Halloween Party

Our friends, the Thompson's, invited us to their family Halloween party again this year. The kids were so excited to go to the party and dress up in their costumes. We had a such a great time! There was dancing, food, a spook alley, a haunted hayride, and carnival games. They did such an amazing job setting up and making it so fun for the kids. It looked great! Thanks for the invite again.

Afton as Pippi Longstockings. I'm so glad that Afton wanted to be Pippi. I told her that she should be pippi and she didn't know who that was. So I told her a little bit about her and that was who I dressed up as in 2nd grade. So it was perfect for her and she loved it too. She watched a couple of the pippi longstocking cartoons and really liked them.

Doesn't she make the cutest Pippi Longstocking? We got red hairspray but she didn't want to use it in her hair for the party.

Dax the ninja warrior! He loved his costume because he got to fight all the bad guys.

Afton and Dax

Logan the Ninja Turtle (Leonardo). At first he was being a stinker about putting on the costume, but after he got it on he loved it and it looked so cute on him. Thanks Misty for letting us borrow it.

Me and the kiddos. I love dressing up so I decided to be Pippi with Afton. Don't you love my awesome levi dress. Found it at the thrift store for a whole $1.50!

The Pippi's.

At the Party:
The boys. Logan, Dax, Brenden, Steven, and Caleb

The girls. Sophia, Emma, Afton and Paris.

Afton and Sophia.

Playing pin the eyeball on the ghost.

Me and Jason. I tried to get him to dress up but he wasn't going for it so he said that he'd be awesome and wore his "awesome" shirt.

Logan as Leonardo. He looked so cute with the mask on. It was so funny to watch him try to walk around with it on because he couldn't see that well. He kept almost running into things.

The boys thought this was pretty funny to stick their glow sticks up their noses.

Lara, Amber, and me

Earlier that day we went to a birthday party for Brisa who just turned 2.

Getting ready to eat some yummy cupcakes.

The birthday girl smiling for the camera! Love it!

"Cheesy" Logan

We made these candy leis for Dylen's birthday last month and he wanted some of the candy so I made him wear it first so I could snap a picture. I love his cheese smile.

"Cheese"

He loves to pick dandelions when we're on a walk and then has to try to blow off the fuzzy stuff. It takes him a few tries but he eventually gets it all off.

He fell asleep on the floor the other day and I had to snap a picture because he had his arms behind his head. It was too cute! He looks so comfy.

Jog-a-thon

Afton and Dax had their school Jog-a-thon on October 8th. They were so excited for the day to finally come and had a great time. They both did really well jogging with their classes. I was helping in Afton's class so I wasn't able to see Dax run the whole time but I snuck over and snapped a few quick pictures of him. Both of their classes did so awesome! Daxon's class ran the most laps in the Kindergarten and Afton's class ran the most laps in the entire school! She ran 22 laps for her class. Mr. Trowbridge's class usually wins every year because he prepares them for it. That's why they run everyday. And they were definitely prepared. They did such a good job! Thanks to all who helped Afton and Dax by pledging some money for their school fundraiser.

Afton's class before the jog-a-thon. Afton is in the bottom left corner squinting from the sun.

Afton getting ready to do some serious jogging!

With some friends from her class (Loni, Lillyann, Jenna, Carolina, Hannah and Afton)

Afton and Hannah

Daxon's kindergarten class. I got their just in time to snap this picture.

Daxon doing some serious jogging.

I made him stop so I could take a picture. He wasn't too happy about it. And he's a little red in the face from his running.

2nd Grade Campout

Afton's class

The 2nd grade at Afton's school had a campout activity at the end of September. Her teacher asked a few mom's to help him get prepared for the activity. We had to help make some decorations and then set up the classroom. The mom's had a great time trying to make paper mache rocks. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Our rocks looked a little sad when we started but in the end they turned out to be pretty good looking rocks. I was able to go help in the classroom the day of the campout. It was such a fun activity for the kids. In her classroom, their teacher told a scary story around a campfire. It was a true story about him and his brother when they were little. Then he talked about his pet tarantula and snake. He had remote control ones hiding in the classroom and I got to control the tarantula. It was hilarious! I've never heard kids scream that loud. In the other classrooms, they got to make smores and sing songs and learn about constellations. What a fun activity!

