October Happenings 2025

 

October 2025 flew by.  I was so busy trying to finish Halloween costumes, 

(Thank you Taya for an AMAZING costume theme idea this year)

make Halloween dinners, plan a wedding, & just try to stay afloat.

We had some fun things happen during the month of concerts, dances, performances, & Halloween!

Taya asked Xander to Sadie Hawkins & he answered that he'd be a "Lucky Duck" to go to Sadies with her.  They had a blast.  Taya picked out BRIGHT NEON PINK SHIRTS for them to wear/match to the dance.  They had a ton of fun.

Trek's cadets at the University of Utah ran the BYU/Utah game ball from Rice Eccles Stadium to the point of the mountain where the BYU cadets picked it up & ran it to Provo for the game.  BYU beat the Utes, but we always enjoy the "running of the game ball" to show unity between the 2 schools ROTC units.

We had a really fun youth activity called "Frankenstein Plushies."   We collected a bunch of stuffed animals from thrift stores & from people in our neighborhood, then the kids took them apart (heads, tails, ears, arms, & legs), then mixed them up & sewed NEW stuffed animals using all the different parts.  It was HILARIOUS & the teens absolutely loved it.

Lorien & Elijah got their marriage license!!! Wahoo!

And of course, Bella was adorable like always.

And Halloween was great for all the kids.  Canyon had a group of 4 or 5 friends he went around the neighborhood with.  He ended up going to a friends house after trick or treating for 30 minutes & watched a movie.

Craiger invited about 15 friends to our neighborhood & they were out trick or treating for a good 2 hours.  They also went to one of the friend's house to watch a movie.

Taya & Bladen had a group of about 10 friends over & they had pizza at our house, watched a movie, then went trick or treating around our neighborhood.

It cracks me up because even though I spend SO MUCH TIME making or putting together themed costumes for our family. . . . none of them actually wear them on Halloween.  Bladen & Canyon were the only 2 this year that actually wore this year's costumes.  It's too much fun to dress up as a friend group I guess.  :-)