Officially over..

Wow! We had a fun month with Halloween activities. I am now looking forward to the next holidays. We spent the last day before halloween at the kids school carnival. This carnival was so fun, every classroom had a game to play and the kids were excited to see all their classmates. Carter's teacher had the best costume as a two-headed dragon. She and another teacher walked around the school and it was so tall that you couldn't miss her. We then spent halloween night with our neighborhood getting candy loot from a trunk or treat. Then we ended the night hitting houses that were decorated very scary. Poor Ashlynn got scared by the "Batman Joker" sneaking up on her and her candy went flying out of her bucket in the dark, but then we were able to get most of it back. It just can't be Halloween without alittle scare!
Now, the kids are off track from school and out for a month until after Thanksgiving. What will we do...I am sure we will fill the time quickly.

We are ready...

For Halloween that is...We have had our parties, got our costumes and finished our pumpkins. We are ready for the big day of fright and fun!

Lets Party!!

We love parties...we had fun with 2 parties on Saturday. The kids had fun with all the fun activities. What a fun time of year!

Ashlynn's dance school party.

Frightmares

We just can't say its Halloween until we experience the excitement at Lagoon for Frightmares. The kids were a little nervous about the scary characters walking around the park, but we had fun with the group of friends we were with.

Pack's Pumkpkin Patch

It is that time of year again! My favorite time, if I might add. This is our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. It was hot with lots of fall colors all around us. We had fun scoping out our favorite pumpkins this year with Gail, Jessica, Anthony, Trey and Sam. We then headed to Artic Circle for lunch to get some squishy light up spiders that come in the kids meals and ended the meal with a yummy ice cream cone. Just perfect!

Mud room project

This room turned out to be more time consuming than we thought. We or I should say Matt just finished the final touches last week. He work so hard with his limited time and with family coming and going this summer. Once again, I am amazed at what he did with the mud room. It looks great!

A new look...

The kitchen table needed a refinish like 5 years ago, so we finally got tired of the stickiness and just went for it. Matt and I have never done this before and it turned out to be a great project to do during Saturday's session of General Conference. We sanded the table and put a rejuvenating oil over the natural wood and then put a clear coat to make it smooth and shine. This whole process had to be in steps and had to wait 2 hours between coats so, hence a great conference project. It looks and smells so new! Now, when we have guests over to eat we don't have to worry about placing them on the good side of the table to avoid the embarrassment of the old grime that would not come off.

Birthday Girl

Monday was my birthday and this day of the year always makes me think of what kind of a person I am and what I want to accomplish before my next birthday. It also is a day I reflect on all my many blessings I have in my life. This year on my birthday I got to meet with both the kids teachers and got to listen about all the great things the kids do and how they are a pleasure in class. Blessing accounted for that I have this opportunity to be a mother to these nicely behaved kids that their teachers can't say enough about. Then it was on to getting Carter's haircut and torchering the kids to get their flu shots. (Just kidding no torchering, just heavily convincing them that we needed to get it done). Then they were relieved that they only had to get the mist and of course they got a a new toy.
We ended the day at the Olive Garden (my favorite place) and I thoroughly enjoyed not having to cook dinner that night.
Always a treat!
Thanks to everybody that called, sent packages, cards, treats and text messages. All of them are much appreciated and makes the day just a bit different than all the rest.