Halloween

i love HALLOWEEN finally the day has come...getting ready was crazy. We had a BASEBALL PLAYER ZOMBIE, a cute COWGIRL and a SHARK or VAMPIRE*.

The children had a awesome time with their friends. Daniel had a cute program, Matthew and Anna had an awesome parade. That night we went to the Sager's for dinner, then the Dad's took the children Trick or Treating!

*Daniel does not like to dress up..first he wanted to be a SHARK.. I love the cute costume...

but when the time came to wear it he felt to embarassed.

Finally we talked him into HALLOWEEN shirt...and then he became a VAMPIRE!

carving pumpkins

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Usually we have a huge party..but I just wasn't up for the work this year. SO we tried to make halloween fun. We had our annual pumpkin carving. The children really wanted to make cookies first soooo after lots of frosting, sprinkles and tons of cute cookies...we started carving PUMPKINS. Allen has always been the best at getting the seeds out..but this year the children did not really want our help. The more we tried to help madder they got as us ( sooo hard to let them grow up:(....)! Finally, much to the children's relief, we got it, and only helped when asked (Next year we get our OWN pumpkins). The pumpkins turned out great and we had a fun night...

take note of Matthews 'barfing pumpkin'!

Chili Cook Off/Talent Show

CHILI COOKOFF/TALENT SHOW this is our annual ward entertainment in the fall. I did not make Chili...not my forte..but I made yummy honey sweet corn bread...usually the children are not really included in the entertainment...but this year...the Primary WAS the entertainment, the children organized and MC'd the entire thing. Matthew and his buddies played a trio,1 clarinet and 2 trumpets...only one has had trumpet for more than 2 months...they played the OLYMPIC theme together and only made a few mistakes..I was so proud, 2 performances in one day..Daniel got up on stage...overcame his shy..stress and told a JOKE...and Anna sang REFLECTION from Mulan...it was a great night!

Piano Recital

The day after Oklahoma, we had PIANO RECITAL! Rebecca out piano teacher tried to pick songs that would match the chidlrens costumes...then they dressed in their costumes to perform. It was a ton of fun and Matthew and Anna are both doing awesome on the piano!

OKLAHOMA!

Allen and Anna were in our Stake 'Broadway Preview'. Our Ward performed two songs form 'Oklahoma'. After tons and tons of practices...they had their performance October 24th. Grandma and Grandpa Thatcher and Bergeson came...the show was tons of fun!

Dinosaur Park

Today we travelled up to Ogden to go to the Dinosaur Park.

Daniel has been asking to go since we went last year, plus we got to spend time with our cousins.

We had Joshua, Ashley, Ammon and Amanda with us....and Crystelle. The weather was beautiful..the kids were camera happy and kept showing there beautiful smiles. The dinosaurs were not as scary as last year...no bodies hanging out of mouths. I did take the boys and Ashley down a spooky hideout. It was decorated with zombies, skeletons and spiders. I told the boys to pick there favorite and I would take their picture together. Joshua, the smallest of the bunch found a very gruesome witch and ran right up..'Let's do this one!' Daniel and Ammon would not go near it gave me a good laugh. They finally agreed on one..following Joshua's lead again.

Thanks for the fun afternoon!!!

Corn Maze

Aunt Jill came in to town from Monatana this weekend. the kids could not get enough of their cousins and we couldn't get enough of cute Lacie...and Jill, of course. Saturday we took the children to a corn maze. Grandma and Grandpa came with us (questioning why they paid to wander around a corn field...) and everyone had fun. The older children took off and did the maze themselves...I'm not sure when they became old enough to do that. Allen, Crystelle and the middle girls went in a group and Jill, Grandma and Grandpa, the middle to small children and myself went in another group. Needless to say we ran into each other in pursuit of the next number punch...at the end of the maze we were all tired but the children had a great time. Afterwards we went to Grandmas and had a yummy roast beef dinner and a great evening visiting. Thanks for the fun!

Matthew and Brandon goofing around...

ATTACK...


REVENGE...