The End of Fall

I know it's time for winter and fall has ended. The leaves have turned and have fallen off the trees and now we have had our first dusting of snow. Time to get out the winter coats! The real reason I know winter is coming is that soccer season is over and Halloween came and went. Here are some snaps to commemorate these great occasions.

Here are the kids- Dallin as the evil jester, Kimball as the incredible Hulk, Andrew as a snow leopard, and Sarah as Colonel Mustard.

This is the whole Clue cast - her primary class all went to the ward party as well as trick-or-treating together - and won most creative costume(s)!

As a side note, I have to tell you that I won the Chili Cook-Off at our Halloween party this year. I am still laughing. I am not a cook. As this picture shows you, I literally went to the library to get a cookbook for some new recipes at home and took a chili one from it that I had never made before. I'm thinking I will have to try more from this book if the first one I made won me a prize.

Visitors from Utah!

We had a lot of fun when Todd's parents came to visit us from Utah. The kids took grandma and grandpa along for the ride to all their many activities and to a few of their favorite places. First, we took them to church. Grandpa was able to set Todd apart as a high priest while he was here, we were so glad that they were here for this special time.












Grandma and grandpa came with us to McConnel's Mill and walked along the river with us.










The kids had a blast playing in the fall leaves and grandma was such a good sport, they even buried her!





And the last exciting event (in between the science center, Ducky tours, and a trip to Kirtland) was attending Kimball and Dallin's soccer games. How my boys love to show off!

Halloween Decorating

So, many people have asked to see pics of our new house. I guess I'm still working on those, but I do have a few glimpses in the background of our Halloween decorations. I'm told (by my kids) that we need to have decorations. I'm not a big Halloween person myself, but how can you NOT have decorations when you have boys who like their creepy crawlies and spend hours redecorating and rearranging your decorations.

This is my compromise - no guts, no gore, but a lot of witchiness (is that a word?), spiders, and cobwebs!

These are my witch potions - so if you want some nightmare larvae, jellysfish stingers, or spitting spiders or need some "factual aquisition" serum, let me know! And the boys are still handing out free spiders to their favorite guests, we have so many creeping around our house. So, come see us - at the least the witch will be in, and if you are lucky - we'll share!

I finally started a blog. It is my fall project. This summer we moved into a new house and a new school district. It amazes me how a 30 minute move can be as much work as our out of state moves. More kids and more stuff, I guess.

One fun project that we did was prepare for Otteson Night at the Movies. Want a preview? Well, here you go anyway!

I may "produce" a few more these, they were so much fun!