Halloween

This year Autumn decided they would be characters from the movie Frozen since Violet likes it so much. I thought it was the perfect idea since we already had two costumes.  I did not however want to make the boy characters from the movie so Maverick got to be his current favorite character, Batman.  My mom brought the costume when she came to visit.  She made the costume 20 something years ago for my younger brother.

I bought Lark's Olaf costume...She loved it.

Autumn's school put on an awesome Fall carnival.  They had a game or activity in each classroom.  A few clubs from the high school came and ran most of the games.  I was very impressed with the PTO and the organization of the activity.  Seriously had no complaints-which is saying something coming from me.

I helped the kids are one pumpkin.  Evan was not invited to our party, since messes stress him out too much.

We went to Dad's work party and we all dressed up

I love this one because it looks like Maverick is punching Lark!

"The old lady who lived in a shoe...had too many kids she didn't know what to do"

I took the kids to IHop for free "scary" pancakes after Autumn got out of school.  Lark was having trouble waiting for the food.

Halloween night we went trick-or-treating with Evan's parents in our friends' neighborhood since we don't have many kids in our neighborhood.  It was chilly but we left early enough that it wasn't too bad.  The kids had fun and lasted longer than I expected.  It was really fun watching them run up to each door.

Day to Day

Evan wanted Autumn to do Ninja Warrior classes in town.  She LOVES it! And the coaches think it is funny that she shows up in pink every week.  I however hate it.  It is the most challenging one hour of my week.  I have to sit about 18 inches from all the equipment with three toddlers and convince them not to touch anything.  It is way worse than sacrament meeting (in turns of wrangling kids).

Maverick and Violet reading

Evan and I went to see "The Music Man" at the dinner theater.  It was so fun!

For part of my Halloween costume I wore these dollar store glasses and punched out the lenses.  Autumn often wears these since "everyone else" in kindergarten wears glasses.  She keeps them on all day and doesn't fidget with them. People often think they are real.

Went to Kohls one day to Christmas shop for Evan and the girls found these "cute" hats.

New hair cuts for these three...Lark still doesn't have enough to cut

Autumn lost her first tooth! Her tooth had been loose since June.  I told her if she wanted to lose it she had better start wiggling it.  One morning she comes into my room and shows me how lose it is and asks if I'll pull it out.  I told her to hang on a minute. By the time I got to her she had already ripped it out all by herself.

 Autumn had her 50th day of school and celebrated with a sock hop.  She was mad that I made her pose toward the camera so I could see the skirt I made her instead of sideways with her back pack on.

 Family pictures

 I never thought the twins looked much alike until I saw this picture.

Grandma Pattie's visit

My mom came to visit for a week while Evan was out of town for some sort of conference.  Since he got promoted in March Evan has done a lot more traveling than either of us expected he would.  So one day while my mom was visiting I had Autumn skip school (which she was NOT pleased about) and we went to Fort Collins for a re-do on the pumpkin patch.  It was actually abnormally warm and enjoyable.  We also went to JCPenny and got the kids' pictures taken.  My mom also kept my house clean all week and make several freezer meals for me while I napped.

Lark chasing chickens

Lark really loves saying "cheese" for pictures now.

JCPenny photos...