Halloween Time

Halloween was busy! We had a Halloween Carnival up at the church before a candy filled night of trick-or-treating! The carnival turned out great. (If any of you need to plan a ward activity for next year let me know... I've got it all lined up for you!!)

Guess who we are?! Give up...? Goldilocks and the 3 Bears!!!

Miss Goldilocks
Mama Bear and Baby Bear (I don't think that porridge on Baby Bear's face!!)

Papa Bear and Mama Bear taking a moment!!

Oh, boy what a day. It was fun!

Pumpkin patch!

L.O.V.E the pumpkin patch! Always a must before Halloween. We got some great pumpkins, but first things first. Look who we saw! Chris Carpenter the ace of the Cardinals!! Yes I was that annoying fan who just had to get a picture. At least I waited until he was not right next to me, right!?

That's him in the black jacket and visor with his two kids. I zoomed in as much as I could. It's him, trust me!

Very true! Point taken!

Now some fun pics of the day!

Apple picking

Yummy yum yum! This is becoming a great family tradition! Apple picking with friends. It's great. And the applesauce I made from these little honeys is to die for. L.O.V.E. apple picking!!

Primary Temple Trip

We feel really blessed to have a temple so close to us. Our Primary leaders organized the most wonderful visit to the temple grounds for the kids. Each child there truly felt the peace and importance of the temple.

The day started out pretty gloomy. There were dark clouds in the sky and the rain was coming down as we drove to meet at the church that morning. But as you can see from the pictures the sky cleared up and it was absolutely beautiful. And just as we were finishing up and loading everyone back into the cars, the dark clouds rolled back in and the rain came gushing down. It was evident to us that there was a special "weather man" looking out for us that day, and made it possible for these sweet children to experience the beauty and reverence of the temple. It was a very memorable trip for everyone.Emma took this picture of the St. Louis Temple. Isn't it beautiful!
Emma and I with Grandma and Grandpa Coleman.
While we were there Sis. Donovan quoted a talk given by Pres. Monson on the temple. In his talk he said, "When you touch the temple, the temple touches you." This is Emma and Callie following the prophet!
All the sweet kids that came along. I love these guys!

Happy Halloween!!!!

From, Matt, Angeline, Emma, Tal and Uncle Nate the Werewolf!!

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Sneaky pants

How does he know that he should hide?

My AWESOME friends

Do you have awesome friends? Well I do! Look at what two of them have put together:



If you hurry they are doing a free giveaway!! Let's just say I'm glad to know these smart, creative, beautiful, funny, practically perfect in every way, girls! How's that for sucking up!!

The Cards and The Rams

Nate and Jasmine were here for a quick visit... just long enough to catch a game with them. It was Jasmine's first game. She was officially introduced the these brothers somewhat crazy obsession. Sadly, the Cardinals lost, but since Nate and Jasmine are moving here eventually she'll see a win. Hopefully it won't take as long as it took me.

Then a couple weeks before that a friend from our ward scored some incredible seats to a Rams game. I know, I know it's the Rams, but they're all we've got!!! This is a view from our incredible seats. Thanks Nichols'!

My Five:

1. Being the Primary chorister. We had our program on Sunday and the kids blew it out of the water.

2. 78 degree weather... Fall is coming!

3. Getting to spend time with just Tal while Emma is at school. He's just fun.

4. Finally refinishing the dressers I found at Goodwill! $75 each people!

5. Recipe night!!

Tal's first Cardinals game...

and as if that weren't enough they were playing the Cubs! WOW! Trust me these are very coveted tickets. Could this day get any better for Tal? Yes is could. The Cardinals won!!!

Choo Choo!

Emma's pre-school class had their first field trip. They do family field trips, so that the entire family can join in the fun. We rode on the WF&P mini steam engine.

It carried us through the pretty woods, along the river, and back. Emma and her new friend Brooke thought it was pretty great!

Here Fishy, Fishy

This is what we gave Emma for her birthday!!! Fish. Easy enough right? That's fine, until you get them home and they look at you like, "Why are you doing this to me?" I didn't think it would effect me this way (no wonder my mom never wanted us to have pets). I keep having flashbacks of "Finding Nemo." Don't laugh, I'm seriously having issues. Although, now that they've been here for a few days, I think they have just kind of realized that this is there fate, which makes my guilt sky-rocket. WHAT HAVE I DONE?!! Emma has no idea though. She feeds them twice a day and talks to them about what's she's doing at school. Tal just like to watch them swim. What a softy I'm turning out to be.

Rex and the two sisters Alice and Tulip! Welcome to the family.

Labor Day!

Well Labor Day was great! We spent it out on Matt's families farm where we BBQed, dug in the sand, and jet skied all afternoon. But the highlight by far was this:

Our friends that live out there know, Robby and Karen, came up with this great little contraption. Robby and Karen are pros on the wake board, but their little 3 year old boy wanted in on the fun too. So Robby, being his clever crafty self, designed this "surf board" and it was a huge success. I honestly couldn't believe Emma wanted to try it, but she did great and had the time of her life.

Here's a few more pics of our fun day.

Tal LOVED Riggs. I was sort of surprised, because if a big black dinosaur walked up and looked my right in the eyes I don't think I would stay around for very long!!! Not Tal. He followed Riggs around all afternoon... he wasn't loving the water today.

Don't mess with the best or you'll end up all wet, right Matt!!

Good bye Summer!!!

The last bit of summer

We are squeezing that last bit of fun out of summer. So we took a weekend to spend on the boat.

Emma was the flag girl...

and Tal was the captain (who's is the cute co-pilot?!)!

And with the fabulous weather we've had, we took another day and went to the zoo. We love the elephants, don't you?

Emma's 5!!!!

Thinking about this has been a bit hard for me. My baby is 5. She's so grown up. She's just starting to be such a big girl. Those cute little toddler girl tendencies are slowing leaving. She is starting to actually act the way we've tried to teach her, which don't get me wrong, makes me so happy, but at the same time our sweet little Emma bear is turning into "almost grown-up, big Emma bear." We're so proud of her. She's smart and sweet and did I mention just so grown-up?

August 27 was the big day. We had a fun little lunch with her little friend Amanda then that night grandma and grandpa C and Aunt Dita came for BBQ hamburgers and hot dogs, and of course cake!

Emma got a pink cowgirl hat and cowgirl boots from grandma and grandpa B which went perfectly with her pink unicorn Rosie! YeeHaaa!

First day of school!

Well, the big day arrived! Emma was so excited. She has some amazing teachers (I'm already so impressed)! She worked really hard to make her school bag look just right... with a little help from mom. Instantly, the entire class was her friend. Just as it should be when you're 4!

The day before Emma had watched Robin Hood, so she decided that Robin Hood, Little John, and Maid Marion were going to come with her to school (she's holding their hands in the picture)!!!

The kids couldn't wait to go inside. Their teachers were already inside getting the last things ready, and waiting for the bell to ring. Emma didn't realize they had to wait for the bell and then the teachers would come open the door, so she said, "Why don't they see us?" Sadly, patients is not her strongest virtue!