Funny Face

I have been trying to capture this face of Brady's for the last couple weeks. Everytime you inhale sharply or raise your eyebrows he copies you. He raises his eyebrows and tightens his little face up. So of course when they do something funny we make them do it again and again.

FHE

Katelyn had FHE tonight. She had a lesson on service. She told us a story and then made up her own board game using her High school Musicial game board. She wrote her own questions and scenarios about service. I thought that was pretty creative. We made parfaits for treats using the new jello pudding Turtle flavor. Not bad.....

Vampires,Darth Vader,Hippies, and Lions oh my!

The trunk or treat party was on Wednesday night this year. Katelyn was a scary vampire. We sprayed her hair black. We had black on everything. We did not put black hairspray in her hair for the school party on Friday. Blakely wanted to be a hippie. We went to DI and and to find the perfect outfit but in the end she changed it. Garret really wanted to be green lantern from the justice league, but had to settle for Darth Vader. He was a good sport. Brady was tired and cranky but still let us dress him up as a lion. We enjoyed the ward party but were glad to get home. Halloween night we had a small Halloween get together with another family. We played pass the pumpkin and freeze dance. We ate pizza and iced pumpkin sugar cookies. It was fun but everyone fell asleep before Dad was finished talking. (Geez, Dad) Happy Halloween to all.

Carving Pumpkins

Well, it only took us a week to get our pumpkins carved after we got them. The girls decided to paint theirs at the last minute. Two ruined shirts later..... We have three painted pumpkins and one carved pumpkin. I started carving Brady's and made Shawn finish it because he is much more artistic.

High School Musicial Mania!

High School Musicial 3 came out! Blakely, Katelyn, and myself went down to Twin to see the movie with our cousin Emily. Emily is crazy for High School Musicial also. She wanted to go and see it for her birthday party. It took Katelyn about 20 minutes into the movie to calm down because she was so excited to see it. We enjoyed the music and songs. Now we will just have to wait until it comes out on DVD.

Apple Cider Time Again!

Well, it is that time again for the second annual apple pressing day. The Burley Petersons and the Filer Manwarings and Grandpa Manwaring got together to press apples. We waited longer this year because it was just not getting cold enough to pick apples and then 2 feet of snow later; most of the apples were frozen and mushy. Perfect for applesauce and apple cider. We picked apples Wed. night after school among a gander of geese. (I forgot my camera.) I picked apples with the kids Fri. night (I forgot my camera.) Brady got stung by a bee and Garret fell out of the tree, but we needed more apples. Saturday morning we arrived at Blake and Josie's and they were already going. We forged ahead. The kids hung in there until lunchtime and then they disappeared leaving the adults to finish. Shawn caught his finger in the press and ripped part of his nail out of the nailbed. The hornets buzzed around us. BUT we made almost 50 gallons of apple cider. They are safely tucked away in the freezer. We will love it come February. (I forgot my camera.)

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas....What!!!!!

When they said it was going to snow .....IT SNOWED. We woke up Saturday morning to about 6 inches of snow it continued to snow all day and all night. By Sun. morning we had close to 20 inches of snow. They canceled church for the day. I don't think we can hold out hope for school closing on Monday. Darn! Saturday the kids played and played in the snow. We decided that it was time for the air conditioners to come out of the windows and the bikes to be put away. Later that afternoon we pulled the kids around behind the snowmobile.(Thanks Grandpa) We played until dark outside. Sun. morning we had to hold the kids inside until it warmed up a little, but they still went outside to early. Shawn is still gone helping clean out driveways with the tractor. So we will see what the rest of Sunday brings......... Blakely is posing like a snow mermaid.