Strawberry Reservoir

Alex turns 10 year old!

"10" pancake for breakfast

Donuts to share with his school class

Lego Star Wars Wii game from Nanny and Papa

Alex thought he was getting cereal for his birthday,
But inside was his webelo's scout uniform
from mom and dad.

Mom made a snowman birthday cake

Christmas Break

We went to zoo lights this year as part of our Christmas break activities

We visited with Opa and Oma and enjoyed watching Christmas shows, eating yummy food, and visiting. Leah found the pickle on the Christmas tree and got an extra treat from Oma!

Phantom of the Opera

While we were in Las Vegas for thanksgiving, Shane and Katie got us some GREAT tickets to see Phantom of the Opera. We were about on the 10th row...really close! My dad is NOT interested in theater, so he was the babysitter while me, Jon, Shane, Katie, and my mom went to see Phantom.

It was AWESOME!

LOVED the music, LOVED the acting, LOVED the theatre!

Halloween Activities

We started our Halloween festivities a week before Halloween by making cookies

Then, for FHE we invited our "grandparent" friends in our ward to carve pumpkins

Roland's pumpkin

Caleb's

Leah's

Alex's

Braydon came to the kids' school with me to watch the Halloween Parade

And we delivered treats to Alex, Caleb, and Leah's classrooms

Caleb's teacher didn't have any parent helpers for the party,
so we stayed to help out.

We took the kids trick-or-treating at Springville's Safe Halloween

Halloween day Katie and I planned a fun Halloween party.
The kids made egg-carton spiders

Alex, Braydon, Caleb, Leah and Hannah (Katie's niece)

Playing "Boo, Boo, GHOST!"

The donut on a string game

Caleb

Leah

Braydon

Alex

They also played Halloween Darts

Bobbing for apples was so funny!

Braydon dunked his entire head into the pot to get the apple!

Caleb got pretty drenched bobbing for apples too

Leah's entire front of her costume got soaked
because she was practically laying in the water!

Waiting to eat!

Deviled egg eyes

Carrot "fingers"

Deviled-egg "eyes"

peanut butter "fingers" with strawberry jam "blood"

My personal favorite was the apple "smiles"
We also floated red hands in the punch

"Mummy" dogs

Ready to go trick-or-treat

Papa handed out the candy at their house wearing his costume.