Heber Geber

The other night I made turkey pot pie out of some of the leftover turkey we had from Thanksgiving. I knew it would be a dinner that Heber would fight. The pie turned out great and everyone loved it and I was convinced Heber would like it if he really gave it a try. We told him he could eat or go to bed and after counting to three he would reluctantly put a bite in his mouth and eat it.

He started eating it on his own and I said, "Heber, isn't it good?...You like turkey....You can taste the soup with it and the vegetables...." and then he totally gagged! ahha! It was so funny. I thought I was helping him give it a try and learn to love it. But yeah, it made him want to throw up.

Also, today Eve finally broke her first tooth! Wahoo! And Heber actually broke his first big boy tooth... the same day! Unfortunately his baby tooth hasn't fallen out yet. It kind of freaked me out when he showed it to me and I called the dentist to find out what we should do about it. A few minutes later when I was sending him off to catch the bus he said, 'I'm kind of famous huh.'

Gotta love Heber.

Halloween and Happenings...

Halloween was great! We had a couple of parties and ended up staying home on Halloween night. We had several trick-or-treaters and took Heber, Jack, and Eve around the neighborhood. While we were out I was telling Brian that I should have planned to rent "Witches" to watch that night with just him. Well what do you know! After the kids were down, we looked on TV and it was on! It was a very fun Halloween night.

Last Monday we went to the gingerbread house festival at Thanksgiving Point. Our dear friend Melodie Dearden got 2nd place for her cool gingerbread house. It was great fun and started getting us all in the Christmas spirit.

Here is Laura in front of Melodie's gingerbread house. It is Grimmald Place in Harry Potter. Too cool.

Heber climbed the tree out front and wanted a picture taken of his new found skill. Jack also wanted to have a picture of him in the tree.

Jack's "Happy Birthday!"

Jakers!

We enjoyed a family outing on Saturday by getting some pumpkins at a bonafide pumpkin patch. Thank you Taniel for getting this going! It was quite fun.

School Pictures

Yesterday Heber brought home some sticker pictures of Eve and Jack's school pictures. I guess he thought this is what they were for:

Brian's Birthday

We spent Brian's birthday tonight at home. Heber and Jack enjoyed playing soccer outside with Brian.

And later, Brian enjoyed his birthday present. Yes that is 'Punch-Out' the game . He faithfully played the original when he was growing up and enjoyed the reminiscence on his birthday. Happy Birthday Brian!!

Update-O-Rama

Here are a few highlights from the last post. In the middle of August we took a trip up to Island Park with the Proctors. This is a great picture of almost all of us waiting for Old Faithful. Brian was taking the picture.

My sister Laura moved in with us and started school at UVU. It is lovely to have a on-demand hair cutter and nanny.....when she has time.

Heber started Kindergarten! It was such a funny day. He was so anxious! Like the big man that he is, he picked up his back pack and said, "Well, see ya." when he thought it was time to go. He loves school and is learning so much.

On Labor day we took our kids on a 4 mile hike!! haha. Yeah, 4 miles.....with 3 kids....2 who don't really walk. It was fun to say we did it, but we probably won't do it again any time soon.

Jack kept playing in the dirt and then he would get up on Brian's shoulders and wipe the dirt on Brian's sweaty heat. It was great! What a sweet little family I have.

P.S. I would collect puppets. Not the freaky people kind you see on the Sound of Music, the cute stuffed animal kinds that they have at the library story time.