Wicked

Over the weekend Joseph and I went to Little Rock to see a performance of Wicked. I was so disappointed because I forgot our camera. I wanted a picture outside in front of the huge Wicked poster.

I was really excited to see Wicked because I have loved the music ever since I was introduced to it 6 1/2 years ago. The show was fabulous and I loved the excitement that came from the crowd and the atmosphere.

Seeing Wicked has resparked Joseph's excitement for Broadway type performances and he is looking into other shows that will be coming our way.

Kimball was very sad he couldn't go with us to see the Wicked Witch but we brought him back the playbill from the show and he was thrilled.

10 Months

Rebecah turned 10 months old last Sunday. It's hard to believe she is so old. She weighs almost 17 pounds, got three new teeth and learned how to army crawl this month. She is perfectly content to scoot around on her tummy and has no interest when we put her up on her knees. She just rolls back into a sitting position. She is a happy girl as long as I'm holding her or not going too far. She struggled with the time change but is slowly settling in to the new time.

A lot of people comment how much she looks like Kimball and people frequently mistake her for a boy even when she is wearing pink. Poor girl.

Showing off 5 of her 6 teeth.


Sitting on Kimball's bed. They play on his bed after his nap just about every day.


Ready for some action.

Fall Tree

I was bemoaning the fact that we will be gone over Thanksgiving and won't be able to set up the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving when Joseph decided to come up with a great solution...a Fall tree.

We set up the Christmas tree and then went shopping for decorations. We found some Christmas ornaments 50% off that were a perfect brown color. I personally would never use them for Christmas because for some reason brown does not say "Christmas" to me. Anyway, we also got some silk leaves in fall colors and a few other decorations.

Kimball had a blast decorating the tree and Kimball happily clustered the decorations at the bottom where he could reach.

I think the end product turned out well. The leaves really help to add color to the tree.


Kimball with his tree.



Kimball and Rebecah with the tree. Rebecah had been crying so that's why her face is red. I had put her down so I could take the pictures, shame on me! Gotta love that separation stage.

Family Hike

As part of our Halloween festivities we went on a family hike at Petit Jean State Park. Our trail was only 1/4 of a mile but we had a nice time. There were big rocks to climb on and a little cave area to look around in. Here are some pictures from our fun day.

Halloween

We had a fun Halloween this year. Kimball was really excited to dress up this year. We were going to be the Berenstain Bear family, but I couldn't find clothes for us so I was off the hook on dressing up. Since we weren't the bear Kimball said he wanted to be Tin Man. I borrowed a Tin Man costume from a friend so that was pretty easy. Rebecah dressed as a lion so she could be the Cowardly Lion and keep with the Wizard of Oz theme.

Tin Man Kimball


Cowardly Lion


Ready to Pounce


Together


Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and Annette


Wednesday evening we went to our Church social. There were Halloween games to play followed by a trunk or treat. Rebecah hadn't slept much that day so she zonked out pretty quickly once the action started. Kimball had a blast playing the games and getting candy and little action figures. The funny thing about little kids...they don't know the good candy from the "junk" candy. Kimball has happily picked out the Smarties, candy sticks or other yucky candy to eat first.

Cita sleeping through the party.


On Thursday the library had a special Halloween Storytime so Kimball dressed up again and Joseph took him and Rebecah to story time. Kimball enjoyed listening to the Halloween stories, singing songs and doing little crafts.

Our City Council decided to have trick or treating on Saturday instead of Sunday. I decided that I didn't want to have to answer the door so we left our light off and watched The Wizard of Oz to celebrate. Kimball sat through the entire movie and loved it.

I'm so glad Kimball doesn't really understand the whole trick or treating door to door thing because I'm dreading the year we actually have to take him around.

Sun Rays

Kimball loves hearing about the First Vision when Joseph Smith saw Heavenly Father and Jesus. He has even watched The Restoration DVD and enjoyed it. A few weeks ago we were walking by some woods and he told me he wanted to go into the woods, when I inquired why, he said he wanted to go pray and see what church he should join.

Today we were walking by another stand of trees and the sun was shining through the branches and we could see the bright sun and its rays. Kimball asked if Heavenly Father and Jesus were in the trees since it was so bright. I told him probably not. I thought it was sweet that he instantly thought we were being visited by our loving Heavenly Father and our Elder Brother because he saw the light shining through the trees, just like the experience Joseph Smith had in the grove.

10/10/10

Sunday was my birthday and it was fun having a "10" birthday. Quite a few people told me it was a cool date. I guess if I had been more aware of the date I would have planned a party theme around 10/10/10, but I just didn't.

I had a great birthday. It was Fast Sunday, but since Rebecah is still nursing I wasn't fasting so I started the day with White Chocolate Cranberry scones for breakfast. They were so yummy. I did feel a little bad making them since Joseph couldn't eat them, but there were plenty left and he did eat one at dinner.
We, of course, attended church and then in the afternoon we spent the time together as a family. We had a sweet sister from church stop by and bring a chocolate cake and some flowers.



Thanks to everyone who sent cards. They all arrived on time and it was fun having so many cards to open. Joseph and Kimball bought me some nice things. They went shopping together twice and then spent one evening before dinner wrapping the presents and decorating the paper. Rebecah had fun with all of the birthday wrappings and when we weren't looking she was trying to eat the wrapping paper. One time I caught her with styrofoam that I had to then fish out of her mouth.


In this picture you can see Rebecah going for the mouth.

For my birthday dessert I had a chocolate truffle cake and it was divine! It was the 4th year I have had it and words don't describe how yummy it is. Kimball preferred the cake the woman in our ward brought over so more of the truffle cake for me.



Kimball was very excited about my birthday. He talked about it all week. We would go through our agenda for the day and he always finished by saying "And Sunday is your birthday!" He started singing happy birthday to me on Friday and sang to me multiple times on Sunday. We even took a little video of him singing to me.

The best part about my birthday was having Joseph home so much and having so much family time. We even spent the two hours after the kids were in bed talking and staying up later than we usually do.