Happy Halloween!!

We had a VERY busy day. First we set off in search of the perfect pumpkins to carve and put on the porch. Every one of the kids ended up pulling their own wagon full of pumpkins. Aidan is off to a good start. The twins ride at first but when they see how much fun it was to pull and load....they were off on a mission.

Kael enjoyed pulling Koen around
Dallin found his pumpkin at the beginning and held onto it regardless of how much his other siblings tried to trade or trick him out of it.
Aidan found his!

Kael starting his own collection of pumpkins

After Dallin found his pumpkin he just kicked back and watch his brothers and sister scavenge for theirs

Still searching

Dallin still keeping guard

Kael continues to gather

Our pretty little girl

Siblings/Best Buds...They're inseparable when together.

Kael exploring the haystacks

Koen looking and peacefully meandering

We finally got them to sit for a few seconds to take a pic.

And we jumped in too!

Back to the house for carving festivities. The kids drew the face on the pumpkin that they wanted and we did our best. We have Aidan's, Kael (he wanted moon eyes and a star nose) Koen, Hannah and Dallin's (the biggest one and he made sure we didn't forget).

While we were out searching for pumpkins apparently a wasps nest had broken through and got in the house. We were unaware of a nest since we moved in a week prior. There were over 40 wasps of which Uncle Reed had fun vacuuming up with the hose and watching them buzz around inside the vacuum. So while we were busy carving and doing other festive activities the men were outside for 2 hours entertaining themselves in wasp killing adventures. The method to their madness was to snap a wet towel at them and smack them out of the air while Reed sprays them with something that killed them. To sum it up, fun was had by all and laughter could be heard outside as well as in.

Cookie decorating time! And all the kids made sure that no candy went to waste.

Trick-or-treat time! I wish I would have gotten better pics of costumes but I forgot my camera when we left for the night. We went to our old neighborhood in Provo since we knew our neighbors very well and missed them. So the pics of costumes are after a long night of treating around neighborhoods. I was a black cat of which my long, fancy, fake eyelashes fell off halfway through the night. I should have listened to the 6 yr old who apparently is a pro at putting on fake eyelashes and was giving me advise on how to do it.

Good Witch Hannah......

Bad Witch Hannah.........the alter-ego-witch.........very spooky.

Dallin, or should I say Optimus Dal!

The twins chose to be Incredibles of which they were excited and even wore their costumes to bed for a couple nights. But when it came time to actually wear them for their intended purposes, they would have no part in it. I even brought back up costumes of Spiderman, a Skeleton and a Pirate and they refused. So they trick-or-treated in their little skeleton t-shirts they wore earlier while pumpkin hunting so at least it was festive.

Our First Week in October

Well, October turned out to be a busy month for us. On the 2nd Barry and I headed up to Logan to attend Dustin and Tiffany's sealing.

I had to sneak this pic of the boys in at the beginning of this post. They love to hang out with each other whether they are awake or asleep. They are truely best friends.

This is the first time I have been to the Logan Temple and it's absolutely gorgeous! They were rebuilding gardens and a fountain at the front. I can't wait to see how it looks after.

Their sealer was actually pretty funny. Afterwards we hung out up front awaiting the bride and groom to exit. Great Grandma Michaelson was even able to attend.
The photographer snuck this pic of us at the wedding while we were waiting around getting family pictures taken. Love this pic! www.izlas.com/blog

Here comes the happy couple!

Dustin is Barry's cousin and their families were very close growing up. Tiffany was stunning. She is such a sweet and beautiful woman....welcome to the family!

Little Haley grinning big

The siblings...Bart, Dustin, Odette and Julie

Family/Cousins/Friends/WOW Guild Leaders of Gog and Magog....

Our turn for a few quick pics

It was a little chilly but still a beautiful day. Afterwards we all went to Sizzler for a Wedding Dinner.

We returned home for the night and headed out to Lyman, Wyoming the next day for the reception. This is Koen modeling his backpack and getting excited to leave.

He was so cute he just kept turning around, looking back at the camera and smiling. This is his Blue Steel look :)

We saw a lot of friends and family we haven't seen and I met a few for the first time. We stayed overnight in Lyman at the Gibb's beautiful home and had a wonderful visit. Afterwards we drove around for a bit and took a few pics. We've driven around Lyman before but never took pics so..... This is Barry's stompin' grounds. To prove how slow time moves here, the pile of rock and concrete in the middle of the pic was put there when he was a kid when the construction workers cleared that out to build a road leading to I-80 ....

Looking out over his childhood....

The house Barry lived in from approx 2 years old until he graduated high school. This house has been updated. It used to have a different color siding and the garage has been added on. Barry's elementary school

Barry's church where he played hours on end of basketball.

After we came home, we unloaded our bags and headed out to Chuck-E-Cheese to play with some old work friends. Kael is riding in a huge robot.

Riding in a monster truck, especially one that moves.... Hold on! Kael is even putting his hand across to keep Koen in!

Koen likes the Mini a little better. He's even looking while he backs it up :)

Playing a shooting game

Kael is very serious about his gaming....just like Daddy

Koen riding with one of his new friends.

Koen shootin' hoops with Dad.

Koen tried to escape all the arcade noise pollution but up here it's just as loud

Koen looking down....." Hi Mommy!"

Kael reaching through

Another fun sleeping pic. We check on them every night before bed and couldn't find them. We looked in all the usual places....Hannah's bed, the rocking chair, top bunk, bottom bunk, chaise.....but then I looked under the bed and ....

LOL.... They had dragged their pillows and blankets under as well.

So the boys stopped destroying everything every morning but one morning I was getting them cereal for breakfast and Koen said he wanted cookies and then ran up to Hannah's room. I followed, and Koen kept saying he wanted cookies. They slowly went over to the closed closet doors, opened it, and pulled out a box of half eaten crumb donuts and handed it to me. These were Uncle Reed and Aunt Raquel's donuts that they had on top of the fridge. Apparently they had climbed up on top of the counters and got on top of the fridge to retrieve the donuts and snuck into Hannah's closet and sampled each one and put it back.... LOL .... Uncle Reed and Aunt Raquel were very forgiving.