I love these guys....

Saturday night I decided to do something I've never done with Lissies hair. In the old day to curl their hair they would use rags and tie them. Since we don't have a small curling iron or curlers we decided to give it a try. I told her she would look like a princess and she sat for about 30 minutes while I did this to her hair. This is quite a challenge for Lissie to sit still for that long, but she did it (maybe cause I told her she'd look like a princess).
when we finished.

This si the final result. This is how it Looked after church. I thought the curls were a bit too tight, but Mark kept saying he thought it was really neat.

Lissie and I making a silly face..(we took this after taking a pic of the boys).
Here are the boys. I had to take picture of all three boys in their matching shirts before Taylor grew out of them. They looked so handsome and matching.

Also, tonight we had the missionaries over. You have to have the meal ready when they get here. (about 5:15). I'm lucky if I have the meal ready by 5:30. Anyways about 3:30 I started on the meal. Mark and I had planned what we were going to make. We are also a little short on main ingredients because it is the end of the week. We usually do shopping friday or saturday. As I started making supper I noticed we ran out of corn starch. Okay, I'll us flour. I don't have enough sugar, maybe I'll just half the recipe. I need to make bread, oops not enough flour because I already made a pie crust. So at about 3:45 I load up all the kids in the car and head off to the store. I emphasized how much of a hurry we were in and the kids needed to be good and stay in the cart. They were amazing. We got home by 4:15 .I asked them to help me when we got home as well. THey did just that. I had the laundry that had been folded, but not put away. So I had them help me hide it on my bed. I made the bread, and the potato soup (we didn't have enough potatoes either, had to get those) and Alex grated cheese, Brigham cut up the banana and set the table and they helped take care of Taylor (as did Lissie) and so forth. Alex stirred the pie filling on the stove, perfectly. We got the banana cream pie, bread and potato soup done by about 5:20 and Mark showed up with the missionaries about 5-7 mins later. Just enough time to hide a few odds and ends and feed Taylor. It was great. We were blessed, and had a good time having the missionaries for supper.

Happy Birthday Mother!

Yesterday was my mother's birthday. We celebrated in true LaPierre fashion (at least my parents) with a pie. THis one was pumpkin. We then put in 3 candles for each of the kids to blow out. We hope that it was a great day for you, and wish we could've shared this pie with you! We love you (note Lissie's eyes are blue and half her face because the boys thought it would be fun to put makeup on her yesterday and they did the whole face! It was rather interesting)

I had to post this pic, too. I went in to check on Taylor before I hopped into bed and this is what I found. Taylor holding his bears hand. How cute, I thought.

Witch's on Broomsticks.....

We had a wonderful Halloween. Nothing too exciting about it, but the norm. Here is Taylor as a pea pod. We had him in thes for the evening.

Lissie is a withc. She chose out all the material, so this is what she liked. Pink, surprised? The boys are bats. The had bat hats and wings and then dressed in dark clothes. They put on seaters, I guess they matched the top. They wanted their faces black. What would halloween be without makeup:?

Here is what Taylor wore during the day. It was like one nice sleeper. We added a little makeup to get this cute pic.

Another angle fo the kids. Alex wanted to spread his wings, much to the dismay of his sibblings.