{Star Wars Halloween II)

So Star Wars is a yearly theme in our house it seems.

E picked to be a Storm trooper and his brother reverted to his stand by of a Jedi costume.

After two costume meltdowns I was just happy to see them in something. E was pretty much forced into his and I gave up with K b/c he just didn't like the costume we tried to put together and wasting 10 dollars on his didn't seem like too much to me since he will wear those other clothes as regular clothes now.

We trunk or treated on Saturday with our cousins and our ward. The place was pretty full and we got tons of candy. It was a lot of fun!

{cake}

For our war Halloween Carnival the boys had to each make a cake for the cake walk....this is what we ended up with...

a zombie alien

a mummy

{DS Sadness}

K's DS Story..............

He got a new DS for his big day after breaking his first one 6 weeks after it was bought. (we made him wait over 2 years before he got this one to teach some responsibility.)

Well last Wednesday night I went to switch the laundry from the washer to the dryer and guess what I found?

His DS.
Sopping wet.
In the bottom of the washer.

I took it apart the best I could. It was dripping water. It was 9:30 at night and tech support was closed. So I did what all moms do and googled then facebook-ed friends for ideas to revive this DS.

But it is officially dead. Tech Support will let us pay 50 dollars to have it fixed since it is less than 6 months old.

K has to pay for it. He isn't too happy but the alternative is no DS.

Decisions Decisions...........

But I hope that he has learned not to leave the DS in his pants pockets now.

It is really sad to see how upset he was and how much more he was upset when he figured out he was going to have to fix this one on his own. It's hard to be the "mean mom" who won't just fix this problem, but I keep telling myself he has to learn.

{Why I hate to carpool}

As you know we live a bit aways from out school, so we spend at least 1.5 hours in the car everyday driving too and from school. We are usually a quiet bunch at 7 am on the way to school. But the way home we get to talk about all kinds of things.

For one year we carpooled to school with a handful of parents so I only had to drive out to school for 1 day every 4 weeks I think. And after about a month I discovered that I was missing something. I figured it out that I was missing those chats in the car.

Friday made me remember why I am so lucky to drive them too and from each day (not to mention to spend the day at school with them too).  Our drive home consisted of many gospel topics from what heaven would look like, why you would choose to get married in a backyard instead of the Temple, if you can be righteous without being a member of the church, the 3 degrees of Glory, and patriarchal blessings. It was a great conversation with both boys talking a lot. I think you can also add this conversation to the list of reasons we love our school too. A lesson K had in his class had sparked this conversation and that is wonderful too.

So if you need parenting advice from me I say: drive your kids to all their activities...carpooling is overrated!

{Simple Fun}

We love our babysitter. He teaches our boys things we forget to teach them like....to play Nerf gun war in the dark with flashlights, to built mega big marshmallow guns out of plastic tubing, how to beat ds games and to build card houses.

After a few hours with our babysitter last Saturday night, the boys spent Sunday building houses out of cards. A few days later I found about 30 pictures on the camera of this guy made out of cards. Card guy and pictures taken by E.

We love the simple things he reminds us of. The simple things we forget to show our own children that he remembers to show them. Thanks A!