Other pictures

I forgot to post the funny picture Fiora drew of Jared's 4-wheeling adventures! It definitely needs to be in the blog book.

Also here is a cool picture we got of Weston at the Pine Wood Derby.

Jared's Moab Picture

Jared's not about to draft a blog post, but I will put his pictures on at least. One nice thing about the Schauers guys is they take pictures when they do fun things, I've always liked that about Jared.

4 wheeling at Moab Utah

Justin covering his nose because of bad gas

Chris Jensen, Aaron Jared and Justin Schauers

Where'd the ladder come from?

Justin, Chris, Jared

Jared

Nice scenery!

Novembers flying like a kid on a sled

Trees bent with snow

 The massive snow storm we had last weekend while Jared was in Moab with his brothers was so heavy it snapped a few large branches off our tree and made the limbs bent. Jared missed all the excitement. While he was riding 4 wheelers, we not only had the largest snowstorm we've had in over a year, also my car broke down while I was driving to my Grandma's house to take her to a play, my sister in law Wendy had to rescue me, the car had to sit at Big 5 Sporting Goods until Monday, our driveway and walks did not get snow plowed, and my kids had to put themselves to bed two nights in a row so I could make my various commitments.  I had a lot of "wish Jared were here" moments that weekend.  But he had a great time seeing some beautiful scenery and I'm glad for him that he got a break.

At least Jared got the garbage bins on the street before he left

 I went sledding with the kids Saturday morning, we had a lot of fun in the 6 inch deep drifts at our hilly park.  Well Wes and Fi and I did, Savanna elected to stay home. 

Wipe out!

Silly Weston

Fiora Playing in the snow

Interestingly enough to post, 2 of my sisters and 2 of my sisters in law are expecting!  We haven't had 4 people pregnant at the same time in my family ever before, so this is an exciting milestone.  My sister Holly is going to have a baby #5 any day now, and Kelsy #1, Heidi #4, and Kali #2 are all about 13 or so weeks along and due within a week of each other.  Crazy!  Its fun to be part of a big family.

The fun keeps going!

So much happened at the end of October. I hosted a party for the Primary children who practiced their program songs, and was expecting 12 children and 20 came.  It was a bit chaotic but fun was had by most of the kids I believe. We made pizzas and played games, and I think it was brave of me to offer that to the kids, don't know if I'll do it again next year.

one of the pizza making stations

Then Halloween was upon us, and we again survived the added stresses of dressing up and having parties and candy everywhere.  Weston wanted to be a ninja, and we don't have a ninja costume, so he created one out of his own wardrobe that worked.  I felt a bit guilty for not just getting him a cool ninja costume when I saw all the amazing costumes at the school parade, he seemed content though.  Fiora borrowed a hippy costume from the neighbors, she kept saying she wanted to be a zombie from the 80's and I just didn't know how to pull that off effectively so she settled on the hippy.  I thought she looked groovy.  Savanna didn't really have any costume idea in mind, and I don't mess with Savanna and costumes anymore (if you know our history its pretty traumatic for her and me on Halloween).  At literally the last minute (we left at 5:25, she thought of this at 5.24) she threw on this dress and shawl and I threw flour on her hair and she went to the trunk or treat as an old lady. This year we had a record breaking 1 trick-or-treater come to our door on Halloween.

Before school

the reason I buy pumpkins, the roasted seeds!!!

Weston at the school Halloween parade

Peace

Savanna old lady

At the trunk or treat

still young enough to have fun trunk or treating

Ninja Weston

I hosted a piano recital the Friday after Halloween. I have 4 students and Weston that I teach so it doesn't take long but it was still fun to hear how the kids are progressing. Fiora did some clogging and Savanna did some violin so it was more like a talent show than a recital.  I had chips and homemade salsa for refreshments, and people just don't partake of refreshments when its healthy like they do when its donuts or something.  Oh well, I enjoyed it.
Fiora was mandatory registered to participate in the Clogging Autumnfest competition up at the Rose Wagner Theater in Salt Lake.  She was super nervous about it. We practiced her solo many many times and she did a great job. It was a big production, and fun to see all the intermediate cloggers compete.  One boy threw up on the stage before Fiora was up and that made her cry with anxiety for a little bit, but she was brave and went out and performed.  Good job Fiora!

Fiora's in the middle

 

exiting the stage

While we were in Salk lake we made a family outing of it.  We walked through City Creek and got some lunch, and visited Temple Square.  Savanna did NOT want to be there, and put her hood over her head and lagged behind most of the day, but since we know the wisdom of having the whole family together we forced her to come. :)  Silly Savanna. 

At City Creek

LDS Salt Lake Visitors Center

Temple Square

Where Jared and I were married :)

  We also took some time to stop at Scheels and ride the Ferris Wheel.  Turns out Savanna is still afraid of heights and ferris wheels.

Photo op at Scheels

Photo op at Scheels

Weston got all the photo ops while we girls waited in line

 

Our turn, Savanna's scared

Weston on the Ferris Wheel

Scheels from above

Hi

Savanna

Savanna ran into a boulder at the neighbor's house and might have broken her toe. She has been limping around for the past 3 days and complaining (a lot) about how bad it hurts.  She wore one slipper to school yesterday and looked very gimpy.  Today she put on her regular shoe, maybe its getting better or maybe she doesn't want to explain to people that its not "crazy shoe day" at school anymore!

Our aspen tree looks so pretty in the fall!