In Need of Your Opinion. . .

Alright, so i'm about to reveal what Joe and I have been up to in our spare hours lately, but first I want to tell how it all came about. So ever since Joe and I got married we have been really into reading. Whenever we can it's so much fun for us to get in bed early, turn on our lamps, and read. I wasn't much of a reader before I got married, but now I love it. Anyway, one day as we were reading I turned over to Joe and said wouldn't it be cool to go buy a nice bookmark, that we use with all of our books. It just sounded fun to have a really nice book mark, instead of using a reciept or something else laying around that we always used. He agreed and so we set out on our search. We went to a few different book stores, and honestly couldn't find any that we really liked that was worth the money. So we looked online and up came this idea from a website. They were these really cool bookmarks, and the more Joe studied them the more he realized that with the right tools (thanks to his grandpa's work shop) he could make them. Well it took a lot of trial and error, but we think we finally got it down. And here they are:

They are made out of copper metal (like the penny) and are flattened in the curving area if you can't tell from the picture. I'm not the best photographer

How they set in a book.

So we have made a few here and there and decided we would sell them for fun. And that's the question I am wanting to ask, if you were to come across these bookmarks how much would you pay for one? Honestly. We don't know what others would consider a fair and good price.

And if you would never buy one, it's okay, you dont have to comment :) haha

We got it!

So the past 2 months or so Jace has been more active. Climbing on everything, including the table, the couch, a shelf, balancing on our bench. So I finally started making forts, creations, whatever you want to call them for him to play on, go through and under. But it wasn't keeping him off the things that I didn't want him to climb on, and he wasn't getting out his energy. So... We finally started taking him to this one park about a mile and a half away as often as we could. Which helped with letting his energy out. THEN the cold hits! And Jace can't stand to be outside longer than 15 mins which wasn't long enough to get his energy out. So we finally caved and got him this!

We decided it would be his main christmas present that came early. I did my research and it is the perfect fit. It fits in our house and Jace loves it! He climbs on it and under it. The slide is just long enough to be fun but not too long, it's sturdy. Perfect!! AND it gets his energy out! At least so far. We have only had it for a day and a half.

So this is Jace before. . (my beautiful creations I made for him)

And this is Jace After


He also enjoyed the box, almost as much as the climber.

Happy Boy = Happy Mom

Elmo says Trick or Treat

So Jace LOVES elmo. One of his first words was "melmo" So we decided if he had a choice that's what he would want to be. So here he is, our little elmo. When I put the costume on him for the first time he just laughed and kept pointing to himself saying, "Melmo! Melmo!" So funny.

They had this thing where you could go down main street and do trick or treating from all the business's. Our neighbors invited us to go. So this is Jace and Corben in the wagon after getting their treats.

The ward Trunk or Treat. (me and my boy)

My sister came with us. She wanted to see jace in his costume.

They were doing that game where you try to eat the donut off the string with your mouth. Well Jace just grabbed at it and ate it. Haha. Probably more efficient anyway.

Fishing at the fish pond.

Joe was one of the judges for the pumpkin carving contest.

Jace and Daddy ready to go around and get candy. They had to do it inside because it was raining.

There they go. And he actually did say "trick- treat" I didn't think he would.

And afterwards we came home and watched the Charlie Brown Holloween movie "the great pumpkin" It was perfect length for jace to go to bed in time and he loved it. He actually sat and watched the whole thing. Which doesn't usually happen with movies.

It really was a Happy and Fun Halloween. We all really enoyed it this year, especially Jace (even though he's not smiling in any of the pictures. haha )