Maddie's Birthday and Halloween!

We have had a busy last few weeks with Maddie's birthday and all of the Halloween activities!

Maddie loves to color and draw

This doesn't include Maddie's latest mountain bike for her birthday

Took Tanner on a date to Dairy Queen!

Trevor and I went mountain biking together while all the kids were in school!

It was fun!

We had a great time together

Everyone snuggling in our bed

Tanner's picture of us riding bikes on the Indian Head Rail Trail

Maddie's Birthday Eve

Her present was a unicorn headband that she wore to school the next day

I brought her a Happy Meal for lunch and treats for her class

She wanted the masterpiece for her "cake"

Coloring the unicorn

Opening presents!

Playing "pin the tail on the unicorn"

Tanner won!

Happy Birthday Maddie!

9 years sure went by fast

One of her presents was a canopy for her bed

We went to our ward's Trunk or Treat

They had a donut eating contest, which both Maddie and Tanner participated in

But did not win. It's harder than it looks!

We decided that our library was too dim and needed some more lighting.

This is the before picture

This is Trevor adding recessed lights

And the finished product!

We liked them so much he added them to our living room too!

Much better

The night before Halloween, we read the Minna Shaw book (The Widow's Broom) and the Pumpkin Man came!!!

He scared us pretty bad but then he left us donuts

Then we decorated pumpkins

Tanner did Pac Man

Ready for Trick or Treating!

We went to the neighborhood next to ours

It was super fun!

The kids even got full size candy bars

And three bowls full of candy

Trevor installed under cabinet lighting in the kitchen!

I love it so much and will definitely use it a lot.

Trevor took the kids mountain biking since Maddie got a new bike for her birthday

They went to the Beaver Observatory

The kids did great!

Kinley got to go on a field trip to the Pumpkin Patch with her PreK class

And that is what we have been up to the last few weeks!