Spooky Dinner

Chris' annual Spooky Dinner is a lot of fun. We all love to have themed parties. It is fun to be able to see everyone in their fun Halloween costumes.

Bradley is the cutest little Peter Pan I have ever seen.

Chris always makes this great spider web and the littles love to crawl through it.

It can be rather difficult to get a good picture with all the littles.

I loved family themed costumes. Maybe next year I can come up with something. This year wasn't the year because I really wanted Hayden to be the gingerbread man that I wore when I was little.

Here is our spooky food. The little ate hot dogs with worms.

Mini caramel apples.

Bones

Graveyard dip

Eyeballs

Soccer

Hayden is finally big enough to play on a sport's team. We put him in soccer. Joe ended up being the coach. This was Joe's first time coaching and he did a great job. We have never played soccer with Hayden before (or during) the season. He liked it but didn't love it. So many times he and a bunch of other little boys would sit down in the middle of the field and play in the dirt.

The season was really short and some of the games were really cold. All the kids did better by the end of the season but there were two boys who definitely dominated the games.

Wyoming

I sent the boys to Wyoming with my dad, Allen and his girls. They had a great time exploring fishing, and eating (apparently the kids could get enough eggs for breakfast so the dads had to go without. I enjoyed a quiet weekend at home (although I didn't just stay at home). I went to Sydney's 3rd birthday party. I went to Heidi's wedding reception. I ran errands all alone. I had a girls craft night at Ashlie's It was a great weekend for everyone!

This is Hayden's fish. He one $2 playing Dollar, Dollar, Dollar. He caught the first and the biggest fish.

Farnsworth Farms Pumpkin Festival

We went to Farnsworth Farms Pumpkin Festival again this year. The weather was perfect. Grandma and Grandpa Young joined us again this year. The boys were excited to play the games, jump in the bounce house, and go on the hay ride.

My favorite part is always the hot apple cider.

Parker wandering through the hay maze.

Hayden liked playing on the playground.

The wagon ride.

Bouncin'

Parker is so stinkin' cute!

Run Joe, Run

Last spring Joe and I, along with our little boys, participated in the Running With Angles 5K. There was an essay contest that Joe entered that you were to write about why you were running this 5K. Joe wrote about Scott and of course won. What did he win? The privilege or running the St. George Marathon (no the contest didn't pay for it just gave you a guaranteed entry). So the training began, but only on days it was convenient or appealing.

The first weekend of October we headed down to St. George with my parents. We stayed at a neighbors house down there. We ate yummy food and had a great weekend.

I am so proud of Joe for attempting and completing a marathon! I think he has more in his future.

Joe is ready to head out bright and early. I mean dark and early.

On our way to drop him off at the shuttle.

Good-bye! I hope the next time I see you that you will still be alive. Good luck!

Waiting along the course to see Joe .

He crosses the finish line!

Exhausted!

Much needed liquid.

Yay! You are a WINNER!

Growing Up is Hard

Sometimes I wish I was a little child and my mom and dad would tell me what to do. It wasn't hard to know what I should do. If I listened to my parents and did what I was told I was happy and had made the right choice.

Now I don't know what the right choice is. I am tired of making wrong choices and dealing with the consequences. I just need someone to tell me what to do. I don't want people's "advice." I want to know what is the right decision. I want the stress taken from me and put on someone else.

Can't I just be little again?

Simple Pleasures

I think my favorite thing lately is sitting in bed with Joe eating ice cream and doing a crossword.

Life

Life is crazy right now. I feel like I can't keep my head on straight. We moved into our new house a few weeks ago. Things are still a mess. There are lots of boxes to still unpack and even more things to clean. The list of projects keeps getting longer and longer.

The dishwasher leaked all over the kitchen and through the ceiling in the basement (it hadn't been hooked up). The dryer is not working well. The water softener leaked and we had to pull up carpet and need to replace some carpet pad. The tile finally got finished. The yard needs tons of work. We cannot find the shut off for the water to the fridge (even the plumber can't find it). We don't have internet at home so whenever I need to use the computer I have to do it while I'm at school or call my parents to look things up for me. It is getting a little old.

I have been very frustrated with Hayden's teacher at daycare. Monday it was the last straw and I decided to pull the boys out. Thankfully I found a lady right by school that does at home daycare. She had spots for both boys. I met her after school and the boys will be starting there on Monday. I hope it is a better situation.


There are only eight more weeks of school. It is nice to see the end in sight. I can't wait to be home with the boys again. I miss them so much. I do not feel like I have taught by class nearly enough. I hope they do okay on the CRT's in a few weeks.


Hopefully when school is done I can get my house in order and get back into the swing of things. Maybe by then we will have the internet and I will update my severely neglected blog. I am five months behind. But it probably won't happen. I'll end up finding more things that need to be taken care of first.

Como esta frijole, Pepsicola?

How you bean, pop?



Bean man was made with love by Allen

Brilea Designs

When my sister, Rebecca, and her husband, Lance, were sealed in the temple my brother-in-law wanted to buy a snow globe of the temple for Rebecca. Did you know that there were no snow globes of the temple until now? Lance decided since they weren't available he would design them. He wrote to the LDS church to get permission. After permission was granted he got to work. Months of waiting are now over. The snow globes arrived this week. They are beautiful. I can't wait to have one on display ion my new house. Go check out Brilea Designs. You will be glad you did.