Halloween 2009 and other events

For some reason I can't stay up to date on my blog...it must be that I'm spending too much time on the computer getting ready for Christmas!! Anyway, here are pics from Halloween and other things we have been up to lately.

As some of you may already know, Kayley is really into Dorothy right now! She loves Dorothy everything. So, we dressed up as a Wizard of Oz family this year for Halloween. Kayley was obviously Dorothy, Cora was the Wicked Witch of the West, I was Glenda the good witch and Nick was the scarecrow. The costumes weren't too extravagant as I was just lucky to get Nick to dress up in general!! :) I did however spend a lot of time (a whole night in fact) fixing Cora's green gloves, which she refused to wear half the time! The wicked witch's skin is bright green so I searched everywhere for green gloves and green socks as I knew if I were to paint her face or skin, that wouldn't go over very well. The only green gloves I could find were adult gardening gloves at Target...luckily the were only 50 cents so if I did mess them up, I wasn't wasting much money. But I made them smaller to fit her hands, which did take literally all night! It was cute though as she would say "I'm going to get you my pretty and your little dog too!" I can't type it as cute as she would say it, but it was cute! So here is all of us at the ward party before Halloween! And of course Cora refused to wear her gloves in this pic, but they are on in other pics below.

These are pics of the Halloween party at Michelle's house. They did a bunch of fun games and here are pics of the cake walk type game and the broom/pumpkin game (not really sure what the official names of the games were, but the kids had fun doing them!

Here's some more pics of the girls' costumes. We went trick or treating with the Carles, I mean the transformer (Edward), the southern Belle (Olivia), The mad scientist (Judson), and Tinkerbell (Katrina). The kids had fun, but we didn't get to go as long as we wanted to as they got hungry fast. But it was fun to do it with friends and family.

Then I have to admit that these pictures are actually taken a whole week after Hallowwen! yes we didn't have our pumpkins carved in time for Halloween, but the kids didn't seem to mind at all! We of course couldn't get the girls to even touch the inside, but it was still fun. Nick told the girls stories with the pumpkin telling it. The pumpkin's name was Harry I believe, but it was cute cause we had the lights off with the candle in it and the girls really thought the pumpkin was the storyteller!

Also a couple of weeks ago we went down to Willard and took another trip to Silver Dollar City. I've never seen it so packed in my life! It was the opening day of their Christmas festivities and it was nuts! We waited 20 min just to park our car! So we had to decide/cut down our plans for the day on rides/shows. We did fit in one ride on the frogs with the girls (their fav ride!) then the living nativity show, then we split and I took Cora on the butterfly ride and Nick took Kayley on the elephant ride, then we met and did the Frosty the snowman show. Then we squeezed in for a spot for the light parade. After the parade was over, the police officer was behind the last light display and behind him was a mob of people, so we grabbed all our stuff and walked right behind the police officer, it again took us 20 min to get out of the park and to our car...but it was fun and the girls had fun so it made for some fun memories!

This month the girls have also been doing Gymnastics. It has been so fun watching them do their classes! Kayley does the class with the teacher and Cora is in parent/tot class where one of us have to be with her throughout the class. The teacher has been great and the girls have loved every bit of their classes. It's cute to watch them get all ready in their gymnastics clothes and get excited to go to their class. Here are some pics of their classes.

Audrey's Birthday Party

Almost 2 weeks ago Audrey had her Dorothy Birthday Party in Columbia. It was so much fun and Sarah did such a great job planning it! Kayley was beside herself with it being a Dorothy party! With me being a doof, I completely forgot about it being Dorothy themed and forgot to have Kayley wear her dress...so I'm not sure how she did it, but she bribed sweet Lauren to let her wear her Dorothy dress. Luckily Lauren is young enough and found another dress-up dress and fit right in with the other cousins that were dressed up! The decorations were so cute! Sarah made a great cake with a yellow brick road on it and a homemade pinata of a rainbow, a painting of the wicked witch, painting of a tinman, a huge apple tree cutout, homemade witches brooms, a cute, cute set up/display of the wicked witch of the east! It was so cute! Here are all the pictures from it!

This is of the decorations and of Audrey's cake.
The Apple Tree throwing game.

The witch race game.

The wicked witch/melting game with water balloon throwing to melt her. Pin the heart on the Tin Man game. Hot ToTo game as well.

The Rainbow Pinata.

The walking puzzle board...Sarah had each game set up to receive a clue at the end to a piece of the puzzle. Nick was our puzzle board and the puzzle made a picture of the Wicked Witch of the East. She had it by the side of their house just like the house had fallen on top of her like in the movie. Of course Dorothy's shoes were there...so the kids had to go find Dorothy to give her her shoes.

