Our Family: OCTOBER!

OCTOBER has been a crazy busy fun month! At the beginning of the month we hung out with the Royer's. Danny's sister Mary was playing in the state tennis tournament in Salt Lake. It was on a Friday so I asked Memphis and Kayzee if they wanted to miss school and go watch. I certainly did so I got a sub but they didn't want to! They are crazy;) Both Kayzee and Memphis LOVE school and their friends (which is the opposite of last year so I am so happy for them) so we took them to school and then Danny and I got to enjoy watching his sister play without having to chase kids around. It was actually nice. Mary did amazing as always! She took 2nd and we are so proud of her.

In between the two last games Danny ran home to pick up the kids and came back for the last game. After, everyone was heading up to Brigham City for the weekend and we were going to head home because we didn't pack any clothes or anything to stay the night but everyone convinced us to just go up so it was an interesting weekend with nothing but what we were wearing. We did have fun hanging out with Danny's family though.

Memphis had his parent teacher conferences. Memphis has just took off this year and has loved school. Last year it was a fight everyday to get him to go to school and this year he is the first one ready to go. He loves his teacher and he is making friends. He is also doing really well in every subject. He is ahead of where he should be right now in 1st grade so we don't have to worry to much about him.

This is all Memphis could write at the beginning of the school year.

A month later he could write his numbers to 120 and got an award! GO MEMPHIS! His reading is also more fluent and he has more expression. I love seeing him learn and grow.

It was silly hair day at school so Memphis used Kayzee's butterfly clips in his hair.

Have to throw in some pictures of our silly Kayzee too:)

My hip fracture and hip problems were finally not bothering me until I decided to race Memphis one day. I only ran maybe 100 feet and then I couldn't walk the next day. My hip bothered me for about a month and I am finally feeling better again. SO ANNOYING! I also got to have a girl's night with some of my old roommates from BYU. We planned a bonfire with s'mores but it got rained out so we lit some candles and sat on her porch and talked for hours. It was so fun! Love my BYU roomies.

Danny plays softball on a city league team with some friends and this year their team won the season and the tournament. So proud of him!

My PE office has been leaking for a couple years now from the roof and they haven't been able to find where the actual leak was. Well one day it started pouring into my room. Muddy water pouring down the walls and from the middle of my ceiling. Good news they found the leak but bad news my room was flooded, carpet ruined, and some equipment ruined. I was really mad and upset cause I had to deal with it while teaching and no one cleaned it up for a week until I complained about it.

Luckily that night I got to go out with my friend and her family for witch's night out at Gardner Village. I new tradition and I have fun. I needed a night of shopping and yummy food:)

Memphis was diagnosed with severe acid reflux. Big debate with my dentist and pediatrician but the backs of Memphis' teeth are eroding away and he throws up a lot and spits a lot so we decided to try anything. It is so rare for this to happen in 6 year old boys so of course the only medicine available in child form was not covered by our insurance. The pediatrician gave us another option to try so we will be giving him this medicine everyday for 2 months and then go back in to reevaluate and see if we need to try something else. NOT FUN!

We did a lot of Halloween activities at home to celebrate and the kids went to so many Halloween parties it was crazy. But they had fun! At the beginning of October they kept asking if it was Halloween yet so we made a paper countdown chain so they would know how far away Halloween was.

We went to the Evan's family farm by our house with our friends and the kids had fun going through the mazes and playing in the corn and on the hay.

One day we bought some tiny pumpkins for the kids to paint.

We made ghost pancakes

We bought some big pumpkins to carve. Danny's dad brought us a pumpkin he grew from home, a 57 pound pumpkin!!! Danny had to use an electric saw to carve it!

My mom and dad came to celebrate Halloween with their grandkids! It was a fun weekend. My mom had on black lipstick and gave Memphis a kiss...

Memphis and Kayzee had their Halloween costume parades and parties on Friday at school. I had to dress up too of course...

For the past 3 years I have made Kayzee be a witch because that costume still fit her every year. This year I let her pick. It just worked out that she already had an Elsa dress-up!

Captain America! Hopefully he still wants to be this again next year cause it will still fit!

Saturday night we went trick or treating. My mom offered to stay home and pass out candy so Danny and I took the kids out with my dad and Danny's sister Nita came too! Super Aunt!

My mom and I decided to get some Christmas shopping done so we wouldn't have to mail anything. We also got them wrapped!

Chillin' with grandpa...

And of course the dreaded time changed. I use to love the fall and getting that extra hour of sleep but with kids it's awful! I have not slept since Sunday...

And last but not least I need to update you on BABY MAX and my sister and her husband. October was a big month for Max. He just grew like crazy and progressed so quickly to everyone's amazement. He actually went home weeks sooner than they thought. His due date wasn't until Thanksgiving, born the end of August, and on October 22 they let him go home! He is doing amazing and we know prayers have been answered and that he is being watched over. I am so excited for my sister and their new adventure at home.