Sitting around the campfire and listening to the scary story.

The scary tarantula.

The awesome decorations! It turned out really cool. You can see some of our awesome rocks.

Afton's got bangs!

Afton has been wanting bangs since the beginning of the school year and I'd been putting it off and off again and then again. I guess I was having some mom issues about letting her get bangs, but I finally gave in and let her get them two days before picture day at school. Probably not the best move in timing, but they turned out really cute. Afton just loves them and kept asking me if I thought her friends at school would still recognize her.

The cut.

Right after the cut. She also got her hair trimmed.

The other day, Logan's best buddy, Grey, came over to play. These two are hilarious together. They're about a month and a half apart and they just love one another. It's so cute! When three year olds get together and have conversations it's so funny! I love it! Their main conversations are about trucks, diggers, excavators, dump trucks, and.....poop. Couldn't forget that last one. When either of them say that word the other one just laughs and laughs. Boys! And Grey calls Logan "Logan Daley" no matter what. For example: "Hey Logan Daley come here", "Let's play outside Logan Daley", "Logan Daley you are my best friend." He has an older brother named Logan, so our Logan has always been Logan Daley to him. It's so cute.

Don't you love those big blue eyes?!

mOrE soCceR

Dax and Afton had their first games on the 11th of September. They both did really well in their first games and had a lot of fun. This is Afton's first year playing and she loves it. She likes to run, so it's a perfect sport for her to play. If I remember right, Dax scored a goal and Afton almost scored a goal. I didn't get any pictures of Daxon's first game because I'm helping coach, but I got a few of Afton's. At the next couple of games, I was able to get some of Daxon's team before the game started and then I put Afton in charge of my camera and she took some pretty good pictures. Our Saturdays have been really crazy but it's worth it. I love watching their games and they are having so much fun. Logan has also come out of his shell, and he's actually staying on the court and playing in his soccer game without crying. He loves running around even though it's usually not after the ball. It's usually after Max. It's so funny to watch this age group play. Logan will just be wandering around the court and we'll tell him to kick the ball and then he'll try to find the ball and usually gets distracted with something else. Although, he has scored two goals in his games. One goal, he was right in front of the net and Max passed him the ball and Logan kicked it in. He turned around with this big grin on his face and put both his arms up in the air. It was really cute. The other goal was kind of the same way. He was in front of the net and someone kicked the ball that way and he just finished kicking it in.

Afton's first game. They didn't have their uniforms yet so they had to wear a dark color shirt. She's with her friend Ashley in this picture.

Getting ready to play in the game.

Logan's 2nd game. He did really good. Scored a goal and didn't cry.



Afton's 2nd game. They had team pictures that day. (L to R) back: Alyssa, Olivia, Elizabeth, Mya, Ashley, Katelyn. Front: Micayla, Katelyn, Kayla, Emma, Afton, Angelina. Coaches are Brittany and Ashley. Their team name: The Cheetah's.

Here she is with her two coaches. They are both college age and don't have any family on the team. They just love soccer and coaching. I think it's great that they stepped up to coach and Afton loves them.

The game. Afton scored two goals in this game. It was so awesome!!

Daxon's 2nd soccer game. Their uniforms are actually pretty decent looking this year. We had told the team that they were a dark blue and asked them what they wanted their team name to be. They decided on "the Sharks". Daxon's jersey number is 4.

Dax with some of his team mates.

The Sharks- (L to R) Emily, Dylen, Sydney, Dax, Tyler, Ranauldo, David and Christian. Missing are Conner and David.

Next 4 pictures by Afton. Daxon dribbling the ball down the line.

I love how they all huddle around the ball.

Misty and I with the team during half time.

This was Afton's 3rd game and I wanted to get a good picture of her in her uniform. She's number 7.