It is that time of year once again. Christmas is in the air. This week we rode the train downtown to see the lights at Temple Square. What an adventure! Alex started not feeling well and barfed in the visitors center, talk about good times. 
We had our first snowfall and of course the kids were so excited to play in the snow.
I think that Halloween is about the dumbest holiday ever created, but this year I thought that it was kind of fun. I think that it is stupid to buy candy, then dress up and exchange candy and then throw most of it away. And I hate picking up all of the wrappers for the entire week following Halloween. This year I had fun dressing up the kids and Michael took the kids out trick or treating and I stayed inside with our fun neighbor Angela and ate pizza and just hung out. So this year I quite enjoyed this pointless holiday. Caroline was two different princesses. First for dance class she was Cinderella and for preschool and Halloween she was a Barbie princess. She loved being a princess.
Alex wanted to be a zombie and Charlie was Darth Vader.
Both Alex and Michael did awesome in football this year. Alex's team made it to the playoffs but lost their playoff game. Michael's team won their playoff game and is now going to play for the championship this Saturday. We are so excited. These are pictures of Michael's playoff game. It was cold and snowy. That is Michael # 67.
It's that time of year again, pumpkin time. It is always fun to go and pick out our pumpkins. I think that this was our last nice day before the cold :(
Looking for the perfect one.
It was amazing no one needed to go to the ER.
I don't know why Charlie is pulling such a sad face. 
Joe judged the pumpkins and said that Caroline's was the best. (Of course I carved hers). I just realized that I didn't take a photo of the finished products. Oh well maybe next post.
I just had to post a picture of these two getting along. Normally these two get along wonderfully. But lately they have been fighting like cats and dogs. Maybe it is because Charlie started school and is gone more so Caroline is jealous? I don't know, but a few weeks ago it was a particularly bad week between these two. Caroline bit Charlie twice. What a little stinker. Charlie came to me and asked me "Back when we lived in robes, why did you pick her?" Then the next day he told me that "Jesus told him that we can't send her back" Sometimes my little Charlie says things that are so profound.
This is just a picture of Caroline with bubbles in her hair that she wanted me to put on here. :)
This is Alex at one of his games.
Michael started 7th grade this year. He is finally in Middle School. Yay!
Alex started 3rd grade.
Caroline getting ready to go to the pool. 
My garden did awesome this year. Check out that huge cucumber.
Charlie started kindergarten. Ahh ... my babies are getting all grown up.
This is Michael and one of his coaches. Coach Nelson Tuatagaloa
This is the line for Michael's team and Nelson is the line coach. Our line this year has some mighty big boys.
Michael looking tough.
We celebrated Charlie's birthday.
Caroline sleeping. This is the only time that she will wear bows. She will stay up late and change her clothes and look and books instead of going to sleep. What a little stinker. She is my girl though. We love to stay up late and sleep late. Too bad the rest of the world doesn't function like that.
Michael turned 13! He was so excited for his present to arrive. He wouldn't even wait until after he changed out of his football clothes.
Caroline's preschool class. The letter of the day was C - they are clowns.
Alex at football.
This is what we did for conference weekend. We canned peaches, pickles, mustard pickles, jam, grape juice and toasted sunflower seeds. We still need to finish the apples. Canning is such a time consuming process. We also made 8 loaves of zucchini bread (that was in the oven at the time of the photo)
This is the dinosaur museum in Ogden. My kids have decided that it is LAME. But I didn't care because I had a city deal and it was super cheap so I told them that they were going to enjoy it do matter what.
The zoo also has dinosaurs this year. They are pretty cool. Most of them spit water.
More of the same poses near the tigers.
We made it to the planetarium at the Gateway. It is free. I never knew that. You still have to pay for the light shows, but we weren't there during any of those times, so it was totally free. We still want to make it back for a light show, but the ones we want to see start late and we have football every night right now.
My kids started having fun after I got upset and told them that they needed to have fun and stop complaining about how lame everything is. We took them swimming afterwards. That's why they are all in there swimming trunks.
We have been bringing the kids to Jordan Landing for Yogurt after some of our football practices. They love playing on the bears in the plaza.
My boys hanging out and Grandpa and Grandma's
And one more pose at the zoo. My kids are growing so fast. That is one nice thing about all of the same picture areas at the zoo, so we can see how they change and grow.
Charlie took the training wheels off his bike this week and off he went. The doctor told us not to teach him this year because his arm isn't fully healed yet and we didn't want it to break again. But Charlie was determined and he picked it up in a matter of minutes.
