Some pictures

Here are my little love bugs a few mornings ago. Kandace is usually up before Stetson so after I feed her we go into Stetson's room sometimes and wake him up together. These 2 are a great pair--Stetson makes her laugh every day and she loves the entertainment. The next pic is Stetson in his pj's and irrigating boots--he was helping me rake leaves. I thikn we're almost there. We had a lot of leaves!!

icing

Maybe I should explain my true feelings for icing. I love icing. So much that I've never had a cake without it and I never plan to. I think icing is just as fundamental as the cake, because believe me, I've had icing by itself...lots of times (pilsbury funfetti is best). I think icing is better by itself than cake by itself.

However, referring to my spouse as "icing on the cake" was probably a lousy choice of words. Just to set the record straight, even though you already know it, Michael is much more to me than icing on the cake.

Twilight

The only beef I have with the twilight series is this--Bella and Edward don't think they can live without each other--she sees no purpose in her life without him and vise versa. I was actually depressed when reading the parts where she talked about life without him, because in her eyes, life had no meaning without him. I know I know, I'm sucking all the romance out of it, but here's my thing: in theory, I've always believed I should be a whole person despite others who may come in and out of my life.

I've been taught and believed whole heartedly that our significant others, whether they be our boyfriend, spouse, whatever, should only be the icing on the cake. I never believed in phrases like"soul mate, "I can't live without him" because stuff happens (we get dumped, lose our spouses) and when we have to tough it out on our own, I think we should behappy enough to live with ourselves.

thoughts??

Happy Anniversary!

I think anniversaries are truly something to celebrate, and Michael's mom and dad celebrated their 29th anniversary last Thursday. Stetson was so excited he decided to wear his bday suit(not really u just can't see his undies).

In other news, I finally bit the bullet and read Twilight, then I watched it, now I'm about halfway done with New Moon. Hopefully I'll finish it in time to see the movie. Do I like the books? Yes I do. They're fast, easy reads and its been fun to get into reading again--regretfully I haven't read for "fun" in forever.

Daniel and Kasi's wedding is quicky approaching, as are the Holidays--I'm excited, I love the holidays (and weddings).

Pocahontas snd John Wayne

Haloween at the Asay's was lived to the fullest this year--and we're still not done. It started with a great trunk or treat that our ward did. Tracy Bassett is the ward activities chairperson and she does AWESOME. Everything she plans is always so fun. Stetson was our pirate (thanks so much Rachel, we LOVED it) and Kandace was our penguin--same costume Stetson wore for his first Halloween. Michael and I were dynamic duo of cowboy and Indian. I was just thrilled I got him to dress up at all. What a great sport. Gotta love him. Last night Shannon and I threw together a last minute Halloween party in Byron--scategories and catch phrase never get old. :) Tonight we're going to the gma's & gpa's with the kiddos to trick or treat. Happy Halloween!

my morning so far

We woke up to yucky, snowy, windy weather today so I thought to brighten our day we'd carve pumpkins, so I bundled the kids up and headed for gma Asay's where the pumpkins were and headed back home for some pumking carving fun. This picture shows the extent of Stetson's participation in the pumpkin carving party. He wasn't so interested. He did roll up his sleeves and put his hand in but never actually touched the gunk. After I was done carving it I put a candle in it and turned the lights out and he started singing happy birthday to it. Just a heads up for first time moms: don't even try to carve pumpkins with your kids 'til they're ...4 or 5? I'm not sure but every Halloween with Stetson so far has been me carving the pumpkins.

Yesterday might have been the happiest day of Stetson's life because after story time I told him he could have a "spider muffin" that his cousins Zach & Ben made if he ate his potatoe soup.

We've been under the weather here but are hoping for a full recovery by tomorrow for the ward trunk or treat!

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