And our baby is...

A cute baby girl!!!

During the ultrasound today, our little princess was very ladylike. Although it irked the sonographer pretty badly, she kept her legs crossed so that it was hard to find out the gender. We're glad that she already has manners. :)

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween to all! I have to say that I'm a fan of Halloween, but not the creepy, spooky Halloween. Ours started out with a pumpkin. Steve thinks its funny how excited I get about the pumpkins when they first start selling them at grocery stores in the beginning of October. But I love it and its just fun to get excited about things.

Josh liked it too!
We have decided that every October that I'm pregnant, this will be our design. Emily said that she was having a hard time getting any sort of reaction from her kids about Halloween things until they saw our pumpkin. The reaction? "Eww".

We were also happy that our neighbor's dog didn't eat up all of the entrails.

Our costumes this year were the 3 Musketeers. I finished making the little tunics a few days before our party and was quite pleased with them! I think the little French mustache looks best on Joshua. What do you think? Oh, and Josh wasn't supposed to have a sword, but he always managed to get one.

On Saturday the 30th, we held our Halloween party. We were pleased that the Gibbons kids weren't sick like last year. The costumes were lots of fun! Matt came as a superhero, Emily was a Frazzled Fairy (she has a little wand in her pocket), Lia: the Frog Princess, Quinn: Lightening McQueen, Mikayla was a character from Winnie the Pooh (but I don't know the character's name, sorry!) and Mr Colin came as a pumpkin.

I was sad to miss a picture of all of the Mosbackers and mom and dad Monson, but here is our little pumpkin patch: Colin Gibbons and Nathan Mosbacker.
Mike and Elise came as Frankenstein and his bride. I've got to say that her hair was AWESOME! Shauna and Mom as witches

My brother, Scott, brought a friend of ours from Ohio: J'neen. They came as Life pieces, including the car and little seats in the back for babies.....

We were quite surprised when Jon Updike showed up with Alisha. He's currently working in Washinton DC, so we were a little shocked that he was here!

When Joseph and Greg walked in, Alisha's first thought was "Who is Joseph's ugly ugly date?"

Greg also shocked us, but in a different manner. He came complete with heels.

Four of the Elms 214 roommates: Joseph Sowa, Greg Sorensen, Steve Monson and Jonathan Updike.

Probably my favorite costumes of the night go to Camille and Jason Millar. They brought little Lincoln who was almost 3 weeks old and they were a ref, the football player and the football. SO cute!

Besides stuffing himself with lots of yummy food, Joshua loved the clean-up stage. We pulled down all the streamers and let him run around the apartment with them.
Okay, so we try not to brag about our food, but our pumpkin soup turned out amazing again this year. So for anyone who wants a new Halloween tradition, this is what I suggest you make:

Bachelor's Creamy Pumpkin Soup

1 10.75 oz can condensed cream of potato soup

1 1/4 cup water

1 15 oz can pumpkin puree

2 Tbsp butter

1 cup cream

1 tsp salt, or to taste

1/4 tsp ground black pepper, or to taste

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp ginger

1 pinch paprika, for garnish (I don't think we used this either year)

1 cup seasoned croutons (I don't think we used this either)

Directions:

1) In saucepan over medium heat, combine the cream of potato soup, water, pumpkin, butter and cream. Season with salt, pepper, garlic and ginger. Stir until blended, and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes.

2) Remove from heat and pour into a tureen. Garnish with paprika and croutons.

Its SO easy and very tasty!

Anyway, we hope you all enjoyed your holidays and we're definitely looking forward to Thanksgiving!