A BUSY WEEK

We had a non-stop week. We had lots of fun things on the calendar and we did them all. Last Friday Night we had cousins night at our house. This is when the “local” cousins all come over for 4 hours so the parents can go out. The cousins have tons of fun hanging out and now that the kids are getting older Ben and I were able to sit back and watch the football game while all of the kids played.

cousin fun – Julia with Mia and Cali

The next day was the last day of fall soccer for Ben and the boys!! Packer got another goal and they stayed undefeated. Benji’s team got their first loss. We now have our Saturdays back and our Weds and Thursday evenings! That night we had our Annual showing of Charlie Brown, the great pumkin. We had lots of new neighbors come as well as family and some friends from our old ward. The hot chocolate was great, We had a few raffle prizes, the kids all had friends and cousins to be giddy with. The weather was good and it ended up being ok showing the movie in the driveway instead of on our too new to walk on sod.

packer after his goal!

movie time

watching nightmare before christmas after everyone else goes home

we love cousins

Sunday was recovery day. We watched the Green Bay Packers that evening and finally made our caramel apples.

Sunday chill time

Monday was another party day. It was my brother Brady’s birthday so we had him and Sean and Joel and Megan over for dinner and pumpkin carving. Megan brought most of the dinner and it was soo good – we appreciate Joel bringing her into the family 🙂 After dinner was pumpkin time. Our kids had each picked the picture that they wanted to do on their pumpkin – usually Ben and I are up until midnight getting them all carved but this year we had lots of great helpers. Everyone paired up and helped our kids carve and it was a ton of fun. Joel and Megan helped Ray do a fun face. Ben helped Rose carve a Plants vs. Zombies Sun  Flower. Brady and Cali did Hello Kitty. Packer and Casey did a Zombie. Benji and Sean did a minion. Shealyn did a halloween cat. I was on picture taking, baby tending, clean up…

Tuesday night we had a ward party at the church. Each family brings Candy and a game and the kids go crazy. We set up our soccer goal and hung the “little Man” and let the kids score a goal on it for a piece of candy. Ben and Raymond manned the station while I helped the kids make the rounds. The Young Men’s group made a spook alley but our kids were all to scared to try it. Other families did golf, bball, bean bags, rings, bouncy balls into a bucket, coloring, cotton candy, musical chairs… It was a fun night for the family and we got to interact with people from our new ward.

Rose got to dress up for story time

going fishing – always a kid favorite

the ward party

Ray playing goalie – he also retrieved the ball every time

Benji trying to score

love that he is just laying in the middle of the craziness

gotta love the vampire teeth

CUTE

my mermaid

game time

Wednesday night we went to check out the Halloween Train in Lindon. It is a small train at someone’s house and over the years it has gotten bigger and bigger. They took us on a train ride through lots of spooky alleys. It was fun and different. We went right when it opened so that the kids wouldn’t be scared. We still had lots of wide EYES but no tears.

And we made it to Halloween!!! SO EXCITING. We went to the boys school to see all of the costumes in the morning and then Cali got to get dressed up for her school. I’m thinking that day deserves it’s own post so this one is done! I like BUSY Weeks.