Halloween

This was taken at our ward party.

Halloween this year seemed like the Holiday that wouldn't end. I love Halloween and I love dressing up but we had so many activities this year I couldn't believe it. Starting about 2 weeks before Halloween we had a school carnival, ward party, class parties, a birthday party and this year we even trick-or-treated through Disneyland. We have more candy in our house than should be allowed by law :) All our kids love to dress up and we have several costumes in our dress-up clothes stash so they all had to be something different for every party we went to .

Hyrum was either Batman or a Jedi. June was a pink Power Ranger, a ballerina, or a clown. Brig went back and forth between the big bad wolf and a pirate. Alvin however was just a cow at all events and Shawn and I wimped out this year and didn't dress up. I hope this doesn't sound negative towards Halloween we really did have a great time , but for some reason this year by the end of Trick-or-Treating Halloween night I was very tired and ready to move on to the next thing.

I've been tagged!

When we moved from Pennsylvania in May we bought a new computer, so all our picture files are really recent. When I went to our 4th folder and 4th picture it was this one of Alvin this summer. We took our kids to the Clark Planetarium in SLC for their annual kids day. They had all kinds of activities set up for the kids to do. They made bookmarks, played games for prizes, zero gravity walk, etc. We also saw "Fly me to the Moon." the new 3-D movie on their big screen. It was really neat. They had a really cute Astronaut backdrop that you could stand behind and put your face through so all our kids wanted to have their picture taken behind it. I do have to say though that I think Alvin's picture was the cutest.

I'm not sure who else I can tag because everyone I know that blogs seems to have already been tagged, but I'll try Synthia and Alisha.

Have fun.

Pokemon

I don't know about your neighborhood, but here in ours Pokemon is all the rage. All the kids have gotten really into collecting and trading cards. They are quite a status symbol in Hyrum's school. Anyway, we found that on our computer we could make our own Pokemon cards and the kids had a fun time coming up with attacks and HP powers for them, so a few weeks ago for Family Night we made family Pokemon Cards. Here they are in all their glory. We hope you enjoy, we sure had fun making them.

Disneyland

In October we had a family gathering in Disneyland with Shawn's two brothers and their families. We had a great time. Between the 3 families everyone had a cousin to play with. Although we have the youngest family by quite a few years (the youngest cousin is 5) our kids did really well. Even Alvin seemed to have a good time.