OUR OCTOBERFEST

We have been pretty busy lately and that's why I call it OUR Octoberfest. For many reasons, I do have to say that October is one of my favorite months. I love:

The way our back yard looks in the fall,

the smell of a Pumpkin Spice candle, conference and my all time favorite about this month is

HALLOWEEN

I absolutely love Halloween! Is there anyone else that loves it as much as I? My Mom always has a Halloween Party and costumes were mandatory this year. Since Ethan LOVES Buzz Lightyear We decided to dress that Part.

This Halloween has been the most fun with Ethan. He masters saying Trick or Treat, Happy Halloween and putting candy in his bucket.

He even got to fish at the fish pond.

Ethan also helped carve our pumpkin this year

At my Mom's party we had dinner in a pumpkin, had a costume parade, pumpkin carving contest and had a cake walk.

My Sister dressed up as Herminoe from Harry Potter and carved H & P For Harry Potter.

Usually I make sugar cookies for Halloween, and this year I decided to make Cupcakes.

I must have made a bazillion cupcakes. I made them for snack time at play group, I made them for Spooking our Neighbors and I made them for a Halloween party.

We even snuck in a fantastic date night. We were invited to both of our first Murder Mystery Dinner. We were given the parts of Punky Brewster and Scott Howard from Teen Wolf.

We pulled our costumes together and brushed up on our characters. Punky Power and Holy Macanolli. We had a great time getting to know the people there and acting as our characters.

Today I am thankful that Ethan did not get scared of people dressed in scary costumes.

Parade

Give me an A, give me a D, give me an O, give me a P, give me a T, give me an I, give me an O, give me a N. What Does that spell??? ADOPTION!!! Yesterday we were in the BYU Homecoming Parade and had so much fun. Families Supporting Adoption had a wagon for Families to ride on. Ethan and I walked the Parade with a few others and Brett Co-Piloted in the truck making sure no children were ran over. At least that's what he told me ;). We had a great time meeting other families that love and are a part of Adoption. We enjoyed waiving to the people and shouting Wahoo. It was fun promoting Adoption and sharing the joy and happiness Adoption can bring.

At the end we hopped on wagon and threw some candy.

It was so much fun it wore him out.

Today I am thankful that we and so many other families have been blessed by Adoption.

Nursery

Ethan's favorite part about church is Nursery. Each Sunday morning I dress him in his best and he knows just where we are going. "Nursery, Nursery Nursery!!!" He loves playing with the toys and playing with his friends. He must like singing time because he refers to the carpet squares they sit on when I pick him up. Last week I heard him singing Follow the Prophet. It sounds like: Follow, Follow (while clapping), Stray (while he waives his finger for Don't Go Astray) Follow, follow, HAY. The Nursery teachers must be doing something right because he loves Nursery.

Today Ethan saw Brett putting his tie on and Ethan wanted one too. We don't have a child size tie YET so we tied one of Brett's ties on Ethan for Church. He showed everyone his tie neatly tucked under his vest.

Today I am thankful for NURSERY! ;)