A Little Bit of October Fun

Quincy has learned how to crawl!!!
I tried to take a video of him crawling last week, but I was when it came time to perform, he was a little reluctant.  So I will try to get a better one soon.  But just in-case you need proof, I'll share this short video with you.

Here are a couple of cute pictures of Quincy as well.

He drools a ton.  I think he might be teething, but he has yet to have a tooth pop put.  

Black-Out Game
Weston and Walter went to the BYU Black-Out Game on Saturday.  I'm still not sure about the reason behind a black-out game, besides maybe making all the fans buy another shirt.  Because that is exactly what we did.  I was able to find a shirt for Weston at the grocery store, but they didn't have any kid sizes.  So I went to Michael's and got a kids small black shirt.  Then I came home and used my silhouette to cut out a Y.  Luckily I had some blue heat transfer.  And within a couple of minutes Walter had a BYU Black-out shirt.

Here they are super excited for the game.  I only wish BYU had won.  Weston told me that Walter started crying when he realized that his team wasn't going to win.

Halloween Treats and Activities

For Family Home Evening we made some Halloween Cookies and then delivered them to two of our neighbors.  Since we made two batches each of the boys had a bowl.  They like helping in the kitchen, especially if it means that they get a treat as well.

 I put the cookies in bags, not so sure it that was a smart idea, since the cookies started to slide a bit.  We actually Booed the two families.  The boys really enjoy doing this simple, but fun holiday tradition.

We also made Name Skeletons.  I made Quincy's first and showed the boys what we were going to do. I should have realized that this activity was more suited for older children, because Walter needed me to cut almost all of his.  And  this is actually Hunter's second attempt.  But it was a good practice for fine motor skills, and they look pretty cool.  

I found this idea at My Mix of Six 

Then in my spare time I have been busy making a couple of Halloween crafts as well.
I made these two decorations also using my silhouette.  They are currently on my mantle and they add a bit more color to all the white, black and orange that the rest of my Halloween decorations consist of.

I also have been super busy sewing Halloween costumes.  Walter's is all done, Hunter's is about 1/3 of the way done and I haven't started on Quincy.  Only 15 more days I better get busy.

The End of September

Soccer season came to an end in September.  Walter had his last game on Saturday. He really enjoyed soccer, and he loved having his dad as his coach.  He scored at least one goal every game.  We did have to remind him every game that this was soccer not football, so there was no tackling.  Here are a couple pictures from some previous games.  I was going to take more of his last game, but it started raining, so I just focused on keeping Quincy and me warm.

And then here is the one photo that I took at his last game.  

He loved soccer, and he had such a good coach.  Walter also had a really good team.  All the boys tried their best, and it was fun for Walter to have some of the boys from his primary class on his soccer team.  

Rise and Shout

Weston and I got season tickets to the BYU football games.  Last Saturday it was BYU vs. Hawaii.  And it was a true blue victory.  

 
(Do you like my caught in the headlights look?  So often in pictures I have my eyes closed, so I was focusing on keeping my eyes open.  But after looking at this picture I think I should focus not looking like a deer caught in the headlights.)



On your tickets it told you if you were suppose to wear white or blue.  So each section had a color and that way we you looked out at the crowd you would a pattern of blue and white.  I tried to get a photo of it, but it didn't turn out as well.

And here is the team setting up for the extra point.

 Hopefully BYU will have another victory this weekend.

One Year Older and Wiser Too

On Sunday we went over to Weston's parents house to help celebrate Sharman's 62nd birthday.  The kids had a blast playing with their cousins. And hopefully Sharman felt loved and is looking forward to many more to come.

The Great Outdoors

Weston also had the opportunity to hike Four Peaks in Provo with one of his friends (He is standing on peak two (above) and you can see peaks 3 and 4 off to the right in the background).  It took them from six in the morning until two thirty in the afternoon.  (8.5 hours) But it was well worth it.  He came back home a little scraped up, but already looking forward to his next adventure.

General Conference Prep 2
I finally finished "Our Conference Center" board.  From the moment I saw this on Jennifer Lund's blog, I knew I wanted to make it.  It is just such an awesome idea.  (like so many ideas that Jennifer shares on her blog)  It took me a little longer then I thought it would, but I'm so excited, and more importantly the boys are super excited to use it this coming weekend.

I can't help but smile when I see how excited the boys are.  At the end of FHE on Monday I explained to the boys how the board works, and then on Tuesday morning I found the boys playing with it.  I asked them what they were doing and they told me they were practicing for General Conference.

Jennifer has written a blog post on how to make the board if you are interested.  Right before I started working on mine, I saw on pinterest that Tiff Keetch had also made one.  Both Jennifer and Tiff have printable files.  So I printed and used parts of Jennifer's files and parts of Tiff's files.  
Here are the links:
Jennifer's Conference Center
Tiff's Conference Center  

Just one more day until General Conference I'm so excited!!!

And since no blog post is complete without a picture of Quincy, here's a cute one:

OK maybe two, he is just so cute.