{HaLLowEen WeEk}

This has been a fun week!

Saturday - Ward Fall Festival (Halloween Party)

Sunday - Shirsten's Young Womanhood Recognition Night. Shirsten is the first young woman in our ward to earn this in 3 years.
Monday - Pumpkin carving. Ally was so proud of herself for doing hers all by herself. She really did (it took her 3 times as long). The only thing that anyone else did was Chris cut open the top for her.
Tuesday - Laser Tag (they took all the 6th graders and I had to help drive). I also got to play which is always great fun! I was the 2nd best player (yes, I realize I was playing against 11-12 year olds). Yahoo for me!!!
Wednesday - Halloween Trivia & Cookies
Thursday - Final Shindig with my Team In Training group
Friday - THIS IS HALLOWEEN!!! The sunrise was beautiful this morning and the high is supposed to be around 70 degrees. It's not very often that we have such a nice Halloween!

I stayed up late last night helping Keyan to make a Waldo shirt. If you are ever painting a shirt, the painters tape worked great (the paint didn't get under it). Don't use the color spray for fabric if you want a bold color. We ended up painting over with fabric paint. Also don't freak out if your red paint looks pink, it will dry red! :)

Sammy has a cute fairy costume, but since she didn't want to deal with it at school she decided to go as a badminton player (anything to wear a t-shirt, her school has a dress code that doesn't allow t-shirts).

{friEnDs}

It's funny how life and things turn out. I convinced Chris to get on facebook. It just so happens that within a few days he was able to connect with some of his childhood friends. He finds out that one moved to Utah within the last year and another is coming to Utah in about a week.

Last night the 3 of them were able to meet up. I know that Chris was excited. For me it was fun to see Clint again (you haven't changed at all since I last saw you about 12 years ago!) and nice to finally meet Jennifer!

I really should have Chris write about this! I hope that they will all stay in better contact now and I look forward to the day that we can get all our kids together. We each have 4 kids (although I think Jennifer might have 5) and we each have 12 year old daughters!

{daFFodiLs}

Yesterday I went to help the 2nd graders (Ally) plant daffodils at their school. It will be fun to remind them in the spring that they planted those pretty flowers!

{bAnD}

Keyan let us know after school that he had a band concert that night (Tuesday) that was worth the majority of his first term grade. He takes the percussion class, but they always throw them in the concerts. We had no idea what songs he was going to play in. With one song left to go I had told the kids if Keyan is not in it (we'd already seen him play in some of the other songs) then we would just go, since I was still really sore from my marathon. I'm so glad we stayed. Of course, he played in the last song and had a nice little solo part also! Yeah for Keyan!!! He is an awesome drummer! :)