When Rachel picked me up from school this evening, Jacob said, "can we pick up a pizza." We usually eat pizza a couple of times a week (when Rachel was sick from being pregnant, I took over the cooking, and its kinda stuck). We mostly eat frozen pizzas because they're cheaper, but about once a month we pick one up.

Anyway, Jacob never eats it. If we threaten him with bed or eating his pizza, he'll take a small bite, but he has to think that we're serious. So I asked him why he wanted to pick up a pizza and he just said that he wanted pizza. So I asked him why he wanted to watch a pizza (yes, watch a pizza) so bad and he said that he really wanted pizza. We usually eat pizza for our date night while we watch a movie. So we, got home, threw a pizza in. When we sat down to eat (we always eat in our living room) Jacob asked what movie we were watching and Ethan started saying he wanted to watch Spider man (which shocked us as he always says cars).

I almost gave in as we just got our first netflix today, but as I've got a meeting in 9 hours, reason finally prevailed (is it bad that our kids are going to bed at midnight? and that I can still hear them running around right now [at 12:30]?).

On Friday we went to the church's "harvest fest" in which we ate a lot of chili (there was a men's cook-off), played some games, and trunker-treated. It was a lot of fun, and kind of a saying good-bye for us (last Sunday was the primary program, so we started going to our new ward today).

On Saturday we went tricker-treating around the apartment complex and then to Steve's (my boss) annual Halloween party. There we a few places that really decorated at the complex, one had a flashing light with a mannequin on a large pumpkin. The boys got within 15 feet and stopped. They kept saying, it's too scary, and I kept telling them, I bet they have a lot of candy. Eventually they decided that it wasn't worth it, so we started on to the next door and the people opened the door (they must have been able to hear us), and told the boys that it was safe to come and get some candy, which they timidly did.

Jacob told me that someone was telling him that he was dumb. I told him that it's ok, they don't know what they're talking about, your awesome. He then said, "yeah I said, guys, we need to stop saying dumb."

I thought, oh, what a nice little boy I have, and then he said:

"Yeah, then I pushed them into the wall and they died."

Jacob found a magical green pumpkin that makes all your dreams come true (except the scary ones, and the one that your at school in only your underwear...).

Allison, Hunter, and Grace came over for a couple of days this last weekend (they went home yesterday). It was really fun seeing them and the kids had a fun time running around together. We went to a pumpkin patch too; I love Ethan's sour face in this one:

One night last week, when I was putting Jacob and Ethan to bed, Jacob starting crying (he was really tired). I asked him why he was crying and he said that Ethan had one of his airplanes and he wanted it. I suggested that he do the usual thing, go and find a toy that Ethan might want and try to trade him. Jacob tried several toys to which Ethan responded "don't want to" to each. Finally Jacob broke back down and started crying again. I told him it was alright as he already had an airplane in his bed, to which he said "but Ethan doesn't even like airplanes, he likes race cars." Which is so true... thinking back, I wonder why he was playing with that airplane.

While watching conference this last weekend, at one point Ethan wanted a toy that Jacob had. We told Ethan that Jacob was playing with it and that he should go and find a different toy. Within a minute, Jacob went and told Ethan to come and open a present, it was the toy Ethan wanted wrapped up in a blanket. While giving Jacob a hug I told him that that was really nice of him and that he was a really good big brother, he then turned to me and said "you have really cute kids."

It's only the first week of class (i.e. the easiest week) and I missed basketball tonight as I had to put in a couple of hours of work :(.

News flash (related to basketball): my big toe nail has almost completely fallen off, I hope it grows back...