Happy October

Well, it's the first week of October, so that means that it's birthday season around here.

Cody's birthday was October 8. He's 10...double digits, can you believe it?

Cody and Matt at the Pueblo Zoo, June 2008

Josh's birthday was October 9. Now he and I are the same age, again.

Josh, just a second ago.

Genica's birthday was October 10, yesterday. Now she and Peter are the same age again.

Peter and Genica, their wedding day.

James' birthday is today, October 11. Hope you're feeling better, James!

Trenton, Lori, Teagan, James, and Tyler; August 2007. This is the most recent pic I have of James!

We also took the kids' to Mom and Dad's ward Halloween Party. It was so fun to dress them up. They've been asking for weeks for us to go through the Halloween costumes, but I was always in a hurry, or not in a position to buy any costumes, and just felt the stop would be a waste of time. So yesterday, after school, when we went and actually started looking at the different costumes they were ecstatic. Then they found out that they even were going to wear them that night and we had to cover our ears as the excited screaming began.




Josh has always loved Halloween and to make it even greater, he took a stage makeup class at school. We both have professional stage makeup kits, but haven't had much of a chance to use it except when we were doing plays two years ago and every Halloween. So, I did the girls hair and Josh did their makeup. If you think it's kind of funny that he is the makeup artist in our home, add this to your imagination: Josh is a nurse, he's an incredible interior designer, he's my fashion consultant, and the kids often refer to his stage makeup as "Daddy's makeup." All kidding aside, he's really a huge stud and his strengths completely make up for my weaknesses.







Emma was an elf princess. We couldn't find any elf ears and our makeup putty wouldn't stay on her ears very well, so we couldn't even use some of our special effects makeup. But her wig covered it and I think she still looked great.







Abby was, according to her costume picture, a Ninja Geisha. I don't really understand how the two correspond, but whatever. She was so excited because we colored some of her hair purple. And she got to wear makeup. She always wants to wear makeup.







Matt was a spider. I love this costume. I think he's so cute. He's got a hat that's kind of hard to see because his head is so big! It makes me laugh. It was almost like a little top hat yamaka. And he was really excited about wearing makeup too, but it was boy makeup.