Our ward does a fun carnival type Halloween Party. Cake walk, face painting, haunted house – from the youth and then other families bring candy and games. Last year we did shoot a goal on the vampire – This year Ben came up with the Michael Jackson follow the right cup to win your candy. I follow the kids around and make sure Millie doesn’t get stepped on. Good Times.
Brady still lives with us! He had a birthday this week! 27 years.
He isn’t home much but when he is the kids know it and they hang all over him 🙂
Time is so sparse these days but we did finally carve our pumpkins! and make caramel apples!
We convinced the boys to do EASY FUN pumpkins this year. They did their own pumpkins for the first time and it was great.
 
 
The girls had to do ANNA AND ELSA! but they loved cleaning out the guts.
 
Ben’s Dad invited the Packer age cousins to help him put on a haunted garage this year! He had them dress up and come over the Saturday before to practice. Then on Monday night we got to come over and go through the Spookiness. It was a great family home evening activity. Packer LOVED being involved. He talked about this for the whole month. He hates SCARY so this was good for him to see behind the scenes. It was good for him to get the extra attention.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE SOCCER but WE HAVE OUR SATURDAYS BACK!
Benji’s team was undefeated. They have been together for a long time now and they are a lot of fun.
Benji is a good shielder and passer. He likes Defense.
Cali is pretty aggressive. They had a young team this year so it was a rough, lose every game season. But She and Mia have fun out there. Cali always volunteers for everything – take a break? play defender? Stay in? – doesn’t matter what coach asks – she’ll says she’ll do it. Go Lightning Crashers!
 
Look at how close Packer is to the goal! and I was proud of him for going to the middle to wait for the pass. They are learning. I got to go to Packer’s game without any kids on the last game so I got lots of good pictures of him:
 
 
 
 
 
 
This years party was a SUCCESS! We had it on Saturday the 25th and We had perfect weather – dry and warmish. We had a yard again so it was better than last year. The hot chocolate was great and the party game was the best yet. We set up my Haunted house Lego’s and hid all of the “monsters”. Then the kids got to play I Spy and find all of the characters. It was fun. I think we will add it to the yearly festivities. We filled the back yard with lots of family and old and new friends. The new blow up screen is definitely the way to go. Until Next Year Charlie Brown…
Conference weekend!
 
Shannon and Brady and Ben and Pete and I all played on a co-ed soccer team the last 8 weeks! So much fun! undefeated. It was fun having Shannon close enough to make the drive on the weekends and play with us.
Crazy Hair Day at school:
Ben started running every day and then he injured his quad…
The October weather has been amazing.
The last spoils from our garden.
Joel and Megan bought a house. I got to help with some painting before they moved in.
 
A little Baskin Robins in honor of the goal scorers – Cali and Benji this season.
