Halloween!

We had a fun Halloween this year - busy as always!  

In all the running around I forgot to get a picture of Sophie in her costume!  So bad of me.  She loves the new Barbie movie, "Princess & the Popstar", so when I saw costumes for that at Target I had to get it.  She loved it and wore it all day long.  The dress was covered in glitter, so at the end of the day there was glitter all over the house.  

Jared & Seth waiting on the porch for trick-or-treaters.

Las Vegas Tournament

The last weekend in October we traveled to Las Vegas to watch Ashton's Sparta team compete in the Las Vegas Mayor's Cup.  They played two teams from Arizona and one Texas team.  We tied two and lost one.  They played hard! We were a little unprepared to play on turf, but they were good games nonetheless.  My voice was almost gone after the last one.  I like to yell!  

The BIG downside to this tournament was that many of us got sick.  Friday morning Ashton threw up.  I was panicking!  I really was totally kinda freaking out.  Ashton was in the bathroom, and I was walking in to come talk to him and stopped - he was saying a prayer.  What a good boy!  Made me feel bad for freaking out and not thinking of that right away.  Such a good kid.  He ate a little, had one of his "energy blocks" & played the game!  That wasn't the end of it though.  Soph & Conner got sick to, but with diarrhea.  (TMI?) We got to the soccer fields on Saturday morning, pulled Sophie out of the car & she had pooped ALL over her clothes.  Jared had to run to Target & get her an outfit.  Conner pooped in his pants several times.  Fun, huh?  It was g-r-e-a-t.  

Team dinner at Macaroni Grill (I think this is where we got sick!)

 We wanted to take the kids to do some "touristy" things - so we took them to see the dam and go on the dam tour. ;]   That new bridge is CRAZY! Huge & way high.

 Emma was stuck with Queen Sophie.  I found them like this Sunday morning. What a good sister!

 End of the last game, one more pep talk from the coaches before everyone headed home.

 Before heading home we decided to take the kids to see the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay.

 I was driving, but couldn't get over the sunset!  I think this was just past Fillmore?  Yes, I was driving and taking pictures with my phone.  Not safe.  But it was SO pretty!  

Lots of Miscellaneous Things....

Here's a quick photo catch-up of things going on......

Sophie is the only one home all day.  She got to go with me to watch Mallory sing in her 1st grade program.  We packed a little backpack with a few toys - she loved that & was very well behaved!  Cutest part (other than Mal singing) was when Sophie held up a toy phone from her toy kitchen at home and was pretending to take pictures with it. =]

Blurry - but there's my girl! (right in the middle)

Went to tuck her in & found her like this.  It's about time to be getting rid of those things!

Soph does this ALL the time - walks around with the Wii microphone singing.  She gets pretty animated, I don't know where she picks up her sassy moves.

Jared & I decided to splurge a little one night and see a movie at the VIP theater at Jordan Commons.  Sitting in a recliner at the movie theater is AWESOME.
(and the movie was funny - Pitch Perfect)

Ashton had a game in Park City one Saturday, so we decided to take everyone.  The team was doing lunch afterwards.  The next 3 pictures are from our Saturday morning in Park City.

 Lunch time!

 Later that night we met up with Jared's cousin, Tamara, and her cute family.  We took the kids to Brick Oven and then to Airborne.  

The kids love that place!

 Ashton & Conner with buddies from their soccer teams (who are also brothers) Max & Charlie.

Sophie loves our trampoline at home, so I figured she was going to love this.  Nope.  She hated it.  Good thing she was less than $2 cuz all she played on was the stairs. =\

Emma, Rylee, Ashton, Mal & Conner all in this shot

Emma & Rylee

 Ashton & Conner got their bday money from Grandma Devean, so I took them to the new Dick's by our house to pick something out.  

D.I.V.A (not sure why she's upset here!)

We had the Hibbert's over for dinner on Gen. Conf. weekend.  Sophi likes her cousin Kelsey!

The kids didn't have school on Monday Oct. 8th, and since Jared hadn't seen the new exhibit at Hogle Zoo & we have a zoo pass we took the kids.  The polar bear wasn't out =/.  But we did get to see the elephants eat, the brown bears eating too....and they are working on a new exhibit!  

New homes for lions & giraffes.

 Since a lot of the zoo is under construction we didn't stay very long.  We decided to go check out the new Scheel's store in Draper.  

It is massive, you almost feel like you are in a mall.  

Emma, Conner, Kelsey & Mallory rode on the ferris wheel.  

Emma is in the 7th grade girls choir at Union.  They had their first concert last week at Hillcrest, along with Hillcrest's choirs.  They did a good job!

15 Year Anniversary

Jared & I had our 15 year anniversary on Sept. 15th.  Since it fell on a weekend I really wanted to go do something different.  I was trying to find a deal on a hotel somewhere close.  Cheap, but still nice.  My sister's in-laws hooked us up with a stay Marriott's Summit Watch (Thanks Wrides!) at the bottom of Main Street.  It was perfect!  Denise stayed with the kids and we headed up Saturday afternoon and went home Sunday afternoon.  It was a perfect time to be in Park City with all the beautiful fall colors, and it wasn't crowded at all.  

Watching Fox News - romantic, right?

Park Silly Sunday - art booths on Main St.

We decided it would be fun to take Guardsman Pass home (the road that connects Park City to Big Cottonwood Canyon).  We took our time and stopped wherever we wanted for pictures.

15 years flew by! Pretty soon I will have spent more of my life with Jared than with my family growing up.  Can't wait for the next 15, and the next 15, and the next......