October seemed to fly by. We continued to have soccer games on the weekends. Ruby and Mordecai are both really good at soccer, when they want to be, and had awesome coaches this year.
On the 17th, before soccer games, we hit up a pumpkin patch as a family. We picked out 4 pumpkins, then hit up the kid activities. The kids enjoyed the bounces house, corn maze, and farm animals (Ruby didn't enjoy the animals...she has her moms nose). From their we hit up McDonald's for lunch and then off to soccer.
We of course celebrated Ivy's 3rd birthday on the 23rd. In the morning she had a friend birthday party with 7 friends that came over for breakfast and cake and ice cream. The girls just played while the moms chatted and it was tons of fun. Then later that night for dinner we took the kids out to Red Robin to celebrate as a family. After dinner we came home and had Ivy open her presents. She loved her musical card, money and outfit from the grandparents. From us her favorite toy must have been her "puter" computer. We sure love her and glad she was feisty enough to hold on so we could have her.
The 28th we carved pumpkins as a family. It's tradition to listen to Halloween music, have treats, and have fun. This year we tried making pumpkin seeds...the kids liked a few and then we're done, so I don't think I'll go through the trouble of making them again.
We also had our ward trunk-or-treat on the 30th, which the young men and young women were in charge of, which meant me being in charge of and just sending out assignments. The kids loved it! We had chili, hot dogs, salad, cornbread, and pumpkin desserts. The youth headed up carnival games and then we went out of trunk-or-treating. Emily & I were a babies, Mordecai was Darth Vader, Ruby was a fairy and Ivy was a mermaid princess.
The next night was of course Halloween. For dinner we had our traditional jack-o-lantern shaped pizza from papa murphy's. The weather was nice enough to all go out. We were out for an hour before Ruby and Ivy were done, and then Mike took Emily and Mordecai for about another 45 minutes. Halloween Ruby and Ivy swapped costumes.
October was fun, busy, and really fast! Between all the activities I still had school and my first anatomy and physiology exam in there too, plus mutual, piano lessons, and kids homework. Life with a family is hard, busy, full of ups and downs but great and so worth it!!!
