Happy Halloween!!!

Friday night our ward had trunk or treat. It was very fun. Madeline was dressed up as a tiger, Aliza was a bunny, and Rachel was a pumpkin. Grandma Pratt gave us the bunny costume and Aliza just looked adorable in it. It fit her perfectly! I don't think we'll actually go trick-or- treating tonight, but I'm going to visit Jared at work with the kids all dressed up (Madeline is a giraffe, Aliza a duck, and Rachel is yet to be decided :) We are costume collectors, what can I say? :) Oh, and did you notice my red eyes... I was going for the vampire look this year :)

Pumpkins

Three years, three babies, three pumpkins :) Can you guess who is who? I'll give the answers in a later post.

 
 
 

Cousins

 
 
 
 
This week John and Lisa Pratt and family came and visited us because they are moving from Oregon to Utah. How exciting for them!! We had a lot of fun playing with them. Jared and I played chess with Calvin. He is already good and he is only 8! Wow! Jared disected owl pellets and Ivan loved that the most. They found a mouse or rats skull in it! Very cool... if you're into that sort of thing :) We also found out what Lisa is having... you better call her to find our for yourself so we don't spill the beans :) We love having people visit!

Rachel's three months!

I can't believe Rachel is already three months old! She is such a cute, sweet little baby. She smiles all the time and has even rolled over a few times. We all love her so much and are so happy she is part of our family.

Cheeeeeese

 
 
 

Aliza has started to become quite the photogenic little girl :) Whenever I pull out the camera she says (or tries to say) cheeeeese and sticks her face out to the camera while smiling this cute yet very cheesy smile. I think it's pretty adorable. I love Aliza so much, she is so fun. One of my favorite things she does is when she jumps up and down in her crib when I walk in to get her up for the day. She and Madeline usually get along great and she loves holding Rachel and "tickling" her. She even says "ticleticleticle". It's so fun having three little girls and I love each of them tons.

In Memory of Our Guinea Pigs

On September 11, 2007 our first family pet, Lily the Guinea pig, died. She got really sick suddenly and lost tons of weight and then died. Last night our second guinea pig- Fae- died. How sad! I think Fae was just lonely and now I feel really bad that we didn't play with her enough. I guess she died of a broken heart. Now she can be with Lily in Guinea Pig Heaven. They were good first pets. My heart has actually softened to having pets so I'm sure we'll have more in the future.

Puerto Rico Night

Last night was Puerto Rico night at our house. Jared served his mission there and entered the island on October 16, 2000 so we chose that day for our family to celebrate his mission. I made arroz con pollo y habichuelas(rice with chicken and beans), flan, besitos de coco (little coconut kisses), which by the way Jared said he never had in PR :) , and we drank tang- or Orange juice as the Puerto Ricans call it.
Jared and I were able to visit Puerto Rico right after we got married. It is a beautiful place. I think Jared would move there if I agreed... not in the near future :)I am thankful Jared served a mission and that he shares his stories and memories with our family.