Update

Dear Family and Friends, you'll have to humor me....I feel this urge to update before I can share what is happening now in our family. It has been a while since we have written on our blog. So here goes with the update. Our update begins in October with Halloween pictures. Nathan was going to be on his second trip to Russia during Halloween. He knows that I HATE being alone on Halloween, I've done it and I DON'T LIKE IT!! So he took pity on me and asked his mom to come out and help me while he was gone for about 2 weeks.

For Halloween, Andy was Wolverine from "The X-Men", Haley was a "Glamour Witch", Michael was Thomas the Tank Engine, and Nate....well Nate got creative this year. He wanted to be Bumblebee the Transformer, but he wanted to actually transform! I had no idea where to begin with this costume, so I thought I'd wait until Marilyn was here and maybe with her artistic talents she could figure out how to achieve this feat. She worked on Nate's costume for a week solid! She did a great job! He even had working headlights. We learned a few things making this costume. Nate was not able to walk very well in his costume, so we ended up having to take it all off except the mask for trick or treating. The costume only allowed for him to be a car once, so I'm glad that we got a lot of pictures so he only truly "transformed" once. Nate really loved his costume and he was a hit at school, so it was worth all of the hard work, right Marilyn?!

Michael was really cute being Thomas, he wanted to wear his costume the entire week of Halloween and even into the next week. He still asks for it occasionally. When asked what he was going to be for Halloween, he'd respond with "I be Thomas!" It was so cute!

This is what our yard looked like before I had a chance to rake the leaves. Nate called it "Leaf City."


While Grandma Taggart was here, we went on our annual visit to Tweite's Pumpkin Patch. It had snowed the day before, so it was a little wet and snowy, but the kids were troopers and even had fun!