Halloween 2017

We had a great Halloween this year. All of us dressed up. Yes, you read correctly, ALL of us. Even me.

For my exercise class that my friend holds, we all dressed up.  I found an awesome velvety sweat suit while shopping at JC Penny's with my sister that I couldn't pass up.  It looked like something straight from the 80s that a mall walker would wear.  So that is what I was: A professional mall walker.

I exercise with these ladies every Monday and Thursday.  I love them!  We have a good time together.

Kayden had been really wanting to carve pumpkins this year.  Poor youngest child--we haven't carved pumpkins that he can ever remember.  So Kayden came up with a design and his dad helped him carve.

The finished product, just in time for Halloween--as in the day before.

This year's costumes did not disappoint.  I always love to see what the kids are going to come up with.

This year McKay got into watching The Office on Netflix.  So he dressed up as Dwight.  I thought he did a pretty good job pulling it off!

Jaxon chooses his costume according to the comfort level.  So he dressed up as an Average Joe Dodgeball player.  He looks good--and comfortable.

Josh loved dressing up as an old man last year, so he wanted to pull it off again this year.  We added some old man pants and shirt to his cane and shaved head.  He looked great!  He ended up winning the costume contest at school and will have his picture placed in the yearbook!

Our family loves the old Nickelodeon TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender and Kayden especially likes the character Sokka.  So Kayden grew out his hair so he could have a man bun and then his Grandma White sewed his costume.  He definitely looked the part!

Everyone at Jeremy's office dressed up for Halloween this year.  Jeremy dressed up as Dracula and even made his own teeth to top off his costume.

I love the traditional Elementary School Halloween Parade.  I look forward to it every year!

Kayden waved at me as he came through.

And of course I made him stop so I could take a picture.

Kayden likes to trick-or-treat at his own pace and so he usually like to go with Jeremy or I.  We ran into some of his friends while out and about the neighborhood.  They had a good time knocking on a few doors together.

It was a fun Halloween!

Beautiful Fall

Fall is one of my favorite times of the year.  I love walking down in the hallow just below our house to enjoy the fall colors.  One morning during school fall break, Kayden and Suki joined me.

Suki loves to go exploring down in the hallow.  She will run ahead on the path, check to make sure that I am following her and then go back to her exploring.  Isn't the pathway beautiful?!?

Kayden and I enjoying our walk and the beautiful fall weather.

Imagine Dragons Concert

It was a cold night, but we LOVED the Imagine Dragons Concert!  Jeremy and Kayden stood in line forever getting hot chocolate and missed some of the opening bands.  But they didn't miss out on the main event.

Cold, but excited....for the most part.  Once Kayden had hot chocolate he was in a much better mood. McKay and Jaxon had seats that were separate from us.  But they had a good time as well!

The concert was very entertaining and we danced and sang to our hearts content!  It was everyone's first concert other than Jeremy and we all loved it!

Flag Football 2017

It was another successful season of flag football and by successful I mean Josh and Kayden had a good time!

 Kayden and all his buddies that he played flag football with.  He always has a great time with these boys!

Team Tropics.  You can actually see their faces in this picture.

Team Amigos.  Josh has played with this same group of boys the last few years wether in soccer, flag football and in basketball.  They have become good friends.

Another Licensed Driver

Jaxon received his drivers license!

 He didn't look to excited about it in this photo, so I made him do a retake...

 Serious stuff.  Let let's try for another one....

There's a boy that looks happy to be licensed!

Football 2017

It's been a rough football season for BYU.  Just when you think they will win the game, it all goes wrong.  I was able to go up to Utah State with my sister Caprice and my niece Rebecca to watch my other niece play some soccer.  While we were up there we went to the BYU vs. Utah State football game.  I thought BYU had it in the bag and then it when down, down, down.

I still had a good time with my niece and sister--even though they both cheered for Utah State and BYU lost.

One weekend I got so desperate for some good luck that I dressed up our Halloween decoration Pirate Pete in everything BYU:

I renamed him Touchdown Pete and hoped for the best.  It didn't work.  BYU still lost.  Here's hoping next season will be better!