Football

Jaxon and his team played on Saturday to see who would win the championship. Their team played well, but didn't win. Jaxon had a wonderful time playing football and seemed to enjoy every minute. He can't wait until next year. I missed this game, due to training in Salt Lake, but Jaxon got quite a bit of support from Grandma and Grandpa Cressall. They came out to see his game! He was thrilled. Grandma and Grandpa even treated the kids to McDonalds that evening. Couldn't ask for anything better!! It will be sad now I won't have games on Saturday to go and see, but I'm sure I'll find a few games on TV - have I mentioned how much I love FOOTBALL!! I just need a little more time to give it my full attention.

Halloween

Halloween is one of the best times of the year for the kids. You would think that it is all about the candy - but oddly, that is not their favorite part. They love dressing up, but one of the best things is handing out candy at the door. Wierd, huh? They love to answer the door and give out candy. Sometimes we even end up giving out the candy that they've got from trick-or-treating. It's actually really nice, I monitored to make sure Cannon didn't escape outside, which he tried several times, I'm not sure if it was the cool costumes or just being outside!! I loved dressing Cannon up as the 'baby dinosaur' since Ryker told everyone that he was the 'big' dinosaur. I think he really was a dragon, but hey, on Halloween you can be anything you want. Luckily we were able to find costumes in our stash to fit everyone!!


Seriously, the cutest costume EVER!!


All the kids in their costumes. Cannon was really mad that he had to come in from outside. He really wanted to walk around the neighborhood with all the kids.

Eyelashes

Cannon was blessed with exceptionally long eyelashes. WOW! They especially seem long when they're wet. I've been meaning to take a picture and show them off for quite a while. Usually Cannon showers so taking a picture is a little harder - he's started liking the bath. Wierd that he likes the shower more than the bath, but hey, he's going to love the rain!

Carving Pumpkins

Carving pumpkins is not my favorite thing to do. I hate pulling out all the guts and I really hate all the mess. This year was extra exciting, since Jared was busy leveling the garage floor and we invited (maybe they were just there) friends to help us. We had Gaven, Logan and Ryan join us this year with Jaxon, Gunnar, Jerrick, Ryker and Monica. Hmmmm too many knives . . .

Overall it was a fun time had by all, well, except the party pooper in the group named mom. We ended up carving eight pumpkins, well, I carved most of them and gutted most of them too. The kids had a great time! The best was checking to see how many 'guts' each pumpkin had. Who knew things like that were so important. The pumpkins all turned out great! I'm glad that's over for a whole year!! Below are pictures of the excitement. I didn't even think about getting picture during the process since I was elbow deep in 'really cool' pumpkin guts and there were too many knives and too many kids to worry about pictures!!!