Happy Halloween

Nate is in Las Vegas for a sales convention this week, so it was just us girls this year. It definitely wasn't as fun without him, but the girls still seemed to have a good day.

 

We lucked out because it didn't rain all evening and it wasn't even very cold. Yes! :)

 

 

I'm pretty sure they liked handing out candy even more than Trick-Or-Treating.

 

It's always fun trying to get a good picture of all three girls.

Halle was happy and quiet the whole time we Trick-Or-Treated. She's such a sweetheart.

Aaaand... let the sugar consumption begin.

 

Happy Halloween!

A better video of Halle crawling

Halle is crawling!

Halle started crawling last week. She will be 6 months old on Friday. I think she's pretty adorable.

Pumpkin Patch

On Saturday we went to Kruger Farms, which is on Sauvie Island in Portland. We went with Brad and Jenn (my high school bestie). Did I just say bestie?

 

 

 

The girls love corn on the cob, so they were pretty excited about this part.  

 

 

 

Can you tell?

 

 

This is Brad and Jenn (and their unborn baby! Yay!).   Don't you love how this couple is trying not to be in the picture?  ha ha.

 

 

 

 

Brad caught a frog, so that was cool. Paige loves little creatures.

 

We got a little dirty. The weather was great while we were there, but it had been raining earlier that day (this is Portland, afterall), so it was super muddy and slippery and both girls fell.

 

 

Paige and Kate love getting their faces painted. It's a pumkpin patch tradition, so I couldn't resist. I love how everytime we do it, the girls are so serious about it. They hold still really well.

 

 

 

 

Fall is the best!

Don't wait to be happy

President Uchtdorf's talk in the Saturday morning session of General Conference could not have come at a better time for me. He talked about three of the common regrets that people have at the end of their lives. All three points really made me think and reflect on myself, but one that really hit me was "waiting to be happy."

I am the queen of thinking, I will be happy when... 

Ever since we moved here, I've had an especially hard time with that way of thinking. It's been so hard starting over, learning to love a new place and make it feel like my home. I've found myself thinking, I will be happy when we finally know where we're gonna settle down, and when we have our own house again, and when I lose 10 pounds, etc., etc,. etc.

I know that's the wrong way to think. There is no reason for me to be anything but happy right now. Things are good here. We're in a nice area, people have been pretty welcoming, Nate is enjoying his job, the girls are doing well. I really can't complain. But since I don't feel fully settled, I'm not allowing myself to live in the moment and just be happy. I'm always either missing my old life or planning my future life.

For as long as I can remember I've always been so anxious about what's coming next for us. When we lived in Liberty Lake (Spokane), I always wondered if it was our final destination. I always figured we would probably end up settling in the Seattle area, so I never fully let myself settle in and just live. I ended up loving Liberty Lake, and now I feel like I wasted some of my time there because I was subconsciously thinking, Well, we're probably not staying here forever, so I will wait until we're in our final destination to really be happy and settled.


I need to be happy now. Marjorie Hinckley said:

So, so true. But it's easier said than done. Changing your way of thinking is really hard, especially when you've thought a certain way for so long. I'm working on it. I don't want to waste the time that we're here, living in a fun area, just because of the fact that I don't think we'll be here forever.


Does anyone else find themselves waiting to be happy? Or always thinking that something better is gonna come, instead of just living in the moment?