Cool Ethan

Yesterday Ethan asked me to take a picture of him. He totally chose this pose all by himself. He told me he was cool. I thought it was pretty cute. Also I was told that our primary chorister asked Ethan to come up and help lead the song Follow the Prophet. He wouldn't sing the song until everyone had stopped. He really enjoys being the star of the show.

Last weeks addiction

Where have I been for the past nine days? Stuck in the Twilight Books. My friend Titia let me borrow the first book and on Saturday the 1st I read about 3 chapters. Then I finished it on Monday. Then on Tuesday night I borrowed book 2 New Moon. No, I didn't sleep that night. I think I finished the entire book by Wednesday. I thought this was getting a little out of control. So I took a break for the rest of the Day Wednesday and then on Thursday I bought book 3 Eclipse.

I read that on all night as well and during Ryan's long nap on Friday. I finished it Friday afternoon. So I went and bought book 4 Breaking Dawn that same day. Mark was going to Nerd night (playing video games with his buddies until all hour so the night) so I started reading Breaking Dawn.

I read a lot on Saturday and Mark let me read all day Sunday and I finished Sunday night. My life can now go back to normal. I told Mark that the Twilight books were my drug of choice. I think it became a little bit of an unhealthy addiction. But now that I have finished those I can go back and hopefully reread (a little more slowly) for enjoyment instead of the out of control obsession.

Halloween at the Hemingways

Here are Ethan and Jake on Halloween night. They were so excited to go trick or treating. It was such a nice night (For Utah). It was nice to not have to put on coats! Mark took them out for a while and then we went over to my aunts house. Kids make all holidays so much better.

Here is Ryan. This is actually on November 1st. On Halloween Ryan was a little tired around 3:30PM. I put him down for a nap. He didn't wake up until Saturday at 6:30AM He must have been tired. I still wanted a picture so we just had to do it the next day.
My sisters were here for Halloween. Kellie and Erik left on Saturday :( I always just want her to stay forever. Emily lives here. We all got together at my house. It was a crazy night.
Any of you who know me since my high school days ( I think it was my senior year) I had this brilliant idea to have what I called The Great Pumpkin Race. I have just never done it. I had this great idea to get cheap pumpkins the day after Halloween and then use them as shoes and race. Matthew (Emily's boyfriend) was at the store on Halloween evening getting a pumpkin. The employee told him they were all free and he had to take at least four. Emily told Matthew to get as many as he could. So here are pictures from our first ever PumpkinRace.
Here is the medal stand. Emily smoked us all. She did have a few practice steps and got it figured out before the race actually began. I took second and the race ended with Kellie's dramatic finish. Yes the pumpkins hurt your feet and I think mine might be a little bruised still.

A special thanks to Matt for getting the free pumpkins. And to Mark and Matt for carving our shoes. I am definitely up for a rematch for next year.