so sensitive and sweet!

This is what was waiting on my pillow last night... Oh my Ame, what a sweet and sensitive girl!

How can she be this cute one minute and

earlier in the evening yelling at me

that I am NOT in control of her and to

STOP being her boss!

Oh the emotions of girls...

I know I was NEVER like that, and

am still not!! (hahaha)

wish I could have known...

Some dear friends of ours lost someone

very close to them this past week.

I didn't know him myself,

but after reading about him,

I wish I could have.

Here is their blog and I would urge you

to visit their site, if anything to hear this

beautiful song:

How Can I Be

http://2djs1mc.blogspot.com/

Trunk or Treat

Saturday Night our ward had a trunk or treat,

and since Quinn and I are on the committee

we couldn't miss it. Plus, the kids would

have never let us anyway!

It was really well planned and put together.

Here's the kids b4.

I was glad I got these pics because

as we were getting ready to go Ash

was screaming to have the whole

costume OFF, and the mask NO WAY!

Ash is our friendly skeleton

(a hand-me down from Kaipo at his age)

Kaipo chose his scary skeleton costume.

It was suppose to glow in the dark,

but not so much. Although it is quite

creepy looking!

And Ame is a pop-star.

Who you may wonder???

Most would think Hannah MOntana,

but mom told her to refer to someone

else, plus she couldn't really pass for that blondy anyway.

So she changed her mind all the time

as to who she was-Miley Cyrus,

Selena Gomez, Demi Lavato...

The youth took care of the carnival part,

with games and a thriller dance. VERY

well done too! There was also tons of

chilly & breadsticks, hot dogs and cider.

here they are performing

THRILLER
SOme adults joined in on the dress-up
and went all out. Quinn was who else
but Tiger Woods (real hard for him huh),
but he did gets lots of comments.
And me well lets just
be grateful I made it there :)

then it was off to
TRUNK OR TREAT
b4 everyone froze their tails off!
Ash learned the art of
BEGGING for CANDY real quick!!!
who could say no to this cute little guy!

AHHH the candy!

Talk about going ALL OUT,
well for the trunk or treat
this guy had the back of a commercial van
all decked out spooky and the kids had
to enter to get their candy.

Another couple did cotton candy for
their treat. Who do you think was
the favorite among this crowd???
Not me and my boring bowl of candy, that's for sure.
SO it was a really fun, COLD night.
And now we have our first round of
too much candy already, which will
magically and slowly disappear
before we get round 2!!!

Fall Fun Favorites

Some of the things that have become favorites for our family

at this time of year, and tradition I guess:

#1 making candy apples

(some to enjoy and some to give away)

#2 taking a hayride to pick pumpkins

these kids were serious searchers for

that PERFECT pumpkin

waiting for the haytruck to come back and get us

we had actually attempted to do this

last weekend, but the line was TOOO long

so we just bought some pumpkins.

We drove by the place after Kaipo's soccer

game and found good luck and NO line.
SO this time was all about the hayride

and the FREE pumpkin you get to pick!

#3 pumpkin decorating

for this mom-painting pumpkins is WAY

easier, plus the kids can actually do it.
I leave the carving up to dad, if

he chooses to attempt it.

Kaipo's is a vampire and Ame's is a witch.
Ame did hers all on her own, but Kaipo

WANTED help. He has become quite the little

artist, but also gets very frustrated when

things aren't just right. So mom helped a bit.

We even glued on vampire teeth, although you

can't really tell and it doesn't look much

like an actual vampire-HE was happy with it!

we did this while Ash was taking a nap,

much easier with the older two!

with all these activities, I don't know how I

haven't gone into labor yet????

Go Silver Lions!

I have to say I wasn't convinced Kaipo

was going to be much into soccer,

especially after watching his first game.

I know... not a very supportive mom.

But he proved me wrong!

He still had several dazed and unfocused times

throughout each game. But his improvement

from the beginning of the season to the end

was tremendous!!
He became quite protective of the ball, either

in front of the goal (I think he has potential

as a goalie), or at times he thought it would

be better to just sit on the ball!

He learned to use defense whatever way he

could think of :)

This is what I loved to see...

Kaipo RUNNING AFTER THE BALL.

Way to hustle!

Here's the team doing their final cheer

at the end of the game...

GO SILVER LIONS!

And we'll end with a video clip of an

almost 2nd goal...for the season.

He dribbled the ball down the entire

field, and then his aim was just a little

bit off. Such a good try Kaipo!!

And now we take a break from soccer games

until the spring (we are excited gma and gpa

Asplund will be able to come see him play)!