Benji loved learning football! He scored a touch down in the tournament and caught the extra point in the championship. He mostly played lineman but he just loved learning the game and doing exactly what coach told him to do.
His team ended up winning their bracket. I believe they were the winner of the losers! so CHAMPIONS. We had the team come over last night after they won. Ate pizza and played arcades and celebrated the season.
I was busy pushing 1-5 kids in the double stroller so I didn’t get many pictures. Everyone had FUN.
The BASEMENT is FINISHED!! Lots of pictures to come! It has been so fun getting everything moved down and opening the arcade 🙂
In other news:
This kid and his play doh habits are just tooo cute:
Ice Skating for Benji and Ben with the youth group!
 
Someone decided to clean up the empty field! I love it!
Cali had a soccer party. We made a craft. Ate dinner and listened to Derek Parra talk about winning Gold and Silver at the Olympics!
We broke in the new movie theater with a Spiderman Movie Night – I ditched for 2 late night soccer games.
Packer the Photo Bomber:
 
On Saturday we had the wrestling tournament all morning and then it took Ben and I all afternoon to move down the 16 arcades into the basement! It was a lot of work and took 3+ hours but it looks AWESOME! And then we headed to Pete’s birthday dinner and Lalo’s school play!
Sunday was Grandpa’s fireside and Pete’s Birthday and we revealed the basement to the Netty Fam! We are so happy with how it turned out and love having people over to use it:
Babysitting the Quincy! and crashing on the couch cause they both refuse to have real naps:
Ray eating the rolls. He still is a very picky eater and waits for something that he does like and then fills up on it! The other part of my non wrestling dinner crew and Millie off screen to the right.
Soccer ended on the 28th and Wrestling started on the 30th!
The big boys go to practice Monday – Thursday – 4:30-6:30. Ray signed up this year and he goes Tues and Thurs from 6:30-7:30. So besides the lack of family dinner time its fun to have them pushing themselves and working hard.
First Practice:
After practice wrestling:
Raymonds first tournament! Check in. Go. 2 point reversal. Get him on his back. He WINS!
I like to come and watch and the kids come and “watch” or play toys, or color, or eat, or wander around and make friends…
Ray’s 2nd match was really hard and he cried in the middle and didn’t want to finish but he stuck it out. And beat the next 2 guys and ended up with a 1st place out of the 5!
Benji was at a BYU Pow Wow so he didn’t get to wrestle in this tournament.
Packer worked hard but got beat all 3 times. He stayed tough and never got pinned! 4th place for him.
 
Mike D!
Hanging out waiting for the school parade:
Cookies and Haunted Houses:
The Work Party – cookies, bags and tricks or treats:
Trick or treating at Grandma and Grandpa’s
We ate hot dogs and Chili at the Cragun, Frandsen, Stott party and then LaNell and I handed out candy while Ben took everyone trick or treating.The kids had offers to go with friends and cousins but they all wanted to stay together with dad 🙂
Then we went to Pete and Amanda’s to see the cousins:
Our Awesome Pumpkins
Let the carving begin. We really encouraged the kids to do as much on their own as they could this year. I ended up helping Cali and Millie a lot. Packer made the Charlie Brown one on his own and Benji did most of his guy peaking out of the window. Ben came home a little later and made the Witch for Grandpa Becker.
For Nathaniel’s Birthday we went out to Rockwell’s Ice Cream and then to an escape room! We had never done one and we had a blast. We solved it with 5 seconds to spare! Than, Erica, Kyle, Becca and us. There were 2 times that we had it figured out but just had problems actually opening the lock – otherwise we would have dominated 🙂
Friday Nights! Ellie usually calls to play and then whomever else can hang out. Somehow these girls (and Ray) ended up hanging out from 4pm until 9pm 🙂
Benji’s crew had an arcade Birthday party at the house. We Auctioned off a party for the ward fundraiser. I think it was a success.
Uncle Michael hauled Moon Patrol out here from California. John and Tracie got it for us months ago from the house that they almost bought 🙂
Last Soccer Saturday of the season! Ray and the Vikings and Coach Bybee dominated. Benji started to get a little aggressive by the end.
 
Rose loved playing with Ellie and Gentry and Caitlin and Elle and … She gave 100% all game – fun to watch.
 
Packer had a lot of new guys on the team. He got frustrated with everyone just booting the ball but he had fun.
Scout Service project – Go Benji! and a Wednesday night mountain biking activity. Benji is loving being a scout, even when he falls off his bike several times!!
 
 
Activity Days service project for Cali.
Ray has always loved I Spy books. One of his favorite activities is for he and I to sit and do an I Spy book.
We climbed on the Maceys pumpkins again and I signed Ben up to go to Ray’s Kindergarten class and read to the kids and give them a treat 🙂
This year our ward did a Trunk or Treat instead of a carnival. I loved it. We decided to decorate the van as THE BAT CAVE! So Ben and I wore our Batman and Batgirl costumes. The kids had fun trying on our old costumes and getting ready.
Benji wanted to be Captain America. Packer wanted to be Pizza, Cali was set on being Evie. Rose decided last Halloween that she wanted to be Judy Hopps – she almost switched over to be Mal but stuck with Officer Hopps. Ray wanted to be the wizard, since we had one just his size that we ordered by accident last year. Millie wanted to be Alice in Wonderland but when she saw the witch costumes she needed to be a witch. Tiago was supposed to be Boss Baby but I wanted to see him in the cute Spiderman costume and then he wouldn’t take it off 🙂 He is still walking around shooting pretend webs at us!
On Sunday we went to church and then hung out with Mom and then all my other Utah siblings came over for dinner 🙂
And on Monday the kids just had a lazy morning while mom and I went and visited Diane and Susan and and then the kids and I went and met up with Ben for lunch. That evening we jumped back in to real life finishing up homework and going to soccer practice.
