Halloween Party

Each year for Halloween Chris's family has a party with all his family. My mother-in-law plans the whole thing and has fun games and activities for the kids to do. This is Little Man as a dragon. We tried to get a picture with the hat on but you could not see his cute face.
2nd Son as Darth Vader and 1st Son as a Clone Trooper.

Princess as a princess.

Little Man eating the face on his costume.

This year for one of activities mom melting chocolate down and we made sucker. The kids loved making them and also eating them.

Candy throw.

Bingo

I love spending time with Chris's family and especially love seeing all the kids in their costumes.

Pumpkin Patch

For FHE we took the kids to the pumpkin patch for a tractor ride and to pick their own pumpkin. This is the 9th year in a row and the kids love it.
I decided to put in past years pictures to see just how fast the kids have grown.
2006.

2007

2008

2009

2010. Chris's sister and her little boy also came with us. Now we just have to carve the pumpkins before Halloween.

Buddy Walk 2010

We had so much at the Buddy Walk this year. We want to thank everyone would was able to come join Team Little Man. Sorry there are a lot of pictures.

Our team this year.

This was the cutest house that they auctioned off. I wish we had enough money for it but I'm sure whom ever got it will love it!!!

Buddy Walk

We have three days until our Buddy Walk and I'm really excited!!! We decided to make shirts this year for our team. I think they turned out really cute. Thanks to Stacy, one of Chris's former students and an amazing friend, for designing them.

Family Pictures

Sunday we went and had family pictures with my side of the family. Chris took a couple of pictures while we were waiting. We tried to use the timing setting in these family ones but I had to laugh because it each one someone is not looking or their eyes are closed. Princess is not looking

Chris's eyes are closed.

My eyes are closed. Gotta look family pictures. Hopefully the real one turn out better.

Princess and her cousin. We laugh because these two are so different, Princess is brown hair with brown eyes and her cousin is blond with blue eyes.

My dad with all the grandsons.

My mom with the granddaughters.

My parents with all their grandkids.

Horses

For FHE last week we were able to go and ride horses with a family we have been blessed to associate with for the last couple of years. Chris taught two of their daughter in seminary and their mother worked at Millcreek Jr High School while Chris was teaching there. We also had Sage with us at EFY two years ago when we were at Utah State.

They also had a little girl with Down Syndrome named Cherish who lived for 11 days and then returned home to her Heavenly Father. It was so neat to be able to see pictures of Cherish and hear how much they loved her. Princess was in heaven and wanted to stay on that horse all night.

I was surprised at how well that boys did. At first 2nd Son really did not want to go ride houses but after we got there he loved it.

We even put Little Man on the horse for a minute. He really did not know what to think of the whole thing.

One of the games they had us play was to trying and dress the goat. It was a lot of fun to see them chase the goat around but they did it and I even got a picture of it. We had a great night and the kids keep asking us when we get to go back and do it again. Thanks Thacker for a memorable night.