Octoberfest

October is so fun!  We love this month.  After we got about halfway through this month I thought I would just wait until the end of the month to post everything but then I thought that would be one massive post (more so than usual), so I decided to post everything except Ethan's birthday (which is coming right up) and Halloween. So here goes....

We started the month like any other, putting up the Halloween decorations and then we waited for fall to set in.  Our first notable occasion in October is always Dad's birthday.  This year his birthday landed on a Thursday and Thursdays are the day that the USU Botanical Center in Kaysville, where JayDee spends at least one day a week, has their Farmer's Market.  This particular market day was their annual apple and cheese tasting night.  JayDee loves this night and he didn't want to come home, even though it was his birthday.  So we took his birthday to him. 

First we had to partake of the apple and cheese varieties.

And who can say no to freshly pressed apple cider?

Then we whisked JayDee off into his trees and had our own little birthday party.  Presents, singing, cake...

Modeling the new jacket and CD

(Yes, that's Adele's CD.  He loves her.) 

That is one nice cake!

It took me all day to make.

For the record, I did make his traditional Chocolate Chiffon Cake it was just a few days after his actual birthday.   

Plus, donuts travel much easier.

The very next day, we headed out for our annual pumpkin patch/hayride day at J&J Nursery with our friends.  It was a beautiful Friday with so much sun it was hard to get any decent pictures.

The hunt is on!

Next up,  Pack Meeting.  Ethan earned his Arrow of Light award, the highest award in the Cub Scout program, and is officially headed to the Boy Scouts in 2 days.  I really don't know how he got this old.

Part of the ceremony in our ward is to paint the kids' faces with all the 7 colors of significance in the Arrow of Light.

Luckily parents get to have some too.  Yippee!

After they are painted they get to go over the bridge.  The Cub Scouts line up forming an arch on one side of the bridge and the Boy Scouts line up on the other and then the boy getting the Arrow of Light gets to run through the arch up and over the bridge.  This is to symbolize the movement from cub scouts to boy scouts.  Then they get to sign and date the bridge.  They love this!

 We love this boy!

Check out our wisdom marks.

Yeah, we're wise alright.

Grandma and Grandpa came to celebrate too.

UEA was last week and there were no fun vacations for us so we had to find other things to fill our 4 day weekend.  One day we went with our friends, the Griggs, on a "hike" on the Farmington trail.  It was another beautiful day and we enjoyed being outside somewhere that we normally aren't so much.

 Another day we had a kid's Halloween party.  Costumes were optional and that's why half my kids are dressed up and the other half are not. 

This was the dig through the brains to find prizes game. 

I absolutely love this picture.

We couldn't let the kids have all the fun so of course the parents had to have a Halloween party too.  At this one costumes were not optional.  It was a holiday themed party.  Everyone had to choose a holiday to dress up like but no Halloween.  Can you guess the holidays?  There are a few doubles.

The dorky, overly festive neighbors with fruit cake.

Meowy Christmas everyone! 

Oh. Can't guess this holiday?  How about...

National talk like a pirate day?!

 Thanks for the fun Griggs!

That's it for now.  But there's more fun to come before this awesome month is over.  Happy Fall everyone!