October

What a busy month! It started out with the open house at the Lawrence Berkeley lab (see previous post) and the following weekend was our Ward Campout. The only picture I got of it was this goofy one of Adam that Samuel took on our way up to the campsite. They also took a looonngg video clip that used up the rest of the battery. Oh, well.



We didn't stay overnight, but just went up for the festivities the night before. This was a good thing since the campsite was actually a half mile away from the parking lot. We would have had to hike in all our stuff. No, thank you! Instead, we enjoyed the S'mores and company for awhile and then went home.

The following weekend, Samuel had a belated birthday party with some friends. The even-numbered birthdays are the ones where they get to invite friends for a party. Since we had just moved on his actual birthday, we let a little time go by (so he'd have a chance to make some local friends) before we did a friend party.



We took the boys bowling and then went next door for pizza and cake. Samuel and the other boys had a blast and were completely hopped up on sugar when it was time to go home. So, it was a success!

The next week was my birthday. We went out to dinner and that weekend, I went and got my hair done (3 hours in a salon without kids = heaven) and got new shoes.

The next week was Halloween. The Saturday before was our Ward Halloween Party and we loved it! The boys got tons of candy and they decided to reuse last year's costumes (wahoo!)


Cowboy Woody and "Super-secret Ninja"

We got all the way to the party before I realized that I had forgotten the camera. So all the pictures we have were taken with Aaron's iPhone.



This is the least blurry picture of us all. Aaron's in his Jedi costume, I'm wearing my medieval dress (and that's my new haircut) and the boys are in a sugar daze.

Those are the most interesting bits of October. There's lots of just plain life stuff, that made up for a busy time.