Halloween stuff

We had a Fall-oween carnival at the elementary school. It was packed and they ran out of pizza before we ate, but according to the kids it was a lot of fun.

Maddie and her friend were suppose to be in charge of a booth but "some mean girls took it over." Maddie is going to be a gypsy for Halloween but she didn't feel like getting it all together yet.

When they ran out of pizza Tanner was still able to find some food, shew!

Two of my kids hate the goop in the pumpkins and two of them like it, guess which ones...

Tanner had a lofty carving idea that worked half way, it got too thin and we did not have the right tools.

Tanner and Max hate the goop, Maddie and Seth like it!!

Ear Tubes and Adenoids

Seth has fought ear infections all of his short life. He had tubes for a few years which is good for one set of tubes. We were trying really hard to not have to get tubes again, by trying I mean crossing my fingers. Every time we went to the ENT she would say, "They look good but not great, let's see him in 3 months." The copay starts to add up after doing that for a couple of years. Then in September he had an ear infection the WHOLE month. He was on three antibiotics that didn't seem to touch it. So today he got his second set of tubes and his adenoids out. His Dr. said his adenoids were infected which made her think they might have been the source of his many ear infections. Also, he had a sinus infection and his ear drum was about to burst it was so infected. For some reason my first reaction was, "Good." I feel like the surgery was definitely necessary and now he should have all that yucky stuff out and be able to hear and be pain free. He's recovered really fast, right now he's playing away with Max and his friend. I told him he could take the day off school today and tomorrow which thrilled him.

Seth watching a new Wallace and Gromit movie in my bed. The hospital gave him a "free" t-shirt.

Flag Football

Tanner and Max wanted to play flag football this year. It's only four weeks long with two games a week, so it's short and intense. This is Max's first year and he really loved it. His coach says things like, "God gave you two hands to pull flags!" And he thinks that's great. He learned a lot this season and can't wait until next year.Tanner's team never had practice because his coach was pretty busy and two games a week plus practice is hard. His team did pretty well but other teams he played you could tell had practice. It is a sport that's pretty laid back but not as fun when you're losing. For some reason Tanner always wore this shirt under his t-shirt so the other team would call him "red sleeves." So as a family we would cheer for him, "Go, Red sleeves!" He made a couple of touch downs and interceptions, it helps to be tall.

Yellowstone

For Fall Break, Jon's mom rented a cabin right outside of West Yellowstone. It was a lot of fun and relaxing, I think our family slept in until 8:00 every morning. The first day we went to Old Faithful which was amazing. Then the second day we went to the Paint Pots which had so many different colors, it was beautiful.
All of us, Wow, that's a lot of people!
Max and Seth bought little pocket knives which they are showing, they did a lot of "whittling."

We went on a short, beautiful hike above Old Faithful and almost ran into this Bison. It was pretty scary but it didn't charge and we were all safe, shew!
Family picture in front of Old Faithful
Tanner in front of Firehose Falls

Farewell to soccer

So, Maddie's team this year is called the Treehuggers. They are a great group of girls that are really fun to watch. Go girls!!

Tanner had one soccer injury but recovered pretty well. He had a lot of strong kicks and headers this last game. I don't think their team had a name. Go yellow!! If you look closely you can see the ball on Tanner's head as he's heading it.

Seth's team is the Blue Dragons. He played teams that were the green dragons and the red dragons, I think this age of boys like dragons! This is the pizza party after the last game, sorry no action shots but at this age there's not a lot of action shots!

Girls night out/Boys night out

Maddie asked if she could go with her friend Clara to Garder's Village in Salt Lake. It's such a cute place that's built like a village and each house is a store. When I dropped Maddie off, Clara's mom asked if I'd like to go with them. So, I did. There are tons of big witches everywhere doing funny stuff that the girls had to pose by. We ate dinner and bought a few trinkets and ate treats. It was a fun night.

In the meantime...Jon decided to do something fun with the boys. He took them to Teppanyaki. The boys ate and ate and loved watching them cook the food on the table right in front of them. Jon said they all came home with leftovers except Tanner, he ate everything.

Ahh, the cabin

Most of my family was heading up to the cabin to watch conference. Maddie had her last soccer game at 5:00pm on Saturday (she hasn't had an evening game the whole year!) and she really didn't want to miss it. We decided to go up to the cabin after her game even though it would be for less than 24 hours. I'm so glad we did. It's so beautiful in the mountains and nice to be with the family!

Donovan's trying to put on Seth's coat and got a little stuck.