Halloween Festivities

Following tradition, we went to Red Butte Garden's After Dark Party and had a fun time.  The kids each got to paint their own pumpkin.  Katie kept her hat on her head for a whole 2 minutes!    She made a cute butterfly though.

 Here are the pumpkins all painted.  Sarah was Cinderella this year and Isaac was a gorilla (for this event).

 Sarah was chosen to be part of the storyteller's story.  She was a little nervous at first but she did great.

 Well this year for Halloween I decided to print out some patterns to use carving the pumpkins.  I chose Mickey Mouse, Sarah chose Rapunzel and Isaac made his own creation. I think they turned out pretty well!

 I volunteered in Isaac's classroom to help with the Halloween Party.  They had a fun time doing all sorts of activities and games.  Sarah and Katie came too!  When it was time for the kids to do the costume parade, Sarah just had to be involved.  Mrs. Adams didn't have a problem - thankfully!  They weren't allowed to wear their masks so here is Spiderman without his mask on.

 All ready for Trick-or-treating.  It was so warm I couldn't put Katie in that hot outfit so she was a cute cheerleader instead.  Warmest Halloween ever - 76 degrees.

 Gary took the kids around the neighborhood while I kept Katie to pass out candy.  I was having a blast getting her to crawl back and forth to get the candy bowl.  Yes I let her succeed each time - well till she tried to put it in her mouth.  I have some darling video clips but can't get them to upload.  You can check it out on facebook if interested.

Pumpkin Patch

Behind our house is an open field that has been sold to a developer sadly, but till houses are built the farmer has continued to plant crops.  This year we watched hundreds of cantalope, watermelon and pumpkins grow.  I had been wanting to go and take the kids pictures with my dad's camera and here are the results.  I now know why it requires help with more than one child to take pictures.  The 2nd picture I took of all of them turned out the best.  Here are some additional ones too.

 Isaac

Sarah

 Katie

 I could not get her to look at me.  So I kept moving to where she was looking, just to have her turn her head.  I started laughing at this point and gave up.  Cute profile!

They were so done by this point, so I was having them say funny words trying to get them to at least look at me.

City Creek Canyon

 This was one of our favorite canyons to walk through before we moved to Washington.  We haven't been there as much since we came back, but this fall we knew we needed to go see the pretty leaves.  I forgot the camera so these were taken with my phone.  Not too bad! 

 It was a gorgeous day.  I just loved the deep red colors of this tree.

 This pose fits Sarah - she is so determined to do things herself.  I love it when she puts her hands on her hips like this.

Fall Outing

 We decided the first weekend of October to do some exploring.  We drove up Weber Canyon and stopped at a state park.  They had a nice little lake so we decided to walk down to the water.  It was a beautiful day, but it was cold!  So no, we didn't test the water out. 

 The kids decided to walk up the sand bar to see how far they could go.  Sarah and Isaac did pretty good too, they got stuck at the top and Gary had to go and rescue them. 

We made it! Now please help us get down.

 Coming down with Dad.

 Next we decided to head up to Snowbasin Ski resort.  The colors were amazing and sadly pictures just don't do it justice.  This was the last weekend they were running the gondola till ski time so we decided to try it out.  Isaac thought it was great.  Sarah was a little more timid about the ride.  Towards the end of it she was having fun.

 At the top there was a little walkway so we had fun climbing on the rocks.

 Here is the view from the top of the gondola ride.

 This is why I missed living in Utah so much.  There is so many fun things to do and it was only 30 min. from our house.