1st Half of November

Red Ribbon Week was 10/31-11/4; 10/31 was costume day, of course.

11/1: PJ's and crazy hair day! 

11/2: We were eating lunch when all of the sudden Makenna started yelling, "My tooth, my tooth!" I couldn't understand her at first because her mouth was full of food. She pulled the food out of her mouth and one of her loose teeth was in it! I guess the Tooth Fairy is coming for a visit tonight!

It was picture day for Makenna's basketball team today. They set up a basic backdrop in a poorly lit room and we had to take our own pictures. I did the best I could in the couple of minutes I had. :/

Oh. my. gosh. So, while Makenna was brushing her teeth before bed tonight, Avery told me that Makenna was brushing her tooth, the one that fell out at lunch. I yelled that she should stop because she might drop it down the drain. About a minute later, she started crying and screaming something unintelligible. Yep, the tooth went down the drain. She was SO upset and kept crying, saying, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Poor baby. But she should have listened to Mommy! ;)

Thankfully, she had turned the water off while she was brushing the tooth and it didn't get past the bottom of the drain stopper mechanism. BTW, do you know how DISGUSTING the drain looks inside when you take the drain stopper off? Barf! Jared took off part of the drain pipe under the sink and we ran water, along with the tooth, into an ice cream bucket. Makenna was thrilled to get her tooth back and put it in her tooth fairy packet. :)

11/3--A doctor and cowgirl on "dress like your dream job" day! [The previous day was "wear red day", so they wore their red tulle skirts with the matching shirts; I didn't get a picture.]  The Doc McStuffins costume was a Christmas present from Kiki two or three years ago and the stethoscope was from the Doc McStuffins dr. bag we gave the girls one year; Makenna barely fits in it anymore and we had to add sweat pants to the bottom.  We had found the cowgirl clothes in a box in the garage a couple of weeks prior; Avery was ecstatic for a chance to wear them, along with my hat!

Friday, the last day of Red Ribbon Week was owl clothing day (the school's mascot).

Plantar Fasciitis sucks! It went away in my right foot for a while and now my left foot has it! I really want to clean my house thoroughly before my parents get here tomorrow but my heel hurts so freaking bad!! 😭😭😭 Somebody call a wahmbulance. ;)

11/4--One of these little jerks just did this and I'm betting that it was a little one. 😠 The last picture shows what it looked like before it was broken.

11/5--My parents and nephews. My parents got here last night and the older nephew baptized the younger one today. :)

We went to Kiki's for lunch afterward--the ordered Papa Murphy's pizza and Kiki and I went and picked up cupcakes from an awesome cupcake shop--the owner won Cupcake Wars a couple of years ago.  That night, Kiki had to work but Michael and the kids came over and my dad made Buffalo wings and we watched LSU lose to Bama.  Argh!  It was a good game, though; Bama is #1 and we held them scoreless the first three quarters.

11/6--My parent came to church with us, then Kiki's family came over for dinner that night; I made hard and soft tacos for everyone.

11/7--After the girls got home from school, we ate lunch really quick, then went and met Kiki, Carma, and Wyatt at Discover Park in Pleasant Grove. It was a gorgeous day.

11/8--I went and voted while the girls were at school.

I taught piano lessons that afternoon, then my parents came with me to take the girls to dance class.  We ate at Chik-Fil-A afterward.

11/9--After school, my parents came with us to watch Avery's gymnastics class, then I had one piano lesson, and we all went to Makenna's basketball game that evening.

Avery is on the beam on the left, in black

11/12--It looks like Makenna was in the process of copying a book when the boy next door came to ask the girls to go to his house and play. :)

They played over there pretty much all day, just coming home to eat lunch.

11/15--Avery on the way home from dance class this evening, excitedly: "That IS a super moon, right?!"
It was pretty big tonight!

