It's Halloween It's Halloween...!

We love Halloween, fall and any other holiday that comes around, so this year I decided that we needed to do something fun for Halloween in our new home (Miami) and have old friends and new friends enjoy the fun with us too. After waching a movie on the Fam. channel I sought that they would start there 13 day count down for Halloween with "movies" so my head start to go crazy thinking about why don't I make something like that but with "crafts" so I did!

13 days fo Halloween fun crafts, it was so much fun to make up the list of activity I love doing that and Jackson is geting excited to make all the fun crafts starding tomorrow.

So here is the list of crafts so if you would love to have fun with us be my guest I know your

kids will love.

13 days of Halloween starts Wednesday.

Is 13 days of fun activities that will make this Halloween a fun and spooky one!

Day 1: Ghost necklace (http://www.marthastewart.com/273128/glue-ghoulery)

Day 2: Strawberries dipped in chocolate Ghosts. ( http://gordongossip.blogspot.com/2009/09/strawberry-ghosts.html)

Day 3: Little Einstein’s hanging batty bat, ghosts and creepys ( decorate you home with it) http://disney.go.com/disneyjunior/halloween/halloween-coloring-create

Day 4: Paper spooky house http://www.makeandtakes.com/spooky-house-pop-up-cards

Day 5: Halloween dinner (http://lickthebowlgood.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-recipe-turkey-pesto-eyeballs.html)

Day 6: printable Halloween masks http://familyfun.go.com/halloween/printable-halloween-masks-decorations-pg-1024123/

Day 7: Coloring pages (make it fun and hang them on the door to your kids’ room) http://familyfun.go.com/halloween/halloween-printables/

Day 8: Make your own Halloween trick-or-treat bag ( this would be fun to do as a group) http://www.marthastewart.com/268802/trick-or-treat-bags?czone=holiday/halloween-center/halloween-center-decor

Day 9: Decorate Halloween cupcakes

Day 10: Carve or color Pumpkins

Day 11: Movie night at the Brown’s “Nightmare Before Christmas” at 6pm! Bring your favorite Halloween treat.

Day 12: Decorate cookies and drop off at your neighbors (great Sunday missionary activity)

Day 13: It’s Halloween lets make it fun! With Halloween-finger –puppet (http://www.makeandtakes.com/printable-halloween-finger-puppetsand) and go trick-or-treat-ding with your Family! Have a great time!!!

Family time.

 Things a going crazy here and I can't find time to blog . Well lots has happend here at the Brown's house hold, on September 19th Jeff found out that he PASS the Florida bar exame, we where so exicited for him it really made things look much better for our future to not to worry about a job or studying for the bar ever again:)

Jeff was able to sworn in last monday October 3 , 2011 what a great day it was to see him in front of a juge and know being able to do what he love doing being a Lawyer and it made more special that his parents where here too.

I flooded our apartment, man was water everywere in this place the washer broke and was filling up with water and not stoping the water was out of our front door into the whow way CRAZY!!! lokelly nothing got demadge.

We whent to Mickey not so Scary halloween party at WDW it was great this has bein our 3nd year and we have loved all the fun memories we have had there this time Grandma and Grampa Brown came down from Utah and had a fun time at the party with us.

We love halloween and every year seins I had Jackson I try to have some fun with him and his friends we dress up, make cookies, and do lots of fun activities wi

th our family and friends.

This year I'm trying to think about things to do withour family seens we haven't made lots of friends here in Miami yet but we still want to have fun, I will post some of our family fun activities this year and I hope you can share some of your's too.

                                      Here some Pictures of our Fall of 2011 in Miami, Florida.

                                                Sam 9 Months Old and Jackson 3Year's Old

                                                  At the Coral Castle in Miami.

                                                                Just TOO cute!!!

                                          Our Family is on the GO and we don't stop here...

Fun, fun and more fun!!!

Okay I'm going to try this again, lets start over...

4 moths ago my Husband graduated from Law School, after 3 great years in

Jacksonville Florida he was finely DONE!!! well that was what I thought,the next day or two he went BACK to School to study for the Florida BAR, a little that I thought I knew that was the start of a Long and lonely summer. .

The hardest part for me was when one of my best friends went back home ( her husband was a law student too) that day when I dropped her off at the airport was when I realised that the reality was different then I wanted to be, My husband gone studying, My best friend gone and there was, me and my boys.

Sometimes I felt lonely and having a 5 month old baby the possibility to get baby moons was at high risk for me, so I decided to start packing our apartment for our move to Miami, I tried my best not to be so sad all the time (I really don't think I did a good job on that dough). Me and the boys got to know more people in our ward and in Law School, we spent lots of time with them and it was great they will be friends that we will never forget. You know boys are hard and they have lots and lots of energy and with my 2 boys I have my hands full but we did as well we could have done.

Miami well lets just say interesting...We will come back later.

We went back West to visit Family and friends, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming and California one month for lots and lots of fun.

Arizona: We went to visit our Law School friends that we miss so much,and their 2kids, Jackson was so happy to see his friends, they had slumber parties, they went swim and me and Jeff well we enjoy our dear friends company .

