Another long update!!!

Where should I even start?? It's been too long. I'm sure I'll miss a few events but here is a little about what we've been up to. We finally got Matthew's turbo fixed in his SRT-4 so he wanted to take a test drive to Banks a couple Sundays ago. The drive was very enjoyable. The colors were beautiful! I didn't get any pics of the really neat places because the car was movng too fast. We did stop to stretch for a few minutes, however, and these are a few of the pics we took.

Matthew sure loves his car. Especially now that it can go FAST again!!

Next, I think, was Halloween. I was in charge of the Ward party of course. We had a carnival in the gym on the Wed before Halloween. It was a lot of fun. I was pretty busy keeping candy and prizes stocked so I didn't get very many pictures of the different booths. I did get Santa though. I thought that was pretty creative. Also, I had the Bishop get a cotton candy machine--the kids LOVED that! The witches brew was a little interesting with a bloody hand, spiders, and who knows what else in it. I had Matthew and Braden pay me for their hair cuts by blowing up balloons. What great help!

Matthew's family party was Halloween night. We had fun taking the neices and nephews trick-or-treating. Jayden had a broken leg so he rode in his wagon. We had a baked potato and chili dinner and played games afterwards. Matthew and I were Thing 1 and Thing 2. We were a little nervous and embarassed but it turned out pretty good. Here are some pics of the family. Some of them are during the lifesaver game. We are passing a lifesaver down the row of teammates from one toothpick to the next. No hands allowed. Also we passed an orange in our neck. That was really funny to watch!!

Here are some random pictures of different times when we had Jenna, Quinn, Micah, Haylee, Braden, and Zach at our house. Matthew has WAY to much energy. He pulled us around with his bike because the battery is dead in the toy jeep. Way to go!! It was actually pretty fun. I might try and post a video later. The pictures of Braden and Zach are after the ward Halloween party. I made them try out my games to see how fun they were. Braden was a good sport. Zach decided to try and hit me with the nerf gun instead!

And last picture for the night is our new truck!! On Saturday we traded in the 4-runner for this Dakota. The 4-runner was getting too old. It leaked oil, the clutch needed replaced, it wasn't very powerful (took forever to get up Horseshoebend hill), and if you haven't forgotten, it had a HUGE dent on the passenger side from my wreck last year! We are a lot happier with this newer vehicle. Now we need to take it for a test drive to Banks!!