Halloween 2010

I forgot that this blog uploads in the opposite direction I put the pictures in and I don't feel like doing it over so it will be a backwards Halloween blog. This is a picture of the kids this morning enjoying all of their loot. They did have to eat breakfast first. This candy should last ALL year. Max stayed out trick or treating the longest because "it only comes around once a year" and I guess he had to take advantage. He is the prime age for trick or treating.

Every Halloween it is my tradition to clean out my closet. Jon usually takes the kids around the neighborhood and I stay home, answer the door and get out my winter clothes. It wasn't quite that smooth this year because it was pouring rain so I took the kids house to house in the car. Then I got home and started on my closet and ran out of energy by 8:30 but I had to finish or there would be a huge mess on my bed. Sometimes I'll get everything out then look at it then change my mind on doing that particular project. :) But it's done now and I found a lot of clothes I've missed, yay.

First, we had a primary activity at the church. We sat up our table of candy and people walked around trick or treating. They also served hot dogs and cider, dinner done. That was from 5 to 6, then the kids just wanted to start trick or treating from there. I let them go by themselves in a big group at first and then checked on them in the car. They were wet and cold so that's when I started taking them around.

Here's Maddie with her rain slicker on. She is ready for the outdoors!

Tanner is dressed as a scout. He actually had pow wow during the day and hadn't changed yet. He didn't actually have a costume this year but I wanted him in the picture. He went to a friend's house and watched a scary movie but fell asleep. He has a sinus infection and just wants to sleep. Not the best Halloween for him.

Pretty scary! Max's eyes went on and off so I had to time the picture. Happy Halloween!

Flag Football Max and Seth

Flag Football is only 4 weeks long with 2 games per week, so it's fast but intense. They probably schedule it like that because winter is coming. The 7:00pm games do get really cold. Seth was so excited that he was old enough to play this year. Jon said next year we should probably make them choose between flag football and soccer because they overlap and it is a lot of driving around. It's hard because they love both and it is over fast. Today is Tanner and Seth's last soccer game and next Tuesday is Max and Seth's last football game and then....nothing (winter).

It worked out great on this evening because Max and Seth had a game at the same time and same place so I could just go back and forth between fields. Unfortunately Jon had a meeting at school so didn't get to come, he's usually there. We also had treats for both teams. While I was watching Seth play, I did miss Max running down half the field, catching the football and making a touchdown. I told him to not do so well when I wasn't watching but he just laughed.

Seth also lobbed the ball up and it was caught and ran in to make a touch down. It's pretty amazing when the 2nd graders catch a ball.

The boys kept rubbing the coach's head for luck. Both coaches were great and taught Max and Seth a lot. It was a good season.

Yellowstone 2010

For Fall Break, Jon's mom rented a cabin right outside of West Yellowstone. We got there late Thursday night and stayed until Sunday. It was very relaxing, beautiful and fun to be with family!

First thing we went to Old Faithful. They have a new museum that was hands on and very interesting.

Max and Jon during our hike to the waterfall.



All of these animal pictures were taken from our car window. The bear was pretty scary to see but SO exciting also. There was a sheriff parked nearby to make sure people didn't get too close. You can tell it's a Grizzly by the hump on its back. That is muscle used for digging.

Jump

My brother Devon and his wife Mary have all these pictures that they're jumping in. It's cool because they will have neat backgrounds of the places they're visiting. I wondered how they could do that because with my digital camera it has such a delay I could never time it right. Then Mary said I just needed to hold down the button half way until it showed a green box and when I was ready push it all the way down and there's no delay. I tried it and it worked. So then we had lots of fun with this camera function.


Here's Maddie jumping off the deck.

Here's Seth jumping off the deck, I got several pictures of them doing several poses.

This pic. had nothing to do with the function, I just wanted to show how pretty the leaves were up at the cabin.

Max and Mary built a fire for our smores, they did a really good job. I think Max should get his Eagle now, that'd be nice.

YUM!