Steven and Chrystal Tandberg Family: Halloween

January 12, 2008

Halloween

We were all bears for our Halloween party etc. but we didn't dress up for trick-or-treating, and unfortunately I don't have any good pictures of it.

This picture was taken in Harrisburg. We went to visit David and Darin and the family then went to carnival near them. This picture was taken inside a hot air balloon.

My mom made this cute Halloween outfit for my little sister Afton, and now Mariah gets to wear it and be our little Halloween girl.

We just went trick or treating down one street, but Mariah still made a haul. I couldn't get her attention away from her candy to take a picture.

There she is digging in her horde, I think we still have some of it left.

There is our lovely pumpkin. Steven's med school class held a pumpkin carving competition and we won! I outlined the design and Mariah was Steven's assistant as he carved.

7 comments:

Rachel Holloway said...: Glad to see you back in the blogging world! Your pictures are all so cute and I can't believe how much Mariah is growing! :); January 12, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Tina said...: Yes!! I am glad to see some posts!! How are you guys?? She is getting sooooo big!! wow! sooo cute! We miss you guys!; January 18, 2008 at 5:16 PM
Unknown said...: hey glad to see some updates! that beach looks so fun! and cute little bear for halloween! aww;) she will be 2 this summer right? how richmond going?; January 31, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Heidi Michelle said...: UH, CHRYSTAL! I go to see your page, see if you happened to update it, and see that Mariah is getting a little sibling? WHAT? I had no idea! You didn't even tell me! I see how it goes! Well congratulations! When's the due date and when do you get to find out what it is? Let me know! I also need your digits to call you sometime! peace out cuz!; March 17, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Tina said...: WOW~ CONGRATS!! baby on the way!! yah who!! thats so great!! now it is time to update you blog!! j/k; March 20, 2008 at 5:46 PM
Unknown said...: WOAA! congrats on being prego! thats exciting!!! wahooo!!; March 20, 2008 at 11:46 PM
Jessie said...: Chrystal, I am so excited for you guys!! You are pretty far along too. How are you feeling thus far? Is it nice not to have to go to school and be pregnant?!?! I would love to hear from you. Hope things are going good. Feel free to write anytime. :) Congratulations on the little one!!; March 27, 2008 at 3:44 PM

Mariah says the darndest things...

Mariah certainly has interesting designations for things. Today she asked me for clean milk. I was getting Lylah some of her rice milk and evidently Maraih didn't want it. She pointed to the regular 1% milk and said that was clean milk. I asked her why it was clean, she told me, "because I said it was!" I really don't know where she got that!

At dinner Mariah told me she wanted dry water. I asked her what dry water was (after I could stop chuckling behind my hands) and she said water that came from our glass pitcher was dry water. I never quite figured out why that was dry water, although we do usually put ice cubes in it when we use the pitcher. hmmm... dry water...

The other day Mariah asked me for kid beans. At first I thought she wanted green beans because she loves them and could eat a whole can by herself. But she didn't want those. I eventually found out that she wanted kidney beans. Lylah likes to eat kidney beans, straight from the can and Mariah was jealous and wanted some.

We use sliced cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches, now Mariah calls that cheese "girl cheese."

One of my favorite things Mariah said was about a year ago. She came to me with a very concerned look on her face, "Mommy why doesn't the table have clothes on?" I had taken the tablecloth off and hadn't put another one on yet and she was worried about it.

When Lylah was a couple months old she got a hold of Mariah's hand and tried to put it in her mouth. Mariah laughed and said, "Mommy, Lylah is trying to eat the elbows on my hand!" Now if that is not a good way to descibe knuckles, I don't know what is!

Steven was trying to help Mariah learn how to catch the ball. He would throw the ball and she would look at him and miss it. He told her to keep her eye on the ball. She gave Steven a funny look and literally put her eye on the ball. Needless to say, we both started laughing.

We went hiking last week on Steven's day off. We were just getting going up a hill into the trees when Mariah turned to Steven and said, "Daddy I want the car." I didn't realize we were raising such a city girl. Looks like we need to get back out west soon!