Happy Halloween (a little late)

Pumpkins:

 Nothing as fun as jumping in leaves:

 Kathleen's teacher came to her soccer game.  What an amazing lady.

 "Oh Yeah!"

 Ryan finished up coaching Cody's soccer team.  Turns out, Cody loves soccer.  Who would have thought?

 Carving Pumpkins with the Reeses:

 Put em to work:

 Kathleen insisted on having her hair done this way for Halloween.  She is Little Red Riding Hood (from the show "Once Upon a Time" specifically).

 Brandon's class party:

 Cody's class party:

 Kathleen's class party (I thought it was so great that they were all at different times so I could attend them all.  Turns out I was just tricked into being at the school all day).

 Spook alley in our garage:

 Once Halloween was over I finally was able to convince Brandon to cut his hair.  He LOVED having someone wash his hair.  He grinned the whole time.  He keeps asking to go back.

Happy Halloween!

October Fun

Cody was so cute reading his scriptures the other day in his dad's baseball cap.

 Brandon scored a touchdown at his last football game.  He was so excited.

 We took the kids to the stinkin' Aquarium (I say stinkin' because I lost my wedding ring there and have been unable to recover it.  An NO!  My insurance doesn't cover it either, sad day!).

 We went to the corn maize:

 Ryan got lost in the hay bale maze.

 What better activity to do on October 1st than to make homemade crock pot applesauce.  It was delicious!

 Brandon went on a field trip and was pretty nervous about touching sticky bee junk.

 We went on a trip to see Aunt Alyssa and Uncle Clayton and play with their cats.  Here the boys are playing with a laser pointer.

 The cats go crazy with it, which then causes the boys to go crazy.

 Then we found out that Cody is CRAZY allergic to cats.  When he couldn't breath, we had to get him taken care of.  Don't worry, he is fine.

 Dinosaur museum:

 Brandon made us all pose right in this spot outside the dinosaur museum for a picture.

 We took Kathleen and Brandon to conference.  We decided to ride the train.  Brandon had no idea what this crazy thing was:

 LOVE, LOVE, LOVE cousin Xander.

 We visited some friends.  I think the kids were in heaven.

 Then we went to visit Ryan's Granny.  We had fun at the castle park.

 My sweet Kathleen (she is so precious):

It's Almost Been a Month

The kids have been keeping mom and dad busy with sports.  Kathleen LOVES playing the goalie on her soccer team.  And she is pretty good at it too.  I just worry she will break a bone.  But she loves it.

 Cody isn't quite as good, but he sure does have fun.  Brandon is playing football, but I don't have any pictures.  Ryan has them all on his phone.  So as soon as I can get them from him, you can see those too.

 More goalie.

Brandon got to help with the flag ceremony at scouts.  He was pretty excited about it.

 We had present day again.  Best holiday ever.

 Kathleen took some time to do Brandon's hair.  Isn't he lucky?

 Brandon and I went on a date and drove bumper boats.  It was so much fun.

 Brandon made us dinner one night. 

 Cody started piano lessons and is LOVING it.  I was worried he wouldn't like it, but I guess he does.

 Our neighbor has a puppy that she lets us take for walks.  Cody loves her dog.  And here is how he takes 'Rosie' for walks:

 Yesterday was rough at our house.  BYU vs. BSU.  Brandon is a blood traitor and has no qualms about it.  But he sure is cute.

 Kathleen with some of her friends at the bus stop:

Bathroom Remodel

Okay, so I didn't "remodel", but I did make it look better.  The kids bathroom has really taken a beating since we have lived here.  So it was due a little fixing up.  Here are the nasty "before" pictures.

Here it is "during":

 And after:

 Much better!