Saying the Pledge of Allegiance
His certificate and cute Turkey hat
What's this you may ask? Nothing but my handsome husband and his nicely shaved legs! Yes, that's right! Clint told his accounts receivable department if they met a certain goal he would shave his legs. Well the bet was made a year ago (at the time it was right before his triathlon, so he thought it would be no big deal) and somehow they pulled off the goal right before the year was up. (Who gives someone a whole year to win a bet anyways??? Apparently Clint does!) Luckily the hair is slowly growing back and hopefully he has learned his lesson about making outrageous deals!
Halloween this year was a never ending party! Lexi had a Fall Festival in school on Friday which she said was such a blast. They made spider hats and pumpkin pillows, played Halloween bingo decorated cookies and did many more Fall activities. She came home with her backpack full of stuff. Caden also had a Halloween Carnival at his school on Friday. Both Clint and I got to go and it was so much fun. They had all sorts of carnival games and Caden was loaded with candy by the time we left.
On Friday night we had our annual ward chili cook-off/Halloween party. I did make chili and I'm happy to say that I got 2nd place. Woohoo! My prize was a wooden spoon painted silver and mounted on a plaque that says "2009 Chiller Award". The bronze was the "Chill" and the gold was the "Chilliest". The kids had fun playing more carnival games and going around from classroom to classroom trick-or-treating. They had all the rooms decorated to the nines. It was a lot of fun! And once again the kids came home with way too much candy!
On Saturday some friends from our ward threw a Monster Party. We went and the kids had fun hanging out with their friends and playing more games! They even had a fishing pond where they were giving away live gold fish. Somehow I convinced the kids that we didn't need one because we don't have a fish tank! Thank goodness for that! =)
That evening we came back to my parents house and let the kids go Trick-Or-Treating (not for lack of candy reasons! That's for sure!) They also love to pass out candy to the kids that come around, so they spent a good amount of time doing that. To finish off the night we stopped by Grandpa and Grandma Albright's to let them see the kids in their costumes. We were all exhausted by the end of the night.
Caden playing alien anatomy
race of the eyeballs
The kids thought this huge spider at the church was awesome!
Lexi eating her caramel apple.
Our Bishopric goes all out. They were the ghost busters.
Lexi, Brylee, Rylee and Morgan
Lexi the fairy princess and Caden the astronaut!
He kept resting his little hand under his chin. So cute!
He must have know his picture was being taken. Look at that grin!
Waving to us all!
Clint left the end of September to go on a business trip to Europe for 3 weeks. (I'll post some pictures he took while there later). While he was there, we knew there may be a chance the sale of our house would close the weekend he got back; which meant I'd be packing up our whole house by myself to move the day after he got back. As luck would have it, that did happen and the week of the move was October Break for the kids. I felt bad because every day I woke up early and would pack and clean until late every night. My poor kids watched so much TV because all their toys were packed. For some reason I thought this would be no big deal, but surprisingly we have a lot more stuff than I thought! Anyway, I did take a break on Tuesday morning and we went to the zoo with my sister in law, Ashley and her friend. The kids had a great time. We hadn't been in over 5 months because it's too darn hot. We also brought their suits for the spray pad and the kids loved that!
Lexi in front of the elephants. Caden was not wanting his picture taken (as you can tell he's walking away from the camera).
Lexi and her cousin Presley
How cute is my niece Piper! Love her. She is the BEST baby!
