Family Pictures

It's that time of year again. Last week Melissa Jackson took our family pictures for us. She is amazing as always! I loved our pictures this year. I especially loved the location. It was a grove of trees and it made for some pretty shots. I was stressing as usual about what to have everyone wear, but it all came together at the last second! Here are some of my favorites!

State Fair

A few weeks ago Kelly Clarkson was at the State Fair. So I asked Jeni and Stevi if they wanted to go with me. The concerts are free with fair admission, so it wasn't a bad deal to see someone who I would have paid full price to see anyway! We got to the fair and had to stand in line to get into the concert. There weren't too many people there, but this old couple walked up behind us and we were quite surprised to see them going to the concert! Maybe I'll be that way when I get old, who knows!

The concert itself was really good. I love Kelly Clarkson! It was also very entertaining to watch some 30 year old guy dancing on the floor. He was dancing his little heart out! I should have taken a picture of him!

After the concert we walked around the fair for a bit, got some delicious treats and rode the giant Ferris Wheel. Jeni and I split the biggest funnel cake I have ever seen. It was topped with strawberries, whipped cream and chocolate sauce! It was SO good! Stevi opted for a chocolate ice cream cone.

Riding the Ferris Wheel was truly scary! The bucket was swinging a little too much and we were going fast! But it was a good laugh! It was a fun night out with the girls!

Happy Halloween!!

We had a fun Halloween this year and the kids were so excited that they got to wear their costumes 3 days in a row! Thursday night was our ward Trunk or Treat, Friday was Emma's school party and of course Saturday was Halloween. This year Emma was a bat and Derrick was a green skeleton. If you know Derrick you know this is perfect for him, since he is obsessed with the color green. I was trying to talk him into being Frankenstein, but then he saw the green skeleton costume at the store and it was all over! I think Emma's costume this year has been my favorite of hers so far. It was really cute and fun! Thursday was fun and it gave us a good run through with the costumes. Jon got Derrick ready...makeup and all. He had a mask with his costume which he wore on Halloween, but not for Trunk or Treat.

Scary Skeleton

Emma's tough bat face! :)

Emma's school party went well. Surprisingly, Derrick did really good just playing cars at the table I was at for 2 hours. I was in charge of face painting, which was really just using makeup sticks that were very hard to work with. Thank goodness kindergartners are easy to please!

Emma with some of her class

Emma with some of her friends

Derrick in his corner!

Saturday night we went trick-or-treating in our neighborhood for the first time since we have lived here. Earlier in the day Derrick twisted his ankle a little and was limping all day so he was a bit of a crippled skeleton in the stroller. He is fine, and it was almost easier to have him in the stroller so we could go faster! The kids were tired after 3 streets, so we had them home, showered and in bed by 8pm. Not bad after they were eating candy all day and night! It was a fun night, but I'm glad I do not have to dress any more kids up for another year!