Up goes the tree!

Much to Kevin's dismay I put the Christmas tree up and most of my decorations. Since we are not having Thanksgiving at our house this year, I thought why not! He won't let me turn the lights on though!

A sign of whats to come

We took Thomas out of school the other day to take him to the high school swim meet. He knows a bunch of kids on Woods Cross and Bountiful teams so we thought it would be fun to take him to watch, and also to see where he would place if swimming in the meet. Well in the few events we checked on his times would have put him finishing third. The kids that were 2nd and 1st were both seniors. I think he will do O.K next year if he can already finish in the top 3 as an eight grader! It will be fun to see the looks on the seniors faces next year as this little 9th grader beats them! It will be fun to watch!

OUCH!

Jake was up all night last night with a toothache. I took him in this morning to the Dentist and he ended up pulling a tooth and filling a cavity and putting in a spacer. Just add it to the tab of the thousands of doctor bills waiting to be paid! So OUCH is for poor Jake and his mouth and OUCH for more bills! Yipee!!!!

Blue Man Group

It kinda hurt to take off the bald head, it was glued on!

Mitch and a couple of his best buds went to the U of U game tonight ( Utes won!!) Then they were off to a Halloween party as the Blue Man group. I thought they looked pretty awesome! This will be their last Halloween together as they are all starting to get their mission calls and leaving so this was a great way to end it! It seems like only yesterday they were going out trick or treating. Man time goes by so fast!

Swim Team Halloween

Thomas had his swim team buddies over for a party tonight. It was really fun, they had decided a while ago that they would do a party starting with each letter of the alphabet. Tonight was the B party. We had bloody fingers ( bread sticks and marinara), booger dip (guacamole), brain juice, and much more. They stayed until midnight and had a great time! What a fun bunch of kids!

pumpkin carving

The day started out with pumpkin carving. Mitch carved his like the Michael Jackson "This Is It" poster. We saw the movie a couple of nights ago (AWESOME!) and he was inspired to carve his pumpkin like the poster. Maddi went for the New Moon idea with her pumpkin cut out as Jacob the werewolf. You can't see it in the picture but it looked cool lit up in the dark! Thomas carved a ducky from a cartoon he thinks is funny and Jacob wanted a spider. What ever happened to carving a cute pumpkin face? The kids say I am too old fashioned!

Spooktacular

Pirate Jake and Mario

Don't they look happy?

They turn the swimming pool into a haunted swamp and give the kids canoe rides.

Head first down the big slide!

Thomas and Jake having a donut eating contest.. Thomas won but Jake didn't care because he got to eat a donut!

Tonight we went to the Spooktacular at the rec center. We usually have to help out with a booth for a fundraiser for the swim team. Jake wore his pirate gear and at the last minute Thomas decided to dress up and found the mustache and went as Mario. Maddi went also and was a U fan. Mitch went to a college party but didn't dress up. Tomorrow he and his buddies are going to a party as the blue man group. Hopefully I will be able to get a picture! This has been a crazy Halloween season ! One more party tomorrow!!!