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You've seen enough already, but I thought these were cute.

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Lexi spotlight

Lexi is teaching me how to be a girl. We paint our nails and take turns brushing each others hair. Gosh, my hair is turning brown isn't it? A photographer here in town took the girls pictures this morning. She's taking pictures for free and then copying them on cds while she gets experience and builds a portfolio. I'll pick up the cd this afternoon from her. It inspired me to so I took some pictures of Lexi when we got home. These tall weeds are right in front of our car, in the back of our building. This mossy wall is in the front. My goal next summer to to take more pictures outside and of the outdoors. It really is beautiful up here.

We leave tomorrow morning to go to Washington! Wahoo! We'll spend 2 weeks with my parents, and April and George and James and Marisha will be there for Thanksgiving. We are so excited. For the past month Lexi has been talking about going on an airplane ride "someday." She tells us after she gets a snack and lays down, she'll see grandma and grandpa and jump on the trampoline and fall on her bum. She wants all of the family to jump with her.

We can't wait to go "down south" to the "lower 48." John and I are planning on doing most of the cooking, some yardwork (weird, I know, but we love it!), and doing things we can't normally do in this rainy town. We are so excited to spend time with my family. We're just going to miss TC, Ashley and Savanna who will all be in Flordia with family. We'll have to do webcam. I'm hoping to do a lot of the cooking for Thanksgiving. Yum! I can't wait!

Playtime

Here is my first attempt at putting a video on. This was from about a week ago when we were eating lunch. I didn't want Lexi to notice me, so sorry you can't see her face.

Below the girls are playing together. The cute picture, followed by reality. (By the way, Lexi has a habit of taking off all of her clothes whenever she sleeps, which is why she is only in a diaper.) The last picture is of Kaytlin laughing at her sister (of course).

The rest of October

I can't believe November is already here! We had a great October this year. Only the second half of the month was horribly rainy. There was one day where we got 4.5 inches of rain. I don't think I've mentioned before how much it rains here - 13 feet a year on average. I think where I grew up it was like 15 inches a year or something like that.

Lexi got to help carve this pumpkin (hence the 3 eyes). We went kind of cheap for halloween. I don't like spending a lot of money on something that's worn once or twice. We bought some princess jewelry and had her wear stuff she already had. She loves that frilly skirt April bought her for Christmas. We went to the ward trunk or treat (don't worry - it was indoors).

We were lame for Halloween. We had the missionaries over for dinner and decided not to take Lexi trick or treating since the weather was bad and she didn't know what she was missing anyway. But I was festive and made our dinner in a pumpkin. It tasted like pizza (weird huh).

Then to celebrate October birthdays (there were 4) a bunch of us girls went out to dinner. Don't you just love girls night out?