Happy Halloween!

We had such a fun Halloween.
It started with the Halloween parade and parties at school on Friday.

On Saturday morning we went for a visit to Grandma P.

The girls immediately wanted to look out at the river.

Later, we had Grandpa and Grandpa K and Jill, Jeremy and Jackson over for dinner.

We had yummy chili, cornbread, and breadsticks.

Then we went up to the church for trunk or treat. It was in the gym this year because it was raining outside. (The kids missed riding up to the church in the back of the van.)

After that, we drove down to Jill's (and our former) neighborhood to go trick or treating. We visited the Smiths, and got to see lots of old friends. Then we went back to Jill's to celebrate her birthday. The kids decorated cupcakes and we sang "Happy Birthday".

What a fun night! When we got home, Dave and I worked on getting Maddi and Audrey in bed while Kimee started sorting her candy. She was really looking forward to this. This morning I found the paper she had written up all on her own. She couldn't believe she had gotten 69 chewy candies. This morning, she was adding the categories together.



Then, of course, Audrey wanted to sort hers too. Here's the paper I made up for Audrey:

Now, let's hope we don't get sick from all this sugar!!!

carving pumpkins

We carved our pumpkins tonight for family night.

Kimee's was first...

Dave has them draw a picture for what they want it to look like.

Audrey wanted a square nose.

Kimee helped Maddi by drawing on her face with Sharpies. Thanks, Kimee! What a great big sister!

Afterwards, we got out the costume boxes and tried to find a costume for everyone. You'll have to wait and see what we found, because it's a surprise!

Maddi was fascinated by the jack-o-lantern's light.

Audrey wanted to be in every picture.

Kimee painted this pumpkin at school last week. Isn't it cute?

Fall Fun!

Kimee and Audrey got to come with us to a BYU football game on Sept. 25. They were so excited to go and were such good sports. They both wore their cheerleading outfits and were adorable.

UNTIL after we had been sitting in the hot sun for over an hour and then they started to loose it. We stayed for half time and watched the marching band, held out for as long as we could, and then I ended up taking them home early. (Dave caught a ride with a friend.) Needless to say, they don't want to go back anytime soon. It's too bad they had a rough time. (Two years ago we took them individually to different games, and they both did really well throughout the entire game. )

On September 21, we had fun picking the pumpkins that we grew in our backyard.

We left them on the back porch until the first of October, when we moved them to the front porch. There they waited until we were ready to carve them, tonight!!!

Conference Weekend

We had such a good time on our annual Conference weekend trip with our good friends, the Sinemas.

We played at the condo...

 

Fed the fish...

Went to the cabin...

 Kaylee jumped off a big rock.

 Kimee swam around everywhere like a fish!

The little girls did a short tube ride on the river. Audrey did it too, I just didn't get a picture of her :(
It was lots of fun!

Went swimming in the hot tub...

Found a little snake, on the way home from the hot tub...

Ate lunch on the deck...

Went golfing at the driving range...

 The littlest girls had so much fun throwing balls down the hill, running down to pick them up, and then running back up again to start all over. Boy, were they exhausted!

Went horseback riding...

and most importantly, watched and listened to General Conference.

For history's sake, I'll mention that all of our family, except Audrey, got sick (threw up) while we were there. It wasn't fun, but it didn't last long. On the last day, Lilly threw up. I have to tell the cutest thing she said, "Mom, I think I'm home sick."