Sunday, November 3, 2019

5th Week of October - Halloween

Here are some highlights from this past week.

Nyles w/ his basketball he earned reading.  He did a 5 week after school program learning to play basketball.  He said he really liked it, better than soccer! 

He's been practicing on the back patio as well.  
He's going to play Jr Jazz basketball next month as well.

Tuesday it snowed, even more than it did on Sunday.

I worked from home that day.  It came down pretty good at times.

Then it cleared up later that afternoon.

Thursday the kids had Halloween celebrations at school  Steve and Dave went to watch Nyles first.  He was dressed up as a Dr for Halloween. 
 

Dave and Steve enjoying the parade of cute kids in their costumes.

 Then they went over to see Carter at preschool.  They sang a Halloween song.
There is Carter as a green dinosaur.

Cute Carter as a dinosaur.


After preschool he was tuckered out and took a nap on the couch.

As soon as I got home from work (just before 6pm) we went out and went trick-or-treating around the neighborhood.  Nyles said he was fine w/out a coat, but shortly after leaving he was asking for it.  It was COLD!  They said it ended up being the coldest Halloween EVER recorded!  As soon as the sun went down it was even colder.  Carter wasn't feeling the best (stuffy nose) so we only went around the block then I took him home.  Nyles bundled up a little more then Steve and him went out for another hour.  They got plenty of candy to say the least.

Trick-or-treat!

Family pic from my work party last week.

Saturday morning (at 3am), Steve and Nyles left to go deer hunting up at Paul Firth's place near the Idaho border (3 hours away).  They met at Dave's place and got Ethan and Noah Lake as well who wanted to come.  They got up there just as the sun was rising.

Nyles, Noah, and Ethan trying to find the deer.

They ended up only seeing 15 deer in total (3 of which were bucks).  They usually see 50-100 so it was a little strange not to see many.  They didn't get any by 2pm, so they decided to come home.  The hunt goes until the end of the year so they'll likely go back.

Cute Nyles and Ethan waiting for the deer. 

 Ethan, Noah and Nyles tuckered out on the way home.

Luckily Ethan was kind enough to let Nyles fall asleep on his shoulder for a while.

Cows on their way home.

Dave out of the count :)

While they were out, I took Carter to Home Depot for the kid's workshop.  Carter painting his eagle.

We took it home to dry, then put the stickers on and screwed on the wings.  All done!

After some errands and cleaning up inside, we went outside and racked up leaves.

Carter thought it was fun to jump in the leaves and throw them.




Today, Sunday, we all stayed home from church.  Nyles woke up w/ a sore throat and Carter still had a booger nose, so we didn't want to take them to church.  Steve took Nyles into the Dr to see if he had strep throat (since Joann tested positive for it) but he didn't.  They're sending his culture off to let it grow more just in case it is strep in the next day, so in the meantime we want to be cautious.  Steve went and took a nap this afternoon, and towards the end of his nap Carter came up and laid down too.

Cute Carter asleep on our bed.  Funny duck hunting joke.


We had our family dinner tonight.  It was also the honoree dinner.  This year it was London's turn.  
Since the boys were sick I stayed home w/ them and Steve went up to represent us.

Steve took a picture of the group.


Alexa, Olivia and London looking at the cake mix I gave her w/ a few recipes to make cookies w/ it.  When we watched London and Conor one time, her, Carter and I made Nutella No Bake Cookies.  She enjoys baking so I wanted to give her a few easy recipes to try.

It's November now and Daylight Savings.  Hope you all enjoyed the extra hour we got. :)

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Sunday, October 27, 2019

4th Week of October

Here are some highlights from this past week.

Beautiful Fall colors in our yard.
 

Halloween decorations.  Carter loves Whoppers :)

Pretty Mums still in bloom.

Carter finally decided on what he wants to be for Halloween.  
He's going to be a dinosaur and Nyles is going to be a Dr.

Carter the dinosaur attacking Steve and Nyles the Dr checking his vitals at the same time.

The boys the next day at Dave/Joann's place, in their costumes just playing on the ATVs.

Steve then brought the boys up to meet me at work for our Halloween Party Friday evening.

Bowling candy corns.

Go fish.

Bean bag toss.

Say Cheese!

We went to the Aquarium on Saturday w/ Ezra and Chris.  We went on a scavenger hunt finding "mysterious creatures" and the kids got some candy on the way.  Watching the otter get some food.

Learning about animals.

Walking across the rope bridge.  Carter got a little scared at the spider legs coming through.

Big spider on the outside of the bridge.

More spiders on the bridge.

Sitting on the tree frog.

Looking at the big fish (Pacu, Arapaima, Arowana, etc).

A skeleton explorer.

After the Aquarium we got ready to paint the playhouse again.  It definitely needed another coat.  Steve put up a different from so we could use the rock wall and rope.

Carter helped for a little bit :)

Nyles stuck it out a little longer.  
The sun was nice to shine for us most of the afternoon for the paint to dry.

Steve put the slide back on and the rope for the rock wall before calling it a night.
Ironically it snowed all day today. Thankfully the paint is holding up.
 

This morning we had our Primary Program.  It went really well.  My favorite song the kids sang is "Risen."  If you haven't seen/heard it before, you can listen to it here "Risen Song."  It is such a beautiful song with a beautiful message about our Savior.

The boys wanted to make Halloween sugar cookies so we did after church.

They liked eating some of the candy too of course.

Having fun decorating cookies.

Our creations.  Carter loved putting the candy balls on the cookies.

Carter and Nyles watching the Grinch (Carter's new favorite movie), while it snowed Sunday all afternoon.  It was definitely cold today (high about 40) and is supposed to be that cold or colder most of the week.  They said it's like December temperatures!

We went over to Dave/Joann's for dinner to celebrate Dave's 65th birthday, which is tomorrow.  
The boys were excited to watch Dave blow out his candles.



Happy Birthday Dave!