Halloween...

or the more important holiday, Nevada Day.  

I had the song playing on the way home as I realized it what day it truly was.  I was sad there was no Chuckwagon lunch but loved that Camilla sang "Home Means Nevada" and does every week. 

Dressing up for school is fun if you have to go to school on Halloween. 

Princess Jasmine just reading on the way to school.  Camilla was excited because she had a police to guard her in her class.

Luke was ready to go grounding and sit in the sun.... the sun was nice and warm.  So he ate his pasta out there...

Luke has taken to cleaning big Muck because then he can come inside if he is clean... we have talked many times about how he chose him to be an outside toy.... But he still keeps on cleaning and scrubbing him.  He's got big plans for Muck in Idaho... we will see. 

Waiting for Milla's class.... there was a dad dressed up with a full clown mask... it was pretty intense. 

They went trunk-r-treating after music and got a lot of candy and even two sets of pokemon cards. 

Liv was retaking a test after school and so we had some time to wait... They had cut out and colored bats at school and Milla's bat was ready to fly. 

While I was at the temple Grandpa and Grandma had taught Luke how to play Jenga the real way.... so he showed Milla while eating candy. 

We were about halloweened out and so we pulled out the candy and read lots of Harry Potter.... we finished number 2 and since Camilla has already taken the AR test for 1-4 we skipped over to 5 so she can take that one when we finish.  We like them all... 

Alivia's Choir Concert.

Alivia's first choir concert was a little earlier than usual because her teacher could have twins any day now and wanted to be ahead of the game.  Liv is in advanced choir as her teacher (in our ward) said she would be bored in the others.  Because she is in advanced they get to wear pretty dresses for their concerts. 

They had the concert at school which meant that they didn't have enough space for all the choirs and all the parents for one full concert.  So we had the advanced choir and chamber choir in our concert section which was really nice. Sister Jackson played the piano too.  Liv saw her during their rehearsal and I asked if she said hello... she told me they were busy. 

Liv smiled for Grandma and saw her...

That water bottle was a little loud on the floor... a few times... but overall we had really good concert goers. 

getting ready to go. 

A few weeks ago Alivia told me "I have a surprise for you."  I said great what is it?  She told me... "I'll tell you later.."  I asked if it was later and she said "Ok.. I got the solo!"  

She chose to audition and got the solo. We know the choir teacher and she is the only sixth grader in choir so I figured there was slight nepotism.  haha... which oh well?  At the Trunk-R-Treat Caitlin said did Alivia tell you about her solo?  I said yes and said I don't know if biased is bad.  She said oh no- I didn't even give her the solo.  She has a guest teacher who will be taking over her class while she is on maternity leave and Caitlin said that Jezy did the auditions and chose Alivia all on her own.  So she earned it.  Their class only had one song with a solo so that was fun. 

Grandma was good at figuring out who all the other soloists (in the other choir) parents were.... we missed the thumbs memo.

This mic had been falling so Ms. Francese helped her out with it. 

Here's the video... the lady in front of Chad got her camera out... but he has longer arms...

Much more relaxed after the show.  Grandma and Luke walked back home while we waited to find Livy.  

On the way home Camilla said "I have a good singing voice too.. but I don't ever want to do a solo!"  Personality is so funny. 

A List of Sayings From My Email.

 that have been written down in my email for too long and need to be deleted there.....

Luke- "I don't like my room anymore! I don't like the prettiness of it!"

Gary Webb- "When Grandma was gone and I was afraid I just pretended that Logan was in his room and it made me feel safe.  And then I smelled carne asade fries out there and I didn't have to pretend anymore!"

Rachelle at the pool told me that she went to Charleston ward's conference and President Davis told a story of when the world was just pushing down on him and this guy came up for a pep talk that he desperately needed.  10 years ago and it made such an impact on him... I thought you'd just like to hear that story."  The fun part of that one was I remembered the other part of the story from 10 years ago... who would drive a bus up here. 

Luke told me as we were walking into the library when you're a grandma you're going to have to get a library bag.  I told him my mom didn't have a library bag when I was little and we had to carry our books so he can do it too. He said "that's weird."

Luke couldn't find his necklace and came in singing "Shine bright like a diamond! Shine bright like a diamond! I found my necklace!"  the diamond stone on there has made that song his favorite. 

Our New Friend Miguel.

A little after 8 the doorbell rang and Liv thought it must be a murderer so I opened the door... and saw someone out there and said hello?  Then I realized that the thing out there was not moving.. and then waited for Chad to get out of the shower to go and meet our new friend. 

 Luke was asleep but the girls came out to see him.  In the morning we took him out to the garage to see our friend and he just laughed at him. 

Our friend Miguel (our ward is the San Miguel ward... hahahaha) needed to be passed on, an accessory added, a selfie and location drop and a treat.... he came with the cutest bowl we passed on and refilled it after we ate a lot of the candy. 

The girls thought he needed a pup tag.... It was a little bit more difficult to put on then Liv expected. 

They came up with and made it all themselves.  They knew that everyone who was at the Trunk-R-Treat would know that it was us.... maybe... I'm not sure everyone knows what a pup tag is. 

and Chad wanted to really make it known that he was there.... with a bag.  They were so excited. 

We had our plan and had driven by earlier to get our escape route.  Chad put Miguel in the backseat with Alivia and Camilla thought it was a bit scary in the dark. 

We had our plan that Liv and Chad (Camilla did not want to anymore) were going to run up and drop it.  Then they were going to ring the door bell and run... the way over Luke told us he was going to drop him off.  We said oh no... you just stay with us. So Chad and Liv hurried up to the house and then Luke ran right up.... 

Alivia rang the doorbell and ran... then Luke said I'm going to run the doorbell and ran up to ring it and did... then promptly stood there waiting for the door to open surely.  Chad grabbed him quickly and held him sideways and they made it to the car and we drove off..... coming back around we saw them answer the door and then went to look at Halloween lights.  

We were all laughing and laughing over Luke's decisions... then it grew a little quiet and Luke goes "Best Day Ever."  It was made fun. 

The Trunk-R-Treat.

We finally got to go to the Trunk-R-Treat. 

and they were ready. 

 We walked up and the missionary turned and said Oh you're chase from paw patrol!  You're Jasmine! and you're... a mad scientist?  Liv said close enough!

We waited in line for food and didn't get a song from Ann... but witnessed the one later...

The kids thought we should sit here again...

We waited a bit and mingled...

and our favorite Perkins said let's get this party started and grabbed all the kids and got them glowstick bracelets and candy

Luke brought his McDonald bucket... we also brought his pumpkin.. which he needed too. 

Kristie was using the bags... in her costume.  We took a picture so we could send it to Kelly for his Book of Remembrance. 

Full buckets.  Success. 

Inside they had pictures with backgrounds and such...

Camilla was extra excited that they had a lamp to go along...