So Funny!!!

I found this cartoon on someone elses blog and I laughed so hard that my kids thought I had finally lost it. Hope you enjoy it!!!

Getting ready for Halloween

Some of Alex's family came last weekend to see Olivia in her primary program. While they were here we decided it would be fun to make Halloween treats. We started out carving pumpkins.

Of course we made the girls take out the pumpkin "guts". Alex also told them he cut off the pumpkins brains when he cut the top off.

Olivia picked a great pattern from the pumpkin pattern book and Alex got started.

The girls were very happy with the results!!

Then I made some sugar cookies and Alex wanted the girls to "paint" the cookies like he did when he was little. They had so much fun-but I think that Alex had the most fun.

Here is the finished product-I only let them have 2 colors but I think they turned out beautiful and they were very tasty!!

By the way-it was not a great idea to carve the pumpkins 2 weeks before Halloween. We went outside yesterday to find the jack o lantern had collapsed into itself and pumpkin juice was all over the front porch. The girls were very upset!!!

Halloween Party

Last Saturday we had our ward Halloween party. The girls were so excited to dress up, they had trouble waiting until 5:00. They went as fairy butterflies and they were adorable. Abby loved the other princesses and characters, but she hated the vampires and Yoda (our bishop). Their Wolfley cousins were able to come and share the good times. Here are some great pictures of them having fun.

Here they are before we left the house-they were so excited!!!

Here they are with their cousins. Little Vern was the best-instead of having abs of steel, he had this little milk belly. It was so stinking cute.


Could this girl get any cuter???


She still can't believe that people just give the candy away!!! She was literally dancing with joy.

Girls in the Hood

This semester one of my classes wasn't offered at night so I had to sign up on Friday morning. I was kind of stressing out about finding someone to watch the girls that wouldn't charge me too much and was reliable. One of my friends from the ward offered to watch them on Fridays if I would watch her kids on Tuesdays. I can't believe how well this has worked out for us. My girls now refer to her girls as their best friends and they play so well together. It has also given me the chance to get to know Amber better and we have become really good friends. It has been a great experience (I hope Amber feels the same-if not, there is only 9 weeks left of school). Last week, the girls thought it was too cold outside (95) and they needed sweaters. Not any sweater would do-it had to have a hood. Here are some pictures I took of them in their sweaters.

This one I would like to title "Girls in the Hood"

Here is Zoe and Abby chilling in their chairs.

Here is Tessa and Olivia-and yes for all of you Barbie movie fans, they were playing "The Diamond Castle"

So anyway, Thanks Amber for putting up with my girls and letting them play with their BFF's twice a week-everyone in the Elledge home thanks you.

Zoo Days

Last Saturday we had free tickets to the Phoenix Zoo so we loaded up the girls to go see the animals. What someone forgot to tell us was that even though is was the middle of September, we would almost die of heat exhaustion. It was so hot, Olivia kept asking if we could find some shade and Abby was chanting "water, water, water" the whole time. We only stayed 2 hours and then we needed to leave.

We were able to get some great pictures of the animals.

Here we are dying of heat exhaustion.

The girls love this carousel-Olivia tried to shove a little boy because he was on the Lion and that is what she wanted. I finally got her to settle for the tiger.

Bring on the Blue!!!

We went yesterday for an early ultrasound and we are having a boy!!! Of course this is not 100% sure since it is still pretty early, but it definitely looked like a boy. We are very excited, mostly to have a change of color around here. It seems like everything in our house is so pink lately(Abby cries if I don't put her in a pink shirt) that it will be a nice change of pace. It will also be nice because we just had a baby boy born on my side of the family and Alex's Brother is having a boy in January so he will have some good boy cousins to play with. Other than that the Ultrasound was awesome. Everything looked normal and healthy and he was just moving like crazy in there. The tech said that he was measuring a little big, but for now my due date is the same.

Baby #3 is on his/her way!!!

So a lot of you know already, but we are expecting baby #3 in March. I have been waiting to announce it until I heard the heartbeat which we heard today. Everything looks and sounds great and we have an ultrasound scheduled for 2 weeks from today. The girls are very excited especially Olivia who asked the Doctor today if she was going to take the baby out now so she could see him (she can't decide whether she wants a boy or a girl). I don't think that they understand how long babies take to grow. It might be a long 7 months.