Halloween party pics

These two girls are my neighbor girls. Their mom Sarah is my really good friend. Eva loves these girls. Notice Eva on the floor.


This was at our ward halloween party. They had the kids line up for a costume compitition. The little gilr in the joker's costume won. She's way cute.



The little boy in the army outfit kept shooting all the other kids with his gun. He definately had the right cotume for it.

Eva was telling me to go away in this pic. She was too busy watching Dora to look at the camera. P.S. She's a frog. You can't really see the head of her costume real well. I have more pictures coming. I'm taking her trick-or-treating tonight. These pics were from last weekend. And I promise to get some of Gabe.

Poor, Tired Gabe

We were eating dinner the other night and I looked over and found Gabe dosing off. So I said, "Hello Gabe" and he immediately piped up and gave me this funny wide awake smile.

After another second, I turned my head and he started to stare off. He kept giving my friend Laura this really dirty look. It was hilarious. He was just staring her down. Then he slowly started dozing off again. It was funny to see how fast he went from sleep, wide awake and happy, to mean and staring, then back to sleep.


And this is how it all ended. Isn't he cute?

Fall fun continued....

I thought these geese were fake when we first drove by them, but they're not. I just thought it was so funny to see them purched there. There was a gray cat sitting right next to one of them but I couldn't get the picture in time before it jumped down. They are on a wall of some beautiful german house up in the vineyards.

Some random town not far from Mainz, Germany.

Can anyone see the gargoils? They are totally awesome! There were three different sun dials on this chruch too.

Enjoying the beautiful fall weather in Germany

Answers to Gilly's "Tag"

1. Favorite TV shows to watch:
a. Grey's Anatomy
b. Top Chef
c. Project Runway
d. The Office
e. So you think you can dance
f. American Idol (especially the first few episodes)

2. Things that happened today:
a. woke up at 4:00 because my stupid cell phone was running out of battery so it was beeping.
b. woke up again at 4:20 because Gabe decided to be difficult and wake up for good, bright eyed and bushy tailed.
c. got the kids ready, packed a bag, and drove to the airfield to go work out. I dropped the kids off at the daycare and I went and took my favorite class-Zumba.
d. Came home, got a quick shower, fed the kids, packed a new bag, drove to my friend's house and we all went swimming for three hours.
e. came home, changed, ate dinner, got the kids ready for bed, played with them on the floor, read a little from my awesome book, and now typing this.
f. what a fun life I lead huh? Kids, kids, and more kids.

3. Favorite places to eat:
a. this little german resturaunt at the top of a mountain in Eppstein Germany. It has the best stake in the world!!!
b. Hubbland-an awesome greek restaraunt in Wurzburg Germany.
c. Cafe-Rio
d. Z-tejas
e. the Cheesecake Factory

4. Things I'm looking forward to:
a. Hans coming home!!! in one and a half months!!!!!
b. Hans coming home
c. Hans coming home
e. meeting my goal weight. I'm half way there!
f. Hans coming home

5. Things on my wish list:
a. Hans
b. Hans
c. Hans
d. Hans
e. new clothes
f. new body to go with those clothes
h. to go back to school and get a degree
i. a maid

There you go Gillian. That's fun. Did you catch the theme going on in this? I MISS HANS!!!

Happy 2nd Birthday to Eva!

I can't believe it was already 2 years ago that Eva was born. It doesn't seem like we've had her for that long. I'm still feeling the pain from her birth. :) This smile was when we were all singing happy birthday to her. She was loving the attention.

She's totally lovin' the fire. (of course, she wouldn't put her bread down either)

Blowin' out the candles.

Havin' a taste test first.

Ugggh. I'm so full! But it was totally worth it!

Our fun this week.

This is Eva's sacred blanket. I was in the other room for a minute and came back in to discover that Eva had gotten out of the tub, found her blanket, and climbed back in with it. She was so happy. I was going to take a picture of the water after the blanket had gotten completely submurged, but I was too embarrassed at how brown it became. She never lets me wash the dang thing, so I was kind of grateful she put it in there with her. At least it got washed...sort of. Of course, I had to get her out of the tub because it ended up making her more dirty than before she got in it. Then she freaked out because I wouldn't let her drag her "B" everwhere around the house soaking wet. I had to eventually hide it from her while it was drying because she kept trying to get back in the tub to get it.


This has got to be one of my favorite pictures ever. Too bad it turned out a little fuzzy. A couple things about this picture...I'm a bad mom and let them watch "educational" TV shows. hee hee hee. This is how I found the two of them the other day. She has clothes on under that soccar jersey, but she just loves that big shirt. It actually belongs to the neighbor girl who is eight, so it drowns her. She borrowed it for PJ's one night and that was it! She fell in love. She where's it around the house over her other clothes. She won't play dress-up with all the cute little tu-tu's she has, but she loves this dang thing. What's wrong with my girl? Then, the fact that she's using Gabe's belly as a pillow? She's a total nut. What's even funnier is that Gabe loves it! She sits on him when he's in his carseat and I hear him laughing his head off, not crying that she's on him. He loves to play with her hair too. It's so cute. They really love each other. They sat like this for quite some time that day.

These two pics are of them just chillin' together again. And, of course, it was while they were watching dora. Eva has really gotten into Dora the Explorer. Are any of your kids into her? I think she also has a major crush on Diego. Gabe just rolls over next to her and hangs out. How do you like all the folded laundry I didn't put away for two days? It just sat in the living room for two days until I was tired of refolding it because Gabe kept destroying the piles.


Doesn't she look so grown up? She's changed so much since Hans has been gone. It's crazy how much she's grown.

Hanging out with Cousins

I don't know if you can see this any larger than this. We were hanging out at Renee's house the other day and took some pictures. She sent them to my email and I'm not sure how to get the picture any bigger.

From Left to Right: Derek, Eva, Gabe, Hailey.

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They were shy at first but then they warmed up to the camera.

They look kind of like american kids.

Here are some village kids, believe its an orphanage.

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The land that time forgot...Flying over this landscape I saw goats scattering as we flew overhead, children playing barefoot, boys splashing in a water hole. I can totally imagine the OT story of Jacob working 7 yrs for his uncle to marry Leah/Rebekkah, taking place right here in this time.

The reason I got to travel was a temporary gig as a note taker for the Commanding General's engagements - a great experience but glad its over so I can get back to my nice boring old routine.

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The trip was from Tikrit to Baqubah, these are the villages between.