Halloween

Carving pumpkins! We didn't make it to the annual Keyes Halloween party this year because it was on a day of a giant windstorm, so we decided to stay home. The girls were upset that we didn't get to go so we had our own little Halloween party at home. We had a pumpkin pizza for dinner and picked out our pumpkins and carved them.

Riley helping Mollie carve her pumpkin!

Tooele always has trick or treating down town on main street every year. And finally on our sixth Halloween here we decided to try it out! It was way to crowded and they didn't get that much candy so we probably wont do it again...

We had great weather for Halloween this year! The girls were actually hot in their costumes in the day. and they didn't need to bundle of for the night.

Madelyn dressed up as a pig! She had a curly tail that was my favorite part of the costume!

Riley was a butterfly and she LOVED wearing it!

Mollie was a skeleton

Audrey was spider Gwen

Here we are at the ward tunk-or-treat. Tyler and I dressed up from the 20's

Ready to go trick or treating!

 

October Fun

This cutie was picked first from her class to be meerkat of the month! Sadly we had a lot of storms this month that broke the sign, so we couldn't have it on our lawn all month.

The girls all gathered on top of the heater in the morning!

We went to a corn maze in Grantsville with my parents. They had a corn pit, slides, and a bouncy pad that the girls could've played on all day! They weren't too impressed with the corn maze

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The train museum had a haunted park that we got to walk through. The girls wanted to dress up a little bit. My favorite is Madelyn- she is a smart sheep!

Audrey has been obsessed about learning all about cars lately, so Tyler took her to a car show and she was in heaven!

Mama and Papa had another yard sale, so the girls got to have another stand. This time they sold apple cider and cookies!

We drove up to see the Pocatello temple open house

 

Happy Birthday Mollie!

 Mollie had a birthday this month! Hooray! 

She turned eight years old!

Here she is two years ago in the exact same spot! I can't believe how much she's grown!

Here are some things about Mollie right now:

She is still obsessed with owls, and her owl collection has grown a lot over the past year!

Mollie is in 2nd grade, she loves math and loves playing with her friends!

Mollie's favorite color is red

Her favorite thing to do is play games

Mollie's favorite food is chicken rolls

She says she loves to watch Pokemon, she likes collecting pokemon cards, and of course the owl one is her favorite!

She is super creative and LOVES making things! She always comes home with a backpack full of little paper creations she's made through the day!

Of course she had an owl cake for her birthday! She wanted it to look like Flapper, her favorite owl stuffed animal. 

September

Riley helping pick peppers from the garden

Smores!

We had to cut down one of our trees because it was dying, so the girls held a funeral for the tree! In the words of Audrey "He stood tall and true and shaded us from the smoking man."

We planted three more trees, so hopefully we'll get some more shade soon!

After living her more than five years we finally hiked up to the "T" in Tooele

These were the first fall colors we saw of the season

The hike wasn't too long, but it was pretty steep so it took a while with the kids. When we got up to the actual "T" it was super steep and Madelyn was super scared because she's afraid of heights.

When we got to the top the sun was just coming over the edge of the mountain

By the time we were done with the hike our children looked like chimney sweeps!

A few weeks later we did another hike, this time the fall colors were amazing!

On our way back Madelyn was leading the way, and she came back terrified yelling to us "wolves! wolves!" Luckily the wolves turned out to just be these cows! Haha!

First day of school

Audrey- fourth grade

Mollie- 2nd grade

Madelyn-  Afternoon kindergarten

All the girls got matching backpacks this year! I think they all wanted them because it came with a fluffy flamingo keychain... I knew that would cause problems, Audrey has already taken Madelyn's backpack to school once! 

Walking to school. We like to walk to school most mornings when its not too smoky