Halloween!!!

We went trick-or-treating to Gma's house early:


We carved pumpkins in 2 steps: Gutted them one day and gave them faces another.

Then we had a trick or treat party with Kyle and his cute kids.

Lily Talks

As related by Gpa Dave:

Lily, how many boys live at our house?

mmm One

And how many girls do we have?

Too many!

Maybe we should get rid of someone. Should we get rid of grandpa?

No.  Because then we would have no boys!

Who should we get rid of?

I think Diane. Because she's a party pooper.

As related by Diane:

I really love your necklace Aunt Diane.  It's so beautiful.  

Thank you.

Can I have it when you die?

Ok.  I will be sure to give it to you when I die.

And then when you are resurrected, I will give it back to you!

That Lily, she's a thinker.

Playschool Halloween Party

Green River Trip

Yea for camping with the family. Rather than me telling you about everything, just make a comment about what you want further explanations on

Driving Down:

Arches, Sand Mountain, and Moab

Goblin Valley

Flannel Board and Wedding Veil

Fall Festivities

We've been playing with my cousin's kids a lot this month. My cousin just had 2 healthy twins this week, so we've been taking her other kids on outings every week. Last week the came to our house and Nate really got into the dress ups.

We checked out the Kaysville City Halloween Festival. The girls liked getting prizes for the carnival games. We watched a pie eating contest, and did a lot of dancing in the field to the fun music. Heidi didn't notice that the camera was on Movie mode for most of the night, so I tried to capture some pictures from the movies she took. Even after I fixed it though, she did get very good pictures. That's what I get for not doing it myself I guess. Oh well.


We were sick of the house one night so we went for a drive up the mountain to see the fall leaves. Well the road was closed, but we got to feed the ducks at the pond.

Ducks

Mostly for Tyler, we went and fed the ducks one night because we were bored. Here's all the fun we had.

NIKI and her skills

Every morning after breakfast, we do the dishes. Niki's favorite job is emptying the silverware into the drawer.  She loves it so much that she gets very upset when someone else does it without letting her help.  She usually finishes by the time Lily does the rinsing (yes she loves her job too) and I do the rest.

Tyler requested a picture of Niki 'coloring' as she calls it. I didn't even realize how much she likes to do this, but she asks to color every time she sees a pencil.

Niki's favorite dress up is a large pair of blue underwear (originally for wearing under a ballet tutu).  I'm still not sure why, but it is the first thing she tries to put on.  I think it might be because no matter how you turn it, it goes on the same.  She thinks it is a leotard that she pulls up over her shoulders.  It's the only thing small enough to fit tight on her I guess.

And finally, DAH DA DAH!!!
She figured out a backbend all by herself.  I still can't figure out how she learned it, but it's amazing to see something so little doing it.

Brightyn Visits

Brightyn came home for the weekend for the first time in forever, so naturally she took TONS of pictures. 
TO QUOTE BRIGHTYN:

Heidi went to the homecoming dance so I was able to do her hair  and help her geit ready. She was so pretty.  Pictures will be coming later. For Heidi's day activity her date bought her a huge Rootbeer, which she only drank about a quarter of it. Diane and I had Nikki on the counter trying to get her do say her ABC's when she was distracted by the pop. She drank almost the whole thing. Although it was completely unhealthy and spoiled her lunch we had so much fun watching her drink it.

 I bought the Girls USU tattoos. Janna and Tyler are huge UofU fans and they want their children to be Ute fans too. Since everyone in our family goes to different School and Universities we have this family battle of getting the girls to cheer for our own school's team. I have to say that the girls loved their "Aggie Stickers". Nikki really loved hers because she struggles saying the "U" sound for the Utes so she loved saying "Aggie".

Lily and I ran errands with Dad during the afternoon. We got sick of getting out of the car sometimes and So when dad was in some stores we stayed in the car and took pictures. Here are some of my favorite. Lily also came up with all of the poses. 

Cozy Girls

Candy Face

Picnics and Projects

Here's the pics from this week.

Friday we went to the Bountiful Park with our cousins Nate and Paul. We spent 2 whole hours at the park. It was fun to be outside on this beautiful day.