Elle our budding actress

Elle was doing this little act the other day and I had to film her! She came up with it all on her own.

Some fun pictures

Here are pictures of our annual Thankful turkey by Chris. Usually we just have a round body and put feathers on and write something we're thankful for on each one. This year, because of the shape, it seems more appropriate to put the feathers on, then pluck them off one by one so our turkey will be ready for Thanksgiving.


















Elle's new earrings--her birthstone--opal.





I saw how Elle arranged her stuffed animals on her bed one day and I thought it was so cute, I just had to take a picture.
Then, I thought it was sweet to see Elle reading to Chris.

It's working!!

I went to the Dr. for a check-up on Friday and they took blood and did an ultrasound. And. . . the stent is doing its job! My kidney shrank down to a more normal size and my creatinine is down from 2.0 to 1.5!! (That's good) Yea!! Thanks for all your prayers!

Something Yummy for fall!

My friends Kristen and Hannah introduced me to the yummiest and EASIEST pumpkin cookies! Just visit Kristen's blog for the recipe/directions! You'll be surprised how easy they are! AND. . Albertsons has cake mixes on sale right now for only .79 cents! So GO! Go make some cookies! But, you should really share them. They're really good and you might eat them all. (I know from experience:)

Happy day!

Elle decided to organize her trunk or treat loot. She looks pretty happy in her rainbow of candy!
I'm VERY happy too because today we have blue sky!! Yea! I can breathe again!

Trunk or treat

Elle dresed us as a little witch for our trunk or treat party on Sat. Oct 27.
I wore my flapper dress that Kristen made me so I could get good use out of it and I made Chris wear 20's guy style stuf to compliment me. Notice that his tie is the same color as my dress. Oh yes, I planned these details, people! He made sure to tell everoyne at the party that I was the one who MADE him dress up and I picked out everything for him. When he took his hat off, he had a total flat top. It was great. I didn't think to take a picture of that though.
After soup at the Church, I painted Elle's face Wicked style.
Her cat was our trunk. Chris and I did it together. I did the eyes and nose and he did the ears and teeth. Then, he threw in our pink bean bag for the tongue which added a nice touch. He also assembled it when we got to the Church. It was a big hit!
Elle counted and said she got a total of 66 pieces of candy. (although she was hard pressed to count the raisenetts since she hates raisins)
We stopped by our old building afterward to see our friends there.
We had quite a day!

A "Fairy" fun day

Yesterday, Chris and I went with Elle to a birthday party. We started out by going on a "Faery" hunt. They used "fairy" a lot like I did in the title. Elle and all the other little girls were supposed to gather natural gifts for the fairies they might see.
The White fairy is the queen of the fairies and they told us she "looks timeless." You can also see the purple and pink fairies whose names I forget at the moment.
The "hunt" was actually just a play with adults dressed in costumes. They just did different pats of the play as we walked along in the forest. You can get a taste for the thing by watching this clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq_ynaaUqL8
At the end, the fairies signed the girls' "certificates" which were really just a printed paper with pictures of the cast on it. Oh well. I'm just glad we didn't have to pay for it!
I think Elle liked it and that's all that counts.