Happy Halloween!!!! 10/31/13

Halloween! The kids school had a fun little parade during the afternoon and class parties for the kids after.

Tristan as Spider-man and Michael is a scary skeleton creature of some sort) 

 Jonathan as a scary Ghoul.

Olivia as a beautiful witch squeezing the life out of her best friend Katie (Pocahontas).

 The AIS school did their trick-or-treat again this year on a Saturday night. Since we wouldn't let our kids go on the Sabbath day we decided tho have a party at our house on Halloween night. We wanted our kids to not feel like they were missing out. 

We didn't bring with any decorations so we had to make do with stuff around the house, I think it turned out pretty good considering.

(I am against the BYU paraphernalia on our dead man, however, he turned out perfect!)

 Who knew that some white pillow cases would make such great ghost chair covers!

Add some long socks and some shoes to the table and it comes alive.

The party was a success with 32 people in our home! We had great food, fun games and terrific friends!

Fun with Lisa and Maria

Aunt Lisa and Maria came for a visit from Oct 12-19th we had so much fun with them. We were able to visit most of the places that they wanted to see and I think they had a great time. I know that we sure did, and it was sad to see them go. Yes there were tears mostly from Olivia!

Pools of Bethesda, it was cool to see the pools after the talk in conference;

"Wilt Thou Be Made Whole? BY ELDER TIMOTHY J. DYCHES"

We finally made it to the Shepherd's Field in Bethlehem.

The Safari Zoo was on the top of their list to do with the kiddos.

And yes what would a zoo experience be without feeding a goat!

First Tooth 10/10/13

Michael lost his first tooth on Thursday he was super scared and it was a relief when he finally let Mom pull it out.

Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo 9/29/13

We took the kids to the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo on Sunday. It was a lot of fun, we still like the Safari Zoo more but this one had some really neat aviaries. The zoo is known for their collection of animals mentioned in the Bible.

The aviaries were truly the best part of the whole zoo it was so much fun to be in with the birds and have them zooming all around you.

This bird gave me the creeps with its bright red beady little eyes.

Every zoo has to have some goats to feed :)