october in review

well for the start of october we were in potato harvest-we were trying to figure out some fun stuff to do and of course my kids wanted to go to aunt christys house...i don't even think disneyland could rival aunt christys house to my kids. so we decided to stay a night-which turned into two. while we were there we wanted to get some potatoes from a "nearby" field, which turned into an adventure of it's own. we all piled into a little hatchback car that christy had on loan, while hers was being fixed: 9 kids, 2 adults, and 1 dog-daisy (you can't really see the dog but it is there behind kelsi's hand)
so we head off to the "nearby" field-christy has directions but for some reason we can't seem to find where they are digging the potatoes, so after about 20 minutes of driving the kids are getting hot and squished, well we pass a freshly hit skunk and the smell is too much and tyrel pukes in the back-the dog starts eating it, we hurry to the side of the road and everyone piles out, tyler then gets sick also. so christy takes the back part out and dumps a water bottle over it to clean it up...we pile some potato bags on the wet spot and pile back in. the smell is too much for everyone so now we have to drive with the windows down, which lets in all kinds of dust from the country roads. well the kids are getting kind of antsy by now and i have to admit i was getting car sick too. so we decide to go back to christys and call and see if our directions are right...we get new directions and head back out, just to drive around for another 20 minutes-lost! well christys older boys start teasing her about how she could get lost going to the mailbox but christy never lets anything get her down, she just said "well we haven't had a nice drive with our cousins for a long time." i love christys attitude, she can always see the positive in any situation:) we never did pick any potatoes but christy sent us home with plenty.
we made some potato people, one of my kids favorite things to do. but some how they turned a little crazy this year and this is what we got...
they were so excited to light the matches and fireworks on fire that night and "roast the marshmellows".
they had fun!!!
kelsi loved riding her ripstick all through christys house on her hardwood floors, another reason why they love aunt christys. we really had alot of fun-thanks aunt christy!
lisa marie brought us back some apples from her trip to boise...the kids love to help me dry them-kaden usually does the peeler/corer, but he shared pretty good. koy and brooke pretended to be like lady and the tramp when they eat the spagetti...
they would laugh so hard when they would kiss at the end!
i loved this cute little apple we found in our box of apples-lisa marie said meg picked those ones-so i loved it even more, it was in my window until it shriveled.
this was a crazy zucchinni from our garden-we called it the swan.
brooke had to make a monster for her kindergarten class-it turned out so cute, i love doing projects like this with my kids-they're so creative!
the day before the kids had to go back to school-we decided to go to leo's in idaho falls...we were especially happy when our daddy came with us, these kind of noisy places are not his favorite but the kids love to be with their dad!
i think he liked it too-even though he'll never admit it!
we had a straw maze right through the field this year-so it was fun to go with the kids, we made it through twice in the light but we never did find the end in the dark. we went back when it was haunted with monsters-koy came this time and he was so funny, he would not let me put him down and when one of the monsters came close to us he just stared at him and then he raised his hand and said "hi there". he still talks about the monsters- he'll say remember that goblin wanted to have me for dinner.
kent left the water on in the pasture-i thought it was so neat looking...koy went out there and karate chopped all the weeds down.

then we had halloween-with lots of fun activities: carving pumpkins, the nursing home carnival, class parties, a new carnival at rexburg motor sports, and the church trunk or treat.

kelsi was a football player again-this is actually last years picture, i didn't even get one of her this year. i think this is the 4th or 5th time she's been a football player but she told me this was her last year to dress up and trick or treat because she would be too old next year:(
koy was a power ranger:as he would say 5-2-8 activate!
brooke was a cute little "snappy" poodle-i had bought a hippie costume last year for cheap and she was suppose to be that but she said "what's a hippie?" i said like on scooby doo-but then i thought maybe you shouldn't encourage your kids to be hippies so i said "what do you want to be?" brooke says, "a poodle" i said, "do you know what a poodle is?"

she says, "yeah, it's what sirri is!"

kaden was the boy who lived-harry potter. we even dyed his hair black. he loves his costume (thanks mom for the scarf), he even puts it all on to read his book-he's currently on harry potter 5...his third time through the series. on a sad note: just yesterday i cut his hair and he has been growing it out since like may-i like it short, he likes it long...but i did feel bad because he cried when he saw how short i cut it, sorry!