Pumpkin Carvin' Time!

It was pumpkin time around here! We took a trip to the nearby Pumpkin Patch (aka Walmart!) and let the kids choose a pumpkin! They wanted to get the largest pumpkins they could find!

Carder liked all the pumpkins!! He chose one for Ty since Ty was at school when we went!

Caleb liked the greenish pumpkin! He thought it looked scary!

It was so nice to have kids old enough to do most of the carving pumpkins themselves!! Caleb did a great job cleaning out his!

Mara got a lot of hers out with one big swoop!

Mara is so cute helping Caleb!

Ty was so busy the day we carved pumpkins he had to to do his in between Lego League, scouts, and homework! But he got it done!

I'm so proud of the kids, they came up with their own faces and designs and really carved them by themselves!

Mara took this pumpkin carving serious! She used her new pumpkin carver like a pro!

Carder glued a face on his small pumpkin instead of carving it!

I didn't get pictures of their finished products until Halloween! So Jack-o-Lantern pictures coming soon......

Trunk-or-Treat!

Our church put on a Trunk-or-Treat for our wad activity. We had dinner: chili/soup and bread. Unfortunately Nate was out of town so I took four crazy Gryffindor kids by myself! We were all pretty excited about our costumes this year! Our family loves Harry Potter! We had the hardest time coming up with Ty's costume because he wanted to be something amazing like: Albus Dumbladore, Mad-eye Moody, or even Hagrid! But as we looked into making or buying such a costume we just couldn't find anything that worked for him. We ended up going with Oliver Wood (The Gryffindor Quidditch Team Captain!! or Harry Potter when he wasn't with the rest of the group!)

Carder: Ron Weasley, Caleb: Harry Potter, Mara: Hermine Granger and Ty: Oliver Wood 

The kids had a fun time seeing their friends and going from car to car instead of house to house!!

Ty's Swim Meet!

Ty is on a swim team and is really doing well! Ty absolutely loves to swim! He could care less about winning he just loves being in the water and swimming! I was reading his journal back when he was three and we had just signed him up for his first swim lessons! Even at that age he loved swimming! He would try swimming to the deep end like the bigger kids in his class and would start to sink so his swim teacher would put him back on the side of the pool!! I'm so proud of Ty for being a great swimmer and I'm grateful he enjoys it so much!

Here is Ty at warm up! This was his first swim meet with his team, and he did really good!

He could seriously stay in the pool all day and be happy with that!

One of the helpers was writing Ty's events on his arm. They write the event number, what they are swimming and the lane they are in on their arm so the swimmer can remember. He competed in three events: back stroke, breast stoke, and free style. 

So so proud of this swimming kid! Way to go Ty! He didn't come in 1st but he did awesome!

Here is Ty swimming his breast stroke! It was one of the harder ones for Ty to do but he still did a really good job.

The King of Silliness!

While shopping for Halloween Costumes Carder found these awesome glasses! He looks like the King alright...King of Silliness!

I totally would have bought them for him, but they didn't go with this year's family theme! But he really wanted a picture with them on! Carder sure looks awesome!