Boo

(I think I finally got the newer editor to work. Maybe I'll be able to upload videos. This could be very exciting for everyone involved).


Happy Halloween! We had our Halloween festivities yesterday--the ward did their trunk or treat, and the city had the trick or treating last night. Sadly for all involved, the weather yesterday was alternating between nice, rainy, and miserably windy. Today, of course, it was perfect fall weather. Enough to shake your faith, eh? I'm just kidding. It's weather.


In my book, Halloween is an amazing and magical day for kids. You knock on doors! People give you candy! You get to wear costumes and everyone else is wearing them too! 

We went to Boo! At the Zoo! (I'm loving the exclamation points today) in the morning. It was a blast. Lots of people had really creative costumes. I loved it. I didn't, however, get a good picture of Danica in her costume at the zoo. Ah well, the day was young. I did take a video of the boys costumes, because the octopus doesn't read as well unless you can see it in action:

Next, we did a lot of boring cleaning out/hanging out/napping (Danica) and being antsy (boys). 


Finally, it was time for trunk-or-treat. It was rainy. And cold. So we had it inside. Win! Alas, we forgot where we'd put our camera. But I did snap some pics before I took the boys trick-or-treating around the neighborhood.

Gage is Batman!

Reid the Octopus

At this point, I know what  you're thinking. You're wondering where all the amazing pictures of Danica are.


I'm wondering too.


Apparently, I took a bunch with my cell phone, but actual pictures of her on the day...yep. Dropped the ball. 


Well, except for these awesome pictures I got taken the day before...(JCPenney's)

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Fabulous Fall

Um, so apparently someone missed my memo about keeping the weather exactly the same as it has been. Lucky for me, I actually caught the weather report yesterday, when Evil WeatherMan announced we were in for a cold snap. Yup. You know what this means, folks. A cold "snap" in October pretty much means its winter. Oh, stop with all your, "it'll warm up a little, one more time," stuff. I can see the writing on the wall.

Ahem.

So I called Nick and said, pretty much, "you've got to come home right now because we have to go for a hike. This is our Last Chance. We are HORRIBLE people for living next to these glorious mountains all year and not hiking. In fact, we're probably on a hit list somewhere." And, he came home. And it was glorious, although calling it a "hike" is a bit like the commercial that implies heavily nutella is a health food. As in, stretching pretty far.

See? Glorious

Nick, after snapping this picture: "Oh, it's a cute one."

Me, looking at pictures on the way home: "My eyes are closed."

Nick: "I sometimes can't really see the screen."

Okay...

2010 Picture of us--note how we're nearly alone in this shot. I'm impressed with us.

A while back...like maybe a week ago? I got all ambitious and we made colored rice maracas for a craft project. Things like this are why I shouldn't read Chelsea's blog too much. I start thinking...(cue the Beauty and the Beast quotes)


AND...

Because she's just that cute:

And...a year seven picture

Thanks to Kellie and to my excellent searching skills, here are our pictures from year seven.

(note: I remember why it was more fun to get my picture taken years ago)

Goal for this year: take pictures of Nick and I together. Right after I lose ten pounds.

um, and I should stop squinting.

Seven

The Beginning

One

Two

Three (*note: in year three we stopped taking pictures together. This was the best I could do...*)

Four *we survived!*

fiver

Six...

and...SEVEN...

(uh, I'm not even kidding when I say I could not find a picture of us together from this year. There probably is one. I'm not that organized. Stay tuned, space soon to be filled)

Birthdays, Zoo Visit part 1&2...and P

This post is very late. In fact, we haven't posted anything significant in awhile...oops. We'll just catch up a bit here :)

Quite a bit of the Clayson crew came up to see Lion King and we celebrated Nick's birthday! It was super fun to see everyone.

Baby Joel, learning how straws work:

Grandma, Ryan & Reid

Danica, who adores the little speaker on my ipod. She dances lots.

Nick's actual birthday. He's 30 now. Let the teasing commence.

The monster hoodie. Has eyes now.

(out of order. Back to the visit)

Tiffany and baby Joel

Tea and Reid

Saying goodbye

Danica saying goodbye

Joel makes the best faces

I love fall. Love it. Event though I have a sneaking suspicion we had hot weather through the good part of fall and now we've got the cooler part coming and we missed the part in the 70s.

I digress.

We've been taking advantage of any slight cooling in the weather to go to the zoo.

Zoo Trip, Part 1:

They've got an exhibit right now called "Nature's Nightmare's" I dislike many things about this exhibit, but I thought the bats were cool.

(oops. Out of order again)

Zoo Trip 2: wearing capes

Finally...conference. We made P come up to visit us, because he's good entertainment. It was good to see him, and I appreciate him penciling us in, social butterfly that he is.

Danica took a shine to him. She's a fan of the boys. I think she thinks of them as overgrown versions of her brothers. Anyway, P was the recipient of more than his share of loving from the baby. Lucky boy.

PS--conference is really one of my favorite times of year. It centers me back on what's important. This past conference was fabulous. Just amazing. I feel like a better person already, although application is...well, I'm working on it :)