Bronco Game

Last Monday, Scott was given a great opportunity to go to the Monday night Denver game against the Steelers. His tickets were on the 6th row!!! He went with my cousin Jake and they meet another cousin Sean (I have a TON of cousins). Unfortunately the Broncos blew there lead in the 4th quarter and ended up loosing, but who cares when you are on the 6th row (Jake did, he lives and breaths Denver football).

This is how close his seat was to the field. WoW!!!


This is him showing how big the stadium is. He is looking a little happy and I am sure the beer in his hand has nothing to do with it. ;)


I think that the cheerleaders were his favorite part. Why you ask, because there was 4 photos of the cheerleaders and not one of the players.

Trick-or-Treat

Here is a lost photo of the kids trick-or-treating. We went with the Feland family this year and it was so much fun. Gabriel is 6 months older than Logan (they are such good friends) and Shaylie is only 4 months older than Aubrey so they are our perfect match. The girls went home after a couple of streets (No trunk or treat around here. They work for their candy.) but the boys were die hards. I bet they went to 50 houses easy. Finally they started complaining that their bag were to heavy so we (Chrissy & I) made them head for home. I think it was a great Halloween.

Halloween Fun

October at our house is the busiest month of the year. We did so much and had such great times. Here is the highlights.


When we went for a brief visit to grandma's house of course she had Halloween PJs for the kids (She has new PJs for the kids every time they visit).



We made pumpkin cupcakes with carmel frosting, YUM!!! The kids took turns adding the ingredients and were pretty proud when they were done. The kids love it when they get to decorate them their selves.


I found this fun plate that had a darling poem on it about being a Halloween spirit and passing the spirit on to friends, so we filled the plate with treats and dressed in out best sneaky night cloths and delivered the plate to a family on our block. It was fun to sneak around and run and hide. Scott even thought that it was fun (He usually opts out of stuff like that).




We spent an afternoon at Gardner Village to hang out with the Witches. Grandma and Aunt Kori w/kids came with us and we had a blast. Aubrey slept through most of it.


We went and spent a weekend in Logan to go to the Pumpkin walk. We had so much fun hanging out with out friends and hope to make it a tradition.


Logan and Easton a sleep at the hotel in their matching PJs.


Here is Logan in his school costume parade. I think he was the cutest one there.



The kids great pumpkin creations.


Halloween morning I made a spooky breakfast.. pumpkin pancakes, bat shaped sausage and a melted ghost (marshmallow cream) for dipping.

October Rocks!!

Halloween Pictures

Here are more of the kids Halloween Pictures.

Halloween Pictures

I had my kids pictures taken in their halloween costumes. I haven't gotten them back yet but you can see some of them at http://shandaleigh.com/blog/. I think they turned out great. As soon as I get the rest I will post more;.

Fishing

Over Columbus day Scott took the family fishing. We went to Strawberry and had a pretty good time. Well, we started out having a good time and then the winds started. The kids each caught a fish and we had caught a trap full of crayfish. But when the wind started out little fishing boat was no match for the huge waves. We were of course on the oppisite side of the lake from the lodge and we could not get back. We ended up finding a little cove with another boat of fisherman, getting on shore and building a fire to keep the kids warm while we waited for the wind to calm down. It took about an hour, then we tried it again, we finally made it across but it was so bumpy and we were soaking wet and freezing by the time we got back to the dock. Logan was convinced that we were going to die.

That night we stayed at the lodge and the next morning the lake was as smooth as ice. So we went back out again, mostly to make sure we hadn't tramatized the kids. Logan and I both caught a fish and the kida again liked the boat and the water.

Black Island Farms

I am luckliy enough to have 2 great friends from college (Monica & Lisa) who love me enough to stay in touch and still get together when ever we can. The first weekend in October we had one of our get togethers and went to Black Island Farms in Syracus. Our kids loved it and we had a blast watching them. We still thing it is strange that we are all married with kids, how things have changed. But we love it.

The kids got their faces painted, slid down insane slides made of hay, pipes, and plastic sheeting, rode on a train made from old water jugs, watched pig races, went through a corn maze, and rode a hay wagon to a pumpkin patch and got to pick a pumpkin. WoW!!








Here we are on the way to the pumpkin patch.



Here is Monica with Colt, 2




This is Lisa with Karmen, 6 and Ava, 3




Aubrey throwing a fit in the middle of the pumpkin patch, She is the little yellow dot in the middle of the field. If a picture had sound you would hear her crying.



Logan with his final pumpkin selection. I swear every time he turned around he saw a bigger pumpkin and he wanted the biggest.