I've got the blues!

For Halloween this year, the twins are going to be Thing 1 and Thing 2 so naturally I wanted to dye their hair blue. I was a little nervous that the blue would not take very well. Obviously I had nothing to worry about! Even in blue hair, they are SO cute!

Okay, Okay!

Okay guys, here is a picture of Gabe in his lederhosen. It is not an excellent picture but I will post more later. My dad has all the good ones and I am waiting for him to e-mail them to me. Until then you will have to deal with the one I took with my phone.

HE SURE IS A DOLL!!!

For those of you who do not know already, Gabe was in a Ballet recital and did a dance to one of the songs from "The Sound of Music." He sure loves the stage and LOVES to show off! Here he is in his authentic German lederhosen that I got on ebay for $30. What a deal!!

Firtst try at veggies! EWWW!!

Scotland got her first taste of vegetables and was not so pleased with how they tasted (obviously). She did; however, enjoy the bath immediately following. What a cute girl!! Even when her face is covered in nastiness she is still beautiful to me!!

"General Conscience"

For all those who saw it, and I guess thse who didn't, general conference was great. I think I only saw 2 talks but they were very good. My personal favorite was the one by Elder Octaviano Tenorio. He spoke in the Sunday afternoon session kind of about how our family can be together forever. I didn't catch all of his talk so I am not sure if that was his true point but that is what I did get. He told a story of his wife having their first child in another part of Mexico then where he was. He was so happy about his new little girl and told everyone at work about it. The ext day he brought chocolates to share with everyone at work in celebration of his daughter's arrival to this earth. As he was passing them out he got a call from his father-in-law saying that his little girl had died. Octaviano asked to talk to his wife and they talked about how great it was that they were sealed to this little girl. After talking to his wife, he continued passing out chocolates. One person asked how he could do this after hearing such horrible news. Octaviano shared his testimony of eternal families with this person and that person truly saw his faith.

What a hard thing to loose a child but to continue to be upbeat and possative is something that I do not think I could ever do, even with the knowledge that I have in my life.

I am so greatful for my family, they teach me more each day and are so completely precious to me.

Here are a couple of pictures (provided by parts of my family) from General Conference

This is Gabe's picture of Camilla (Cmle). He is such the artist!!

This is my nephew Max. What a stud!! He LOVED getting his pictue taken!

I hope that those of you who could, enjoyed conference and got a little spiritual uplift. We are so lucky to have this modern day guidence in our lives. I know that I do not use it as much as I should but I am greatful for it!

EXPLOSION!!

At about 3 p.m. I was sitting on my couch while Ezra and Gabe played and Landon and Scotland slept. I heard a huge BANG which made our entire house shake, literally! I looked up, out the window and half the sky was covered in flames. We later found out that a propane tank had exploded less than 1 mile away from our house. According to Mapquest the address was 0.74 miles away from us. The fire ball was about 500 feet in the air and 1000 feet wide. It burned for many hours. It was crazy!! They had to shut down Highway 16, which is a fairly busy highway around here and they redirected traffic to go through our neighborhood.

Aparently the propane tank had exploded while it was being refueled. They are not sure how, but there ya have it. As of right now many have been hospitalized and one man is reported missing. The picture to the right was taken by a person half way across town. I am not sure where the picture to the left was taken from, but you get the idea. After things like this you get so greatful that your husband came home from work. I just feel so bad for the man who is missing's wife and family. I know we will keep them in our prayers.

MORE PICTURES

taken from Highway 16

About 3 hours after the explosion

New Swing Set!!!!

We got a new swing set!! Well... It isn't exactly new but new to us. I got it on Craigslist for free!! We had to drive out to Redmond to get it but it was well worth it! It is a nice wooden one with 2 regular swings, 1 baby swing, those ring things, a fort with a slide, a rope ladder and a knotted rope for climbing. It really is pretty cool. Here are a few pictures of the twins playing outside today.

Ezra hangin' out. Notice his cool haircut!

Landon chillin'. Notice his cute haircut! You would think I was ripping his arms off the way he screamed when I did it!

Playin' in the drive way. What fun!

Aaron

Yes, I know, I say nothing about Aaron in my title but he is one of my kids. Luckily he admits it too. I just didn't want anyone to think i was leaving him out, he is very important to me!