Fall Fun

We did a lot of fun things in October and November. See some of our Fall Fun below:

Here are Katie and her two friends Kinsey and Kendra painting pumpkins:

The finished products, pumpkin masks:

Chris grew a great garden this year. He had tomatoes, peppers, onions, and squash

and carrots:

and only one pumpkin grew this year but it was a big one:

Here are Chris and Katie with our huge pumpkin:

We had Deedra, Nikki, Garrett, and Jack over and we all decorated pumpkins:

Katie wanted to dress as a fairy princess because her friend Brooklyn was going to be one. The only color of wings they had left at the store was orange. She was disappointed because her favorite colors are pink or purple. But then she had the idea of dressing as a BSU fairy princess. So we bought orange wings, and orange and blue necklaces. Then we made a blue and orange crown at home and she wore a BSU shirt and blue skirt:

Here's Katie at our church Halloween party with some of her friends. We have 2 fairy princesses, Rapunzel, and a mermaid:

On the Saturday before Halloween we went out to the national wildlife refuge. They had live animals for families to see while they hiked on a short trail. There were spiders, bugs, alligators, owls, and other creatures. Katie also got to do a craft project where she made a homemade trick or treat bag.

Chris and Katie on the trail:

Me on the trail. It's a beautiful area. We've hiked this trail several times with the Cub Scouts.

Chris and Katie checking out an owl:

Chris dressed as Sherlock Holmes for work:

Katie and I made cookies on Halloween day for her kindergarten class (their party was the next day). She wanted shape cookies but not sugar cookies. So we made chocolate chip cookies and cut out shapes for about 6 of them.

We went to my brother Stillman's house to go trick or treating on Halloween night. My brother, Colby and sister, Deedra and their families joined us as well. I didn't get any good pictures but the kids had a blast trick or treating!

Katie started taking a dance ballet class. She absolutely loves it! Here she is in her new dance outfit:

And here she is practicing. She has 2 other girls in her class. Her teacher says she is a natural and can't believe she never took dance classes before.

Chris' cousin Kyle was married in November. We traveled to Utah for the reception.
Here we are with Kyle and his new wife Lark and with Kyle's brother Brandon:

They had dancing at the reception. Here are Chris and Katie having a father daughter dance:

Katie really wanted to make pies this year. So Katie and I made 2 pumpkins pies for Thanksgiving dinner:

We had Thanksgiving dinner at my Grandpa and Grandma's house the next day. Here are the finished pies:

Katie cutting rolls with Grandma Lynn:

Katie and her cousin Livvie with olive fingers:

We had a great Thanksgiving dinner and had fun watching movies and chatting.

Check back in a week or two for December pictures.