Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! We are excited to celebrate this evening. The Wise Hero keeps saying "Candy!" She's learned really well.

On Sunday morning the Wise and Hopeful Heros needed to carry their stuffed animals around in the carriers that their aunt made for us. 

On Saturday we went to our ward party. We got to wear our costumes and we had a lot of fun. The ward here has a carnival games and then a chili and hot dog party. Alice loved throwing balls and I loved watching kids play a smash the carrot game. It was fun.

Here are our scary dragons:

And the whole family:

Saturday was a crazy busy day. We went to the San Diego Safari Park. It was a lot of fun. We went then because during the month of October kids got in for free. It was a great zoo, but a little bit more spread out than most zoos. We had a great view of this tiger. She was marching back and forth. We loved watching some tiger cubs playing together, but we didn't get a good picture because they were playing behind a tree.

The Wise Hero loved all the animals. And she had a great time. The Bug Hero and I survived pretty well but near the end, our stroller got a flat tire and so I pushed a difficult stroller and The Bug Hero carried The Wise Hero. And The Hopeful Hero struggled. She had to walk nearly a half a mile. The promise of candy at the ward party motivated her. We loved seeing the baby giraffe and the baby rhino. 

Too cute not to include:

This is at the beginning before we did all our walking. The kids loved playing and being there.

The Friendly Hero was chosen for Student of the Month. We are proud of him!

It was hard, because the girls mobbed him. He found it a little embarrassing. 

October 24th

We had a wonderful week. We got to go down to San Diego this weekend and visit with our Grandparents. We had a great time at their ward Halloween party. And we had such a great time, there were no pictures. That also could be about the fact that the Wise Hero refused to be put down. There were way too many new people around. It was really fitting that for Halloween I am a "Mother of Dragons" My shirt says that, and I spent the entire party holding my littlest dragon. We'll send out pictures next weekend. We have four dragons, one mother of dragons and a good knight.

On another note, while I'm used to carrying the Wise Hero around, I'm not used to that long consecutively, and my arms are really tired.

Grandma H made the girls these cute skirts. The Hopeful Hero loved wearing them for Grandma H and the Wise Hero refused to try it on. However the next day, for Stake Conference the girls loved matching and the Wise Hero refused to take it off. The delights of a two year old.

I also can't get over the Wise Hero's smile. She's really ramping up the cheese factors.

This past week at school there was the school book fair. When the book fair comes, the school invites the parents to come eat lunch with their kids. It's a great ploy to get us to buy books. (Not that I need a book fair to do that....but it's always fun.)

This is outside the book fair. And the best picture I got was this: only one kid looking at the camera. In all others, none of the kids looked at the camera. In their defense, it was really sunny out.