Halloween pictures

Brian was a ghost whose eyeholes kept drifting as he went trick or treating. By this time, he was tired of them and so he'd ditched the costume.


Miriam was a bunny, with the costume coming from another family in the ward whose kids had outgrown the costume.


Becca decided to be a witch--maybe it was reading all those Harry Potter books. All we had to find was a bigger witch hat. Yeah for the costume box!


Jeffrey is such a cute little elephant. He loved the candy, especially lollipops and it was the first Halloween where he kind of got what was going on. :)


Rachel and Laura wanted to be black cats, as identical as possible. Don't they look great?


Our traditional family snapshot at Grandma and Grandpa Bristow's house when we trick or treat there for one last treat (after we've gone around the neighborhood here).

When will everyone be better?

We have been entertaining for the past 5-6 weeks at least one bug that has I think and I hope finally made the rounds. There was the fever, sore throat, coughing...we figure it was probably the swine flu, but it has taken its own sweet time and Derek is the last one with it. It has been interesting how it has affected everyone differently. Becca and Brian would have missed school except for a four day weekend, Rachel, Laura, and Jeffrey seemed to have just a cough (no fever), and I mostly avoided it (had a couple of days a week apart where I felt icky). It hit Miriam hard--she ended up with pneumonia and my blessing to just lay on the couch watching movies all day until we could get her breathing better and her energy up. But she is back to her spunky self. (Last night Derek told me this about Miriam...he was going to tickle her and she waggled her bottom (sort of sticking it out) left and right saying, "My bum says no." Who knows where that comes from...) Derek's now been down for more than a week, though he still works--he can be uncomfortable in bed, or sitting at the computer, and at least he is distracted a little when he's working. I hope he gets better soon! Hopefully we have had our sicknesses for the winter!!

--Sarah

Miri has (is fighting off) pnumonia!

Miri had a cough/fever bug, got a bit better, then worse. Mom used the Nebulizer (breathing system) with Miri, but finally took her to the doctor. She got a prescription to help her get better, and another calming one, plus some albuterol. She isn't using the Nebulizer anymore, but is still taking one medicine, and still has a bad cough.

You might be wondering why I can be posting at this time of day, school time. No, I'm not sick, and we get today off for Election Day. It's all good.

-Becca

Becca is famous!!

She was on TV!! Well ... you can see her around 45 seconds into the video, she was getting a flu shot, she's got the pony tail, but is facing away from the camera.

Stinking Yellow Jackets

Evidently there is a yellow jacket nest under a bucket helping to support the trampoline by sitting on a leg. So, basically, when we jump, we shake the nest, so when Laura and I are jumping on it in the rain because, well, it's extra bouncy, I get stung twice. Ouch! Daddy is planning to lead an invasion of the nest as soon as he goes to Home Depot to get the stuff to attack them with. Go Daddy!

-Becca

Jeff is starting to WALK!!!

I've seen him walk before, and we've tried to catch it on video many a time, but this was the first time I was successful.



-Becca

For all of you with Wiis...

For all of you with Wiis, there is a game called Wii Play. There is this one game called Find Mii. You find all these kinds of people. Miis are the people you play on, and you get to make them. We beat the game(Find Mii) with 40 seconds to spare... and the last level was level... 99!!!!!!! It took Me, Rachel, Laura and Brian to do it.

I better go back to help Mom get Miri down for her nap...



-Becca