Things Ken forgot to add...

So on Halloween we Trick-or-Treated my sister's neighborhood with great success. The girls got 3 to 5 pieces of candy per house because most T-or-T'ers go the the apartment complexes and not the house neighborhoods. They made quite the haul. So before Halloween I had put up decorations; one of which was a smiling ghost with rosy cheeks. The girls thought that it was so cute and started calling it 'the ghost light' (from Disney-Pixar movie "Cars' " short film "Mater and the Ghost Light"). Later when I asked them what they wanted to be this year for Halloween they both chime in "the Ghost Light!" I finally figured out that they wanted to be ghosts and not blue glowing lights. So I cut up a white sheet, cut eye holes, cut smiles out of some black cloth; and glued the smiles, black satin bows, and the white button teeth onto the costume. The girls were thrilled with their costumes. (Note to parents: Make the eye holes bigger than they need to be!) While we were out trick-or-treating we came to a house that had a jack o' lantern on the doorstep. However, this particular pumpkin was vomiting pumpkin seeds and gunk onto the porch. These are the girl's comments:

Lily (grossed out face): Ooh, he's sick!
Dalia (serious and motherly): Mommy, he needs to take some medicine.

Later that evening as we were walking along Lily (who is wearing a coat under her ghost costume even though the temperature was balmy compared to Utah Halloweens) starts commenting that her eyes were cold. Ken and I exchanged glances and repeated it back to her as a question to confirm this bizarre statement. Sure enough she claimed her eye balls were cold thou the rest of her was perfectly toasty. Hmmm.

So Saturday is come and gone and Christmas is up. Well mostly up. The outdoor lights and the window lights aren't up, but most of the decorations, the tree, and ornaments are all up and looking festive and we have begun our Christmas shopping. We also had the missionaries for dinner tonight. We had waffles and eggs with cheese, red bell peppers, and sausage. Breakfast for dinner. I asked, and we are the only ones to ever feed these two missionaries breakfast for dinner. They loved it! I don't think they get omelets and waffles very often. Probably don't have time to make it in the mornings. Ken and I are both teaching lessons in church tomorrow. Him the deacons quorum, me the gospel essentials class.

All hail the Holiday season!

Rosalie

So it has been about a month since my last post. The girls are doing well Lily is loving school and Dalia loves the free time she has with Rosalie every morning. We went to Parent teacher conferences and learned Lily is a lot like me. Very rowdy, and talkative when she is at home but at school she is a quite polite little girl. It reminded me of the time mom and dad came home from parent teacher conferences and told how they were not sure the teacher was talking of the same child because the teacher said I needed to talk and participate more. I have tried to get Rosalie to post some things on here but she does not want to. Several time she has said "oh you should post that on the blog" I try to get her to do it but she does not and by the time I get around to posting I have forgotten what it was she wanted to post. My new Calling as Scout Master is going well. The biggest difficulty is that the scout records have not been well kept, which I am trying to change I have one scout who is working on his Life badge and the council has no record of him receiving his tenderfoot, second class, or any of the 11 merit badges he has. I am working with the council and the troop committee to fix these problems. The girls were little ghosts for Halloween they had a lot of fun this year trick or treating. I was surprised that Lily was tired and ready to call it a night before Dalia was. Here are some Pictures, The first is the girls sitting at the counter, Dalia had a bucket on her head and after I took her Picture Lily of course wanted hers taken. The other is them at Halloween.