October

Bells, Soph and Maddy made cute treats to take to people in the neighborhood one day. 

It poured rain for a couple days in October - it flooded our yard pretty good. Everyone was worried about mudslides from the burned places. 

Look at the puddles at the school!

Soccer Rec Night!  Soph won $20!

Kaley's team took 1st place!

I forget what dress up day this was... but they looked pretty great!

Thomas, Dillon and Carson practiced their instruments together one day after school.

Elsie's mom sent me this pic from one day after school.  

T had his first orchestra concert!

Bells went to a Halloween party. 

T had a campout at the Lava Tubes.  Josh and Jace went with him.

We carved pumpkins.

Kaley had her choir concert - cute Maddy came to watch.  Love that girl!  Kaley is in Women's Chorus - Bel Canto - this year and is loving it.

Halloween!!!  We had a hippie, a Men in Black agent, and a 50's waitress girl (who earned half of the money to buy this outfit off Amazon.)

Singing and dancing at the school!

Parade time!

The twins' class party

Trick or treating was weird with just 3 kids.  Don't worry - we picked up a bunch on our way, so I wasn't lonely for long!  We ran/walked as fast as we could and did our whole ward boundaries in like 2 hours!  The kids were SO tired by the end!

Kaley went to Hannah's house for a party with friends, and T stayed home to pass out candy.  Crazy how these kiddos are growing up!

September!

September always seems bitter sweet - I love September because it means new clothes, back to school and my birthday!  But I hate it because it means my kiddos are going back to school and I am left home all by myself! Well, this year things changed!  I got a part time job!  I am a reading technician at the kids' school.  It's great!  I work 9-12:45.  I read with 2nd graders that are below reading level.  I also help at lunch recess.  

Even big kids can play with little people.

September 6 - first day of work!

4th Grade Egg Drop!

Jace's survived!

Sophie's did not 

Birthday lunch

There were two big fires in our little valley - the smoke was pretty bad for a while!  It was a little scary!

Bells played soccer - and scored!

View of the fire from Book Club at Brooke's.

Morning smokey haze

I took T something to his locker, and saw this...  Girls did this to his locker.  

Coming out of the school 

Air quality was so bad for a while, we had lots of inside recess days.

Ash covered everything outside.

Have I ever told your how Soph has the best hair?!

Painting nails in the sunshine.

A cousins' girls night out, we ran into Royce O'Neale from the Jazz.

Some school fun with Miss Linford's class.  Her brother who is a famous YouTube guy came and sang to them.  

I made our new family theme sign. I love how it turned out!

This was after 10 days of not swimming - ew. Time to clean it out and get it ready for Winter.

While cleaning the tubes with the power washer, I sliced my hand - like right next to the nozzle.  No stitches, but it did need to be wrapped up for a while!

Right after that incident, we headed to the BYU football game!  I did NOT want to miss it just because I hurt my hand.  

We sat clear up by the big screen and the speakers - we had a blast!

T loves to fish!

Family at soccer games!

T had a campout at Strawberry Reservoir to ... you guessed it!  FISH!