Saturday, November 6, 2010

11-1-2010 Monday - Our Autumn Activity Tree!!!

So every day this month the kids take turns picking a leaf off of our Autumn Activity Tree and we get to do whatever the activity is on the back of it! Our tree will lose all its leaves onto the ground and we will be playing all month long! It's going to be a fun filled month!!!

10-31-2010 Sunday - A Smithy Halloween!!!

The whole Starr family got together at the Smith's house for Halloween this year! Becky outdid herself with all the food, decorations, games and gifts!
Some highlights were:

Visiting with cousins - and seeing Alysse and Spencer's little Snow and baby Hunter!

Audry and Bryanna at the beautiful dinner table!
(You'd never know that Bryanna had her third baby boy a few hours after this photo was taken!)

All the younger cousins horsing around outside!

Nathan and Luke mummified in the mummy wrap contest - they won!

All of our special mummies!

A treasure hunt with goodies at every clue!

Luke playing dodge ball!

All of our loot after the games!

Eat the Oreo from your forehead game was the funniest thing to watch!

Just hanging around and being together!

10-30-2010 Saturday - Trunk or Treat At The Church

All the families get together in the church parking lot and we decorate our cars up and do a "Trunk or Treat" each year. This year we had a potluck dinner also of chili, cornbread and cupcakes. We brought some chili and it was gone when the evening was over!
Shera started out as Hermione and ended up as Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter!

I never got a good photo of Luke this year - he kept taking off his mask! :( Anyway, he was a ghoul...

Aubry, Noel and Carissa went as Pajama Girls...

The Adams from our ward before came to visit for the weekend from Utah. It was good to see them again. Susan spoke at dear Sister Jackie Hodson's funeral the day before who had passed away from cancer.

And of course, Sasha and Heidi dressed up in their Jack o' Lantern pajamas too!!!

10-30-2010 Saturday - Girlie Time :)

Noel and Aubry:
Nothing to do and having a great time!!!
Beautiful girls!!!

10-29-2010 Thursday - MVHS vs. San Clemente

The girls got to dress up like "football players" for the game on Thursday in honor of Halloween.

I love this picture of the back of Noel in her waffle shorts and Diablos jersey!

We won against San Clemente High 42-21!!!
Go Mission!!!

10-27-2010 Wednesday - Pumpkin Carving!!!

It's pumpkin carving time!!!

Well, grandma got her own pumpkin this year too! Jeff just had to help her clean it out!

Papa watched as Noel got all the gooey stuff out! It's her least favorite part!

Watch out with that knife!!!

Shera's getting to be a pro!!!

This is now Halloween!!!

10-25-2010 Monday - Making Candy Apples for Family Night

After Pumpkin City for family night, we came home and made candy apples!

The red candy was so vivid and beautiful.

Shera put all the sticks into the clean apples.

Dip...

Dipper...

Big Dipper...

The Dippinest...

The Sucker...
Don't eat that! You'll burn yourself!!!

Whew! Got Jeff to put it down with all the others...

Yummo!!!

10-25-2010 Monday - Pumpkin City Time!!!

Pumpkin City time again!

Papa and Grandma came down for a couple of weeks and joined us.

Shera and her dad panned for gems!

Luke got Lucky!!!

All the gems in the pot!

He got a whole bunch of them!!!
Noel wanted a little pumpkin this year!

All the picked pumpkins - mine is the white one!

School Year Highlights!

School Year Highlights!
Drew's drama club went to NYC over the holidays!

Holly's Classical Voice Recital

Noel won Castille Elementary Student of the Year from the Kiwanis Club. She's here with Peter Vidmar - 2x Olympic Gold & 1x Olympic Silver Medal winner.

Church History Tour Easter Break

Church History Tour Easter Break
Palmyra - Joseph Smith's home where he grew up!

We went to Niagara Falls too!

The Angel Game!

The Angel Game!
We got on the big screen!