"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes...and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp...I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really there, and that I really lived."

~Marjorie Hinckley



"Our lives are frittered away by detail; simplify, simplify." Henry David Thoreau



"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." Lin Yutang

Monday, November 9, 2009

Halloween 31 October 2009

Halloween...lots of fun dressing up....here are the older 6, ready to go to our ward Halloween party....I had fun braiding a hanger into Kylie's hair so it would stick out for her Pippy Long Stocking costume. Elise, the country girl; Chet, the YuGiOh Dual Master; Savannah, "Sarah" the Dragon (she "just likes that name"); Quinn, the Knight....who happens to be after the dragon, Sarah...much to Savannah's dismay; and Ammon, as Buzz Lightyear.

Later, Elise turned into the girl from Hawaii...shorts, sunglasses, Hawaiian shirt...much cooler for our 80+ degree weather! So, I decided to go "cowgirl" with Brooke for our neighborhood gathering.
Brenden scared all the trick-or-treaters that came our way that evening....it was hilarious to hear the kids saying things like, "He's not real." "You go...no you go up there..." And, then, to hear them gasp when they actually pulled together enough courage to approach the door...only to have Brenden move! (Brenden would stand in front of the candy bucket...then move aside when they came up.) I have to agree...he does look pretty scary!

1 comment:

Maggie said...

Fun! It was pretty chilly here. Kaitlyn wore snow pants under her dress. I think Brenden's costume would scare just about anyone trick-or-treating.

Just a reminder....YOU ARE AWESOME!!!