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By Sarah
 My children can be such good helpers.  We had a great time planting new tulip bulbs in the front yard. I think they will be so proud when they come up next spring.  We will be giving the garden a rest, having been planted for 7 years now, so I have a feeling there will be lots and lots of flowers in our yard next year.


 In October our family enjoyed making fancy Halloween sugar cookies.  I loved how creative and detailed Kaelah's cookies were.  Dying the dough instead of working with frosting was a Pinterest idea I'm glad I found and will certainly use the trick again.  The children also loved getting out the costumes on a daily basis.  Michelle practically wore out her costume -- I had to sew it back together before we even made it to Halloween.  Kaelah made sure to only wear her costume the week of Halloween to make sure hers stayed nice.  Danny's costume was actually a bit too small and very hot so he told me today to give it to a little boy who already has costumes.  (:
We had a blast at the S. family's Halloween party at their new house with the H. family, the other H. family, and the C. family, with dinner and FHE about the Holy Ghost.  We noticed the girls had a much different approach to cooking decorating than the boys. Marianne went through a lot of knives to replace the ones little children were licking.  lol.

 Here they are before Dan's annual work party: Michelle as Rapunzel, Kaelah as a flamingo, and Danny as Maximus.  I had tried to convince Danny & Michelle to go as Juliet & Tybalt from Gnomeo and Juliet to go with Kaelah's flamingo costume, but my wee little ones have minds of their own.  I thought it would be super cute if Dan & I dressed up as Lord Redbrick and Lady Blueberry to go with them.  Oh, well.  Saved me some trouble this way.  A big thanks goes out to my mom for making a Maximus medallion the day of the party for us.
 Halloween night trick or treating around our neighborhood.  We traded Rapunzel's wig for a homemade crown thanks to FamilyFun.com.
 We enjoyed both lovely days playing at the park in short sleeves and eating snow after Michelle's Terrific 2's class.  Gotta love Colorado in the fall.

Making the winter's first snowman while Daddy was home for lunch.  Mommy is so grateful for the many happy memories our family has had due to him working just down the street the last couple of years.

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