Halloween 2012

The kids get so excited for Halloween!  We start talking about what costume they were going to wear about the first of September when we get the costume catalog. We spent an hour at the costume isle in Walmart one night!  The kids finally decide what they were going to be.  Gavin wanted to be a scary guy, and after we vetoed the guy with guts coming out of his side, we finally chose the grime reaper.  It had eyes that were suppose to glow, but never could get them to work.  Amy chose a pumpkin princess costume, and Sarah chose a Batarina. (a bat and ballerina combined.)  Abby and her friends decided to dress up as old men.  I love Abby's bald head, but after school she didn't want to be that for trick-or-treating. So at the last minute we made a new costume! 

 

The kids went up to the Trunk-or-Treat at the town building.  After that Abby went with her friends to hit the people who weren't there.  Gavin, Amy, Kyle, Jaden, Hadley, Priscilla, and I jumped on the golf cart and went some more too.  And Paul and Sarah came home to hand out candy and fix dinner!  The three older kids came home with a pillow case FULL of candy!   Oh my goodness!  Happy Halloween!

Sarah Turns Three!

Oh sweet Sarah! I can't believe that you are three!  It seemed like over night she turned from our little toddler, into our little girl!  There are so many things we just love about her!  she has a twinkle in her eye that just shines when she smiles at you. 

 

Sarah loves pizza, she asks for it for every meal, and she says it in the cutest little voice!

 

She was so excited for her Minni Birthday Cake.  She couldn't stop talking about

 Disneyland since we got home!

 

This year Sarah had found a great love for Olivia!  The cute little pig that wears

 a red dress with red and white striped tights!

 

This was so cute!  Her cake keep falling off her fork so she decided it

 was easier to bring her face to the cake instead of the cake to her face!

 

This was one of her favorite gifts.  She wore it to bed that night!

 

Happy Birthday little Sarah!  I can't wait to see what the world has in store for you!

Carving Pumkins

Once again we spent the night before Halloween carving pumpkins, It is a good thing for Paul, he is always so good to help the kids with the fancy pumpkins. I usually stick to the cute smiley face pumpkins!

 

Sarah's pumpkin was the easiest of all!  Just a traditional Jack-O-Lantern!

 

Abby had the best (and easiest) idea of all, she made a polk-a-dot pumpkin, with a drill gun!

 

Gavin cracks us up, every year he dry heaves when he has to pull the seeds out of the pumpkin!

 

Our finished product!  Pretty cute huh?!

Escalante Art Festival

For the past two years Abby's violin studio has played at the Escalante Art Festival.  I can't believe what a good little violin player she is!  It is so fun to watch her play!

 

 

Don't Tell Him That This is Work!

Gavin has been BEGGING me to let him mow the lawn. He has a million reasons why I should let him. I finally got tired of hearing him beg so I told him if he could start it, make a round, empty the bag, put it back on, and start it again, then I would let him mow my lawn. Yep you guessed it, he did it like he had been doing it for years!!! I did have to rein him in, and tell him that straight up and down rows was the only way he could mow the grass. No circles and no curves! I really believe there is nothing that kid can't do!

Bowling

It was taking us forever to finish the book of Alma,  so Paul and I told the kids that if they would try hard to get up and read every morning so we could finish that book we would take them bowling on Friday.  The kids tried so hard that week, but we were still a 1/2 chapter short of finishing the book.  We told them we would go anyways as long as we finished reading it in the car.  The kids had so much fun bowling, and we told them when we finish the rest of the Book of Mormon we would go again.

 

Next time I have got to do a little better!  Gavin just about beat me.  If it weren't for a few lucky strikes, and the bumpers, I would have been in TROUBLE!

 

Our Butterfly

At school the kids are asked to go find caterpillars and bring to the class so they can watch them form a ca coon and then turn into a butterfly. Gavin came home with a couple extra so we put one  into a jar and hoped for the best. It was so fun to watch that caterpillar spin a ca coon. We waited and waited and watched the jar turn all gross and moldy. I was just about ready to throw it away when one day the kids walked in from school and noticed that it had hatched! It was so fun. I had never done that before but will probably try it again!

 

 

 

See you later buddy!