Wedding Weekend

The great thing about weddings, besides the obvious, is that you get to have a mini family reunion! Fisher's last single sibling got married on Saturday (that's the third Lake wedding in 4 months), so we got to spend time with all of Fisher's family. The ceremony was very nice and we attended a yummy luncheon afterward. Curly loved the bride's "pretty" dress and kept picking up the train and following her around. We spend the evening after the wedding at Fisher's parents. 'A' and her cousins put on their Halloween costumes and their Oma sent them trick-or-treating to all of the rooms in the house. I have lots of wedding pictures in my web album.

Since all of the family was here, Friday night was the opportune time to have the annual "Lake Family Tomato Fight." Here is how it works. Those that want to participate put on their armor and meet in the garden. We divide into two teams (typically with spouses on opposite teams) and divide the frosted, rotten tomatoes between the teams, then it gets pretty techincal... you throw the tomatoes at each other until they are all gone. It is a lovely tradition.

We also enjoyed a visit to Gardner Village this week to see the funny stuffed witches with Fisher's parents. Fisher and I took the girls on a short hike to a pretty reservoir in Bells canyon. There are lots more pictures of all our fun in the October photo album.

Ecuador Girls Unite!

Friday night was our night to babysit in our ward babysitting rotation. Then I found out that some of the girls that I went to Ecuador with 5 years ago were getting together. Fisher is so great! He said he could handle the babysitting so that I could go see my girls. So, we met in Provo and spent the evening catching up and reminiscing about our time in Ecuador. It was so great!! Even though I rarely see these girls, it was like we were best friends again - talking about anything and everything. We missed the others who couldn't come, so we are thinking about planning a weekend reunion next spring!

Curly had a few firsts this week. We had free admission to "Discovery Gateway" (The Children's Museum), so we checked that out. I am not sure who had more fun - Curly or Fisher and I. There were a lot of cool things to do. Curly's favorite place was "the neighborhood" that had a child size house, construction site, grocery store, farm, and gas station. She also liked this little "birdhouse" in the toddler play area (see picture). Fisher liked the animation studio where you could create your own video with plastic figures and a backdrop. It was a fun afternoon. The other first for Curly was going to a movie theater to see "Ratatouille." We all went to the dollar theater on Saturday. Curly did pretty well, she got a little restless at the end (so did Lou and I). I think the storyline was a little too old for her, but she liked the mice - er I guess their rats.

Junior High Journals - Oh the Drama!

I forgot to mention the very fun evening I spent with my mom and Amberlee while in Rexburg. We all dug out our journals from Junior high and shared funny entries from them. It was hilarious! I didn't even know my mom had a journal from then. It was fun to learn some things about her... like she had a boyfriend!! I guess she never told us this because we weren't supposed to have boyfriends. AND she used to watch TV. This is highly unusual behavior for my mom. She can barely sit through a quality movie because she is such a busy body. Amberlee is a great and entertaining writer, so all of her entries were hilarious. Plus she was very awkward then ; ) She has more than made up for it now - very gorgeous and sweet. Let's just say I laughed harder than I have in a long time. The tears were streaming.

This is the only picture I could find of the three of us. Its from 2005, but one of my favorite. We are wearing tree skirts and ornaments.

A much needed Fall Break

Fisher had a week long fall break (just in time). We spent the first half catching up on projects at home, and then headed to our favorite vacation spot... Rexburg, ID. We decided to talk a small detour on the way and visit "The Spiral Jetty" which is exactly what it sounds like. It was cool - I guess it was worth the hour drive out of way on a very rutted and rocky dirt road. I probably won't go there again though.

We love going to visit my family in Rexburg because it is relaxing. We can just hang out without feeling pressure to go sightseeing. Plus my mom is always very helpful with watching the girls so I can get a few projects done.

My dad likes to plan and go do things. This trip we went and checked out some beautiful river property that my parents just acquired. Curly loved throwing rocks in the water. My dad and Fisher also spent an afternoon fishing. That was actually the purpose of our trip - fishing. Fisher's 92 year old (going on 50) grandpa lives in Rigby and they planned a fishing trip with Fisher's dad and siblings. I had my own fun while they were gone. My mom and sister helped me make Curly's sheep costume, or "baaa-sheep" as she likes to call it. I really needed a haircut, but really didn't want to pay for it (and find a babysitter, etc...) and so I let my mom and Amberlee trim my hair - AAAH! Actually they did a pretty good job. I also helped beautiful Amberlee color her hair. It sounds like all we did is work, don't be fooled. We also ate out a few times, played games, and I got to read a novel.

It was a nice vacation, with one hitch. Curly decided that she wouldn't sleep at night, ANY night. She would usually wake up and get up between midnight and two a.m. and then stay up for four hours before we could finally settle her back down to sleep for a couple hours. It was exhausting and we are still catching up!!

A. loves wearing shorts and is having a hard time accepting that it is now too cold to wear them. So, I guess they'll work as a hat?

Bunny ears with pajamas.

Our morning battle is A.'s insistence on dressing herself - which she does very well most of the time - and needing help, but not wanting to accept it. Her shirt and pants are both backwards - CRISS CROSS!

Yes, that is a shirt that she is wearing as a skirt.