UEA/Fall break

Lots of people took trips for the fall school break (Utah Education Association weekend). We had thought about it, but ended up just doing a few things closer to home. I had time off and each day felt like a Saturday. 4 year old James kept asking what day it was, because Mom was home in the morning and the brothers never left for school.

We went to Lagoon on Thursday for Frightmares. It was a beautiful day, and all the Utahns who did not go to Southern Utah or to California were at Lagoon with us.

We took Max's best friend Andy with us for a birthday treat.

Millie watched the little boys ride rides.

We loved the trick-or-treating sections in the park set up just for this time of year. All day the next day, James and Andrew kept fighting over whose plastic toy harmonica was whose, so I pulled out a black Sharpie and labeled them.  Now they have been forgotten about and discarded under the couch.

On Friday, Andy's mom took Max and Ben with them for some fun activities for the day.  I took the three littles to the park and library.

(Methinks James is getting taller. Also, he wanted to wear shorts.)

On Saturday, I encouraged and wheedled and pleaded the boys into some deep cleaning of the house. Then I took them to split 2 large shakes as a reward. Pumpkin Oreo, and Cookie Dough.

Then we watched both our college football teams lose. Ugh.  Three in a row for Utah, 7 in a row for BYU.

On Sunday, church was tiny. Many people were still out of town. Ben had to go into Max's primary class.  But wow, it was a great Sunday, with amazing, uplifting talks and lessons from amazing women who bore strong witness and testimony of God's love and plan.  

We finished with dinner at JB's parents' house, for the first time since Nona broke her hip. We have been worried about her and praying for her, and she is such a rock star. Nothing can keep her down, she is such an example to me.

Oh, and the break stretched into Monday for our school district, and by then I think the boys needed some school again. Andrew and James both wanted to hold the same large plastic spider Halloween decoration at the same time, and we had to go over our family rules of conduct again (ie no hitting).