Kuwait?!

Les,
I just read on facebook that Matt will be in Kuwait for a year? What?! When is he leaving? Will you be ok in Kansas by yourself? What's going on? (Do you like how nose-y I am? Sorry. Just thinking about you and wish I lived close by to help you.)

A sad moment

So today I was looking through some old photos of Ethan and I ended up watching all of the videos I have of him. After about the 10th one I started to cry because my boy is so big now. I'm so sad that time has slipped away from me so quickly. I've heard for many years now that I need to cherish each moment but I'm just now realizing how true that is. Maybe it's cuz I've spent most of the day yelling at him cuz my patients is very short or maybe it's cuz I just got done registering him for preschool (which is so surreal!) I miss my sweet baby boy. What am I going to do when Madelyn gets older. I already feel like she's growing way too fast.

This is the one that made me cry and realize how blessed I am.

Hug your kids extra tight today and give them one more kiss.

Our Halloween

Hey girls, sorry it's taken me so long to post these pictures but I'm just now getting around to downloading these pictures onto my computer. So here ya go...

Jared's no fun when it comes to Halloween. He won't dress up so just the kids got dressed up and I had fun making their costumes. I'm already thinking about what to do for next year.

What do you think of...

When you see this picture?

Our Halloween Costumes 2010

I'm so glad you posted pics of your fun family Britt! I really want to see pics of your little cuties too Shan, and did they wear the stuff you made for the "Witches Day" for Halloween or different costumes? I'm pretty sure I already told you what we were doing this year but if not the picture should give it away. I posted on my blog all about it. Check it out...(click the pic)

Let's see your costumes!

Hi girls! Let's see your costumes from Halloween. Les, I know your family always has a cute theme!!

Josh and I were "Mouseketeers".



And since that's not very exciting, I'll show you what my family dressed up as. As usual, everyone's costumes were SO GREAT!

Cameron and his date dressed up as Ken & Barbie from Toy Story 3!



They won for "funnest costumes". In case you can't exactly remember what Ken looked like in Toy Story 3, check it out. Cameron was SPOT ON!! HAHAH



Marci was Wheezy, Eden was Jessie, Ella was Rex, and Christian was Andy and they were all his toys.



Mom & Dad were Wayne & Garth. HAHAHA!!



Chad dressed up as Christian. He went "into character" and texted and messed around on his phone and ignored you. If you know Christian, you knew exactly who he was supposed to be!!



And the winners for "funniest" costumes were Scotty & Audra. Can you tell who they are supposed to be??



They are my mom & dad!!!!!! HA! We all died laughing when they walked in and we realized who they were. Notice how Audra has on two pair of reading glasses. That's so my mom!! HAHA

So - those were our Halloween costumes. Let's see yours!!!

Sad News :(

So my little brother came home from him mission yesterday :(  It's kind of a combination of things, being homesick, the mission was getting hard and the biggest reason was that he didn't take care of things before he left. No one knows why or what his issues are (which is ok. That's between him and the lord) but it totally sucks! My mom is so upset with him right now and I'm just worried sick about him. If he can get things straightened out in 6 months then he can go right back to his mission. If it takes him a year then he'll have to go back to the MTC. He is not in a good place right now. He is very confused and as my mom says "wishy-washy." So any thoughts and prayers would greatly be appreciated. I know that Jamason could really use them. I'm sure that the next 6 months are going to be really hard and even harder when and if he chooses to go back out (which I'm hoping and praying that he does). I know it will be hard for him to say good-bye to everyone again. But I'm worried that if he doesn't go back out then he could easily fall away from the church. LOTS of people will ask him why he's home and why he didn't go back. I'm afraid he'll get offended and just stop going to church. I'm sort of at a loss and not sure what to do or how to help him. I know that I need to love him and support him but is there anything else?