Greek Tragedy

Is anyone surprised to see Maddy as the STAR of a greek tragedy? She was Daedalus in the sixth grade production of Daedalus and Icarus--doesn't she look great in a toga?

After Sunday School

Halloween: the photos

What a crazy day!! We had a slight glitch with Maddy's Medusa snake headband, so she ended up going as a witch, Dylan, of course, like any other day of the week, was dressed as a Star Wars character. Today was the maiden voyage of the Jango Fett costume. Dylan actually saw his "father," Bobo, while trunk-or-treating in the church parking lot.
This is Nick in his weapon-less, hat-(hood)-less Obi Wan costume at the school parade. You can see that the school was madness.

Mike (???) and Nick at the Trunk-or-Treat. Why does Nick have a whiffle-bat?

Devron's FANTASTIC monster cupcake-cake!!

HALLOWEEN: the story

halloween day:
1:30am: still trying to figure out how to sew maddy's 16 "grow a snakes" which are huge and slimy from being in the bathtub for 3 days onto a headband for her Medusa costume (i told her not to soak them)

7am: kids have choir: luckily, the 6th grade is going to the roller rink to skate so 6th grade is not wearing costumes (another 8 hours to stew over the snakes) Nick decides at the last second to bag his ghoul idea and wear an Obi Wan robe but is upset that the school has outlawed weapons so he can't take his light saber.

10am: School parade--at the elementary school to see Nick. it is mass chaos... (Chelsea and Dylan are at home making cookies)

12:30pm: At Nick's class to "help with the party," the mom with the cupcakes doesn't show, so I zoom to the market and grab...doughnuts to decorate...i think the kids liked it ok, tho' (missed dropping by work for the party there due to the cupcake/doughnut fiasco)

2pm: home to finish getting ready for the kid party (stupid fillo dough mummies and pigs in a blanket and popcorn chicken, you get the idea...)

3pm: kid party, the pinata wouldn't break, but they liked the other games, esp. the cookie decorating

4:30pm: kids leaving (we gave up on the snakes, maddy went as a witch), grown-ups arriving for dinner and getting ready for Trunk-or-Treating at the church

5:30pm: Trunk-or-Treating: the easy, fast way to fill your pillowcase with nutrient-poor, calorie RICH food items

7:00pm: back to the house with the moms, the kids and dads are indefatigable (due to the candy fuel) and continue the quest, although the dads are now on the dune buggy, not walking

9:30pm: more grown-ups for scary movie time (no kids allowed)

10:30pm: last of the moms and kids leave, I start cleaning up

12:15am: cleanup finished and BEDTIME (i can still hear the scary movie downstairs!!)

PHEW. now i only have to worry about thanksgiving and christmas...

Monkey Boy

This week we've had FANTASTIC weather. The temperature hovered in the mid-70s and the autumn sun was out it all its glory. On Thursday Chelsea took Dylan to the zoo--it was the perfect weather for it--and she generously shared her photos with me. You can see more of their zoo trip on her blog (that was a link). Thanks, Chelsea!!

TWO TERRIFYING WORDS....

SCOUTS and GRAVEYARD
You don't normally want to see those two words together in a sentence. But our scouts are not just ANY scouts (and our graveyard is not just ANY graveyard).
Sure, the leaves are still falling, but good hard work, hot cocoa and doughnuts make anything look better!

the girls got in on the action....you can see they were really sweating:)..

And even OBI WAN pulled his weight!!

BYU: Fine Traditions

Entering LaVell Edwards Stadium for the BYU-UNLV game yesterday, I was struck by what fine traditions we have at "the" BYU:

Of friendliness and service:

Of excellence in perfomance:

And good ol' family values:

Contrast this to the apparent traditions of the UNLV Rebels--

Support for the team (see the roaring fan club, unfortunately most of the cars I saw yesterday in Provo with Nevada license plates had BYU fans and bumperstickers on them):

Of ??? (is the UNLV player trying to pick the BYU guy's pocket?)

Of ??? (um, the mascot is the Rebel, not the Devil, and PS, don't all those black guys take offense at the whole "Rebels" thing?)

And lastly, there seems to be some kind of UNLV tradition of long hair:

OK, I guess that last one must be a Vegas issue, not just UNLV....