Fruit Turkey...

My mom has such cute, fun ideas for things to do with the kids. The other day, I was on a longer photo shoot and the girls were with my mom doing homeschool and playing. They had a plan to make a special lunch for my dad the next day and take it to his work. So they made this darling fruit turkey and my dad took a pic with his phone. We had a nice time eating lunch with Opa at his office. THANKS MOM!!!!!

Halloween...

The girls on Halloween

So my Ruby never ceases to be thrilled by the idea of Hannah Montana. She can't watch the show, but I throw her as many bones as I can, so when that's what she wanted to be for Halloween, it was a no-brainer.

Apparently, this is a Hannah Montana pose. I should add that Ruby literally thought I would think she was Hannah Montana. Too bad the wig always crept toward the back of her head!

Alice randomly wanted to be a mermaid, and since I knew of a costume we could borrow, we went the Ariel route.

We went to the church parking lot for thirty minutes and the kids went "trunk or treating". I HATE HALLOWEEN! I hate that my kids obsess over candy, get addicted to sugar and wind up sick until March every year once Halloween hits. I'm a believer in nutritional immunology, and literally could not imagine letting my kids abuse their bodies by overeating junk for months and months. Not to mention that I would have my fair share as well.

I don't like spoiling the fun, so I tried something I know another friend does...I bought their candy from them and they went to Toys 'R' Us and scored a new toy of their choice (under $20). It was a painless idea, they were super on board and willingly selected 10 of their favorite pieces and surrendered the rest to the kids knocking on our door looking for candy.

I have no idea why Alice's face looks crazy in this picture. Anyway, she chose this little "lovey" that purrs and what not. She names everything (her fish, dolls, the baby in my tummy, etc) "Selena" (she pronounces it "Sah-LANE-ah") after her ballet teacher. This cat was no different.

Ruby knew what she wanted a week before we went. She didn't even care about going trick or treating, she was so enamored with the idea of this Littlest Pet Shop plush toy that she named "Penguie".

Literal Alice...

Alice is very literal. Here's a good example that happened yesterday while Alice was talking to my mom...

Alice: Oma, this book is going to break (it was a baby board book).
Oma: Be careful with it because you can read it to your baby sister when she's born.
Alice: My baby is out and I can read!!!?

Two things you think she'd know for sure...she can't read and the baby is not out. I was in the room, and had been around all day. This is sooooooo her!

On another note, my mom was looking through the latest edition of our church magazine, The Ensign. Alice was with her at the table and they were on this page that has pictures of all the general church leadership. Here's how this went, and it was totally innocent, she wasn't trying to be funny...

Oma: This is President Eyring.
Alice: President Ice Cream.
Oma: This is President Uchtdorf.
Alice: President Uchtdork.

Earlier this year, someone told her the name of the Prophet, President Monson and she repeated, "President Monster."

That's three for three of our church general presidency.