Thanksgiving Week!

We ran on the beach during sunrise each morning.  It was gorgeous!

We hung out with cousins.

We played at the beach daily.

Some mornings were a little cold

My neice and I twinning.  

More playing in the sand.

Clear beautiful water.  We saw dolphins swimming in the morning.  It was beautiful.

Yummy Thanksgiving meal.

We ate it up fast.

Cousin fun!

Playing with slingshots at night on the beach.

Fun at the Naval Aviation museum.

The kids love it there.

We had to play in the water.

We did smores

We had to play football.

Jumping fun

The only time we can get him to smile on camera.  lol

More fun on the water.

Chocolate Olympics

Water fun

More chocolate olympics

Michael baywatching it

Catching the waves

sad to leave the beach

More museum fun

Joshua doing the flight simulator.  He loved it!

Halloween and a few visitors

We had this chicken wander into our yard.  She has not left yet.  The kids are having fun checking out what she is doing in the yard.  We are trying to get a friend who lives in the country to come grab her.

We also had a cat come visit.  Evan is so good to animals.  We found the cat's owner so she has been returned.

Aaron had Joy School on Halloween.  They wore their costumes.  They all looked so cute.

I made rice krispy pumpkins for the neighborhood Halloween party.

My neighbor decorated her house so it was haunted.

The kids had a great time with it.  I love our neighbors and neighborhood.

We all ate dinner and went trick or treating.  

Primary Program

Joshua had his last primary program today.  I won't lie it breaks my heart a little.  He is excited to move on and up to Young Mens.  The kids all did great.  It is so beautiful to hear them sing and testify of Christ.  We have such great teachers and leaders. 

Pumpkins and Soccer

Dallin made a Harry Potter pumpkin.  

Michael and I did a wizard pumpkin

Joshua did a Raven pumpkin for Ravenclaw.

Evan and Leah made this one.

Ward Trunk or Treat.  

It was the last soccer game of the season.  It was a heart breaker for Joshua's team.

Evan did well this year.  He had a great time with his team.

Leah made a goal.  She really played well this last game. 

Texas State Fair

We headed out to Half Price Books clearance sale last Saturday.  It was amazing!  A huge warehouse full of books 2 dollars and under.  We had so much fun going through and finding books.

Next we headed to the fair for the first time.

The kids played games.

We rode a few rides.

We tried the food.

We enjoyed the cars.

The kid had fun sitting in expensive cars.

Rainy October

We have gotten so much rain recently!  This is our street yesterday.

Michael wanting to scare his Mom so he had to stand in it.

I chopped 15 inches off of my hair and donating it.  It feels weird to have it so short.

We have a Ravenclaw member running around our house.

Dallin is Gryffindor. 

And my little Draco Malfoy.  lol

Dallin went to the Houston Space center.

He had a great time.

They left school at 5 am and got back at midnight.

I love that he has these opportunities.

October is here

We started out with the stomach bug.  Luckily only two went down sick.  

Evan created a city and transportation with his class.  He built the airplane behind him.  He built the library for the city his class created.  He told why libraries are so important.  He also made his own house.  Parents got to come and if we took a picture of the house or building a video of the student would pop up and explain what the made.

They also picked their jobs and had to move their person to go to work.  Evan picked fire fighter.  

Aaron went to the pumpkin patch.

He got to feed the goat.

The hay maze.

He also enjoyed a hay ride with his buddies.

Dallin competed again in robotics.  He didn't do as well this week as last, but had a good time and made it in time for soccer.  The boys played an awesome game.  They are getting really fun to watch.

Leah and Evan had a good game too.  We were also privileged to see a rainbow.  

We also enjoyed conference this weekend.

Lots of paper and pencil.

 I made a brookie for the women's session.  It didn't turn out too bad.  We enjoyed listening to the messages and the kids did pretty well.  We have them each pick a word and they get one gummy bear every time they hear their word, so they listen pretty good for a while.  :)