We ROCKED October!

Here's how:

Rusty and Sam performed in their first concert of the year:

Ryan performed in his first concert also. It was awesome and included the choir and dance company too. We neglected to bring the camera, but it rocked!

Tracy caught a great big fish:

(He let it go after that.) Tracy also went to L.A. for the Adobe Max conference last week. It's a big computer conference. He had a great time.

The Marching Band garnered two more first place trophies and two second place finishes a point or less behind first. They were also invited to perform for the crowd after the 5A bands at the Bridgerland tournament at Utah State yesterday. They rocked the house! They have one more competition this weekend in St. George. Good luck, guys!

I set a goal to finish the novella I was working on. That would require twice as much writing as I would normally do in a month. And I did it! I finished "Renegade" on Friday. Wrote 89 pages this month, which doubled my previous monthly record. Read about it on my writing blog. I also started exercising regularly for the first time since I sprained my ankle six months ago.

We had a great time at the Taylor Family Halloween Party:

I even made sugar cookies (a minor miracle). I love how they both have big gobs of frosting, but no cookie.

We had some Halloween fun too. A hail storm complete with thunder and lightning hit just in time for trunk-or-treating at the church. We did it in the gym instead of outside. When we came out of the church, there was the brightest and most beautiful double rainbow I have ever seen. Here's a picture of the kids after we got home. They made out like bandits on the candy!

 

Here's hoping November will be just as great!

Xander's Birthday, Fall Break, etc...

(Blogger is driving me crazy tonight! Argh. I can't get it to do anything right!)

Xander turned 3 years old a couple of weeks ago! He thoroughly enjoys his birthday, after witnessing four others in the month beforehand. If someone wished him happy birthday, he would get angry and say, "No, it's my birthday!" Very funny. Tracy got a video clip of it, but again, I have not yet learned the secrets of video posting. Sorry. Here he is blowing out his candles. Don't look at my poor crooked, pathetic cake. It tasted good!

Over fall break, we went to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving point. All in all, we had a good time, but it was hot! I got sunburned. That's not supposed to happen in October. After Cornbelly's we took everyone out to dinner at Chuck-A-Rama. It was a fun, tiring day.

Squinting into the sun when we arrived.

A little bit lost in the corn maze.

Xander found a walking stick, er, stalk.

Most of our little piggies.

 

In the world's largest rocking chair.

The boys had almost as much fun in the princess playland as Camary did.

More Pics

Camary blowing out her candles on her sixth birthday in September

Ryan's Homecoming group

Ryan and his date, Kaylynn at Homecoming

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finaly blowing out the candles on his tenth birthday last week

Pictures from the Winning Competition--Enjoy!

Their show is called "Recharged: The Music of Styx." They play Mr. Roboto, Show Me the Way, and Come Sail Away. It's awesome.

Congratulations, Guys!

I'm a little late here, but last Saturday (Sep. 25), the Salem Hills Marching Band competed in their first tournament of the year, the Nebo Tournament of Bands at Payson High School.

(Argh! Blogger won't upload my pictures and it's just too late to fight with it. Maybe I can post them another time.)

Anyway, they did awesome! They won First Place and Outstanding Visual Performance and Outstanding Musical Performance.

Way to go!