October Happenings from my iPhone

• Katie and the Beehive presidency decorating a new Beehive’s door!  Fun stuff.  And some of the Young Women’s basketball team for the Stake Tournament.
• Beautiful Colorado fall weather.  Bright blue skies and colored leaves… and a low patch of fog settling right over the city – taken after driving Ryan to seminary.

• A cute picture sent to me by a friend who was watching my boys for me one morning… and a ‘love note’ from a girl in Luke’s class.  Just cute.
• Emily and Megan dressed in as much RED as they could find for Red Ribbon Week. 

• Emily, Megan, Luke and Matthew signed up for the fall session of YMCA basketball.  Chris coached both Emily and Matthew’s teams.  Matt’s team was so cute.  4 darling little boys.  Matt generally liked being there if he wasn’t thinking about the fact that he  should be playing Wii at home.  That kid!  They were so cute learning their defensive stance and would hold tight even if the other players ran right around them.  The funniest thing was when a player from the opposite team decided he wanted in on one of Chris’ team huddles. It was priceless.  Matt and Luke had games usually in the morning.  Megan’s games were around 1:00 and Emily’s around 2:00 so I’d finish watching Megan’s game and then zip on over to watch Emily play.

• Beautiful October snow.  Time for Stephens Candy Cane Hot Chocolate!
• Carving Pumpkins… we tried a gumdrop teeth guy who was supposed to be happy but turned out kind of scary!
• Fun visiting the kids at their school Halloween parties.  Harry Potter and Ginny – and Luke’s fun apple craft made at the party.

Halloween Parties

Really this kid wanted to be RON for Halloween because “he’s the funny one”.   Matt was HARRY.  But for his dress up Halloween party at school I asked him if he wanted the glasses and scar just for the day… and he thought it was a great idea.  I brought cut up fruit for party snacks and hung out with the other Kindergarten moms taking pictures and adoring these little guys.  Everything is so exciting in Kindergarten.  Matt was at a friend’s house.  I don’t do a lot of in classroom volunteering because of Matt at home but I do try hard to be at their parties.  Next year I’ll have Matt in school and a lot more flexibility.   Anyway… isn’t he just the cutest little HARRY POTTER?  Love this kid.

At our elementary school they try to stager the party times, which is nice.   Megan’s 3rd grade class party happened to be first thing in the morning.  The kids were so excited! After a group picture, the first activity was a timed group ‘Mummy Wrap’. 

I volunteered to do the ‘draw your own’ Halloween Bingo.  My kids love it.  Fun to be with my kids on a fun day.

          

Cornbelly’s with the Cousins

It was fun that Dan and Sarah were in town for the Homecoming game as well.  We planned to meet them and Amy, Chris and Jane at Cornbelly’s for a couple of hours and had so much fun.  My kids were so excited to be with their cousins on the big gunny sack slide, racing rubber duckies, playing in the corn room, riding bikes, watching the pigs race and getting lost in the corn maze.  It was a fun place to hang out and the weather was great. After several hours we headed to Amy and Chris’ new place in Provo to check it out and eat dinner.  So fun to see where they’ll be for the next year.  They can see the Y on the mountain from their front door!