So much #2

Also in October Kalvan put together a Geo Caching field trip for Sage's class. Using a GPS, they had to hunt for three points within sunset park. The first was a little roll of paper tucked into a palm tree they got to sign to show that they'd been to the cache. The second was inside the Clark County Park and Recreation building at Sunset park where they got to trade an item they brought with them for something in the cache box. The last point was a stashed box of cookies I'd placed on the play ground. They all had so much fun being outside and hunting for treasure! We stayed at the park for a picnic lunch and a quick lesson by Mrs. Barillas (2nd Grade Teacher) on the GPS/compass tools Heavenly Father has provided us.

The following weekend we were delighted to have Kal's niece, Brooke, her husband and baby come for a visit. In the morning we headed up to Red Rock Canyon for a hike.

The day after was our ward's primary presentation and Kaleb's 10th birthday! Kaleb is so excited to finally be 10 and advance into webelos. He completed his bear back in June and has been itching to move on. It may surprise you to know that Kaleb prefers pie to cake. He's my citrus boy. He loves most things lemon or lime flavored. So for his birthday he chose a lemon meringue pie.

For Kaleb's birthday he got to go try out kart racing. He did a fantastic job and had some fun too.

For his friend party Kaleb and 3 of his friends went to see "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs". It's was such a funny movie and the boys thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

MR. CLEAN - HALLOWEEN - NEED I SAY MORE?

The evening after Kaleb's party was our ward Trunk r' Treat Sage made a beautiful Mulan, Karter is still obsessed with Mickey Mouse, and Kaleb was a frightening ninja.

On Halloween we had soup, went trick or treating and had a sugary good time!

So much to tell, where to begin...

Hello all!

I've been very bad about updating our blog. Since school started we've done so much and there's so much to share. I'll start with Karter's birthday. Karter turned 4 this year! As most children he was so excited to get on with the birthday festivities he didn't even change out of his pajamas before opening his gifts. It still seems crazy to me that he could be so big already!

The Saturday following his birthday we held his friend party. We had so much fun eating cake, playing with an AHA parachute and opening presents. The only planned activity was the parachute which I borrowed from our school. It wasn't Karter's favorite since he ran smack into a larger child under the parachute right off the bat. The rest of us had a great time right up until the spriklers came on. I'll have to remember to turn those off next time.

Karter was so happy to spend some time with all his adorable friends.

Three days after Karter's birthday we celebrated my birthday. It was great!!! I was pampered, fed, loved and got new shoes! My funny hubby even wore colors that matched my new skirt and shoes to church the day after my birthday.

As promised here are my adorable kids in uniform. This picture was taken on Constitution Night at American Heritage.

Each class at American Heritage is asked to create a "class constitution". The kids get to give their input on what they want in their constitution. Each year in mid-September the school does Constitution Night so each child in each class has the opportunity to come up and sign their class constitution in front of parents, friends and teachers (there's no backing out of the constitution after everyone you know has seen you sign it). This year our guest speaker was David Holland (Jeffrey R. Holland's son). He's a history professor at UNLV and a constitution guru. I didn't get many pictures of the kids signing since I had to stand at the Kinder-school table and help my students sign.

That brings us to October. We had a Kinder-school field trip to the ONLY orchard in the Las Vegas Valley. It's called Gillcrease Orchard. The kids were so dang cute. Most were dressed up in their western best. They had the opportunity to pick apples from the trees and select a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. We had a great time and everyone (including me) were ready

for naps when we got back to the school. Unfortunately a few of my kids couldn't make it so not all are in the picture.