Halloween Week

Halloween is never just one day....it's full of multiple parties, pumpkin carving night, trunk-or-treat and trick-or-treating. We had such a great time this year...

Pumpkin Carving at the Downeys

(with the Fifes and Wagners too)

Pumpkin guts....not my favorite! :)

This year while I was buying the carving tools at the store, I found a new kit to decorate pumpkins. I bought it for Megs and Jessica. They LOVED hammering the posts into the pumpkin!

And so did the other little kids!

The Downeys had Christmas lights all over their trees outside because there was a wedding reception in their backyard the weekend before. It was fun to carve pumpkins under the Christmas lights! :)

Thanks Downeys!...We had such a great time!!

Jessica's Preschool Halloween Program

She is so shy and doesn't like much attention so for most of the program she was like this with her face covered..

or like this, turning to the side so no one could see her face...

but by the end she did warm up a little!

Mark's office annual Halloween dress up day...

(biker theme)

Here's the front office...

and the back office at work....

and how would you like this guy straitening your teeth???

Halloween Day...the costumes!

For Halloween, Rachel wanted to be a cave girl, Tommy wanted to be a vampire and Sam wanted to be a Cowboy. PERFECT! I had most of those costumes and this year was going to be easy. But after seeing Mark's costume, the three oldest kids changed their minds. They liked the idea of black clothes, earings and tattoos! I cringe as I look at these pictures, but here they are....

Yes, this was a frightening night looking at my kids dressed up like this!

Even if it only helps a little, I liked her way better with a smile! :)

And thank goodness for my sweet little girls who still like to dress up like sweet, innocent things!

My Fairy Princess...

And my little kitty-cat...

They had so much fun at our ward's trunk-or-treat/carnival and then trick-or treating around our neighborhood!

Here is Mark and his two friends Dave and Jason. They were all in dental school together and now we are all in the same ward! Way to go Jason for having a little Halloween spirit!

By the end of the night, we were all exhausted, even on a sugar high!

Hope you had a Happy Halloween!

School Pictures

Megan

(Kindergarten)

Sam

(2nd Grade)

Tommy

(4th Grade)

Rachel

(7th Grade)

My little Jessie-girl!

Not in school yet, thus, no school picture. But here she is the other day just hanging out at home with me!!!

Rachel

I just got back from Rachel's Jr. Honor Society Induction...

It was short and sweet.

She got the certificate...

She signed the book...

Took pictures with friends...

And pictures of the group...

Congrats Rach. Love you!

BABY HEAVEN!!!

(at least those were Mark's words describing last weekend.) And he was right! He was right because he knows how much all of us in the Truman home have been trying to accept that I am done having babies. It's something that just feels right, Mark and I have our hands full with the five we have. And as much as our kids beg and beg for another one and I long to have another little newborn around again, we also know that our family is complete. (At least Mark and I know, but our kids still keep begging for more.) So this last week and weekend has been so fun for me.

My really good friend and next door neighbor had her sixth baby last week. We had our last five together, so it's really weird for her to have another baby while my baby is three years old! But it was so fun to go see this beautiful little girl!

My kids couldn't stop rubbing her soft little head!

and her soft little feet!

They just loved holding this little girl! It was so cute because the next couple of days after that, Megan kept saying, "Ohhhh, I just can't stop thinking about the cute little baby....She's just SOOOO cute!" She told me that sentence over and over again!
Then Friday, my sister showed up with her little newborn baby girl.

It started all over again. The kids loved holding her and so did I!

When my sister left on Saturday, I got to watch my friends baby for a couple hours. I wasn't the only one enjoying it! (Nothing like sitting on the couch watching a good football game and holding a sleeping newborn!)

She was just so cute and little that I had to snap some pictures.




Yep, Mark was definitely right...BABY HEAVEN!!

Rachel's Social Studies Project

Rachel (and Mark) finished her social studies project. She chose to do it on the Handcart Companies this year. They did a fine job!

I love the people that Rachel made! AND THE HANDCART!!.....it was awesome thanks to Mark's great engineering skills! :) Here's a close up...

Mark was very proud of the wheels and axle that REALLY WORKED. You should have seen this thing roll!! Too bad it had to get glued down and no one ever appreciated the design and engineering in all of this!

Great job Rach!!