Star Wars Halloween

This was taken after school right before the trunk or treat, I think Isaac's face paint held up nicely.

Star Wars Family

We got to celebrate Halloween for a full 2 days (Yeah). The kids didn't have school on Friday so they wore their costumes to school on Thursday. Then there was a Trunk or Treat at the school Thursday evening, followed by our ward party. The older kids basically wore their costumes all day. Then of course Friday was the real Halloween...the kids loved the extended celebration this year which of course meant more candy!!

Clone Gabe

Gabe was really excited about his costume and wanted to wear it as much as I would let him. He looked great. It was fun to have him so excited about his costume.

Darth Isaac

Isaac looked AWESOME. Luckily Eric didn't have a patient until 9am so he was home in the morning and able to do Isaac's face paint. Isaac doesn't know how lucky he was...it would have been a much simpler version and not nearly as cool.

Elijah didn't know quite what to think the new look.

Pad-Emma a.k.a Padme

She was a cute little Padme, or as Emma likes to pronounce it pad-eh-may. She really liked how her hair turned out.

Yoda-bug

Cute he is!

Just about the cutest kid in the cutest costume ever!


Princess Leia

Beautiful Girl!

Elijah needed a little encouragement to wear his Yoda ears; hence the sucker.


We had to wash Isaac's face about 10 times to get all the face paint off. For the real Halloween he opted to wear the mask. Which was a lot easier, but masks were not allowed at school on thursday.

Brothers and Sisters

Here are just a few pictures I thought were pretty funny. Our boys sometimes take awhile to fall asleep because they talk and look at books and magazines...Eric went upstairs to check on them and this is how they happen to fall asleep this particular night.

They are very good friends and I am glad they get along so well together. What great kids I have!

Gabe and Isaac are playing the Wii here...and Elijah thinks he is too. He likes to grab the extra remote and look intently at the screen like he is really into his game.

He just wants to be one of the boys.

(his pants got all muddy so we just took them off, he really doesn't walk around without pants that often, I promise)

Emma and Meg

Emma is loving that she finally has a sister. Lately we have been giving Meg a bottle of formula at night, with the hope that it would help her sleep a little better at night...

Fall Gardening

Eric has been working really hard on our yard. He really wants a bigger garden next year and was spurred into action when Vera, one of Eric's employees, gave him two raspberry bushes. He has been planning and plotting and I think he has finally come up with a design he is happy with. It is going to be alot of work, but I am excited to see how it will turn out. He is going to build some planter boxes and use this entire space by the side or our house. The first step was to clear out our garden from last year and move the lilac and rose bushes that we had there.

BEFORE

AFTER

He decided to kill the grass and put that black papery stuff down and then build the boxes on top of that so we don't have to worry about weeds. He is anxious to get at least one box done so he can plant the raspberry bushes this fall.

Along with getting rid of all the old garden growth...he also dug up the bulbs for our dalias and gladiolas and planted a whole bunch of tulips for me...I love tulips!

The kids helped out a lot too!

Inchworm

Meg has been scooting along the ground for probably 2 weeks now. It looks a little unnatural because she is still so little. I took some video of it on our camcorder and I don't have the right cable to get that onto my computer...I am in the process of figuring out how to get stuff from my camcorder onto my computer. So instead of some really cute footage of Meg army crawling along the ground here is a still shot that doesn't really show anything, but she did do her army crawl to get to this toy!

Soccer X 3!

This year I was fortunate enough to have

3 kids participate in soccer.
(Lucky Me)

Gabe has been in soccer since we lived in California 4 years ago. He has a really dedicated coach and he has been doing well playing this year. He was put on this team last year so this is his second year as a panther.

Go Panthers!

Isaac also has a great team this year, with an especially cool name--the WaveRippers. Last year the coaches barely showed up, and the team just kind of evaporated after spring. But he got put on a new team with a great coach and sharp looking uniforms (at least Isaac thought so). He has improved alot during the last year. This is Isaac's 4th year also. I don't have his team photo yet when I get it I will put it up.

These pictures are a little confusing because both teams are blue. Just to clarify, the opposing team has the white sleeves with a design on them. Our team is almost all blue except for a white stripe on the right shoulder and a white stripe down the left side.

Emma is brand new to soccer this year. She has been going to the boys games for awhile, and been able to score the after-game treat more often than not and was really excited to be on her own team with her very own snack. I am not sure Emma will be doing soccer in the future because of the following conversation we had:

Mom: Emma do you like Soccer?

Emma: I already told you, I like the snacks.

Mom: Besides the snacks do you like soccer?

Emma: I like it because you get to take breaks.

Mom: But do you like playing, running and kicking the ball?

Emma: No.

Emma's team was called the Ladybugs, what a cute Ladybug!

Having three kids in soccer makes for some long Saturdays and crazy weeks. Eric also feels robbed, he was hoping to go on lots of hikes this fall which is hard when the kids are in soccer. I am glad it is over for now. (Until spring that is!)

Fall Harvest

We harvested all the food from our garden in preparation for the colder weather and this is what we ended up with. Not too shabby.

10/7/08

If anyone has a hankerin' for speghetti squash come on over, we have about a dozen in our garage.

The next project was to prepare the sunflower seed for eatin'.

The kids put them all in bowl for us then we boiled them in salt water and let them dry out over night, then dried them out even more in the oven. We had 3 cookie sheets full, I accidentally left one sheet in a little too long and those seeds got a little toasted. But they are surprisingly tasty!

It has been so fun, Eric has really been enjoying himself. In fact all he can think about these days is how to get a bigger garden next year.