Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgivng at Danny and Teresa's home in Catheys Valley.  Everything was great.  We enjoy the time we get to spend with family.

The kids opening their pies.   Their pies had special prizes in them for them.

The beautifully decorated table.

 Every year they have some sort of competition.  This year the competition was Ladder Ball. 

Mikayla

Preston

Ashlee

John

Heidi

Libby

 And the winners were: First Place: Sam   Second Place: Libby

Sam won a Costco Gift Card and Movie Tickets.  I won Jamba Juice Gift Cards. 

Thank you for a wonderful day.  Everything was great.

Turkey Cookies

The girls made some Turkey Cookies this morning for a little Thanksgiving treat.

California State Testing Awards

This morning Ashlee was recognized at a school assembly for her high achievements on the California State Test (STAR) that she took in the spring.  She received two awards. One for scoring Advanced in English Language Arts and another for scoring Advanced on the Math portion of the test.  She had a 33 point gain on both portions of the test in comparison to the prior year.  She received two certificates and a medal.

Their school is also ranked as one of the top 10 schools in the state and the 2nd highest school in the county. 

Ashlee with her medal.

Mikayla's 3rd Grade Harvest Party

Today Mikayla's class had their Harvest Party.  The party consisted of four centers:
Gourd Bowling
Cotton Ball Scoop Game
Hand Print Turkey Cards
Turkey Cookies.

All the kids had fun. Here are some pictures from the party.

Gourd Bowling:

Mikayla getting ready to do gourd bowling

Mikayla and Vivien picking up the "bowling pins"

The Cotton Ball Scoop Game

 Hand Print Turkey Thanksgiving Cards:

Mikayla's Hand Print Turkey Card

 Turkey Cookies.  This isn't Mikayla's cookie.  By the time I came inside to take a picture she had already ate her cookie.  Darn it!

Duct Tape Hair Bows

At the girls school carnival their was a booth with hair bows, head bands, masks, etc made out of duct tape.  Now there is a duct tape frenzy going on at school.  Everyone is seeing what they can make out of duct tape.  Ashlee and Mikayla made some hairbows, braclets, wallets and a bow tie for John out of duct tape.  John never knew so many people paid attention to him at church.  The day he wore the duct tape bow tie to church thats all everyone was talking about.  Here are a few of the bows they made.

Halloween

For Halloween we went to our wards trunk or treat.  I have to say, it's time to change things up a bit.  It's the same thing every year and the kids are getting to the point where they find it boring.  The turn out is huge because dinner is provided, but then only about 10 people open up their trunks and pass out candy.  The kids go around to each car about 4-5 times just to get some candy.  John even made the comment that maybe we are the "inactive" ones since most of the people there you don't know.  Anyway it is what it is.  Here are some pictures.

Olivia (Lucy) and Ashlee (Monster High Girl)

Mikayla (Bat Girl)  Ashlee (Monster High Character)