Rachel's Favorite Outift

I have started to call Rachel my change artist.  Everyday I put her in an outfit and eventually at some point in the day she changes her clothes into something else.  This outfit is the newest that she puts on everyday.  Her Aunt Jamie sent it home with me after she spent a few days this summer down in Montpelier.

Thank you Aunt Jamie I love this outfit.

She even puts the right color shoes on when she wears this outfit.  She is such a silly girl.

Big Girl Bed

We have had Rachel's big girl bed for about three weeks.  Scott hasn't been around so we haven't been able to get it set up.  We decided before his family got here we would set it up so there would be another bed that people could sleep on.  After they left Rachel finally got to sleep in her bed. 

1st night sleeping in her bed.  

She was so happy to be sleeping in her big girl bed.  It doesn't surprise me at all that when I went into her room to take this picture she's not sleeping on it correctly.  She always sleeps in every bed sideways.

Boise Temple Open House

Yesterday we had the pleasure of going to the Boise Temple Open House with Scott's family.  They all came to our house for the weekend just so we could go to the Open House.  I was completely shocked when we showed up at our reservation time and the line was half way around the church house.  We ended up waiting in that line for about 1/2 an hour to 45 minutes before we got taken into the chapel to watch the movie.  After the movie we got into a group and headed to the temple.  We had another wait outside trying to get into the temple.  Once inside though we went through it pretty quickly.  The kids were getting tired and were hungry and so we had to hurry and take family pictures.  This was the best we could get trying to do them so quickly.

Our family picture.

Collage of all the family.

Halloween 2012

So I ended up babysitting Morgan while Kammi worked and I had wanted to try to make some mummies like I had seen on the internet.  I felt like the cool mom doing something for Halloween that was fun.  These actually turned out better than I had expected.

Mummies

Rachel ended up having Preschool on Halloween and they got to dress up for Preschool.  Rachel was pretty excited about it. Here is Rachel at school in her Halloween costume.

Monkey and grinning so big.   She loves her costume.

Here is all the kids in her preschool class in their costumes.

Scott was actually off today and so he got to go trick or treating with us.  We stopped 1st at Stan and Linda Peterson's house so she could see them.  They let her pick out as many candy bars as she wanted.  She picked only a couple and so then Linda filled her up with several more handfuls. We then headed over to Scott's coworker Sally's house.  The following are pictures of her yard and the decorations.

 Scott and Rachel walking up to the door.

 Door opening.

 The pirate and the coffin.  Totally cool.

 Coming back out of the house.

Sally gave her a whole ziplock bag full of goodies.  She sat right down on the driveway and started to go through it to see what she wanted to have first.  She could have been done at this point but I talked her into going to other houses.  She decided to go across the street.

She was ready to go and Scott was a little apprehensive.  I was like come on it's Halloween.  After she went to this house we headed over to our neighborhood.  We were heading to Kammi's house when I saw they were on their street trick or treating.  So we parked and hooked up with them.

 At the house that totally goes all out with decorations.  

 Part of the group walking the neighborhood.

 Rachel was always the last one at each house we went too.  She was trying to figure out how to do this but by the time we hit 10 houses she was finished.  It was to hard and her bucket was too heavy.  We actually started to take candy out of it and stuff it in our pockets so it wouldn't be so heavy.

She had fun playing with the decorations at this ladies house.  The witch made noises and she kept moving so that it would cackle at her.  We ended up carrying her part of the time but when she started whining more than moving we just gave up and headed home.  We did stop by her preschool teachers house and then went home.  We ended up with a total of three kids at our door trick or treating.  Two of them were our neighbor Deidre's kids.  We did last a little bit longer this year but she still isn't into it very much.