Halloween night

Wicked Witch, Dorothy, Tinman, Scarecrow, and Sophie as the lion
The yearly photo by the front door

the last few minutes trick or treating, sugar high

Halloween: round 1

We're off to see the wizard!
Nicole as Alice and Paige as the wicked witch

Seth and Kelly carving for the contest.

Seth and Kelly winning the pumpkin carving contest!!!

We had our Ward Halloween party last week and invited some friends to join us. The kids had a fun time carving pumpkins, having a costume contest, and playing games and getting candy! As you can see my family went along with my idea of the Wizard of OZ. I think it turned out really cute. Seth and Kelly even won the carving contest! Great job guys!! This was the beginning of the 2 week sugar high we are still on.

Pumpkin Festival

Every year our city has a pumpkin festival just down the street from us. They have inflatables, food vendors and games. The kids had fun running around and loved the snow cones. I even saw Rainn Wilson from The Office wandering around with his family. :)

Miscellaneous

Spirit Day at Paige's middle school! can you guess her school colors?

Sophie's new favorite spot.

Oops! you caught me! chocolate ice cream!

12!!!

The birthday girl with Sophie!

I know I say this every year, but how is Paige getting so old? 12!! really? she was just scootering home from Kindergarten. Now she is in 7th grade and in her second year of Middle School!!! She is such a great girl to have in our family.


We took advantage of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur, and had Paige's party last Monday. We had such a fun time at Universal Studios! We hadn't been since Paige was 5, so a lot had changed, plus her nerves have changed too, and she loves almost all rides :)
After getting sprayed on the Jurassic Park ride :)

Enjoying the Studio Tour.

"Jaws"

Seth needed a picture with Crash, the character from one of his many favorite video games.

Who lives in a Pineapple under the sea?

The girl to the right of Spongebob is Gwen! I know, cool name ;)

Dodger Game

Once again time for our annual Dodger game. They played the Giants and unfortunately lost, but Manny hit a 2 run homerun! Lots of junk food and fun!

New Bikes

The kids have needed new bikes for at least a year now. After having such a great time and biking everywhere in Sunriver, we made time to go get the new bikes. Seth loves his and rides it as fast as he can which scares me to death. Paige is just happy to have a bike her size and her favorite color. Matt also got a bike. I didn't say new, because we haven't had bikes since we got married. My friend Sher let me borrow her bike last year and doesn't have anywhere to store it, so I will call it my bike for now :) Matt and Seth have really enjoyed taking bike rides together. Paige joins them when she feels like it. Matt has even done 2 big rides by himself. One 10 miles round trip to The Commons to meet us for dinner (we live in the hills, so both ways were very up and down just to clarify and give him credit), and the other from our house to Zuma beach in Malibu! It is at least 20 miles through Malibu Canyon and along the PCH. I am very impressed! Almost motivates me to bike for exercise :) Happy bike riding.