For Halloween this year, Renee and Tiffany decided to dress the kids in costumes from the Wizard of Oz. They really looked cute.
Pyper as the Witch, Kaydance as Dorothy, and Jordan as the cowardly Lion.
Kaydance
Pyper and Jordan
Jordan is excited about his lion head.
Looking at Grama's Halloween Globe.
Jon, Bri and the kids. Jon was Schrek from Christmas Schrek, Bri was, hmmmm I don't remember, a mad Dr I think, Kaisa was Ms. Blueberry from Strawberry Shortcake, and Gage was a horse. And Adelyn was a leopard. Kaitlyn was with her dad.Jon
Kaisa
Gage
Kaisa and Gage.
Addy
At work we celebrated Halloween the day before since Halloween fell on Saturday. I wanted to dress up for work, but couldn't figure out what to dress up as. A little before I needed to leave for work, I decided to go as a Turkey. I ran to Walmart and found a men's brown shirt, and brown stretch pants, and got some poster board in different colors. I quickly cut out feathers from the poster board and stapled them to the back of the shirt. I next cut out turkey feet and stapled them to the tongue of my sneakers. Next I cut one leg off girls red stockings and cut out a beak and stapled the beak to a part of the red stockings. I got the shirt and pants on, and stuffed a pillow in the shirt... well, who likes a skinny turkey? I slipped the stocking over my head with my face sticking out the cut out leg area, and the other leg hanging down from my chin as my gobbler, and pulled the beak in place. I was laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes.... my kids thought I was nuts, (what else is new!) but were laughing pretty hard too. 
The tricky part was to try and get in the car with the dang feathers, and the big feet. I didn't thnk of that! I finally got to work, and the phone agents were still on the phones. When I walked it made a weird flip flop noise, so the agents had turned to see what the noise was.... and busted laughing out loud... they of course had to explain to their poor customers they were on the phones with why they were laughing. 
I felt pretty silly, but it was fun to make the agents laugh, and put a little fun in at work. My Operations Manager thought the costume was so cool that they used it for a turkey shoot with a nurf gun for Thanksgiving games the day before Thanksgiving at work. I also went out during our family Thanksgiving meal and changed into it and came running in. I went up to my poor Aunt Dorothy and surprised her.... I squealed and feigned disgust at her eating turkey... She was a little shocked at first, but then realized and laughed. The little kids thought it was great, but again, my kids were embarrassed and my brother and sister were just shaking their heads... I had fun with it!
Side note: The neighbor across from us told me that she and the kids had fun watching me try to get into my car in that costume, and were sitting there in the window laughing.
Kaleb. Kaleb was able to come for Thanksgiving break.
Jon, Bri and the kids. Jon was Schrek from Christmas Schrek, Bri was, hmmmm I don't remember, a mad Dr I think, Kaisa was Ms. Blueberry from Strawberry Shortcake, and Gage was a horse. And Adelyn was a leopard. Kaitlyn was with her dad.
At work we celebrated Halloween the day before since Halloween fell on Saturday. I wanted to dress up for work, but couldn't figure out what to dress up as. A little before I needed to leave for work, I decided to go as a Turkey. I ran to Walmart and found a men's brown shirt, and brown stretch pants, and got some poster board in different colors. I quickly cut out feathers from the poster board and stapled them to the back of the shirt. I next cut out turkey feet and stapled them to the tongue of my sneakers. Next I cut one leg off girls red stockings and cut out a beak and stapled the beak to a part of the red stockings. I got the shirt and pants on, and stuffed a pillow in the shirt... well, who likes a skinny turkey? I slipped the stocking over my head with my face sticking out the cut out leg area, and the other leg hanging down from my chin as my gobbler, and pulled the beak in place. I was laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes.... my kids thought I was nuts, (what else is new!) but were laughing pretty hard too. 
The tricky part was to try and get in the car with the dang feathers, and the big feet. I didn't thnk of that! I finally got to work, and the phone agents were still on the phones. When I walked it made a weird flip flop noise, so the agents had turned to see what the noise was.... and busted laughing out loud... they of course had to explain to their poor customers they were on the phones with why they were laughing. 
I felt pretty silly, but it was fun to make the agents laugh, and put a little fun in at work. My Operations Manager thought the costume was so cool that they used it for a turkey shoot with a nurf gun for Thanksgiving games the day before Thanksgiving at work. I also went out during our family Thanksgiving meal and changed into it and came running in. I went up to my poor Aunt Dorothy and surprised her.... I squealed and feigned disgust at her eating turkey... She was a little shocked at first, but then realized and laughed. The little kids thought it was great, but again, my kids were embarrassed and my brother and sister were just shaking their heads... I had fun with it! 
I love to watch the leaves change colors. It is my favorite time of year, because of the beauty all around, and the beginning of football season. I used to love driving down the freeway back in New York as there were trees between the lanes on divided highways. It was absolutely gorgeous to see. I miss the vast number of trees and the lush green, but the mountains are quite majestic and give me the same feeling of awe when the trees in the mountains start to change colors. 
