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This is one of the girls favorite Christmas songs. We can't hardly get through a meal without one of them breaking out into song. They sing it to just about anyone who comes to visit. For some reason Grandma Leslie finds their enthusiasm particularly alarming.

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I saw this comic on the frequently fantastic xkcd.com. The remainder of the post has nothing do to with the comic whatsoever. Really. I'm serious.

Work Retreat

Just before Halloween we went on a retreat with my work. They invited the whole family and we got to spend the weekend hanging out. We went on a hayride, soaked in the hot tub, painted faces, went to Lagoon, slept and ate way too much. Fun to get away for a while.

I took Sydney on the white roller coaster at Lagoon. As we climbed the first hill she remarked that sometimes she gets scared of heights. She was too scared to scream the first drop but started to give an ear piercing shriek each hill after that. Halfway through she told me she wanted to get off. She told us that it was fun when it was over and "I NEVER want to do that again!"

Halloween!

Here are some fun pictures from our Halloween night. Sydney was a very scary vampire. With all her make-up on, we had a hard time recognizing her. She ran around hissing at everything, especially our cats. Brynn was a beautiful mermaid. She loved that I let her wear eye make-up and lip gloss. Very grown-up. This was really her first year trick-or-treating, because of some poorly timed illnesses in the past. The concept that people were giving her candy was fantastic to her. She was galloping and cheering between houses. Grandma Julie and Grandma Leslie went with them. They said she was hard to keep up with. Later on, Aunt Ashley and Uncle Jon came to visit. We loved their costumes. They made the costumes themselves! Becca, Derek, and James also came to visit. James was the cutest little pea pod. We had quite the party!

New Haircuts

The girls' hair has been getting quite long and unruly lately. So we went to see our fabulous Aunt Ashley. She worked her magic on both Syd and Brynn, and this was the result! They are so cute! The girls love it because they are so styl'in, Shawn loves it because he can now call them "Naked Necks", and I love it because it takes all of three minutes to whip each head to perfection. Thanks Ash! We love you!

A Load in the Pants

So yesterday, Brynn was happily playing with her Little People toys. She came walking into the room, and as she walked, she was making this banging sound. I asked her "What is that sound?" She said, very matter-of-factly, "I wanted to move my animals so I put them up my pants." You can't really tell from the picture, but her pants were indeed bulging with all sorts of little animals.

So after she got to where she was going, we emptied out the pants (you can imagine what that required), and she was indeed carrying quite a, umm, load in her pants!

The Pumpkin Walk

Every year there is a local pumpkin walk in North Logan. People make scenes out of pumpkins, and them they display them at the park. My favorite scene this year was Sesame Street. The girls really liked the character cutouts. Some of them were hilarious. Afterwards we went to McDonalds and got an ice cream cone. I don't know which part was the biggest hit, the pumpkins or the ice cream, but we had a fun day!