Trunk or Treat

Tonight was our wards Halloween party. We have a carnival that the youth put on and dinner and then we have "trunk or treat" in the parking lot. It's always a lot of fun for everyone. This year Kory was a football player, Aaron was a devil, and Arrie was a really cute pirate. She got to help with the body painting booth with the beehives. Kory and Aaron still get to run around and do all the games. It was a really fun night and the boys got lots of candy to last them until Friday when they will go and trick or treat.

Kory's busy day

Yesterday was all about Kory. He had a book report in the morning. The book report was on "The Call Of The Wild". He wanted to take our dog Payja so that he could talk about how he would feel if the same thing happened to her, so I took her to school in the morning with him.

Then the school had a "Fun Run" as there fund raiser. The kids ran 2 miles around the school. Kory and Aaron where so excited to participate. They both ran the whole thing.

Then Kory's class had "market day" after lunch. In class they earn "bonus bucks" for doing homework and doing the other things that they are supposed to do. You also loss bonus bucks if you don't do all your homework or forget to do the things you are responsible for doing. Four times a year the teacher has market day where you can pay money to be a vendor and sell things to your classmates. It teaches the kids a little about business and marketing. Kory got to be a vendor this time and he sold snow cones. So I went to help him make snow cones too. It is really a lot of fun.

Then his class had there first "super activity" at night. The super activities are for the students that get there assignments turned in and do all the things they are supposed to in class. I got to drive for this one. We all had to dress up and then we all went to Doc's pizza for dinner. After dinner we all went to Comedy Sports. It is an comedy group in Provo. It was really funny. They were having there Halloween nights this weekend and so lots of people were dressed up. The group is very family friendly and keep everything G rated so it was fun for all the kids. It was a really fun night.

Today Kory has a make-up baseball game from the Labor day tournament that his team played in. They advanced to the final round but then they got rained out so we are finally making it up. So it's been a great weekend for Kory.

Disneyland? So they thought!

We had our school fall break last weekend. With as busy as our summer was we wanted to go on a fun trip. Robert and I talked about going to Disneyland but both felt like doing something different. We told the kids that we were going to Disneyland but instead pulled up to the docks and got on a cruse ship. Arrie got all excited as we pulled into the cruse parking but she had to talk the boys into realizing what was going on. None of the kids were disappointed they were all so excited. We hung out, played mini golf, ping pong and ate way to much.. When we got to Mexico we decided to go horseback riding on the beach. I've always wanted to do it and it was so cool. I am the only one who had ever been on a horse before so the kids were so excited. It was a great trip all around. Now back to reality.

Girl Scout Cookies

Who doesn't love Girl Scout Cookies. I look forward to them every year. One of my favorites is the Samoa's. One of the guys in the ward asked Arrie and her friend to try and make them yesterday. It was quite an adventure. They started by getting grandma's shortbread cookies that she always buys. Then they made home made caramel. They wanted the coconut for the cookies toasted which led to a small fire in the oven but then we got a batch toasted nicely. After dipping the cookies in the caramel and coconut they drizzled chocolate on them. I have to admit they tasted pretty close.

The Haunted Forest

I realized this morning that my first date with Robert was 15 years ago yesterday. I can hardly believe it's been that long. We meet at a dance at BYU under the south en zone. I thought he was a bit of a jerk and didn't give him another thought. Then on Oct 9th his friend called my roommate because they were looking for dates that night to go to the Haunted Forest. I didn't really want to do what I had planned that night so I went with him. While talking we discovered that he served his mission with my older brother John, that was a little creepy to me because it made him "old". We ended up having a really good time and hung out every day after that until Nov. 9th when he asked me to marry him. We where married Feb 12th and the rest is history. So you can't always trust your first impressions of someone. What made me think of all this was that some friend asked to go with them to a haunted house tonight and Arrie is going to the Hauted Forest with some friends.

Fall is so pretty!

Kory

Arrie

Aaron

Heres some pitures of my kids up at Heber Valley Camp that I'm going to enlarge for my house.

Arrie's Wisdom Teeth

BeforeAfter

My poor Arrie had her wisdom teeth out today. She has been dreading it for two weeks but now it's over. She did pretty well but we all know how fun it is waking up after surgery. She doesn't remember anything until she was home but being the nice mom I am I got some video so she can never live it down. I forgot and recorded some of it sideways on the camera so I'm sorry about that but I hope you all enjoy my silly girl. She is not faking any of this, this is how she reacted.

She doesn't remember any of this. She was so out of it!

Pinewood Derby

We had pinewood derby tonight. It was Aaron's first one. He called his car "Back in black". Kory is now in 11 year old scouts so he didn't participate but he did get awarded 7 activity pins 3 belt loops and his Webelos badge tonight. He earned his arrow of light too but the den leader forgot the things he does to present it so he'll get that next month. Aaron earned two belt loops tonight also. We always do a cake decorating contest also and this one is Aaron's.