Halloween 2012

A couple of days before Halloween we had our annual family Halloween Party.  Josh's parents and his sister and her family came, and my mom and my sister and her family came.  It was fun to have so many be able to come.

Parker as Iron Man:

Josh was Mitt Romney:

Bryce was Brobee from Yo Gabba Gabba:

Quinn was a sock monkey:

My niece Sydney as Minnie Mouse:

My sister Cammie and niece Briley as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Baby:

 

Josh's parents were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Josh's nieces Ivey (not sure) and Mila the ballerina:

Josh's sister Melissa was a bird:

Isaac was Captain America.  He made his own shield!

Josh's nephew Kekoa 

Josh's nephew Luke:

My mom was Tweedle Dum to go along with Cammie's Tweedle Dee:

 

Me as a clown:

We had some fun Halloween foods.  My traditional "finger" cookies,  pumpkin pretzels (pretzels dipped in orange chocolate), deviled egg eyeballs, sausage mummies, and then veggies with dip and salsa with black and orange chips.

We made the deviled eggs to look bloodshot on the outside.

Didn't end up having time to do the bloodshot look on top though.

On Halloween day Cammie and her girls came down to Trick or Treat with us.  My mom was still up visiting her, so she came too.  We had lots of fun!  We just love our neighborhood for Trick or Treating.  Lots of people participate and have their houses decorated and it's just fun.  The weather was super nice.  Perfect Halloween!

Almost forgot to post pictures of the kids pumpkins they carved!  Unfortunately I didn't get pictures of them until later when they were starting to look a little wilty.

Isaac's Captain America pumpkin:

We tried making Bryce a Brobee pumpkin: 

Parker's pumpkin:

Quinn's kitty pumpkin:

Beginning of October 2012

Another beautiful Sunday drive.  I just love when the mountains are just coated in red and orange. :)

In October our roses started blooming again and were SO pretty!

I tried out a new muffin recipe - Pumpkin cream cheese muffins.  They were really yummy!

This is the quilt that we did in quilt group this year.  It was fun, but I wasn't completely happy with how mine turned out. Ah well. :)  This one was hard to envision the end result for some reason, so hard to choose colors for.  I'm learning!

Josh made a big step with his business in October.  He moved his office out of the house, and started renting an office on Main Street.  It's much easier for him to get all his work done without the distractions of a home office.

Quinn and I went down to the office one day and Quinn had so much fun playing in a big box Josh had there.  He would go inside and close it, then come popping out.  So cute. :)

We were so excited to actually get a couple of buttercup squashes from our plants this year!  They are our favorite squash.  Most years they don't develop before it gets too cold.  They were yummy!

One day I heard Quinn in the other room saying "Help!" (Bryce taught him that - haha).  I went in and he was sitting on the computer desk.  :) :)

And here he is peeking out from the porch railing.

September 2012

On September 6th, Parker turned 8 years old!  He opened his presents before school.

He got some Legos, a camera, a book, a dice game, and some wheel shoes.  

Grandma & Grandpa Chappell gave him a tie and some books.

And later a bear from Grandma & Grandpa Bell came in the mail.

Parker in his birthday hat from school:

For Parker's cake this year he had a raspberry swirl cheesecake.  Yum!

Parker had planned to do laser tag for his birthday, but ended up

changing his mind.  That weekend I asked him if there was anything else he wanted to 

do to celebrate his birthday.  I was surprised when he chose a little activity we sometimes

do just for fun.  I make a pretend movie theater with a snack bar for the kids to visit.

We have a fun movie all ready to play, then the kids take pretend money and come 

to my snack bar and buy what snacks, etc. they want and buy a movie ticket.

This time we had dinner plates (we did corn dogs), popcorn, candy, and mini sodas.

The kids always have so much fun playing this. :)

On September 22, Parker was baptized!  We originally had planned to baptize him
in October, but changed it to September so he could have a chance to go to the
Brigham City Temple dedication that was on September 23rd.  It turned out  perfectly,
and some friends watched Bryce and Quinn while Josh, Isaac, Parker and I went to the dedication.  Such a neat experience to share with my boys.

Parker's baptism was really neat as well.  Grandma & Grandpa Bell, Grandma & Grandpa Chappell,
Aunt Melissa and Family and some friends from church all came.  I gave a talk on Baptism, Isaac gave a talk on the Holy Ghost, and Parker did a musical number himself playing "When I am Baptized" on the piano.  Josh baptized and confirmed him.  We are so proud of Parker!

Quinn sure loves these bowls with straws on them!  He loves having cereal in them in the morning. :)

Josh's business has been doing so well and he has helped so many kids with autism and other disabilities, that he was invited to join the Autism Speaks expo this year!  We had a big

banner made for it (that's the logo I designed for him).  I also designed a new brochure focusing

on autism, a sign with benefits,  and some new business cards.  Each participant in the carnival was supposed to do a carnival game.  We decided to do a fish pond (my favorite) and it was a big hit!  We had lots of fun and hopefully got the word out about how much massage therapy can help autism.  Isaac and Parker came and helped us out and we all had a good time.  

Cute sleeping picture of little Quinn.

Parker on his first day as a cub scout!  He was excited to finally be in scouts with Isaac.

Just a pretty picture of some cosmos that Parker planted by our shed.

September 29th was Josh and my 11th Wedding Anniversary.

Josh surprised me with a boquet of roses.  The weekend after we went out and had sushi to celebrate.

On the last day of September, we decided to take a ride up the canyon to see the fall leaves after church.  It sure was pretty - so good for the soul. :)