Out with the Old, In with the New

Well, yesterday we officially sold Scott's Grand Prix. Today we found a Kia Sedona for what we think is a great deal.It's a 2004 and has 36K miles on it. Thanks to Scott's job we were able to find a dealership in Ogden that had one and we were able to make an offer and had it accepted over the phone. They were trying to sell it for $12000. We said we could pay $8000 cash, out the door. And they did it! There's something to be said about buying large items when the economy is slow. When we got there this morning to go buy it we found that it had no seats and instead there was a wheelchair lift on it. They were as surprised as we were and they said they would get seats put in on Monday. We took the van home today and they'll deliver the seats on Monday to Scott's work. They still only charged us the $8000 so we were HAPPY!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

The kids had a great day yesterday. In the morning they got to go trick-or-treating at aunt Maureen's work with their cousin Aaron. As you can see, Park was superman and Annicka was a fairy princess.



Last night they got to go trick-or-treating with their cousins, Mason, Matthew, Carter and Avery and uncle Rob and aunt Lori. As well as uncle Ned and aunt Rachel. They had lots of fun. It was surprisingly warm (for Halloween) despite the rain.

OUCH!

So, we were driving in the car on Sunday over to Grandma Chamberlain's house for her birthday. We were trying to decide what Annicka should say for her Primary program in a few weeks. Her part is "I am trying to be like Jesus by...(fill in the blank)". So I asked her, "Annie, what do you do to be like Jesus?" Her very matter-of-fact reply was, "I don't want to talk to you right now, mommy." OUCH!

Cornbelly's Maze

Well, yesterday Annicka had her first field trip! We went to Cornbelly's Maze at Thanksgiving Point. The kids had a BLAST. All for $3 a child we got to go on a "cow-ride", play on all kinds of playground equipment, including a giant jumping pillow, play in a "corn box" (which was basically a sandbox but instead of sand it was full of corn), do a corn maze (which we ended up skipping due to lack of time) and pick their own pumpkin from the patch to take home. We even took our neighbor Sam with us. He had a blast too.Here they are at the entrance.
All the kids from the preschool group, including everyone's siblings.
Annicka and Park with their pumpkins.

The "cow-ride".
The giant jumping pillow.
Playing on a train.

(R)Emily's Baptism

Today, Ross's (Scott's brother) fiance, Emily, was baptized! We refer to her as Remily (Ross's Emily) sometimes because one of Scott's other brothers, Doug, is married to an Emily. It was amazing. Emily asked Scott to perform the baptism, which, obviously he did. The spirit was very strong and we could tell that Emily felt it too. She was confirmed right after. Did I say yet that it was awesome? It was awesome. Congratulations, Emily! We love you!

When it rains, it pours!

So, to add to it all for Park, he and Annicka were jumping on the castle down stairs last night and bonked heads. Park definitely got the short end of the stick. He got a nice shiner out of the deal. I'm not sure how well you can see it in the pictures. I couldn't seem to get a good picture of the damage. It looks worse in real life.

This picture was taken before the black eye. He was having fun playing with Annie's potty booster. A little gross, I know, but she never uses it and Park thought he was soooo funny.

Poor, poor, Park

Yeah, yeah, it's been another month. Can you tell that I'm scrounging for something to post? The last few days have been rough on Park. Sunday night on the way out of the house to grandma Chamberlain's, Park fell down the garage steps and blackened his eye a little, not too badly, you can hardly tell anymore. Monday he tripped in the living room and landed face first on a toy and bruised his cheek really good. You can see it on his right cheek in this picture. Then tonight he was playing in the windows behind one of the couches and got himself stung by a wasp. Poor, poor, Park.He was really good about keeping his hand on the ice bag.
It stung him on his left index finger. Can you tell how swollen it is?
I chose this picture because Annicka looks a little drunk in it.
And to end on a good note, these are the potatoes I dug up from our garden last week. We got about 20 lbs. out of just one row of plants. I was pretty proud of myself!