Christmas candy calendar

Every year we fill our Christmas count-down calendar with candy. The kids are starting to love it (too much!) Brigham had fun stuffing all the candy in the calendar, and they both enjoyed eating it (as you can see, Peyton has some candy in his mouth with the wrappers still on!)

Christmas tree time

These pictures are almost a month old, but better late than never! I'm not very good at this blogging stuff yet! Well, the kids loved putting up our little five foot tree and decorating it. (It's kind of tricky getting in the Christmas spirit here in Puerto Rico when there's palm trees, 80 degrees and no snow!)

Fun at Rincon Beach

These are some of the fun pictures we took at the beach. The boys have fun every time we go to the beach!

Rincon

Well, it's almost been a month since I have posted anything new. Pathetic, huh! Well, we've been pretty busy with planning our move back home and selling everything. And I've also been sidetracked with reading Twilight- it is very addicting! (For those who don't know, we feel like things aren't working out here and Heavenly Father has a different plan for us- so we will be moving back home in January).

These pictures were taken a few weeks ago. We decided to explore the west coast of Puerto Rico. We actually drove as far west as we could and saw the beach in Rincon. There was also a lighthouse there. Rincon is famous for surfing, and we did see a few surfers. But I wasn't as impressed as I thought I would be. Well, we walked around for a while and let the kids run around by the lighthouse, which was fun for them. Then we played at the beach for a little bit and also let the kids play on some toys there. It pretty much took up the entire day between the 2 hour drive each way and the exploring.

Trick or Treating!

Peyton dressed up as Spiderman this year, and as you can see, both outfits barely fit the kids! Peyton's costume snapped up in the legs and kept unsnapping all night! We went trick or treating in a neighborhood in our ward (Camino del Mar). We went with another family (the Zappe's) and it was a lot of fun. We pulled the kids around in a wagon, and at every house that we pulled up to, Brigham would dash out of the wagon, run up to the house to grab his candy, and dash back to the wagon. He had a blast! Peyton was even getting into it. He thought it was pretty fun climbing in and out of the wagon also. And they both really enjoyed their candy, especially the suckers!

Bob the Builder

For Halloween, Brigham wanted to be Bob again! That's okay. So, to make the outfit different than last year, we decided to make him a hat. Only we didn't have anything to make a hat out of, so we used the plastic bowl! And covered it with yellow construction paper and designed a "Bob the Builder" logo on the front of it. Very artistic indeed! Brigham loved it.

Pumpkin Carving!

Last year we never found a pumpkin here in Puerto Rico, but this year a friend bought us one from the commisary (a U.S.) military base. It was so much fun carving this with the kids! Brigham wouldn't touch the seeds in the pumpkin and Peyton also thought it was strange. They both had fun staring at the pumpkin once we lit the candle inside of it!

Hurricane Omar

Rick's school was cancelled today due to warnings for Hurricane Omar. Well, nothing has happened to us yet. They don't think Puerto Rico will get the brunt of the winds from the hurricane, but we should get plenty of rain with the tropical storm. So today the kids and I went and bought some water and canned food just in case.

Lookin' groovy in sunglasses

Family Reunion

This August, we went to a family reunion on Rick's side. We went to Donatta campground, which is close to Downey, Idaho. We went swimming there and camped overnight. This picture was taken down the road from the campsite.

New words

Peyton just learned the word "shoes." He is always carrying around shoes and saying "sch,sch" for shoes and begs us to put them on. It is adorable!