Happy Halloween!

We are getting excited for Halloween and all the festivities. You almost feel like it's over if you go into the stores, every Halloween thing is already on clearance. The Christmas stuff is already everywhere. It's like they want us to forget about Thanksgiving. Don't we need to be grateful first before we start making lists of presents we want? :)
We had a great week. Eric returned after being gone for a week and a half. He did come home between trips for about 12 hours but I'm not counting that. :) He was able to take Friday off and help with me at Taylor's kindergarten carnival. He headed up the 'Ghooley Grill.' And I helped with face painting. He was so cute and made up spooky names for all the food, the kids loved it. (Hot dogs- ghooley dogs, apple juice- spider's drool, cheetos- witches fingers) After the carnival we took the kids to the pumpkin patch and they had so much fun jumping in the giant pumpkin and picking out their own pumpkins.
Saturday Taylor had her best game of the season! She scored 3 goals and had 2 big break aways that just missed the goal by a balls length. The part dad was most proud of was her 2 big blocks right in front of the other teams goal. We were definitely the obnoxious parents on the sideline. But we did cheer for everyone, not just Tay. Even Brent was jumping up and down. What can we say, we're proud parents.
Sunday was the primary program, best Sunday of the year in my opinion. :) The kids did a great job singing and saying their parts. It's amazing how simple the gospel really is and that the kids really understand those simple truths. Taylor did great with her part and didn't ask for help. It seems like the kids always have it memorized but once they get up there they look to the helper for their line. Hey, I know it's nerve racking to be up there.

Just Another Week

This week was pretty ordinary except that we missed Eric terribly. He had a conference in Chicago and then went straight to Houston to be there for his brother Brandon's mission farwell. Brandon has been called to serve in the Moscow Russia mission and reports to the MTC on Wednesday. We are so proud of him and excited for this opportunity for him. Me and kids are really jealous that Eric is home without us. He picked my mom up today (our parents live about 10 minutes from eachother) and took her to dinner with his family. I hear he drove really carefully with my mom in the car. (Eric is a pretty crazy driver, especially for my mom's grandma standards. She has been know to sit in the back with her head in her hands as she is a passenger in his car.) He was a sweetheart and helped her hang some things in her house. Did I mention we are jealous we arn't there....

Eric and I are going to Hawaii for week in the beginning of November so I am trying to focus on that positive to look forward to. We are flying my sister Sarah down to be with the kids. That way Taylor doesn't have to miss school or soccer. And Eric and I can get some well needed couple time.

Taylor had a week full of smiling and curling her hair. She had school pictures on Wednesday and soccer pictures today. Her team, the Tinkerbells played the Fairies. We were missing our best cheerleader, Dad. Who usually runs on the baseline cheering her on. I had to keep
Brent off the field and happy so we had to stay pretty stationary on our chair. Taylor had a great game and did well.

Back to Blogging

Well after a long hiatus and some coercing from some friends we are officially back to blogging. I'm still learning how to do all of this, the blogging baton has be passed from Eric to me. Which I'm not sure why I wasn't doing it in the first place. Anyways we are all doing well. Our kids are growing so fast... even faster when you see the last blog entry's I think Brent is a newborn. We have started our first soccer season cheering on Taylor and her team the 'Tinkerbell's.' She just missed the cut off last season by 20 days so she is one of the oldest in her group. Which competitively speaking is an advantage. :) There is just something wonderful about going to the soccer fields on a brisk Saturday morning and putting out the chairs to cheer on your little girl in a soccer game. I just LOVE IT! The hard part is keeping Brent off the field. He thinks he's on the team. Taylor is doing really well. She has scored a goal in both her games. And even if they don't have goalies or even keep score, She has left each game knowing her team won! Eric has given many incentives for scoring goals including five dollar bills and a snow globe from Chicago. (He leaves for Chicago tomorrow for a business trip)

We went to the D-land two weeks ago and after talking all about Taylor I had to include a picture of Brent and his girlfriend, Minnie Mouse. :)