First Snow Storm

We had snow falling starting Friday evening and woke up in the morning with it still snowing and it continued until mid-afternoon.  The kids were excited to pull out the snow gear and play outside!  Its always is funny to see how much the kids have grown since the last time they put on their snow gear.  Looks like we will be in the market for some new snow pants and boots. 


This wasn't a ton of snow, but enough to play in.

The neighbor kids were also out joining in on the snow ball wars.

School Attendance Party

The kid's school have quarterly attendance parties throughout the year. If you miss less than a day and half then you can spend the afternoon out of class and PARTY! This time they had a skate party.  The kids could bring scooters or roller blades to stroll around the track.  It was a perfect fall day to enjoy the outside.  Carter's friends forgot their wheels so they played a game of soccer.  It was basically an additional 1 hour recess for them. So, we let another kid borrow Carter's blades.   


The snow tipped mountains look so pretty.  Winter is on it way..whether we are ready or not.

It was also Red Ribbon week and the kids got to wear crazy things throughout the week.   The day of the skate party was wear sunglasses to school day.  Love those glasses Ashlynn! 

Out of School play day

On Nov 1st the kids had a day off from school so by the suggestion of one of my co-workers we headed down to the Gateway Mall to play at the Children's Museum.  We also wanted to see the new Children's ER station too.  We all had a great time playing at all the stations.  The KSL News station and the ER were the big hits during our visit there.  The kids liked being the weather forecasters and seeing themselves on the TV.  It was so funny to watch them!


 

 

Halloween..Boo!

This has been the day we were waiting for..Halloween!  It finally came!

Ashlynn and the Neighbor girls.

Carter and his friend that he invited to our Ward's Trunk or Treat.  They snuck around the church scaring people and had a great time doing it.

Cute face painting.

Matt handing out candy during the trunk or treat.

The scary Dark Costume Guy walking around the parking lot surprising people.

I had to work Halloween at the hospital this year.  This is our awesome crew on Halloween. 

Then Kristy and I were being silly and pulled down our minon hats. 
We had fun dressing up!

While I was at work Matt stayed at the house and the kids joined different friend groups to go around the neighborhood.  They all had fun with their friends. 

Pumpkins

Got to love the mess and craziness that comes with carving pumpkins.  The kids did a great job as always with their creations.  Carter did all of the carving himself and Ashlynn needed some assistance to make her Hello Kitty face.  Matt did some fine detail work on his this year.  It was so awesome!

Ashlynn's and Carter's pumpkins lit up.

All ready on the front porch.

All the pumpkins are lit up.  Matt's is in the middle.

I ended up helping Ashlynn so I decided to save my pumpkin for decoration for Thanksgiving.

6th Annual Halloween party

The Halloween fun just keeps on going around our house.  We had to fit in the kids annual Halloween party.  They just wouldn't let it go!  I had fun thinking of fun Halloween foods.  This is what I came up with after searching pinterest:  Donuts with fangs, Banana ghosts, ghoulish chex mix, crackers and cheese with spiders on them, dirty q-tips (marshmallows with melted butterscotch on the tips) and worms (hot dogs cut long ways and boiled).  All the kids loved the worms.  The hot dogs even curled up like a pile of worms would. 

These look so scary...ooh

I also have to add that the cupcakes were made by our cute neighbor Taylor that helped with the party as well. 

The Gang!
 Sorry that Gage is being attacked by the sun.  He is glowing in this picture.

We played silly games and had another scavenger hunt.  Then the kids just wanted to run around and have their own fun.  We still had neighbor kids hanging around after the party was over because they were playing hide and seek games until we told them they had to leave.  I am glad everyone had a great time and that we kept this tradition going.

Pumpkin Patch

Our garden only produced 1 medium size yellow pumpkin this year so, we had to head out to our local pumpkin patch and get some big ones to carve.  We always like to go to Pack's patch because it is a home grown patch.  You take your wagon out to the patch load your pumpkins and it is really fun for the kids to walk among all the rows of pumpkins to find the right one for them.


 

We ended up with 4 big pumpkins and 3 tiny pumpkins for Ashlynn to paint.