them out trick or treating in the neighborhood.  Eden was a ladybug, Leila was a doctor (which she was SO excited to be able carry around daddy's real stethoscope around the neighborhood), and Molly was a little Indian (which she never keeps things in her hair...but for some reason she KNEW she was supposed to keep this Indian headband on and she kept it there the entire time).

Its all been fun!