Trick or Treat 2009

No theme this year. Random costumes

Obvious bumble bee

I had nothing to do with picking this costume but he was cracking us up with it.

Sushi anyone???

Larson stays true to his pirate ways.

Bam Bam with a weapon in his hand

Getting ready to go

Jordan went with 3 of her friends off for the first year of trick or treating without us.

Logan did our street and then stayed home to pass out candy. I took the boys with the other kids on the street.

Tom and Larson did a great job on one of the pumpkins at school!

Let the Booing Begin

Annual cookie making and booing neighbors and friends.

Ask me how much fun it is to make cookies with 4 kids for hours on a Sunday afternoon.

The Dews Halloween party!

Tom and I really have to come up with a different costume.

Jim and Michelle were my favorite!

Took me half way through the night to realize that Fred was sporting the wrong woman on his arm.

Bam Bam turns into Tarzan

We had a small church fall Festival. Very very lame compared to our usual trunk or treat extravaganza. Hopefully they will bring that back next year. Jordan being in young women's now works the festival instead of being a part of it. Not so sure how she felt about that. They all had fun. Jackson was at football practice.

Jordan, Madison, Liz, and Jordan with Logan

Finally Stunting

She was so happy at this game!
Jordan just has not had good luck with her bases. Sickness nonstop, in school suspensions (if you can believe that) As far as I can tell Jordan is doing everything right and even getting up when they do not have her feet even.

She had such a beautiful smile on her face the entire time. I was so happy for her.

OK, the white leggins are very cute but no surprise, Jordan does not fit into a one size fits all! It was in the 70's so time for them to break out the "winter uniforms". I love this weather!

Cant wait for next weeks game.

Nursery Rhyme Day

Rain Rain go away... Little Larson wants to come out and play

All of kindergarten dressed up as a nursery rhyme character and had a parade through the school.

It was actually raining on this morning so he was in the correct attire. Logan and I got soaked getting in the school! The wind broke our umbrella and I had Logan and all of our stuff to carry.

In the classroom they each got to share their nursery rhyme. Larson did his and was very normal and good until he broke out with this pose at the end. Thats our Larson!

Aunt Char's Birthday

Happy Birthday Charlene!


Char and Tommy came into town this weekend for parents weekend at UT. It is so much fun having Colby here and being on campus for activities. Sunday night dinners are sometimes tiring but I love that our house is filled with family and always a couple of UT friends.


We had an amazing dinner: Mozzarella and tomatoes, pork loin, grilled asparagus wrapped in prosciutto, favorite salad, deviled eggs, tons of desserts and birthday cake.

Whats a party without streamers and games?

Larson found some cool Halloween things and wrapped up for everyone.

We had such a fun night having family and friends in our home. The kids love it!!!

Aunt Char will be back in 2 weeks!!

And He's Off!

One of Larsons favorite things to do right now is get on his bike.

Look Closely at the Bike

The pedals are missing. Our neighbors let us borrow this bike and promised us in one session Larson would be riding his own bike.

This is the best part: You never even have to touch the bike. He gets on and just keeps wobbling side to side to get his balance. The pedals are missing so that they are not in the way of his legs balancing. You have to have the bike on a slight incline so that it will go down on its own.

How ingenious. No more bending over and breaking your back holding onto the bike. No more having the kids yell, "DONT LET GO" They do it all by themselves.

Amazing and yes, the next day he was on his bike literally biking up hills and jumping over the curbs!

The Little Guys

Larson is always smiling.

Larson and his camera

Recently I have realized a different dynamic in our family. Sometimes Jordan and Jackson are off doing something and that leaves the little ones with Tom and I. We have just always been use to having J & J with us. It is weird to have people look at us and think we just have 2 little ones.

Jordan & Allie

Allie is one of Jordan's closest friends. We were so happy that the girls had a night that nothing was going on and they could just hang out together.

They just seemed so relaxed and having so much fun.

On Friday night they got on their PJ's and talked Tom into taking them to Walmart to buy "girl things" They came home with a magic pet squirmy, magazines, candy, and lots of fluorescent colored duct tape. I keep finding things in the house that are now covered in duct tape. It is the latest rage. Uses from jewelry to clothing and everything in between. It occupies them and lets them be creative.

I think Tom is a good daddy to go Walmart and hang out on a Friday night.

The girls made these Edward/Jacob masks from their magazines. They were really cracking us up with these.

I loved this weekend! I love for us not to be 100 % scheduled and just let the kids be kids. They just seemed so happy and we loved watching everything that they were doing even if two 7th graders were driving a monster truck around the neighborhood.

Young Women's Night

Theme of the night was come dressed as your favorite Book of Mormon character.

I used creativity and just came as the Book of Mormon and Jordan was my bookmark.

If you are not familiar with the Book of Mormon, do not let these costumes scare you. It is hard to dress as Biblical people!

The girls played a trivia game and actually made scripture bags. They were really cute. My Jordan had never touched a sewing machine before. She really loved making it. I am so sorry that I just dont have those skills to teach her. (an apology to my Mom who is professional)

Larsons Photography

Logan fell asleep on the couch and Larson came to me saying "aahhhhh" Logan is sleeping. Can I take a picture? These are the pics he took. I swear he takes better pictures than most adults that I know.

7th Grade Student Council

This year Jordan didnt even have to run for her team representative so I certainly wasnt going to go poster crazy like we did last year. So here is her one poster.

The Boys

We may not have a backyard pool or even our personal movie theatre but somehow our house is the place to congregate. Just the way that I like it! It doesn't mean that it is going to be quiet or the house very straight for long but our kids love to have friends over so that makes me happy.

7th Grade Choir Fall Concert

I have to admit that I just didn't think that choir was going to be such a time commitment. I just wasn't in choir mode because she was signed up for theatre but they allowed Jordan to split the year. She started off with choir. The first $140 went for t-shirt and formal dress. What?? I didn't know there was a formal dress.

She was fitted at school and they even hemmed it there. (thank goodness, I wouldn't have known how to do that). Jordan kept telling me how ugly the dress was and that she could not be seen in a dress at school. I did not even look at the dress until we took it out of the wrapper to put on for the concert. I thought they did a really good job with it but she does not care for it! I told her that mine was some aqua marine color with huge ginormous puffy sleeves and ruffles around the neck line like a clown. She commented that was a hundred years ago.



Anyway, the concert was great! This is what we heard more than once leaving after it. "It was short and sweet!" From start to finish 30 minutes and we enjoyed watching the performance. I don't have the right lense for my camera to take indoor pics but I included this one so you can see how small Jordan is compared to her classmates. We actually heard a comment about the "little girl" in front.