momtoberfest

the fact of the matter is that i need a new computer. i only have a few pictures from the past month because my phone and computer don't like talking to each other. much happened. hersch did a season of soccer. athena blythe had field day. scarlett did math tutoring, swim team and theater. i got some really great pictures of reagan at his school halloween party and a football game with his crush/pe teacher, coach brenner. let me tell you about the day that i dropped him off at school and reagan almost jumped out of the car shouting, "i love you, coach brenner!" but no one will see the photographic evidence.

 alas, here are the photos that did download:

i made frankenstein guacamole for general conference weekend.

 herschel really wanted a truck cake so i whipped one of those up. 

scarlett and i watched the women's session together on saturday night. i loved it. i'm looking forward to the new program that is starting in january. big stuff is in the works and i'm glad to be part of it.

this is the section of the month where i have pictures on my phone but not on my computer:

scarlett's district honor's chorus festival(not really a festival) in athens where we ate crepes for lunch

our ward's fall festival(also not really a festival) where yet again there was no trunk or treating. i will mention this every year until it changes.

athena blythe staged a fake mini wedding between two teenagers at church. she planned out all the details down to the lacy handkerchief wedding veil and everyone went along with it and it was ridiculous and fun and no one can resist going along with athena blythe's plans. then a few days later i made her a little wedding cake because i'm an enabler. then this week at church she kept pestering this same poor teen bride whether she was pregnant yet. athena blythe knows  a little too much about the biological process and length of gestation for comfortable conversation in the hallways at church. 

i hit some big weightlifting goals:

thomas makes the difference on my big lifts. if your spotter loves you, you can communicate better on what you can handle.

i wore my darth vader shirt to the gym on halloween. 

 athena blythe wore this to school on halloween to help celebrate the day of the dead. it was 74 degrees at 7:15 that morning.

i went to hersch's school for their "book character praise parade" which is the evangelical way of saying halloween without being accused of loving demons(it's a thing, yo). no masks so hersch was just a hairy little boy. 

scarlett and a darling friend were dorothy and the wicked witch. i hate that i didn't get a picture of them together. i bought a pair of fuchsia nike cortez to stand in for the ruby slippers because i've really been wanting a fuchsia pair of nike cortez for a really long time. scarlett and i both wear the same shoes size now so we're in a win win shoe situation. comfort on halloween and i expanded my sneaker collection, on sale no less!

athena blythe wanted to be violet beauregard because of her current willy wonka fascination. however in the past week, she declared that she wanted to be a yodeler instead. i don't know how to create a yodeler costume so i cajoled her into wearing the violet beauregard that i had already put effort into acquiring. we used blue eye shadow for her face. we simply sprinkled her face with a bit of water and used a large blush brush and voila!

 reagan as buzz lightyear. he had the best time again because he loves halloween every year.

pretty much the cutest little chewbacca. he was a trooper. by 6pm,we'd had a day of thunderstorms. when we started trick or treating the weather had dropped down to 50 degrees and he was the toastiest out of all of us.

reagan's teacher lives one street over and we were able to trick or treat to her. reagan pretends he doesn't like her, but he secretly loves her. not like coach brenner but there is plenty of high regard. 

 i made a pathetic costume attempt this year and after i realized that neither reagan's storm trooper nor reagan's darth vader costume could fit over my quads(weightlifter problems), i found this sad little never worn hamburger costume. i hugged it close to my body all night for warmth.

thomas won halloween with his RunDMC costume he wore to work. he missed the costume contest because he was actually doing work that day but the consensus was that he would have won had he been there. he's a winner in my heart.

this most recent saturday, scarlett and i helped with the middle school theater work day, painting sets and noticing that several kids had way nicer phones than i will ever own. note the length of scarlett's mane. it's crazy long now. 

 finally, this is how reagan does fast sunday. he puts the bowl of grapes, his favorite thing to snack on, on top of the cabinets. it's a good game plan.

the end. i hope everything is spelled correctly because i'm not going back to check.