November Happenings

It turns out that November is a great month to go to the lake in Phoenix. There were almost no other boats and the weather was warm and breezy. These little beach bums love nothing more that tubing, playing in the sand, and fishing off the boat.

Jack's soccer season ended especially well because his team won the championship game in his age division. His coach threw a party at Peter Piper for the whole team. Jack got the "toughness" award. I'm pretty sure it had to do with all the times he took a ball to the chest while playing goalie.

The twins had a Thanksgiving party at preschool for all the parents. Here is the whole class dressed as pilgrims and Indians:

We also had a ward service project cleaning up trash in the desert. The kids enjoyed the work but I think they liked catching lizards more.

Soccer Season

All three of our kids played soccer this fall and the season just ended. We spent two hours at practice every Tuesday and several hours at games every Saturday and they all improved so much.

 Jack - "Goofballers" #8

Audrey - "Ladybugs" #3

 Elliot - "Purple Dragons" #5

Halloween All Week

We had a great Halloween week completely full of activities and parties. It all started with the ward trunk-or-treat the Saturday before. About twenty minutes before it was time to leave, we had a costume crisis and Jack decided he didn't want to be Scooby Doo so we came up with a last-minute Link costume (from Zelda). Then Elliot, who was supposed to be a bumblebee, decided he really would rather be a vampire just like Jack was the year before. So here you go:

 On Monday night for FHE, we carved our pumpkins.

On Thursday, the twins had a preschool party. I talked Elliot in to trying his bumblebee costume on and I'm so glad he did because there two bugs were so adorable together. The kids all sang songs for the parents and then we played carnival games together.

This is their hilarious teacher Mrs. Goodrich. Audrey and Elliot love her so much.

After the preschool party, we were invited to go to another party with some moms from the ward. The kids had a little Halloween parade through the neighborhood to show off their costumes.

Finally we made it to Halloween night. It was warm and we were worried the kids were going to overheat in their costumes, but they did all right. They got loaded up with way too much candy, but we had a really fun night.