October 2013

Time keeps moving on with or without me taking time to blog.

Here are some of the highlights from October:

General Conference:

 We started off Saturday Morning with the Ord Family third semi-annual Feast on the Word breakfast.  Thanks to a visit at my in-laws over the summer we discovered the joys and deliciousness of Ebelskivers --Danish pancakes--(our favorite are Nutella filled ones).  We had quite the spread and then listened to all the sessions of General Conference and enjoyed the talks.  On Sunday morning we always drive in to the stake center to watch....it helps us feel like it is still the Sabbath day.  I have some prizes to win with the bingo game that we played and then for another session we had certain candy for specific speakers.  Anything to help with listening and staying in the same room. 


My birthday:

 Spencer really goes all out making me look goofy on my birthday.  He made me the balloon flower one of his developing talents and thanks to the dollar store being just a short walk for him on his lunch break, he went there too. 

 



It was a pretty low key birthday Aaron quickly wrote up a card for me and I got a puzzle and some iTunes gift cards....I guess my big surprise came a week or two later when Spencer brought home (he ordered it online) an iPad mini for me.  I'm still getting used to it. I guess I should really look into taking the tutorial for it so I can fully use it and really appreciate what it can do.  It is pretty handy to take to church as long as it is charged, since it has all the books and manuals and scriptures that you need. 

 

 

 

I've been super lucky to have my sister and her family move within about a 40 minute drive of us.  So we get to see each other more than we ever have.  So she was excited to make my cake for me.....and wowwie wowzie look at that sweet beauty!  It was one sweet cake and we managed to eat it slowly a couple of kit kat bars at a time.  She also brought me dinner that I froze for later and fun balloons to help make my day special. 

 

Thanksgiving:

 

We held thanksgiving at my house this year and actually had a really nice time with everyone who was able to come up.  We had enough room for an extra table for people to use to eat instead of trying to eat on their laps in the livingroom. 

 

No pictures, I was a busy cooking that day and everyone who came all brought a dish to help with the craziness of it all. 

 

 

Prairie Gardens:

 

Thanks to the Alberta CA's they held a family day at prairie gardens so we got to enjoy hanging out there again.  We went a few years ago and it was fun to go back.  It was a little cooler this time but we had a nice catered lunch and received some free tokens to play the games/go on the rides. 

 

We had to park in the overflow parking lot and be bused to the actual location.  Our first stop was the haunted house.  Evan sat this one out as he remembered what it was like from last time we were there. 

 

Here are my little Alice in Wonderland kids. 

We tried the corn cannon attempting to hit a target on some hay bales.  I think Megan was the only one who even hit a hay bale, maybe Aaron did too with some help. 

 

There was a bit of drumming going on.  They had a teacher there who would guide you through some different drumming techniques and we would follow her rhythm.  We also went on a train ride, played on hay bales, other outside equipment tried to pet some animals in the petting zoo and fed some llamas. 

 

 

Our last stop was panning for "gold".  This one the kids love.  With your tickets you buy buckets of sand, rocks and other gems.  Them you pour them into this mesh tray and rinse it in the water to reveal your treasures.  They give you a little bag to put your treasures in and off you go to enjoy them.  Our very last stop was a visit to the fudgery to pick up way too much fudge to enjoy.    Yummy! 

 

 

 

Halloween:

 

 Here we are carving the pumpkins I bought.  This is one of our Family Home Evening activities and it pretty much takes all night to do before the kids have to rush off to bed.    Evan is being brave and doing is best to scoop out the guts of the pumpkin himself.  Aaron on the other hand would have nothing to do with it so I helped him out. 

 Megan and Spencer going at it being creative.  I only ever buy 4 pumpkins because I actually do 2 myself by helping the boys and even then we finished first of the group. 

Here are the finished products:  a Master  ball from pokemon, a ghost, a one eye monster face and a headless man. 

 

All dressed up.  The boys went as Ninijas and Megs went as the nyan cat (you know the grey cat with the body of a pop tart and rainbow coming out as he flies across space.) She didn't want to wear the black cat ears we had....she said that some people actually knew who she was and she was thrilled with the costume and still wears the tutu around the house....sigh!)

 

This was a busy night for us as we had swimming lessons that we attended to and I made it easier on myself and stopped somewhere easy for dinner that night then we zoomed home and changed into our costumes and then Spencer made it home and him and the kids headed out up and down our area and came home with a haul. 

 

 

Happy Halloween and a great end to the month of October for us.