Here's the behind the scenes of perfecting Allie's cute pigtails.
Loren had a few more pictures of Yellowstone I forgot to upload. Sorry for backtracking, but I better add them or they'll be lost forever.
Old Faithful is still faithful.
Paint pots.
Gibbon Falls
A week before Halloween my family came over and we had a pumpkin carving party. It was so fun! Brayden and Em made this witch masterpiece.
This was Loren and I's bat creation.
I took Lydia and Allie to the Pumpkin Walk in North Logan. I hadn't been in years and I forgot how fun it was! Lydia loved looking at all the funny pumpkins.
This was one of my favorites. Anne Shirley breaking a slate over Gilbert's head.
Lydia's favorite, of course. Moana!
This Star Wars one was incredible!
Not quiiite tall enough.
We went up to Brendan's park last Sunday to celebrate Landon's birthday. I can't get over how beautiful his bench is.
Halloween was so fun and so exhausting! We started the day off with trick or treating down Main Street in Logan with my cousin, Liz and her boy, Sam whose Lydia's age. Liz has been living in Texas and just barely moved back to the valley a couple months ago. We love having them back! Lydia was a witch this year and Allie was a wizard.
Next was Lydia's preschool costume party. All the kids dressed up and the last twenty minutes of school, they performed a few songs for the parents. I remember singing "Mean Old Witch" when I went to Karla's preschool. Those songs are tried and true!
Next was a birthday party for Landon (and Maddy but she's serving a mission in Hong Kong), and trick or treating around Chris's neighborhood. I bought these costumes for us at the DI. Loren and I never dress up and if we do, it's just haphazardly throwing something together in two minutes. Halloween has just never been our thing. But this year, I thought maybe we should try being awesome and wearing matching Greek God and Goddess costumes. It would be epic! Well, it wasn't until we were at Chris's house that Loren and I slowly realized his costume wasn't a Greek God like I thought, it was actually Jesus, crown of thorns and all. Oh boy.... the one year I try and be festive. So, Loren went home and changed before our next party at the Rigby's and I felt resigned to the fact that we will never be awesome at Halloween. Can we turn on the Christmas music yet??
Chris actually looked like he could pull off the mullet.
Trick or treating with Lexi, Elizabeth, and Nathan Davidson, Jon and Rachel, Lindsay, Atticus, Kristen, Chris, and Lydia.
Kristen had a great costume this year! But she always has great costumes. I should learn a thing or two from her.
After trick or treating, and brief stop at home for Loren to change, we made our way to the Rigby party at in my uncle Bruce's garage. It's always so much fun. There's games, dancing, prizes, laughing and so much food!
Alan (The Phantom of the Opera), Leslie (Knight), Liz (ninja), Jalyn (Mary Poppins) and Scott (Bert the Chimney Sweep).
Todd (Charly Chapman), Mom (Little Red), Allie (wizard, she was too tired to pull off her hat so that worked well), and Lydia (witch)
Dance party in the dark with flashlights.
Grandma teaching us the Virginia Reel... with a little distraction.
All the kids in their cute costumes. They all got a prize, Lydia got Lucky Charms cereal and told me it was the best night ever. We left around 9:30 and Lydia and Allie fell asleep without a fight. It was a fun, full day!
On Wednesdays I take Lydia to dance in Providence. It's only 45 minutes long, so it doesn't make sense for me to drive home and then back again to pick her up. So Allie and I hang out at a little park nearby. It's actually pretty fun to spend one on one time with her. She could go down the slide all day long! I'm not sure what we're going to do when it snows.
The other night Loren helped with a focus group and didn't make it home until 10:30. Lydia built daddy's work and said she hoped daddy would be safe and not fall off the roof.
I can't believe it's November! We're gearing up for quite an eventful two months with a wedding and the holidays. Exciting things in store!
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