Halloween

Danny and I went up to Sundance to ride the Halloween Lift. We have gotten free tickets to go for the past 3 years or so, but this is the first year that we made an effort to go. It was fun to ride it, but it didn't have nearly as much decor as we expected it to have. We were glad that we didn't pay the $35 ticket price, because we did not think it was worth that much and we would have been very disappointed.

The kids barely got pumpkins carved. We were so busy in the fall that there just wasn't time to do them. We bought the pumpkins 2 days before Halloween and then carved them later that night.

The kids all dressed up like dogs this year for Halloween. Tyler was a husky (his favorite breed of dog).

Camden was a dalmatian, probably because of the play he was in during the summer.

Ashley dressed up as Lula and dressed Lula up as her. She even found a little blonde ponytail to but on Lula. It was a cute idea, but her costume was kind of a nightmare to make.

Ashley took the boys trick or treating and Danny and I stayed home to hand out candy and watch "The Shinning." 

Alyssa has Finger Surgery

In October, Alyssa had surgery on her pinky finger. She broke it playing volleyball for fun outside of her dorm. I took her to the surgery and got to spend the day with her doing a lot of waiting. We snapped some pictures while we waited for them to take her back to the surgery room.

After the surgery, she was pretty funny. Mostly, she repeated herself about being cold, and hungry, and telling me that the IV was hurting. We got the nurses to bring her extra blankets and eventually a heated air blanket. They also brought her pretty much every snack that they had that was gluten free. String cheese, Jello, ice cream, etc. They took longer to release her than expected because her blood pressure was a little low. The nurse that pulled out her IV said that it looked like a medieval torture device. The needle was the biggest he had ever seen used for an IV. I guess that explains why it was hurting her so much. 

When we were finally allowed to leave, we stopped at a Thai restaurant to get some food in Alyssa. Then we picked up some medicine and ice and headed back to her dorm. Then I left her in the care of her room mates. She was glad to have the surgery behind her and to be able to start the process of healing.
 

SaintCon

This even comes to the Convention Center every year in October. The people that run it are so nice. The past 2 years we have gone down for their family night. The people that attend this event are not exactly our crowd, but the boys and Ashley had fun at some of the booths. The boys built lego cars both years to race down the track.

They got to work the hot glue gun to glue letters onto a square board in different designs.

They made rockets to shoot up 3 stories high.

Ashley made a little paper fan that actually spun when you put the plug on a certain point on the paper. I did not get a picture of this one but it was cool.

Danny showed us this video of himself and some of the people at the event and we all had a good laugh. The funniest part was that as he was waiting for the elevator to come and talking to someone, the door opened and he actually jumped like 10 feet away from the elevator door when he saw what was inside. And then he rode up with them