October Misc

Nathan participated in some Halloween festivities at BYU too.  They had a church party where most of the guys dressed as minions.  One of the activities was bobbing for apples... good thing we don't have Covid restrictions anymore.  I'm pretty sure there's quite a bit of germs being exchanged for that activity!  

Nathan got to meet Kirby Heyborne, an actor and musician who has been in some of the LDS church movies such as the RM, Singles Ward, and Best Two Years (among others).  He's been loving going to the football games, especially since BYU is undefeated.  There have been some really miraculous wins, where they came from behind in the last couple of minutes to win the game.  

Savannah went on a camp-out with the young women.  She had a great time - hanging out, painting rocks, dipping in the ocean, and all the fun campfire things.  

We helped a family from church do an in-town move.  We're glad they didn't move out of our ward at church.  

Owen and Weston went to a church dance and apparently collected most of the glow sticks by the end.

I took the boys out for lunch on one of their days off.  I was hoping McDonald's would be a cheap lunch outing, but we spent over $42 for the four of us (and I just got a Happy Meal).  The prices have really gone up! We hadn't been to McDonald's for quite a while.

Savannah did a couple months of hip-hop dance this fall, but then she just wasn't into it that much anymore.  We had hoped for her to do one last performance, but with some problems having a regular teacher for the class, they never learned a dance for the performance.  I think part of why she loved dance in previous years was her teacher, and she wasn't teaching there anymore.  

Savannah is definitely into that pre-teen phase.  I can tell by the amount of selfies she wants to take on my phone!  

We dropped by our friend Grace's house on her birthday to drop off a treat and ended up staying for cake!  We had to snap a picture to send Jared to make him jealous.  Ha-ha. 

We enjoyed watching General Conference at home the beginning of October.  We had our traditional crumb cake.  Alex particularly enjoys conference weekend because he doesn't have all his normal Bishop responsibilities at church.  He's been really busy right now doing tithing declarations with all the members.  One Sunday this month, he was gone from about 7:45am-5:30pm - we don't see him much on Sundays.

Halloween

It seems like we had a whole week of Halloween festivities.  We went to the pumpkin patch on Tuesday, and Weston and Savannah carved pumpkins.  We did trunk-or-treat at church on Wednesday evening.  I'm not a Halloween person, so I didn't put hardly any time and effort into trunk decorating.  I printed off some Angry Birds faces and taped them to balloons - that was it.  I had decided last minute to wear some Angry Bird pig costumes that I made for the boys back in 2016.  They looked a lot cuter in them, but it was fun to pull them out of the box in the garage and use them again. Owen wore one and I wore the other pig costume.  I made a red hat for Alex to wear as the red Angry Bird. 

Weston actually spent some time working on his costume with friends.  One of his friends used a 3-D printer to make costume accessories, and they worked on painting and finishing those.  Savannah made the face piece for Weston.  I can't remember exactly what Weston was... I think it was a character he made up from Star Wars, an unnamed Sith Lord. 

Savannah wanted to be a teddy bear.  It took a little time to find a brown sweatsuit for her to wear. I bought the bear ears and then just had to sew a brown piece and red bow onto the front of the sweatshirt.  Bonus is she can still wear the sweatsuit again after Halloween!

Savannah did her last costume parade at school on Halloween morning.  We had a fun time with dinner, by eating spaghetti with our fingers directly off the table.  I put plastic wrap all over the table and then just dumped the bowl of spaghetti out.  I got the idea from Nathan, who had done that once on his mission with a family from Nashville.  Later, Savannah went trick-or-treating with friends from school.  Alex and I wandered around the neighborhoods with Savannah, her friends, and some of the parents for about 2.5 hours!  Weston stayed home and passed out candy and watched a movie with friends.  Owen watched a movie at another friend's house.  

On Saturday after Halloween, we went to a friend party.  They had a Disney Villains party - lots of creative food and decorations!  

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Band and Choir

Weston had a band concert in October.  He plays in the advanced and jazz band this year.  He played 4 songs during the concert.  He also got to play along with the High School band during the homecoming football game.  They didn't get to go on the field, but he got to sit in the stands and play in uniform.  He loved it!

Owen also participated in the homecoming football game, singing the National Anthem before the game.  He also sang in a couple of concerts. Owen's church friends Becca, Taylee, and Cruz were soloists in the first concert piece.