October

Here are some of our (non-Halloween) adventures in October.  Halloween fun to come!

Scott and celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary.  We hired a babysitter - a boy from our ward.  We don't leave our kids with babysitters much and I was worried that the boy would hate us afterward but it seemed to go well.  It was nice getting away for a date.  We went to the Melting Pot (a favorite fondue restaurant of ours) which was decorated for Halloween. Matthew will be old enough to babysit for us soon!  We're trying to train him now.

Grant playing goalie.  He's one of the smallest and youngest on his soccer team, but I think he's had a good season.

Matthew reading Pinkalicious to John and Emma.

Anna's school friend made her this ghost.  Anna wanted to make something in return and we ended up with this pumpkin.  I am not crafty so I felt bad that I wasn't more help.  Anna's friend (the one who made the cute ghost) takes sewing classes and Anna wants to start taking them too.  After getting the pumpkin sewed Anna said it was good that I wasn't good at crafts 'cause then she can teach me something. 😆 

Anna also made this unicorn completely on her own using a glue gun to assemble it.  It's a birthday gift for Emma who loves unicorns.  She has a small sewing machine but likes using her glue gun instead.  I should get her into those sewing classes.

Emma put on my running shoes and said she was going on a run.  

John's favorite stuffed animal (a brown dog) fell in the toilet.  I told John we were going to put the dog in the wash.  John was very worried about the dog in the washing machine.

John stayed to watch his dog for a long time to make sure it was ok.

Matthew got an award at the school district this week.  He got a perfect score on the language arts portion of the big California state standardized test.  That's the superintendent shaking his hand.  These are other kids who also got perfect scores on either the math or language arts portion of the test.  

Way to go Matthew!!