Look who I get to play with all day!

The thing that looks like mop is actually a hedgehog--Hannah's favorite friend.

So many clothes, so little to wear...

Clothing that is too big, small, wrong season, worn out or that just won't do has to go somewhere... Its mounded up in my hallway right now. I guess we're just way too blessed. How nice.

We're quirky in our own sort of way

Sometimes I embarrass myself by talking to people and using big words. I love words. I love the subtle shade of difference between words that are similar. I need those words to express the subtle shades of difference in my feelings. Growing up, mom wasn't shy with her big words - she loved them too. Its not hard to pick up the vocabulary when you just don't know any different. I have to laugh inside myself when Heidi looks at something and deems it, "sufficient". Here we go with another generation - And with a tendency towards introversion, I like to call us:

All big words, no talk.

Just two things...

I learned some songs in grade school music class that just stuck with me, so today I looked them up online to see if they were still as I remembered.

The first,

Acres of Clams "Old Settler's Song" by Pete Seeger

The second,

"Seattle" by Perry Como

May I say how much I enjoy these songs? They rattle around in my brain for days and no one else seems to know them at all. Ah, it feels so good to share. Thanks.

Halloween

Halloween was enjoyed by all this year. We went to the ward trunk or treat Saturday. Brian was out of town all day and couldn't make it. So I got the kids all ready by myself and it was crazy but got done anyway. Then we went home and Brian had gotten home, so we went to a couple friends houses in the neighborhood we had arranged previously to drop by. The kids got a serious amount of candy. We were pretty liberal in allowing them to munch (and far too liberal with ourselves). We noticed the candy made the kids crazy and cranky and made the adults sick, restless and very cranky. The whole pile went in the trash Monday evening. Critchfields can't handle candy I guess...

Anyway, I made the girls costumes this year (not Joe's or Hannah's). Aubrey was a bat (wings too) and Heidi was Hello Kitty. The costumes would have looked a little better had I not been so rushed before the ward trunk or treat, but I think they turned out wonderful considering my sewing skills...

Is that smoke coming from our garage?

Brian stayed home to do some woodworking commissioned by Conoco this morning. He worked in the garage while I took care of things in the house. While I was busy loading the dishwasher, I could hear him open the garage door. I was thinking he had probably had had enough of the wood dust and was ventilating - but no. Next I see light clouds floating from the garage. What is that? Smoke? "Brian is that smoke coming from our garage?" "Why yes, yes it is." He says as he is on his way out his car. "And you might want to make sure the fire is out while I am gone - no, I'm not kidding. You never know if one of those sparks is still smoldering."

Hmmm. OK. My garage could be on fire. Nice. See ya later!

Saturday

To all you Grandmas who like lots of pictures. Here is our Saturday. Everyone else - probably more pictures than you want to see, but enjoy anyway!