The Paige Award

Paige had been feeling bad and said to me one day "I never get a trophy".  It was very sad and cute.  So one Sunday afternoon she got the Paige Award.  The kids had a room cleaning competition and she came down quickly and declared herself the winner.  I was prepared with a trophy nearby (a freebie from Grocery Outlet!).  She was so excited when we gave it to her, it was adorable.  She loved that thing and carried it everywhere, till the head completely bobbled off.

People ask if they're twins...and not just when they're dressed alike.  Paige is only a few inches shorter and 5# lighter.  But Kate is 6 going on 16 with big teeth coming in so I can't tell them apart...usually!

Halloween came and went, and so did Kate's next tooth.  I had teased her that with one top tooth she looked like a jack-o-latern, and then when it got really loose she looked like a witch.  Thank goodness it finally came out, now we can move onto "All I want  for Christmas is my two front teeth!"

Yet another Halloween Party!

I was able to rope Grandma and Grandpa in for some help at Kate's school Halloween Party that I was in charge of.  Grandma headed the bingo station, grandpa was at M&M counting, I did the spider hats, which were a big hit (they also had oreo spider make-and-eats).

 Because we hadn't celebrated enough...we headed down to Kent Station for $2 Chipotle (which is the only way I got G & G into a costume!), and trick-or-treating for the girls.

 By evening I didn't care what anyone wore we'd dressed up so many times...

 My porch did look great with our bed pumpkin carving success ever.

 The loot always bring a smile...look closely at all the full-size candy bars...who are these people?

And the candy lasted until Spring since most of it was hidden in Rick's office for months.  The kids forgot about it after a few days.

Halloween Party #2

For our Ward Halloween Party we were a mishmash of costumes....Hillbilly Mom and Dad, moffia/detective, skelton, witch, and Sleeping Beauty.

 Ahhh, Aurora and Aurora, you can't have too many of those for Halloween.  Now if that was prom and your friend came in the same dress....fashion faux pas, but when you're 3, it's perfect!

 Aren't you two scary....

 And this is the scariest part for Mom...it seems to happen every year.

Time to Spook

We went to the Elementary School Halloween Party.  There was an amazing make-up artist who did Paige's princess make-up and Kate as a cute puppy.  Then Kate went back later, without me, and asked the lady to change her into a vampire!  What???

 And Bradley did his own make-up and costuming....

 Later, Rick and I went as BYU athletes to a Party at the Geddes'.  That was a costume I could talk Rick into wearing...his old BYU gear.

 Good thing we dressed up, because some people went all out!  That's Samantha in the middle.  I never could quite get what she was...or Rebecca for that matter!

Bradley's Bear Badge

Bradley earned his Bear award in October after being a Bear for 6 months.  He also got 7 arrow points and his World Conservation Award.  It helps to have your mom as your scout leader :)

Congratulations Bradley, good work.

The last of the 30's

We tried to have a happy 39th birthday for Rick, but a deadend realestate prospect stopped us from our Red Robin plans, then there was a rushed dinner at home before mutual.  He tried to make it to a movie all day since we discovered he could go for free on his birthday and he just could fit it in. He was having bookeeping drama until 10:00, when does that ever happen?  When it was all said and done, we scrapped the pictures, lighting of candles and singing and just ate the cupcakes and opened presents at 10:30pm, poor Paige had her cupcake at 8 and went to bed.
Luckily the presents came through, a Wenger backpack and a 'spa pillow'. 
Hopefully the big 4-0 will work out better.