October 09

This is miss Emily Jayne Manti's cousin...they are bestest friends and she was able to come stay with us for 2 weeks. We had so much fun and she loves to call him TI TI (sounded tie) it is sooo cute and now thats what the kids call him too.


Emily is only 10 weeks younger that Tiger so I know that they have a special bond.








We were able to get in a quick pumpkin patch trip from the one off the freeway and it was surprisingly better than I thought it would be.





The kids got their wagons and was off to find that special pumpkin.


Eve looks like a scarecrow in this picture.




Jackson was a little bummed because I told him he already got his earlier when his preschool went to Bizi Farms and that it wouldn't be fair if I said he could get a second one and not Eve or Manti.








There are lots of pictures of my sister Amber and her daughter Emily so be prepared for many pictures because these are for family members too.










I love this one!!!




Of course there always has to be one silly one and it's usually Jackson so I am really confused:)

He wanted to do it all by himself..it was so adorable. I can't believe that my baby is going to be 2 at the end of the month, it really does make me sad.






There is my crazy girl in the corn maze.


She cracks me up.


This was Jackson's Halloween party for his preschool. Jackson as you can see was Darth Vader this year and he got the breathing down too.


This is my fave! The little ghosts where such a good idea.










I invited my sister to come because I thought Emily would have a good time, but she really only enjoyed the sucker.






This is a little girl in Jack's preschool and she had the most beautiful costume on. Her family is from our church and in our ward and her grandmother made this costume..it was amazing!
I want one!


On the night before Halloween we all got together for a sister's night at my house. It was so nice to have the whole weekend off and enjoy the company.


These are my wonderful sisters..
back row: Linsy, Kaylene (sister in law), Amy, Debbie
front row:Lisa, me, Tania, Amber


Well since my sisters Amber and Linsy came into town my other sister Amy came in for the weekend from Pullman area and stayed at my house. Yes there where a lot of people in my house, but it was fun. Amy brought her 3 daughters as well.


Eve and Emma


I thought it would be really fun to dress up this year and be pary fairies for some odd reason. I don't even remember why or how I got the idea? It is funny because my sister Linsy had a dream about the party before she even knew about it and called me up after and asked if we where planning on doing anything on Halloween and if so dressing up? I thought it was so crazy because I had been meaning to ask them about it and just kept forgetting. Well we all decided to be our own fairy and yet be alike at the same time. I ended up going for more of a punk/gothic feel with the black for a change and more adult too. Linsy was a purple more gothic fairy, Amber was more of a dark Tinkerbell fairy and as for me..I am a mix of everything. I had this idea and then ended up expanding on it while we where making the costumes. Mine was a Grecian-Flapper style, it was different, but hey I am different!


I should've gone with the black shoes..oh well. By the way we made these costumes from scratch..we made the patterns and cut and sewed and cut again for hours. lol
















This one is my favorite.






This one is really cute.












Here we are setting off for trick or treating and I caught a bat...he,he. I loved this costume when Jackson wore in and I still love it..so adorable.




Linsy headed back to open the door for the trick or treaters at my house.




Our neighbors house was a little too scary for the kids. (Jackson mainly)




Eve was a dead Charpe' from high school musical. I don't know how to spell her name.

This is Jackson scared.


Manti wanted to walk by himself and hold the bucket all on his own and he did not like Eve telling him other wise.


He was mad that I cought a picture..got to get to that candy, candy, candy.




Emily loves bones...bones...bones....














They where so cute holding hands.


Eve got "eveattude" and started throwing a fit...it gets annoying.

We all just hung out after we went around the neighborhood and ate snacks.






We had a family night the next night and played some games at my brother's house.
















My brother Brandon and his wife Kaylene.




Emma and Eve

Reflection

Here she is!...YES that is my little girl. I sit and ponder about my little miracle, all babies are miracles. I remember how thankful I was that Heavenly Father sent me this angel....she was mine..NO she is OURS...it still really hits me. Do I really even know what an eternal family is?
She is a strong soul and she is so forgiving, wise beyond her years. I was amazed at her answers when she was interviewed by the bishop. I thought...I have not taught her enough, this is all her. She knew what she was doing and it made me happy that it was her choice, not because she felt like it was expected of her. EVE was baptized October 10th.





Geoff's dad gave the talk on baptism and auntie Jessie gave a talk on the Holy Spirit. I felt the Spirit so strong that it choked me up..their talks where perfect.

It is so special for me to look at this picture...I will always have mine in my head of when I was baptized and it looks so much like this one.



I love this picture because this is the way I want Eve to see me..with a smile. I had a big girl talk with her the other night and explained some heavy stuff to her. I felt that she deserved to know what has been going on with us lately..me mainly. I tossed it around in my head..is she too little? too young? The thought kept coming back that I really needed to sit down and have a heart to heart. I want her to know that I am so imperfect..that we all have struggles, we all get sad and some of us get really sad. I hope that though this she can learn that she can trust me and come to me with any difficulty that she faces. I promised myself that I would be open and honest with my kids...to just be real. Now the time has come to do just that.


Yah, she came home with the black eye from school and we don't know how she got it...lol




Our bishop and his wife.

Yummm coookkieeess






Geoff's sister Jessie and her family

After the baptism we went to Farmer's Market in downtown Vancouver.

Favorite auntie Shelle and EVE

At dinner time our friends came back over and we ate and played some games.



Oh! We had ice cream sundaes too...soooo good.

Sunday

I just thought of this..so cute! During conference Manti gets the wipes on the floor and I could hear the bag so I of course barked at him.."What are you doing!!!?" I look over and see him with those sweet big brown eyes and he looks at me like "mommy what's wrong?" The bag wasn't opened to my surprise and then I surveyed what he was doing. I looked down in my frustration and saw "Lucky" our St. Patricks March bear from Build a Bear and realized what he was up to...Manti was holding a diaper and trying to arrange it in a way that he could open it to put in under Lucky's bum. I then felt like a HORRIBLE mother and was sad for a few seconds and then I asked myself "what are you going to do?" I picked up the diaper and helped Tiger open it and put it on Lucky..he looked up with such a gleam in his eye and smiled a gigantic smile with an adorable laugh. It was simple thing, a simple moment, but it was wonderful and it taught me so much! Through my troubles and frustrations/stress.... it is robbing me of my small and precious moments! My little boy is growing up and I will NEVER be able to turn back the clock.