W O W this has been a busy month!!! Okay, I'm talking about October, but apparently I'm a bit behind...

Hadley's birthday, baptism, a Colorado trip, my birthday, Megan's birthday, an enrichment activity at my house, and of course, Halloween! If only I could buy storebought costumes, that would be a huge help, but it's one of my obsessive/compulsive things that I must make them, and birthday outfits. Time to relax and start thinking about Thanksgiving! What a relief!

Here's a couple pics of my beauties and the random stuff we did this last month!
My middle child has been asking since last year's birthday for a gerbil or hamster, well finally it happened. We have a sweet little girl gerbil named "fuzzball". She's only gotten out a few times, and thankfully been caught each time by a human and not the cat.


Our Ouray, Co trip was so fun and active! We took a huge hike the last day - OY! So fun, but sOOO happy when it was over! :)


Haddie's baptism was next on the list, of course, I had to make that dress too. I'm a glutton for punishment! My parents came and we went out to lunch afterward for my birthday/her big day's lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. I had to keep taking pics of her, she had a beautiful glow to her, or maybe it was just my imagination...

Magpie's 6th birthday was her first "real" birthday party (quite an event!) She had some friends from school and her fav. cousins over and had as much fun as possible! We had sugar, sugar, and more sugar, cupcakes, sugar cookies, my awesome homemade frosting (with the homemade cookies, of course) and was there something else? hmmm.... probably more sugar!


We capped off the month nicely with a Ward Halloween party/BBQ at the park (a tradition) and went trick-or-treating in a few different neighborhoods. Fun! Our little divas this year were "Hanna Montana", "the Corpse Bride", and Hannah's friend "Lilly/Lola".

The Magpie only changed her mind 40 or 50 times before Halloween arrived, so thankfully she settled on one with enough time to spare! Uncle Scott & cousin Shanna went t-o-ting with us and even Ernesto, who works for my Hunka Hunka burning love brought his gang to join us! We saw friends, met neighbors, and all while wearing short sleeves...ahhh Arizona...


Until next time, be happy!