Halloween

Claire was a cowgirl and Will was a firefighter! We spent the night trick or treating and packing up the house! The kids had fun! Happy Halloween!!!

Pumpkin Patch

We went to The Farm in Snohomish with Claire's kindergarten class to pick out pumpkins. Claire rode the bus and Will and I met her there! It was a great day to go to the pumpkin patch! Here are some pictures of the kids!


Will "I want this pumpkin"!


Some of Claire's friends: Morgan, Jordan, Claire and Julia

Claire and friends hiding in the corn stalks

Will was amazed that this pumpkin was bigger than him!

For Sale!

www.johnlscott.com/92875

Our home is for sale now. The website is above. It's been up for 9 days now. It's been crazy to try to get it ready to sell. In two days we've painted 4 rooms, de-cluttered all of the cabinets and home. We've removed half of the furniture to make the rooms bigger, cleaned up the yard and really cleaned the inside. We have become obsessive compulsive about cleaning. Our poor kids are getting into the grove of not leaving anything out, and Shawn is really really obsessive about our floor. He is constantly sweeping. Our home looks so clean it's nice, but a lot of work. Another thing that has happened with all of this home stuff is that 5 year old Claire now knows "real estate talk". Shawn and I were talking about maybe buying a short sale for our next home so we can get a good deal when Claire pipes in and says "no we shouldn't buy a short sale because they take too long to close". Grandma Houston would be proud!

Disneyland!!!

We went to Disneyland September 27th-October 3rd!!! It was so much fun to go at this time because they had all of the Halloween decorations up! We met family down there and had fun! It was unusually hot and there were moments that Disneyland wasn't so magical (I kept calling it the "other side of Disneyland") with crying tired kids, but all in all I would go back in a heartbeat. I was so glad Claire and Will could be there with their cousins too!!! We had a five day hopper pass which was great. We got to do everything we wanted at both Disneyland and Disney California, and even went to the beach one day! I love Disneyland- It's the best with kids!!!


Huge candy corn at the enterance to Disney California

Tea Cups!!! Will loved this ride, but didn't seem to like picture time.

Tiki Room with Cousins!!! This was a hit with the kids too. They kept singing the song over and over "In the Tiki tiki tiki tiki room... In the tiki tiki tiki room..."

Me and Claire at Big Thunder Mountain Railroad! Claire was so brave and went on every single ride she could. After all of the "mountain rides" she said "no more mountains please". She was so brave to try them all out!

Our own Prince William!

Captain Hook!

Giant Mickey Pumpkin at the entrance to Main Street!

Pluto and the kids!

At Hunnington Beach. I think Claire is doing the Hula, or maybe trying out her surfing pose. There were SO many surfers out that day it was amazing to watch.

Claire on the nice soft sand!

Crazy Busy

I thought I'd better post something since I've gotten a few emails wondering if we are all OK. It's been almost a month since my last post. All I can say is that I am crazy busy. We went to Disneyland two weeks ago (which I still need to post pictures of) and the second day while we were there waiting for the Pixar parade to start Shawn got a call from BD Medical Systems and they offered him a job in Utah. We were in shock that they called. Of all the companies in Utah this is the one Shawn has always wanted to work for. He had applied about a month before and they had flown him out, but it was always just a dream to work for them. Luckily we didn't have to make a decision at Disneyland. When we got home we looked at every possible situation and prayed and prayed and prayed to see if this would be a good decision for our family. A week ago we decided that this career oppoutunity would be great for our family, and we decided to take the plunge and move back to Utah. I say plunge, because the job is great, but the time to move couldn't be worse, but we just couldn't pass up this opportunity to work for BD. Of course moving to Utah and being with all of our family will be awesome too! So, we are busily trying to get our home in tip top shape to sell and trying to pack things along the way too. We will be moving the first week of November (just a few days after Halloween). We are excited, but will miss Washington so much. We have a great ward and amazing friends. This has been our home for 7 years, and it will hurt to leave it. Claire is having the hardest time with all of this, but we are trying to make the best of it and make it as fun as possible for the kids. Any suggestions on how to make a move easier for kids? We should be listing our home tomorrow! Wish us luck.