Happy Halloween!

I love Halloween and I love getting my kids dressed up for Trick-or-treating. I was way excited when I convinced them to be something other than a princess this year and something a little more Halloween-ish. So we got a cat, a witch, and a bear. And it was a plentiful Halloween in Francis this year! Both the big girls had parties at school where they played fun games and got treats. So when it was finally time we loaded everyone up with all our candy and went to the stake center for trunk-or-treat or trick-or-trunk according to Gracie. The girls made a haul again this year and we weren't even there very long. Chandler fell asleep in the car on the way out so she missed the whole thing but Gracie and Hayden both got more candy than they will ever need. Then we hit Grandma Dixies and got fudge fairy candy, caramel corn, and cool pencils from Andrea and after making a few other stops at friends we got home all hopped up on candy just in time for bed! Surprisingly they went to bed without too much argument as long as we promised they could count all their candy the next day. Sorry we couldn't make it down to the Smith's and Beddoes' but we knew you would enjoy these pictures! Too bad nobody else will return the favor and get their blogs going to share with us! (hint hint)
Gracie was a Tiger Cat! Every time I turned around I caught her doing her little cat dance. Hayden was a cute witch. She wanted her nose painted like Gracie's but I told her witches didn't have black noses but they did have moles so she was okay with that. Chandler was the cutest bear ever and surprisingly wore the hat most of the night! I tried painting her nose but it must have tickled because she rubbed it off as fast as I could paint it on. We all had a really fun night and now hopefully we can control ourselves around all the left-over candy!

Fun with Gracie at the apple farm!

I got to go with Gracie on her 1st grade field trip to an apple farm in Santaquin and what a great day we had. It was kind of a long way to go for 1st graders. I heard "are we there yet?" a lot and we werent even out of Heber yet. But once we got there they showed us all about how they grow and harvest apples and cherries and took us on a tour of their farm and they even had a pumpkin patch where all of the kids got to choose a pumpkin to take home. Most of them went for the biggest they could find and had to be reminded that once we got back to the school they had to get the pumpkin home some how. It's fun to finally see all the kids in her class and put faces to the names she's been talking about since school started. It was good to spend some 1 on 1 time with Gracie. With 3 small children it doesn't happen often enough and I can't believe how fast she's growing.

Just look at these cute girls!!

Not much has happened around here lately but we sure have some cute girls! Don't mind chandlers crazy hair, she will not leave anything in her hair for long. This day it was pig-tails gone bad. We got Gracies school pictures back and I am so happy with them. We blew it last year and totally forgot about picture day till we were sitting at the bus stop so needless to say last years pictures weren't the best. So this year we had to make up for it and we got up early and curled her hair. I can't believe how big she's getting. She is reading all the time and I am amazed with how well she does already! Books have always been one of her favorite things and it's clear that it has really paid off! It is also rubbing off on her sisters because they both love reading time and both act like they know how to read also! Anyway mom here is a picture of Gracies school picture. I can't get my scanner hooked up so that's the only way I could think of to show it to you.

Greg and I got to go to Salt Lake on Friday night and see Larry the Cable Guy with Tony and Julena. It was a lot of fun and super funny! We don't see them very often and rarely venture into the big city so it was a treat for us! Thank goodness for grandma Dixie who is our go to for babysitting. We always seem to call her at last minute and she rarely turns us down. After some birthday shopping in Park City with my mom and sisters the rest of the weekend was devoted to yardwork (will it ever end?) and of course cows (I know that will never end). We got a lot of help from the girls in the yard who got totally muddy. For some reason Chandler is always drawn to the dirtiest spot she can find in the yard.

Chandler has recently started playing with baby dolls. I love this picture. She will give them a big squeeze and predend to give them a bottle. This was taken after her nap so that explains the crazy bed head. Too bad we can't catch up with Aunt Jamie long enough to get a hair-do! (Hint Hint)

P.S. It snowed today. Is it really October??!!??!!

It's winter AGAIN!

Well since the first snowflake flew this year the girls have been itching to get out and play in it and they were definitely able to this weekend. Saturday started out with sunshine but then the snow came and there was definitely enough for them to make a new snow friend with a celery nose (we didn't have a carrot). I am so not looking forward to winter! Where did the summer go? But then the snow melted and on Sunday Greg was able to start winterizing. He cleaned out the garage which was badly needed. Hopefully now that we have grass the garage won't be such a mud magnet but that's probably just wishful thinking. Oh well! And that about covers the life of the Averetts this week. Boring and barely blog-worthy which is why I've been so hesitant to start this thing but now that I see that Addie and Kristie are doing it too I'll have to put more effort into it. Thanks for telling us about it guys! (That's a bit of sarcasm) Maybe this blog thing will motivate us to do something fun so I can write about it. Maybe not. We'll see.