October

This is Megan. I know Nathan always does the post, and everyone loves his creative and witty style, but I wanted to add some pictures and info that Nathan forgot to add in his previous post. SO...

We began early October with a trip to "Apple Works." We actually went twice--once with friends and once with family. The weather could not have been more perfect, and there were plenty of fun things to do with the kids. Then the kids had a few days off of school for "Fall Break," so we invited friends over for a Halloween Cookie Decorating Party. My main motivation for doing this was because I wanted to try out my new Pampered Chef Cookie Press (a fun gift from my sister who was trying to get rid of junk in her kitchen). But the dang cookie press was horrible-- it so did not work! But, I went ahead and made do with a pumpkin cookie cutter and an angel cookie cutter that I creatively made into a ghost:) The cookie party was a big hit--cookies, frosting, sprinkles, and friends--what could be better! We had about 20 adults/kids/babies at the party, and the only place I found frosting (besides the kitchen) was on my hall banister--not bad.

And, of course, we ended the month with Halloween. Well, not really, Nathan and I took off right before trick-or-treating began, but we got a few pictures of the kids. Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for taking the kids out to get candy.

Kaitlyn was a BYU cheerleader...again. I think she's wore this outfit every year. She has a great princess costume that she was going to wear, but a few days before Halloween she found the cheerleadering outfit and I couldn't convince her of anything else. Oh well--Go Cougs!

Alison insisted on being a basketball player--her shirt says something about sports, so she wanted that as her jersey. Talk about the cheapest costume in the land!
And Max was our tiger! He was so stinkin' cute. It was hard taking a picture of him because he was running around. Nathan mentioned that Max was walking, but it's more of a slow run.

And, of course, I need to mention why we bailed on our kids' Halloween...we went on a fun trip to Charlottesville--by ourselves!!! It was such a blast hanging out with my hubby all weekend! I read a book, I got to carry-on my bags, and I didn't cook or clean for 2 whole days! We got to eat out with Cville friends and go to a football game, I even went to Relief Society! I told Nathan that we needed more weekend-get-aways like this:)

And my parents and sister and brother-in-law were FABULOUS for taking the kids; they even survived all of sacrament meeting without having to take any of the 7 kids out. Yeah!