HAPPY FALL!

We finally got a chance to go apple picking this year- one of my favorite fall activities!

Ella insisted on having her own bag so she could pick her own apples.

Molly was good at finding the most rotten apples on the ground. We were constantly having to look in our bags to check for any treats she added to our bags.

Molly has become my biggest helper lately. She loves to vacuum. Okay, so maybe its not that helpful. But she tries! She has started setting the table lately, too. The plates are placed precariously close to the edge of the table, and half of the time the forks are on the chairs, but she really does get all of the stuff to the table by herself!

Decorating sugar cookies, another fall favorite. Ella spent most of the time eating the chocolate frosting. Better her then me.

Ella loves making crafts, so I have been scrambling around trying to find different things for us to do. These ghosts were one of them. Ella's ghost is the highly decorated one the left. Molly's is the somewhat pancake shaped ghost on the right.

I haven't been very good at updating our blog lately- so I thought I would just throw all of the random pictures I have lying around into one post and call it good! Lazy, I know. Happy Halloween everyone! I promise to blog our little Ariel and bumblebee after all the holiday fun.

Second Time Around

I just finished reading To Kill A Mockingbird. It was our bookclub book this month. I haven't read it since junior high, when it was a required read. It was so good, I want to pick it right back up and start reading it all over again. I don't remember thinking much about it either way when I read it in junior high. Its making me want to go back and read all the things that I read back then in order to fully appreciate them. Who knows what else I could be missing? I wish I hadn't have waited so long to read this again. Okay, I know I am branding myself as a total bookworm right now. But for all of you that haven't read this book since you had to do a character development paper on it, I strongly urge you to go back and read it again. I think you will find it a much different experience this time around. At least I did.

Poor Baby!!

My poor baby took a fall down some cement steps last night and got herself a pretty good gash on her forehead. She is such a trooper, she barely cried at all. I think Ella was more upset then Molly was. In her defense, there was a LOT of blood. We thought it looked pretty borderline, so it took a little while to decide whether or not it warranted a trip to Urgent Care. I finally decided it better to take her and have them tell me that she didn't need them, then to not take her and leave her with a huge scar on her head for life. The doctor looked at it and immediately said that it would need a couple of stitches, so apparently my idea of borderline and her idea of borderline were not quite the same. We got there about 8:00pm, and Molly spent most of that time charming the nurses and helping herself to all the stickers and suckers she could handle. I think she thought it was a great treat to get to stay up so late hanging out with Mommy. The only time she cried was when we had to bundle her up and hold her down so they could put the actual stitches in, and even then she was just mad that we weren't letting her move.

When we got home Ella had made Molly a picture of all her favorite things to help her feel better. She asked three times in her night time prayer that Heavenly Father will make Molly's owie all better. She is such a sweet sister! All day she's been playing Nurse Ella, informing Molly not to touch her bandaid if she wants it to get better, and more importantly to definitely not show Ella her boo-boo because "it is VERY gross, and I don't want to see it." Ella took a trip to Urgent Care at the same age for stitches in the same place, so apparently its a rite of passage in our house. We're just glad that she's fine. She was going to be a bumblebee for Halloween, but I think she might make a better Frankenstein this year...