Oh joy, Jared found this out in the garage yesterday and the girls love playing it over and over and over again. I might have to go put it back in hiding. :P [The mouth used to move.]:


My two BOYS. Jared HATES when they do this, ha ha! Besides the fact that Whiskers only has ant bite sized nipples, Oreo is 4 month old--too old for that, even if it was with his mommy. Weirdo. And why does Whiskers let him do that??:

2nd Half of October

10/21--Yay for fall break! The girls both got in my bed early this morning and we all slept in together, then they got up and drew and colored quietly at the kitchen table for a while before I fully woke up, which was much needed by me because I've had a rough couple of days not feeling well. When I finally got up and got going, we went to the Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point and walked around the gardens. As if I weren't exhausted enough after that, the girls talked me into taking them to the dinosaur museum for a bit, as well. I think I'm gonna go take a hot bath before bed! It was a fun day, though.

10/21--Jared's sister and her two kids came and went to the pumpkin patch with us and spent the night. She went shopping the next day and her kids stayed and played with the twins all day. They had fun playing outside in the awesome weather practically all day. :)

10/22--KITTY UP A TREE!
The twins and their cousins were playing outside on Sat. and I had the window open so I could hear them. I heard Oreo meowing and went to see if one of the kids was holding him against his will or something and we realized he was way up in the willow tree! It looked like he wasn't sure how he was gonna get down and the kids were freaking out, especially Avery--she was on the verge of tears. After a while, he finally figured it out. Avery was so relieved!

10/22--we painted pumpkins that evening as soon as their cousins left. They couldn't wait to paint them!!

10/26--Jared "got to" coach Makenna's basketball team last night, ha ha! He wasn't dressed for running around the court, telling the kids where to go, etc. The coach was sick and his wife asked Jared to coach. They are actually looking for someone else to coach the team for the rest of the season because the coach's son broke his arm and won't be able to play the rest of the season, so he'd rather one of the other parents coach the team. So maybe Jared will be the coach the rest of the season. He's so happy (not), ha ha ha! He did a great job, though.

10/28--We went to the Halloween Extravaganza tonight. We had fun dressing up as characters from Alice in Wonderland, trick-or-treating, eating sloppy joes, playing games, etc. The girls did not have fun in the spooky alley, however--we had to take the emergency exit, ha ha! They did not like the dressed up people jumping out and scaring us. They did have fun other than that, though. And we won a big pumpkin pie! :)

The White Rabbit (Alice in Wonderland)

Before heading to the Lehi Halloween Extravaganza

This was after the spook alley, which they did NOT like!

 

10/30--The girls had a lesson about service at church and started doing things as soon as we walked in the door and left these notes everywhere. 😊😊 They made my bed (kind of), cleaned their room, made each other's beds, organized their shoes, and cleaned a mess they made in the foyer this morning.

10/31--Today was a looooooong day! We woke up a little early to make sure I had time to get the girls dressed up in their costumes. As soon as they got on the bus, I gathered a crapload of stuff and headed to the school. I didn't realize how crazy the school parking would be with the costume parade being the first thing that morning! I had to lug all the stuff I brought from my car, which I parked at least a block away from the school. The costume parade was super cute.

As soon as the parade was over, we headed to the classroom and I (room mom), was in charge of getting everything set up for the class Halloween party. Everything went really well and I think all the kids had a blast and enjoyed the snacks.

I got home and cleaned the house, taught a piano lesson, then made chili (using tomatoes from our garden, which I had to blanch and stew first); I also made rice and corn muffins to go with the chili. My MIL and SIL and her two kids came over for dinner, then Jared went with them all to go trick-or-treating while I stayed and handed out candy (my back and feet could not take any more walking or standing for the day!!!). My BIL and his fiance showed up and joined the rest of them until they finished trick-or- treating. Surprisingly, we were able to get the girls in bed just after 8:30--and that includes reading time.

The costume parade:

The class Halloween party:

I made two of these containers with Tootsie Pop ghosts

I made the jack-o-lantern balloons, which contained candy

Halloween mystery boxes

Makenna did not want to do the mystery boxes at first, until I allowed her to see that it was just food, not really monster ears, witch fingers, brains, eyeballs, etc. :D

Bean bag toss

Story time

Craft time--Halloween masks

Besides the Tootsie Pop ghosts and balloons with candy, we had mummy juice boxes (made by me), bat pudding, and ghost chese sticks

Spider races

Snack time

Snack time

 Time to Trick or Treat!!!

Cody, Daisy, Avery, Makenna

Mikan and Jason

Such a fun day! Now I need some pain meds for my back! :P I hope everyone had as fun of a Halloween!!