Austin gets Principal's Pride!

To add to the excitement of Halloween week, Austin got Principal's Pride!  He earned it for getting 100% on a math test!  Awesome job Austin!!!  

Austin apparently has 2 posed smiles as you can see below, we sure love this kid!!

Nice job buddy!

Irritating Creature

For school, Kate had to memorize and recite this poem.  They had the option to bring a sibling as a prop for the "irritating creature."  It was pretty cute!

There's an irritating creature in my living room today,

it's been here for a year now, and it will not go away.

The first time that I saw it, it was in my easy chair,

and displayed no inclination to forsake its station there.

I put it in a parcel, and I left it at the store,

the thing was there to greet me when I opened up my door,

I took it to the forest, and I tied it to a tree,

I found it in my kitchen having sandwiches and tea.

I packed it in a carton to disguise its size and shape,

I wrapped it and I stamped it and I sealed it shut with tape,

I mailed it to the middle of a mountain in Tibet,

I returned to see it sitting on my brand-new TV set.

I concealed it in a rocket that was bound for outer space,

it was back that very evening with a smile upon its face.

It appears I can't evict it, though I truly wish I could,

it's entirely too tenacious - I suspect it's here for good.

Fall fun

Playing a family favorite game--Monkey in the Middle

Dad and Ty in the middle

Logan loves to wake Ty up so much, we have to watch this boy close!

Our family thankful tree, we are grateful for our blessings!

BYU Women's Soccer

We went as a family out to Provo for a BYU Women's Soccer game.  We went a little early and stopped at the bookstore and wandered around campus a bit.  It was really fun to be there.  We went to Brick Oven for dinner--our family tradition (along with all other BYU alumni)

Playing some football in the parking lot

Logan at the game

Scott left, Austin right

Scott picked up a newspaper somewhere, and these two read for a while.  They often read things together like this, pretty cute! (and in their defense, BYU was not playing well, I am sure some other people wished they had a newspaper as well)

We even got to see Cosmo!

Happy Halloween!

We had such a fun Halloween!  Scott decided to be Harry Potter and Kate was going to be Hermione.  Slowly, everyone decided to be Harry Potter as well!

Here is Ty at his Halloween party for preschool

They did a cute little parade

They then sat down and sang some songs for us

Trying on some costume stuff...

This was actually the day before--Kate had crazy hair day and we made her hair a donut, yummy!

Logan trying on his cape--Mom made all 5 of the capes and had a lot of fun having a big project. 

Scott 

The patches we made to sew on each robe

Kate right before school as Hermione

Scott as Harry Potter (hair dyed black and all) and Austin decided to go to school as Darth Vader

Austin using the force on Mom 

Scott in the parade

Austin in the parade

Kate in her parade at her new school.  The parades were at the same time, so Dad went and watched Kate's parade.

Austin and Scott's class party, Mom and Grandma Packer both helped.  Here, Austin, Scott, and Ty are playing Don't Eat Pete and Bingo.

Austin is trying to stack 21 cups in a tower in 1 minute

Grandma Packer did a game where you tried throwing jacks into little bowls, she got a lot of help from Ty and Logan

Austin and Scott's group decorating pumpkin cookies

Break time--these 2 boys love the computer (Ty is doing his online preschool)

We even went to speech dressed up in Halloween costumes

Kate taking a load off (isn't this the perfect Hermione picture?!?)

Time to trick or treat!

Austin, Scott, Kate, Mom holding Logan, Dad, Ty 

Scott

Austin

Grandma Packer and Mom brought the two little ones home once they got tired

Getting a little snack (Logan is always game for any of Ty's big ideas)

Grandma and Grandpa Lewis came over to see all of the kids' candy.

Kate with her candy

 We had a really fun Halloween this year.  The kids were all really excited about their costumes and we all loved the theme!  Can't wait til next year!