Trick or Treat Smell My Feet...

We got something good to eat!

We Totally did and now I'm so over Halloween and waited too long to post about this so all you really get is pictures and not much of a story behind them. We've been slowly but surely making friends here in Texas. We go to a lot of Library story time and playgroups but that's about it. I guess we're still kinda new. We got invited to the Dallas Arboretum which is really cool if you ever get a chance to go. They apparently decorate for every season and every holiday. Here are a few from October...full of pumpkins.


Luckily some of the girls had cameras (my camera was on a down hill spiral in Aug) and took pictures of my kids and sent them to me so here are a few. One girl was like a professional photog but I've yet to recieve those pictures. I hate harassing people for pictures off their camera.


Seriously, don't ask me what's up with all of Ella's poses. You've got me. At times I hesitate to post because she really looks retarded in some. Sad but true. Cracks me up.




And here is our lovely Halloween. As you can see, Joseph is getting a little more open to dressing up as the years go by. This year Joseph and I went as Ron Burgundy and Veronica Corningstone. The blonde wig was the best I could find. It's pretty bad though. The suit was from a thrift store and makes me look a little, "hippy" but you get the gist. :) It was fun dressing up.


Ella was of course dressed as Ariel aka: The Little Mermaid. There isn't a day that goes by that she doesn't talk about mermaids. It's pretty cute actually. Carly is dressed as Shirley Temple, I thought the curls fit. :) I wish there were better pictures but that is one reason I haven't really been blogging, my camera broke and I've been holding out for a camera till Black Friday. So some of my friends took some pictures and only 1 person sent them to me. So this is what we've got. I guess it's better than nothing. :) Anyway, enjoy. :)

The Rest of Our Summer

Yes, again...long over due. I hate playing catch up, and it shows. Sadly, for my records, I won't have a very detailed post. But I guess that's lucky for y'all.


....before we went to Yellowstone Joseph and I got the call that would change our lives....we were called and asked if we would like to come back to Carmedic (Joseph's prior job) and move out to Texas. (This was middle of June.) We had to go out to St. Louis and speak to the board of directors, plead our case as to why we want and should come back to Carmedic. We made travel plans to drive to Las Vegas (from AZ) and leave our girls with my parents while we flew out to St. Louis. The only way we could've afforded the tickets were if we took the deal where we had to be out there for about a week. Since our 5 year wedding anniversary was coming up in August we decided to just celebrate that same week. We rented a car and spent time in St. Louis.....






















We had our meeting and it was a little scary. We had no idea what to expect and could only hope for the best. While we waited to hear the verdict on the new job we called Joseph's sister, who lives in Carthage, IL. We drove out there for a visit




We also went to Nauvoo, where we were married.


After that we met up with my best friend Abbie and had an awesome time catching up with her and her cute little family.






We ended up going to the temple together. We couldn't go together so we had to tag team it. They went in and we took their cute little boys out for ice cream. Then we went to the temple and it was so great to be back. We hadn't been back since we got married in Aug. of 2004! It was beautiful and now that we live closer I hope we can make more trips up there.













And what would a "Morgan/Abbie reunion be if we didn't have our trusty Super Model Documentary Hour?





After the Temple we went to the Joseph Smith pageant which is now called something else that I can't remember. But it was great.

The games before the pageant....








We got back to Las Vegas and the fun didn't stop there. We had to see our good friends The Dustins and cute little Madie and Ella were reunited. I only got one picture before my camera died....And died for good. We still don't have a camera.


A few hours later we went out with long lost friends from St. George. Sadly we don't have any pictures with y'all b/c...well, my camera died. But we sure miss you all and love you a ton!

We had a bitter sweet summber because after all the fun and games Joseph had to leave immediately for a whole month. It was hard. Especially for the girls. He missed my birthday and our 5 year anniversary (good thing we celebrated early). But we're all together again and love our new life in Texas. We're still getting acclamated to everyone and everything but we love it and can't wait to be settled.

I promis I have pumpkin patch pictures and Halloween pictures, but I'm exhauseted from typing all of this. So I will try and put more up tomorrow. :)

Carly

Today I drank hand sanitizer. It was yucky and I promptly let it all drip out of my mouth with a look of disgust on my face and wiped my tounge off 100 times with a towel. I hope I remember to never do that again.