Pink Out Day

 Last year when Lincoln had Mrs. Inderrieden, she found out she had breast cancer.  Over the summer and into some of the next school year she went through chemotherapy.  Hunter had a sub for the first few months of school (who he also loved), and by November, Mrs. Inderrieden was ready to come back.  Our family loves this woman, Palmer also had her and loved her and to support the "Pink Out," the boys all wore pink shirts (it was the only pink we found).

Hunter shaved his head like lots of the kids in his class.  The principal and vice-principal and one of the teachers also shaved their heads as well.

 The school was all decorated to celebrate Mrs. Inderrieden's return.

 These are all of the people who shaved their heads to support Mrs. Inderrieden.

Hunter's class and their heroic teacher.  We are so lucky to have her.

Tribute to Robert Redford

Josh's company bought a table to the Governor's Gala and it was a Tribute to Robert Redford.  I have to say, I love a black tie event!  Especially one at the Grand America.

We got there a little early so we just had to go to their yummy treat shop and gets some macarons.  

 The ball rooms was so gorgeous!

I am a sucker for a gorgeous table, this was was so pretty.

I loved the baby pine trees at each table.  

Listening to Robert Redford give an address, was amazing.  He truly is an incredible man.

Montage Weekend

Thanks to Josh's adventures in business have brought many fun adventures for our family.  He is part of a business group (one of many...) that had a meeting at the Montage in Deer Valley.  Families were invited to come up and stay while the meeting went on, and you'd better believe that I would take them up on that!  

 The first night that we were there we ate dinner in the game room.  The boys were in heaven, they all had their own TV with a Wii attached.  

McKay had fun playing on the games.

This boy is so silly.  He keeps us laughing!

After Josh's meetings we headed out for the pool.  We found these fun fireplaces on the way there, they were cool except for the fact that the wind kicked up and about set us all on fire!

 It was actually FREEZING, but the boys had a ball.  The water was so warm and nice, but we tried to keep our heads below it most of the time.  Freezing I tell you!

For some reason my boys always fight over who gets to sleep in the closet when we go to hotels.  They don't care how big or small, it is the coveted spot.  This one however, was a big closet and two boys got the privilege of sleeping there.  We get excited about little things in our house.

 That morning we woke up to gorgeousness.  

Halloween

My cute neighbor always hosts a fun Halloween party for for all of the kids in our neighborhood.  I was in charge of a craft and we made paper spiders.  I love that she does this!

McKay is definitely the right character, he got so into it.  

 I thought I would throw our Halloween Apple Cider stand in to the Halloween post since it is what we did for the month of October.

 We did all sorts of donuts for the month and caramel apple cider (so yummy).

 Since my parents are in Africa, my brother and his wife hosted our family Halloween party.  I have done so horrible keeping track of pictures.  I know I took pictures and I can't find them, so this is all I have.  Luckily I have this gem of my younger brother.  He is so hilarious, my boys think he is the best thing ever.

 We had a little mask trouble this year.  McKay was Spiderman and Hunter was Zorro, and both of them had trouble with their masks.  Palmer was Demeriyus Thomas and Lincoln was Harry Potter from the Triwizard tournament.  Last year he was Quiditch Harry Potter and the year before he was regular Harry Potter.  I have no idea what is left for next year.

 Josh and I were bandits, but I forgot our sacks of loot.

This is what I made for the boys' classes.  They are Fruit By the Foot and say "Trick or Treat Smell my Feet."  Josh came up with it and I thought it was pretty clever.

 For the parade, Hunter's teacher came to visit (she had been out for treatment of Breast Cancer).  The chemo gave her black eyes, so she thought it would work to be a boxer.  We sure love this lady, she breast cancer and is such a great example of a loving, caring person.

 Mrs. Pettit's class is always required to do a report on a book for Halloween and dress up like the character that the book is about.  She was Sherlock Holmes.

 Lincoln was Harry Potter from "Goblet of Fire".

Palmer was wanting to be scary, since McKay would struggle with scary, we talked him into being a Broncos football player.  Next year might be the year of scary...

 Right after the parade, we all ran different directions.  Josh took McKay to his preschool Halloween party and I was in charge of Palmer's Halloween party.  Lincoln had his report so during a break, I ran over to his class for that and then I ran back to Palmer's class only to find out that Josh had to go back to work and McKay had to have a parent at his party with him.  So Palmer's teacher had to finish the party while I ran to be with McKay.  It was a wild day.

 Lincoln did a great job on his repsort.

 McKay's preschool party was so darling and he loved every second.  He is so shy, so he stayed pretty close to me, but it was a good time.

He kept acting so funny in his costume.  I think he was feeling the Spiderman vibe.

I didn't get any pictures of the night of, which is sad.  My sister Heather and her daughter Emmalyn came over and we had a fun party.  McKay's ghost treat bag makes him look like he is wearing a tutu!  It was a good year.