10 Things from Our October

1.  Went to Time Out for women, an LDS based motivational speaker kind of thing, with these lovely ladies.

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2.  Tessa tried to go without a nap… (and fell asleep in the chair).

3.  Dan, tried to get our antenna to work so he could watch football, I don’t think anything frustrates that poor guy more! 

4.  Toodee and Foofa (from Yo Gabba Gabba) at the trunk or treat.

5.  Sophie got to ride a school bus around the block as part of a little activity at school, she was VERY excited!  We love her school, and her teachers are so AWESOME.

Still talks about Buster the Bus and how he can dance (he was a remote controlled bus that taught them about bus safety).  This bus ride was a long time coming.  Her friend she sat with is Deborah.

6.  Jacob turned 3 months old!  No official numbers, since we didn’t go to the doctor, but our scales at home weighed him at 14.6 pounds.  He’s such a joy!

 

7.  We carved/painted pumpkins.

  

 

8.  We went to the museum to see the “robot dinosaurs” almost every week in October (and November).  It’s their first free travelling exhibit since we’ve been members.  My girls LOVE it!  Come visit us and we’ll take you too! :)

9.  Trick or treating, ahhh, it was perfect weather!

Cutest. Pirate. EVER.

10.  And Jacob was blessed, but that’s already been posted, though it was in October… just wanted there to be 10 things for the 10th month ok? ;)  9 Things just didn’t sound as good.

Here’s to speed blogging 1 month at a time!!

 

Halloween 2010

Sophie assigned us all what we were going to be for Halloween over a month before the holiday.  We are all character’s from Disney’s movie Bolt (which we learned not many people have seen!).  Sophie is Mittens the cat, Dan is the villain “The Green (or in this case blue) Eyed Man,” I am the girl Penny, and Tessa is Bolt the dog.  I had on the striped tights and big boots that Penny wears (which didn’t make it into any of our pictures), just so you know! :)

Update: Got this picture from Leslie, show’s some of my tights.  I realized I didn’t have any black shorts that weren’t for running that afternoon so I cut off some black dress pants that were floods anyway and hemmed (horribly, they were all wavy) them up.

Sophie with some of her friends!  The dinosaur is Vincent.  Jessie is Brinley and Woody is Trinity (both who just moved away :(.)

Some of the activities at the trunk-or-treat included: bean bag toss, apple rolling, coloring, and doughnut eating.

Bolt and his nemesis the blue (instead of green) eyed man.  Notice Tessa choose an apple over a doughnut, crazy girl!

Some of our friends who dressed up:

The Browns are all from Toy Story. Leslie made all of these costumes (besides Buzz) herself! Isn’t she so talented?  I miss you Les!!  The Gordons, adorable Star Wars family.

The Mitchells are Eve, Wall-E and the plant, so clever!  The Guercios (minus Aaron who had to work) always look fabulous.

 

The Wanbergs (daddy was sick) Dr. Suess characters, she just threw these costumes together last minute!  Such talent.  Matt, Cami and Lily joined us for the trunk-or-treating and decorated our trunk since we never do.

Some more pictures of our girls:

On the way to the party.  I must say that Sophie was SOOOOO excited to finally have whiskers painted on, she had been asking for weeks.  I even broke down and painted them for her a few days afterwards to wear around the house.  Tessa, did NOT want to wear her costume, we kind of distracted/tricked her into wearing it.  But she was a better sport when she saw all the other kids dressed up (and I may have told her that no one would give her candy if she took off her tail or ears.)

 

Candy time! 

No surprise that the girls wouldn’t go up to Phil or his dragon, not even for smiley fruit snacks.  Scary!  His dragon is so awesome though,  I didn’t get a picture but the girls would trick or treat to the storm trooper either.  Don’t worry, they still got and enjoyed a fair amount of candy!

With Halloween falling on a Sunday we didn’t get out to knock any doors this year.   I know in Utah the kids went out on Saturday but that wasn’t happening in Denver, unfortunately. I thought about trying anyway, who could say no to such cute kids dressed up?  I considered it but decided that it would be kind of rude to show up unexpected and kind of force people (if they hadn’t got candy yet) to go through their house and find something to give my kids.  So we didn’t go.  But that’s ok, Sophie had forgotten since last year. 

We went home and watched a really cute movie with Matt and Cami instead, called “How to Train a Dragon.”  The girls liked it too and we all ate their candy together. :)  We love Halloween, I’m glad that Dan humors me and will dress up with me and kids.  He had an offer for a free ticket to an Air Force football game that night which he turned down to be with us, thanks honey!!

Halloween

 

The ward trunk or treat was really fun this year.  They did games inside and then trunk or treating outside afterwards.  Dan won the doughnut eating contest!  He sure put all the 2 and 3 year olds to shame!!  Sophie liked the doughnuts but especially enjoyed learning how to play BINGO.  Tessa's favorite was when Dan gave her a sucker, look at her costume, it was a mess.  Oh and in case you are wondering, we were Goldilocks (Sophie) and the 3 bears!  I was worried that Sophie would be jealous when she saw all the Disney princesses at the party but she LOVED it!  She thought we were at Disneyland I think.  She would say things like, "Mom, Sophie go talk a pirate?" gesturing towards a little girl dressed as a pirate.  Then she would go up to the chosen character and say something like, "Hi, Snow White, Hi!  I am Goldilocks."  We visited several celebrities.

Since Sophie had been talking about it for a few months we decided we'd better go out a do some real trick-or-treating too.  At the mention of Halloween she has been saying, "Knock, knock!  TRICK-OR-TREAT!! Thank you!"  I thought she understood how it worked... but I was wrong.

The first house we went to I let Sophie go up to the door with the other kids we were out with and figured she would follow the older kids' lead.  I was standing on the drive way with the other adults.  The doorbell was rung and the door was opened.  "TRICK-OR TREAT!"  the children beamed.  It was kind of hard to see over the banister on their porch but while the nice man was giving perfect strangers candy (we live in an apartment complex and no one gives out candy so we went to a neighborhood across the street).  Anyway, I couldn't see well but I thought I saw Sophie go in the door!  I ran up there, barged inside the house to find Sophie wandering around their living room looking for candy!  She did get the hang of it, but I was very explicit that she stay OUTSIDE where she can see her Mommy.

 

That's Sophie with the love of her life, Jake!  She really does have a serious obsession, when he's over she can't stop saying his name and having him do everything for her and notice everything she's doing.  They are enjoying the clear winner of the Halloween loot, candy necklaces.  A perfect combination!  And the other picture that didn't make it on the scrapbook pages is Tessa adoring Kim, aka- Sophie's competition (she's Jake's wife).

 

These 2 are just other pictures I took this weekend.  Sophie putting on make up with me Saturday morning, a little too much bronzer on the forehead!  And Sophie blowing on Tessa's stomach.  They enjoy playing together... sometimes. :)