Playdate Sniffles...

What's better than playing geotrax when you aren't feeling 100%? Playing Geotrax with friends who don't feel 100% either! What a fun afternoon...with the sniffles.

Halloween 2009: One Vampire and one Ghost...

Here are our scary ghost and vampire. Thanks to Grandma, we had some awesome homemade costumes.

The Vampire in deep thought.

Dad and his missing brain from the accident...

Carving pumpkins with the Days Halloween Day...

Yuck! I think 3 is the magic age that they start to remember things. It was so much fun to watch Brad and his buddies experience carving their pumpkins.

The results.

The bobbing for apples demo.

Kids turn. Bradley passed on this activity. He couldn't see why someone would want to do this for an apple.

Doughnuts on a string! The kids had fun - Bryce was the most determined and managed to eat his whole doughnut with no hands.

And then of course, the adults didn't want to get left out of this activity. I came in a close second. Rematch next year!

The crew all dressed and ready to "Trick or Treat"! One ghost, one vampire, one Uno card and one monster. It was so cute to see them race from house to house. They had a great time. After about the third house Bradley exclaimed "Oh Boy, I've got joy!". We couldn't help but laugh.

One picture partaking of the candy.

The loot!

Our scary experience...

Denten won't let me post a picture, but I thought I would share the story. Saturday evening Denten was planning on taking me into the city for dinner and to see Wicked. I think we were both excited for the evening together. After helping a family in the ward move most of the day, Denten borrowed a ladder and decided to clean our rain gutters. That is when our night changed. He had been on the roof for about 1 1/2 hours and was just starting down the ladder to clean up for our evening, when...

THE LADDER KICKED OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE FELL 15 FEET, HITTING THE FIRST STORY AND THEN LANDING ON THE CONCRETE GROUND ON HIS FACE!!!!

It was the scariest day of my life! For once I was on the other side. The one who was suppose to be calm, but I wasn't. He called for me and I ran outside to find him hosing his face off and blood was EVERYWHERE!! He told me to stop crying everything was going to be okay and get him a towel. I followed directions best I could and he walked inside to the bathroom, lied down in the bathtub and started running the water over his head and hand to clean the wounds. He then said, call a friend, I won't be able to go to the show with you tonight. And then call 911. I didn't call a friend to go to the show, I had my own show going on right in front of me, but I did call 911. The fire department and ambulance arrived within minutes along with my awesome cousin Debbie and her husband Mike to watch the boys. To see your husband strapped to a gurney with a neck brace and blood all over his face is the most frightening thing you could imagine. The ambulance took their "trauma" patient (my husband), to John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek (a hospital I already knew all too well), and rushed him into x-rays. Amazingly, Denten only broke his nose in two places, broke his jaw, road rash on most of his right side of his face, lacerated his right hand so they had to repair muscle, fat and skin and just has minor cuts in various places. Yes, after calling my amazing Mom and my long-time, close friend Kristin (THANK YOU!) and crying on her shoulder, I found out he was going to be okay. He spent the next two nights and two days in the hospital and was released with strict orders to stay down for one week. It is only Tuesday and he is doing amazingly well. (Oh and Thank you to Brigham too who gave up his birthday evening to come and give Denten a blessing with his brother). We have had so many thoughtful visitors, calls, flowers, good deeds, cards, etc. it has truly been an overwhelming experience. Thank you to everyone! We are on the mend...

Cheers!

At dinner last night, the boys ordered rootbeer and when the waitress brought it out, Bryce said "Bradley, Cheers!". It was so cute. All the tables around us were smiling. Thanks for sharing your British traditions with us Jay! The kids remember.

An ALL Boy Weekend - plus Mom!

Stargazing...

Creating...

Exploring...

Climbing...

Catching creatures...

Mom was there too...

Trains...

Throwing rocks in the lake...


Swimming in the cold water...


Hot dog roast...

And even Smores!!!

Thanks to Paul and Annie for letting us have a fun weekend together as a family!

Grandma and Grandpa Eldredge

Thanks for the visit. It was fun to see you again.

Goodbye Butterflies!

A few tears were shed as we said good bye to our butterflies. It was so fun to watch them change from caterpillars to chrysalis to butterflies. All 5 made it! Thanks Grandma!