Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween!




We finally found time to carve pumpkins this afternoon - just in time to light them up for the big night. We all stayed home and handed out candy, watched Monster's Inc and ate caramel popcorn. Happy Halloween!

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Trunk or Treat

Surfer girls Sydney and Anne
Abbie and Heather as witches
Connor and Catie with their buddies
Calla, Connor, Catie, Derek and Imogen
Kurt as an English Bobby
Spencer's Alien abduction

Friday, October 29, 2010

Wells Fargo Securities party

Connor and Catie as Mickey and Minnie
Spencer - Alien abduction, Sydney as a hula dancer, Abbie as a witch and Kurt wearing Abbie's hat.

partying at Kurt's work for Halloween.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Finally getting festive


The kids don't have school tomorrow so that means NO HOMEWORK! hooray! I think I get more excited about not having homework than they do. We worked on costumes, pulled out halloween craft stuff and we are finally going to carve pumpkins tomorrow!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Author Spencer


Spencer working hard on his Mystery story. He wrote a great story- good job bud!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Low ridin'


My swagger wagon was low ridin home today from the stake center after picking up 18 buckets of grain and other food storage items. We are super close to our one year supply of grain! Hooray!

Monday, October 25, 2010

Makes me smile...


when the kids play well together!

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Ticket to Ride


Playing our new game - it is a great one!

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Corn Maze party



Anne, Sydney and Julia
Christian, Spencer and Luigi

We celebrated Spencer and Sydney's birthday with a few friends at the corn maze. girls against boys - it was awesome!

Friday, October 22, 2010

Camping


Our first outing camping this year - SAD! We wanted to go so many more times but we have been so busy doing so many other fun things that this is the first weekend we could go. It was fun but cold! None of us slept well because it was pretty cold. I didn't get very many pictures either...

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Head first


Connor's new form of entertainment

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

High Fashion


Sydney rocking her new birthday clothes. Jeggings are the all the rage these days!

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Happy Birthday Sydney and Spencer!




They had a super fun busy day! We went to a school field trip together, had a great dinner, quickly opened presents and headed to church for activities. Sydney and I had a mother/daughter activity and Spencer had scouts. We had cake and ice cream but I don't have a single picture - sad! Happy birthday to my amazing 9 year olds!

Monday, October 18, 2010

Beautiful Bahamas

We had a wonderful time on this beautiful beach!

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Downtown Nassau


We attended church in Nassau and then explored around downtown.

Kurt in front of the straw market

Saturday, October 16, 2010

FUN, fun and more fun!

Rock climbing, parasailing, tennis, swimming, relaxing, eating, playing pool, ping pong and singing with the piano man until too late : )


Friday, October 15, 2010

Fabulous Friday


Super fun day filled with tennis, sea kayaking, relaxing, swimming, trapeze, pool, ping pong, lots of eating and lots of FUN! So fun to have good friends to party with!

Our friends Amy and Edwin Gaskin
Heather finally figured out the trapeze trick on the second try - the first try was quite entertaining!
Kurt looking pro swinging upside down on the trapeze.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Bahamas!!


We had quick flights and made it to the resort by mid afternoon. The sky was a little gray and a little rainy but still beautiful!

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Aunt Alona!

Alona arrived this morning from Utah to watch our kids while we go to the Bahamas. An angel sister for sure!

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Abbie's list

Abbie came home from school today with this to do list. She went right to work and accomplished almost all of them. She was quite put out that I had already loaded the dishes and folded the laundry. I'm not sure what inspired the list but I am certainly not going to complain! I love this girl!

Monday, October 11, 2010

Connor's curls


I have never let Connor's hair get very long but it is getting long enough that it is curly in the back. I wonder if it would be as curly as Catie's if it got longer! Sorry about the bad picture, I was using my old camera and couldn't capture it well.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Pudding parfaits


Kurt was in charge of FHE treats tonight and made a childhood favorite of his, pudding layered with graham cracker crumbs. If there is ever anything going on in the kitchen, Connor is sure to be right there. He pushes a chair up and wants to be helping. Thanks for the yummy treat!

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Saturdays in the Fall

are perfect for soccer games

and playing in the park.
(Abbie with a very fuzzy caterpillar)

and mommy/daughter dates out to lunch and shopping and daddy/son dates to dinner and mini-golfing. What a beautiful day!

Friday, October 8, 2010

Who's Your Momma?


We had a Who's Your Momma team party tonight and I am SOOOOO bummed that I forgot my camera. We had a slideshow, gave out awards and had a great time getting together again. Here is a picture of me with my medal that will just have to do for the picture of the day.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Catie's tantrum







I feel a little bad having pictures that look this sad but this is after about 10 minutes of crying and at that point it got a little comical and I realized that this is her first (of many, I am sure) major tantrum. It all started when Connor got to the table before her and sat in the booster seat that she normally sits in. She was mad and started crying and saying "my chair!". She cried for a while and then started flailing herself around I tried talking to her and holding her to calm her down. It wasn't until Sydney went over to talk to her that she finally calmed down. Sydney to the rescue again! Whenever Catie or Connor gets in trouble or is sad, they go running to Sydney to save them.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Cub scout litter patrol



Spencer and Chase passed off one more requirement to earn their wolf badge!

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Holey chip


I don't know why this chip with a hole in the middle made my day but the kids and I thought it was super cool : )

Monday, October 4, 2010

Zeus



Connor likes to wear headbands the wrong way and today looked like Zeus to me - funny kid! Don't mind the chocolatey mouth : )