Troy's Birthday

Troy turned 26 years old on October 23rd. The girls and I had fun decorating our house and wrapping presents for him to surprise him when he got home from school. Of course when I pulled out the camera to take pictures the battery was dead! So I didn't get any pictures but he wants to tell everyone thanks for the birthday cards!

So this year for Troy's birthday he got big surprise for one of his birthday presents. I got him a gift certificate to go sky diving! He is going to go with my sisters husband Derek this Saturday. Since Derek and Troy's birthdays are only 3 days apart my sister Sarah and I thought it would be fun to get them sky diving gift certificates because they both have talked about wanting to go. Since Sarah and Derek live in Missouri right now we thought it would be fun to have them come up Halloween weekend and have them go together here in Des Moines!

Troy is really excited and I think I am more nervous than he is! I will be sure to take pictures and put them up this weekend!

Getting Ready for Halloween

We are all really excited for Halloween! We have so much going on this week! A preschool party, a library party, and family party at Des Moines University, trick-or-treating, and a ward party. Plus the girls went trick-or-treating at the zoo on Saturday. But most of all the girls are excited for their cousins Cody, Nicole, and Danielle to come stay with us Halloween weekend. They ask everyday if they are coming today. I always have to tell them no but in a couple of days.

Carving pumpkins

We went trick-or-treating at the zoo on Saturday and the girls got to meet Cinderella and Snow White!

Pretty Girls

I took these pictures of the girls one day before preschool. I thought they were looking cute in the new outfits that Grandpa and Grandma brought when they came to visit.

Katelyn is thinking I am crazy for taking all these pictures and is just ready to go to school.

It is nice that they love each other so much!

One last big smile from Katelyn

Ta Da! Look how cute I am! (Kylie can't go anywhere without bringing one of her stuffed animals).

Child's prayer

Katelyn and Kylie are doing such a good job praying and it is so fun to listen to them prayer all by themselves. Sometimes it is so hard not to laugh because they will say thank you for the most random things and will go on and on. I love it though, we should all be thankful for the simple things.
The other night Katelyn was crying because she couldn't find her little toy cow. Katelyn and Kylie's little animals are probably the most important things that they own! They love them. Anyways I looked everywhere for it and told her I could not find it. She was pretty sad so I told her that we could pray and asked Heavenly Father to help us find it. She was crying to much to want to so Kylie said she would pray. She said a very cute prayer asking Heavenly Father to please find Katelyn's cow. Then she came downstairs with me to help look for it. She looked in the diaper bag and I went to help her and there it was! She was so excited she ran upstairs and said to Katelyn, "Heavenly Father found your cow!"
Since then she has reminded me almost everyday that He helped us find the cow. That prayer really meant a lot to me and I am so grateful that our Father in Heaven listens to His children and that we can prayer to him for anything, even a missing toy cow.

Wicked!!

Thursday night I was able to see one of the most amazing things... the Broadway Musical Wicked!! It was so amazing!!! I have wanted to see this musical for a long time because I have always loved the music so I was so happy to have it come to Des Moines! Some of my friends and I decided that we needed a girls night out and we were able to get some really cheap tickets. I was so impressed, the music was so amazing it gave me chills the whole time and I loved the story!

We all met at my apartment so I could take everyone in our van.

We even went out to eat before!

Waiting for the show to start, we are all so excited!

After it was all over!
We decided it would be such a good idea to dress Katelyn and Kylie up as the two main characters, the witches of OZ. We even have a blue princess dress that one of them could wear. But they are pretty set on being some kind of animal for Halloween, so maybe next year! It was a good idea.

Thanks girls for the fun night! I am excited for all of our future plans! :) And thank you husbands for watching the kids even though you all have a big test on Monday!

Back to the Pumpkin Patch

I promised the girls we would go back to the pumpkin patch to actually get a pumpkin and so they asked about it almost everyday. I wanted to wait and go on a day that Troy could go with us but it has been so rainy here so when it was a sunny day on Wednesday I decided we better go. Good thing to because that was the only sunny day this week and it is now snowing here in Iowa on this beautiful saturday morning. So here are more pictures of the pumpkin patch.

Checking out some pumpkins

Riding the wiggle cars

This is the pumpkin we got. Katelyn is making sure it doesn't fall!

The girls loved the corn maze. It was huge, we only covered about half of it.

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Thank You. . .

Troy's parents came out to visit us last weekend and we just wanted to say thanks for everything!! We had such a fun time with them here! It rained the entire time they were here so we couldn't do a lot of things we wanted to outside but Troy and his Dad were able to go golfing, and we also went shopping, bowling, out to eat, swimming a couple of times, and listened to Conference. Katelyn and Kylie were so happy to have them here. When it was time for Troy's parents to leave the girls got there little purses, put some animals in them, got their shoes and were ready to go to Grandma's house. When we told them they couldn't go they cried and cried, and were still crying as Grandma and Grandpa drove away and long after. It was seriously one of the saddest moments ever. They really miss all of their Grandpas and Grandmas! Thank you Mom and Dad Fowler for making the long drive out here to see us! We had a great time.

I also had a doctors appointment last week. It went well, but they don't like to do ultrasounds until like 20 weeks so even though we are pretty sure there is just one in my belly we are not 100% sure!

We hope everyone is enjoying the Fall weather!