We started out our week of no school by going to the Mesa High Homecoming football game. I took the older two boys and a friend. Mesa High is my Alma Mater and I haven't been to a football game since I graduated. I think I did more people watching than game watching. Were we really that "idiotic" (the only word that accurately describes it) when we were in high school?
These boys have never ending appetites. They went through a whole bag of popcorn, half a bag of Cheetos, half a bag of Doritos and snow cones. All in two hours!
We got a little crafty. On Monday we made these cute lanterns out of jars. They have battery operated tealights in them. I got the idea from a friend's blog, thanks Nicole, we had fun making them.
On Tuesday we made pumpkin tie-dye t-shirts.
Jaxson's shirt was on backwards in the first picture. Here's what the front's supposed to look like.
Haley helped me make a spooky Halloween tree. I've seen this idea on several different web-sites and really wanted to make one. She knocked some branches out of the tree in our front yard and then spray painted them. I didn't originally plan to hang anything on the branches but I found these little signs at the pumpkin patch and thought they were cute.
Wednesday Larry took the kids to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and then we went to Mother Nature's Pumpkin Patch that night.
Thursday we headed up to Camp LoMia for our ward campout. I absolutely love the fall colors in the forest. Haley made us stop so she could take a picture of this tree. It was beautiful.
The zipline.
Friday we went to Fossil Springs to do some hiking and ended up swimming in the Spring instead. The water was so clear we could see all the way to the bottom. It was pretty warm by the time we got down to the bottom of the canyon so the cold water was refreshing. The men shed their shirts and some of the smaller kids shed more than their shirts and in they went.
My little mountain man.
This next picture is him throwing a stick. He was across the road up on this little hill and he kept yelling at me to take a picture of him throwing the stick. So I did, too bad my camera's so slow, I missed the stick.
We rushed home early on Saturday to make the boys first football game. It was over 100 degrees out and miserable but the boys were troopers, decked out in all their equipment. They lost by one touchdown but overall played a great game.
This is Jake making a great tackle (he's the gold jersey on the ground) 
Did I mention it was REALLY HOT!
Poor Guys!The week was over before we knew it and the kids were back to school and Larry back to work. Why is it that the fun times always fly by way too fast!
1 comment:
Wow you guys had a busy week! Sounds fun. I love fall in the forest, too. We went up to Snowflake last weekend and got to see some pretty colors. Your spooky tree turned out way cute!
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