Can you believe that my baby Maggie has turned 4? I sure can't! She is so much fun. You never know what is going to come out of her mouth! This year she got a Barbie bike for her birthday. Grandma was kind enough to send her a barbie to go with it!
The kids had fun with the camera on a Sunday afternoon walk. I love where we live!
Maggie is so funny. I was glad I had the camera nearby when I saw this.
I went with the Beehives to Gardner Village for our own Witches Night Out. We stopped at Arctic Circle where we all got Square Pumpkins and when we were done finding all the witches we all got our free cookies at the Neighborhood Bakery.
I grew up in a great ward and had a ton of great friends that were all the same age. In our stake we earned the name "Killer Bees" when we were Beehives at girls camp. A few of us that live nearby were able to get together for dinner. It was so much fun catching up with each other. I can't wait for the next girls night out! Thanks Jill, Kim, Oakley and Jami!
Morgan is doing her county fair project on Morgan County. Since she had never been there, we took a family field trip to Morgan county and visited ALL of the historical sites listed online. We started with the Morgan train station.
We saw Devil's Slide
The cabin where the first baby boy in Morgan County was born,
the opera house and the tabernacle
and we even stopped at the rest stop where all the trappers had a big rendevous!
So how do you entertain a 4-year-old for an entire week at a book fair? With a camera, paper, pen, and tape!
Halloween was a lot of fun this year. Because I spent the whole week before Halloween at the school running the book fair, I kind of forgot to buy pumpkins. I told the kids as soon as they had there rooms clean on Saturday we would go buy pumpkins and then carve them when we got home. You would think that would be an easy thing to do. We went to grocery stores in Salem, Spanish Fork, and Springville and couldn't find any pumpkins. We went to walmart and they didn't have any pumpkins. We even told the kids that they could get plastic pumpkins and a can of spray paint so they could paint them any color they wanted. They wouldn't go for it. We decided to drive home the back way through Mapleton and hoped that we could find some farmer selling pumpkins on the side of the rode. We passed a sign for a pumpkin patch and corn maze. Some family near the mouth of Mapleton Canyon let their teenage kids plant pumpkins and corn in the front 2 acres of their property. They were done for the season and cleaning everything up when we got there. We found one of the girls who said since it was Halloween we could have any pumkin we wanted for a dollar and then she said we could go through the corn maze for free. The kids thought it was the neatest thing they had ever done! It was great! They all came home with big pumpkins that were a little odd shaped, but they didn't care!
This year Maggie was a good witch for Halloween and told me that I needed to be a wicked witch. She later changed her mind and told me that I could be a good witch with her, so we were both good witches. Josh was a Clone Trooper again, but this year he had a new and improved helmet. Morgan was Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. I was going to make her costume, but luckily my mom took pitty on me and made it. Morgan thought that she was pretty special to have Grandma make her costume and ship it to her in the mail. Thanks Mom! Mike decided that he wanted to be white trash this year and Nelson went as a train engineer. When we were done carving pumpkins we had just enought time to get into our costumes and head over to a neightbor's house for a "White Trash Monster Bash." It was really fun! We ate lots of spam, cheese, Jello and an assortment of fried foods including fried twinkies. When the kids were done trick-or-treating we were off to another neighbor's house for dinner and another party. I was really glad that we were able to sleep in an extra hour on Sunday!
