Random, Thanksgiving & Christmas Decor

Found these random pictures of the boy playing with trash bags.  

He is dressed up as a Ninjago - Zane - practicing his ninja moves.

Every year the primary does a program in Sacrament Meeting so show the parents what they have been learning all year.  They sing lots of songs and each child gets to say something at the microphone.  Owen gave a talk about what is means to follow Jesus Christ's example.  As part of the program, they have the children decorate the programs - this is the one the Owen did - he is helping someone that fell down.

 For Thanksgiving, Chris wanted to go participate in our Ward Turkey-bowl.  So off we went.

Owen took some Beyblades, so he wasn't bored.

Supervising the other children kick the football.

In the back ground in Chris, he caught a pass and was headed for the endzone.

Same run...

no one was chasing him, so it was a TOUCHDOWN - but no victory dance, just running back to play some  more.

For Thanksgiving, we went over to our good friends' home.  We ate lots of really good food, played a lot, and visited.  It was a nice relaxing day.

Friday was a day for Christmas decorating.  Chris got the tree up and then we decorated.

Saturday was the day for outside decorating.  We should have checked the weather, because it was really cold on Saturday and Friday had been really nice - we should have done outside on Friday and inside on Saturday.  Oh, well!  Chris is a die-hard, so out he went to decorate. The boy helped a little.

Finished products.

We are also doing our thankful leaves, but there is no tree this year.  We are doing a thankful leaf pile instead.  It has been going well and we realize all the blessings we have in our lives.

As Good As It Gets

Life is way to crazy at the moment so here are a few low grade iPod photos.

Most are of Owen's work at his school. We had parent-teacher conferences this week so I got to snap a few pictures.

Super Storm Sandy,Halloween, Darth Gobbler, & Soccer

We had a pretty eventful week.  First Hurricane Sandy made it way through our area Sunday - Tuesday - we got A LOT of rain and had A LOT of wind, but no trees fell, we never lost power, and we had not water issues.  We were truly blessed.  

View from the computer desk on Sunday afternoon before the storm moved in.  There are some perks to living next to a forest.

School was cancelled on Monday and Tuesday due to the storm, so we got to stay home and hang out.  We also did some cleaning and organizing, so it was two days well spent.  There was some Beyblade battling

and some bowling.  

We carved our pumpkins on Monday night, even though we couldn't put them out because it raining a lot.

Owen's

Mommy's

Papa's 

Owen got a Halloween card from Grandma Nettie.

We made the traditional sugar cookies (do you see Linus?)

Owen's school does a Halloween parade for all the parents after their class parties.  If you can't tell, the boy was pretty excited.

Here are two videos of the boy during the parade.

Then we still had to go with Papa to marching band practice because they are going to the National High Step Competition in NC next weekend.

Finally it was time to go trick-or-treating.

After doing our cul-de-sac, we went over to trick-or-treat with our good friends, the Curtises.

We saw this really cool house. 

Counting the loot! 

For school, Owen had an assignment to disguise a turkey.  He decided that he wanted to disguise him as Darth Vader - so Darth Gobbler was born.

The LAST soccer game of the season was Saturday and it was cold (45 F), with a bitter wind, and no sun shine.  Owen did pretty good and I think he had fun.

The coaches gave the players certificates for participating.

Proof that the boy did touch the soccer ball during the season.