Just like his big Bro.
Look at that cute smile.

Tummy time no sleeping time silly Sam!!!
Our afternoon naps we love to sleep together.
story time :)

Presidents day 2011 look at that ocean !!!! Sam's first time at the beach with Dad!!!
Playing with dad at our playground.
Jackson's new favorite toy his Bike.
Jack has lots of energy and more...

Jackson and his friend Sarah Jeff's birthday cake he is 29 the year!!!

The month of February was a fun month for us Jeff turned 29 on Feb.5 we had our friend over for some cake(pavalova) and games and our 5 year aniversary how great to know that I married my best friend and to know that he is the father of my two sons. We went to Oliver Garden for dinner that night and our friends Amanda and Mason watch the boys for us it was a fun and relaxing night.

The wather is getting warm here in Florida now and so its time for us to go to the beach and to play out side Jackson is loving being able to ride is bike to go to the beach even that the water is cold still its Great to be Outdoor we love our life here in Florida that we can enjoy the beauty of this Spring type of wather in Feb/march.

Sam is Getting big and so cute everyday he is 2 month know how fast is he growing , he loves his big brother Jackson how he makes Sam smile all the time, sam can reconize his dad's voice and looks everywhere when Jeff is talking . I'm so bless to have a wonderfull family who makes me laugh when I fill sad ,that makes me look at the positive side when life gets tough and makes me see how important is to enjoy each moment that I can to spend with them.

So the pass week has being so hard for us, Me and Jackson got a really bad cold where we could not even get out of our apartment or even get nothing done, but what made this sad was that the first night that Jackson was sick (Friday) he had fever of 103 and all night I mean all night he was saying: Mommy please help me, please help! It broke my heart just because I could not do anything to help him . I asked him if he wanted a Blessing from his Dad , and I tried as best that I can to explain to him(2 year old) what that meant and how it would help him but I told that he needed to ask his Papai (daddy in Portuguese) for it. well it did not go the way that I plan but he did got a blessing from Jeff and Jack monke and he set on the chair like a Big boy and when the prayer started his eyes got so big, it was cute!
So this week Jeff is preparing for the Blue and Gold dinner to commemorate the birthday of Scouting he is the cub master for our Ward, so he is a bit nervous about it and to top all this Jeff has his moot court competition Next week where he is going to Huston TX. on Thursday this is a Big thing for him and for the school so I hope all gos well there.
Sam is growing each day and Smiles all the time he is a great baby and I'm so glad to have had him and have him in our Family , Jackson loves his little bro so much that even sick he always wanted to give kisses to Sam and hug him, I had to control that one we did not wanted the baby to get our sickness.
I love my family and each day I thank Heavenly Father for each one of them.

We're the Brown family. My name is Pollyanna. My husband is Jeff, and our two sons are Jackson and Samuel. Here is a small account of what we have been doing the past two and a half years:

2008 brought our family to Florida. In January, Jeff got accepted at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida. He starded school in August of that year, 1 week after our first son, Jackson, was born. For Jeff to be at school on time, he had to leave Utah the day after Jackson was born. We missed him so much for 2 weeks, but eventually left Utah ourselves and moved to our new home, Jacksonville, Florida, two weeks later.

In 2009, the Brown family started hitting its stride. We made lots of good friends out first year, including the Bradshaws, Calkins, Austins, Carsons, Lorzs, Pattons... so many that we can't even keep count. Playgroups spent visitng St. Augustine, the Jacksonville Zoo, and the beach, dinner groups, a spring-break trip to Hoosier land with the Barnhills and Oxford, OH to visit Jonathan and Jennifer made the time seem to fly by. Jeff started to get more involved in law school. After nervously trying out for the school's prestigous Moot Court team, he got the award for being the best Oral Advocate and continues to do well when asked to participate. In the summer of that year, we moved back to Utah so that Jeff could intern at a botique law firm. We were also able to have Jackson's first birthday party and attend my brother-in-law's, James, wedding. It was great to see old friends and family, but we quickly realized that Florida was home to our small family. In fall, Jeff became the president of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society at the school. There were hard adjustments to make that year: living in a new State on the other side of the country, taking care of a baby, and dealing with Jeff being gone at school a lot. But we felt at home in Florida.

2010 brought even more significant changes to our family. In December of last year, we welcomed Samuel to our family, bringing our total to four. Jeff also got the oppotunity to internship in Washington, D.C., where he spent the whole summer working for an international trade law firm. I and Jackson went to Utah to visit the in-laws for a month, then flew back to D.C. just in time to spend the Fourth-of-July weekend with Jeff in our nation's capitol. It was amazing. I then went back to Jacksonville while Jeff finished his internship in D.C. In fall of that year, we were back together in Jacksonville and finished the year by having Samuel and spending Christmas with friends in Jacksonville, rather than going back to Utah like years past.

2011 is already proving to be just as adventerous as all the years past, and we can't wait to share our stories with y'all through this blog. I'll also relive in detail some of the adventures mentioned above. I look forward to making this blog, and hope you all enjoy reading it too!