Eventful October

Let's pretend for a moment shall we?

Close your eyes..... it is October. Picture the leaves outside.... feel the cool breeze.... think of the pumpkins on your porch.... wasn't General Conference last week really good? I LOVED Elder Holland's talk about the Book of Mormon. He is such an incredible man! I loved that talk.

Have you convinced yourself that it is last October? Good. Now let me tell you about our crazy week this past week!!

Dallin turned 8! I can't believe he is that old! He is so tall and skinny and cute. I love his beautiful blue eyes and that adorable dimple he has when he smiles. (he is going to be SO annoyed that I wrote that on our blog!) So what did Dallin want for his birthday?

Um, no. No flipping way will he be getting a tarantula for his birthday!

He did get an ant farm and some bug stuff, which you can see he loved.

I've told my kids they can have a birthday party when they turn 5 and 8. I really despise doing birthday parties! I hate spending tons of money to entertain other people's kids and then having the stress of pulling it off! Ugh. Maybe I'm a bad, mean mom. Somehow I am sure they will live. So we had his party and invited a crud-load of kids from the neighborhood. It was pure chaos, but it ended up being pretty fun! I let them decorate their own cupcakes and I forgot to get candles. So here is the end result:


Sick sick sick!! Notice the fake teeth that are stuck in the side! And then the 8 "candles". Poor kid...I guess I am just giving him things to tell a shrink someday. :)

(fun photo fact: I had commented on how many people were holding up bunny ears in the previous picture. So note smiley little Ian holding bunny ears on himself. Cute little monkey!)

Next was General Conference. Amazing as always. I love listening to all our leaders speak to us. Unfortunately I swear I have adult attention span problems sometimes! I just seem to listen better if I am doing something with my hands. So I learned how to make balloon animals! :)

Scorpion

Spider
You try putting 2 more legs in there. Doesn't work.

Dallin was then baptized on October 10th. It was such a neat thing to see him take that step and make that choice. I am so proud of him and I hope he remembers how special that day was to him. He got to sing with the 3 girls who were baptized on the same day. They sang "I'm trying to be like Jesus" and it was so cute. He acts so cool sometimes, it was nice to see him want to sing and be a part of that. Uncle Matt gave a talk.

He was all nervous for his bishop's interview. He survived it, and I heard him telling his little buddy, "Don't worry about your interview. It was a piece of cake." :) It was so amazing seeing how grown up he was that day, but at the same time, I loved seeing that he is still my sweet little Dallin. The pictures make him look so young and sweet!



So, we have been sitting here watching TV while I have been doing this. Joel finally asked what I was doing. I told him blogging. He was just staring at me, "Huh? Blogging? What?" :) Ok! I know honey! I will try to do better! There is more to catch up, but alas, I must sleep at some point. More tomorrow. :)