Nothing Unusual

I was feeling pretty proud of myself that I was posting something other than a birthday, but then I looked back and realized that I posted for Halloween last year to. So I guess this is nothing unusual.

October was a fun month for us this year. Since Brian was out of school, we were able to do a lot more Halloween-ish activities than we usually do. Brian suggested that we buy costumes this year so that I wasn't stuck sewing all month. It did make the season a lot more enjoyable, but at the same time I kind of missed it. :)

Meg chose to be a vampire queen. I am always very surprised by her choices. This year she really wanted to be something creepy.

Adin was supposed to be Harry Potter, and then it was a ninja. Finally he settled on a cowboy. It was super easy and I did end up sewing the chaps, but they were super easy and fast. Whenever the two of them were in costume Adin would always end up chasing Meg around trying to shoot her. He was protecting us from the vampire queen.

Trick-or-treating was fun but different this year. We usually go up to Brigham, because our neighborhood isn't very safe. The majority of our ward members are mixed up in a huge apartment complex. At the very last minute, we decided to stay here this year. It felt a little weird, and if we are here next year we'll probably go up to Brigham again. We went to our ward trunk-or-treat, which consisted of about 12 cars. Then we drove up to a neighborhood closer to Meg's school. We only saw one other set of trick-or-treaters the entire time. The neighborhood had mostly elderly couples who don't get many kids coming by so they would give tons of treats. Their bags were fuller than they have ever had them and we just went up one side of the street and back down the other. It made for a quick night, but we like going somewhere familiar.

We hosted the First Annual Marchant Halloween Shin-dig (thanks to Sarah for getting the ball rolling). I thought it was tons of fun and hopefully we'll do it next year. I have more pictures that I need to email out, but I thought I would include a few. First, the cousins. This was a was the best that I got. I don't think Adin was making Nate feel too secure.

The Safari theme

No theme, but a personal favorite. :)

Bummer that Felipe's mohawk doesn't show up better.

Last but far from least, the Droubay Halloween Extravaganza. I know I said this last year, but I love this event best of all the Droubay get-togethers. It's always so fun and our kids think of this first when we talk about Halloween.

Here's me with Adin's pumpkin creation. He just wanted everything jagged.

Meg, on the other hand was very specific about each detail and even wanted her pumpkin to be winking. I think I'll carve for Adin every year.;)

I may have stolen this from Amy. I didn't take nearly as many pictures as I wanted more pictures of cousins.

Kids with Aliza and Gabi.

Stay tuned. Adin's birthday is a short two weeks away so I should have another post coming.

Meg's Seven!!!! . . . :(

Meg is getting so big! I can't believe she is seven. I have weird moments off and on where I look at her and it blows my mind how long her legs are or how big her feet are. I still want her to be my little baby. It's heartbreaking really. She had been so excited for this birthday and counted down for weeks. She is one of the youngest in her grade so it was hard to go to all her friends birthdays and know hers was still months away. Now, if the number seven doesn't make you think she is getting big then her birthday wish list surely will. She didn't wish for a single toy. She wanted a camera (more specifically not a kid camera), camera bag, a watch (again not a plastic kid watch), a dry erase board calendar and craft kits. Whaaaat? No toys. I was still asking for toys when I was seven. When I pointed out that she hadn't asked for any toys she decided to wish for a plastic toy horse. Darn her. I wish she would start shrinking backwards. Here are some peeks at what she chose to do for her special day.

She used her birthday money from grandma and grandpa to go to build-a-bear. she loves that place. I can't think of a better place for a stuffed animal lover and boy is this girl ever a lover of stuffed animals. I've never seen anything like it. She will instantly emotionally connect with a certain animal. Apparently Brian was the same way when he was little.


We kind of overdid the activites on her birthday and gave her a few choices of places she could go. Out of all the options, she picked going to Thanksgiving Point's Farm Country. Riding the ponies was the big draw.





I always let the kids pick their favorite dinner on their birthday. Adin always picks pizza, and Meg always picks mashed potatoes, gravy and corn on the cob. A littl tidbit about Meg is that she easily out-eats me and Brian when it comes to meat. I have to stop her at seconds because I have learned she doesn't know when to stop and makes herself sick.




Meg and her puppy cake. She really wanted to have some people over to eat her cake and ice cream with her. We invited my family who lives close to come eat cake, and she was super excited to have them come. They made her feel so special. Sorry, somehow I didn't take pictures.

I decided to let her have a party this year. I'm kind of on the every-other-year party. She did mini build-a-bears for her fifth birthday party, and she wanted to do that again since she loooooves stuffed animals. I convinced her to have a puppy party this year...still stuffed animals with a different twist. The girls adopted puppies and made shriny dink dog collars and bows for their puppies. The puppies ended up having baby puppies that the girls had to find hidden in the back yard. Then we decorated dog houses and at puppy cupcakes. I don't know how mom's planned creative parties before the internet, but I didn't come up with anything myself.

Here's the party girls minus a couple that couldn't make it because they were on vacations (that's the hard part about summer birthdays).

After all that, we felt she was sufficiently spoiled.

Happy Birthday sweet girl. Please, pleeeeease stop growing up!