Dorothy is here!! The kids were so cute and couldn't believe Dorothy was actually here! Audrey and Kayley loved it! Kayley followed Dorothy around like a sick puppy!

Then we had yummy cake and then presents! It was a great party! Then ironically that night we went out to eat at El Maguey's with Nick's cousin who was in town and there was a couple that showed up dressed as the Tin Man and the Scarecrow! Kayley was beside herself, but wasn't brave enough to take a picture with them...so I got a pic of them from far away. That's them in the lower left hand corner. It was a fun day!

Yearly Appointments

Ok...I have been behind a lot lately on posting...so I'll hopefully be posting quite a few posts to catch up! Anyway, this is a picture of the girls and their yearly appointment back in September. I knew that they would hopefully both be able to get the flu shot, but I couldn't remember if either one of them were due for any vaccinations or not. We prepped the girls letting them know that they might be getting some shots. Nick and I had already put the girls to bed and Nick heard Kayley crying, very quietly. He went in and found out that she was crying because she was scared to go the doctor. So Nick decided to try and pinch Kayley to help her get prepped on how it would feel. That seemed to calm her down at least until we got there.

Cora was first and did great! She only had to have the flu shot and of course cried for that, but she usually cries when the doctor checks her out with the stethoscope and she didn't cry a bit, she even laughed with him when he was being funny. Then we had to do a finger stick to check her lead and she did not even cry the whole time! I was really impressed with her!

Kayley was next. She did fine with the stethoscope, etc part. She also had fun with our doctor as well when he would joke with her. However when the nurse came in with the box of shots she went bilistic! She had to have all of her kindergarten shots PLUS her flu shot! She doesn't start school until a little less than 2 years from now, but they suggested her getting them now as it would be easier to hold her down, etc! She had to have a total of 5 shots! Then we also had to get her finger stuck as well which you can imagine was also interesting as she screamed the whole time!

Needless to say, the appointment went well and all was well with both the girls. They both got to go to the store to pick out a toy for being so brave. Kayley did get to pick out a more expensive one since she was hit with 5 shots at once. Poor thing was limping for about 2 days after the appointment. I felt bad for her. I'm just glad that we are good for another year!

This was another incentive for them to get through the doctor...to be able to see Ashlyn & Preston!

I Love to See the Temple

I am so glad that I got a video of this as it doesn't happen very often anymore. Cora is now 2 and 3 months and just now sleeping in Kayley's room, within the last 2 weeks maybe. My baby is all grown up! But for the longest time we tried to get her to sleep in there every now and then and she would refuse and say it wasn't her room. She wanted to sleep in her room and in her bed! However she would still fight us to go to sleep. So oftentimes during this short period she would request Kayley sing her to sleep. It was so sweet! I hope the video works for you! My girls are growing up way too fast!

Ross's Gator Crusaders

About 2 weeks ago the Felker's came up from Farmington to do a walk for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation with the rest of my family as well as some of the Wright family. This foundation raises funds to find a cure for type 1 diabetes. For those who may not know our nephew Ross Felker was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes about 5-6 months ago at age 10. He has been quite the example in this diagnosis as he gives himself his own shots and sets health goals, etc. He is such a great big nephew and a great example to our girls and to myself! So, he wanted to have a goal of raising $1000 for the race. Well they definitely met that within a few weeks and by the time of the race they had raised almost $4000!! It was very impressive!

So that Saturday we all ventured out to Legends and joined to complete the 2 mile walk! It was so stinkin' cold!! We all bundled up as best we could and braved the weather! The walk went well even admist passing around and taking turns with holding fussy kids! They were so miserable and weren't old enough to understand...it was hard to see them so cold! But after the walk we were able to enjoy some of the free food very quickly and then dispersed to find heat while all the big kids and Stephanie braved the cold and enjoyed the fun games! My kids did not stay so I didn't get any picks of the fun games, but I heard they were the only ones there! They even closed up shop early and the nieces and nephews were upset cause they didn't get to do all they wanted to do! It was a lot of fun and we are looking forward to doing this again next year for Ross! We are blessed to have such a great nephew! :)

Einstein's new buy

Ok...we have learned that we are a bit more couple of dog lovers than we thought! Or at least dog lovers of our dog! We did something that we thought we'd never do in our life and made fun of all the people who would do this, but we bought a coat for Einstein!! I know it sounds crazy, but he really did need it! The poor dog has very thin hair and almost no hair at all on his belly! (We're not sure why as his type of dog is bred to be hunting dogs!) But he would shiver like crazy outside even inside his dog house and then when we'd bring him inside, even after an hour of being inside he'd still be shivering. So we broke down and did the inevitable. But I do have to say it looks cute on him! We call it his Sherlock Holmes coat! All we need now is a pipe and hat to match it! :)