Chournos Halloween

I have had this post sitting in my edit box waiting for me to get it ready for being posted-- but I am behind now, so all pictures, not much words.

Multi-colored cheese rolls - inside the rolls there is cheese!

Grandkid Quilt

For my moms birthday this year, I made a quilt & we had each grandchild slap on a hand print.
We are only missing one. Little Collin was born October 9th, & lives too far away to have gotten it done before the birthday.

Willow Park

Every year we make a trip to Willow Park in Logan, sometimes 2.
This is the first time I've ever seen this this critter awake.

Such pretty colors

Picking out Pumpkins

For the last few years, my parent's neighbor has let us come & pick out pumpkins from their patch. This has become a fun tradition for us. Thanks Briggs Family.

I picked this pumpkin

Good looking pumpkins!

I was marching through the pumpkin patch and & right as I was about to take my next step, I saw this large beauty of a spider. I was carrying a pumpkin & tipped myself backward to avoid the spider, almost falling. & yes, I think I may have screamed- ahhhhh. I looked around to see which of my siblings were watching me & possibly laughing that I about toppled backward. I then proceeded to yell to my family about this "huge spider, biggest I've ever seen." It wasn't until about 3 minutes into my rant that someone decided to listen & came over to look. "Wow, that is a big spider" Then my younger brother came & said, awe. that's nothing, I've seen tarantula's- well ya, me too, but only in pet stores. This was in the wild & was beautiful. Such pretty striping. It's hard to tell just how big it was, but it's body length was about the size of my thumb, so with it's legs, it probably would have spanned bigger than my palm. Then I had the creepy crawly's all day. I was at the grocery store about 4 hours later, my hair in a hat- some of my hair had gotten loose & tickled my face. So I did what anyone would do right, I smacked myself in the face a few times in the middle of SMITH'S.

Then got a grip, when I figured out it was my hair, not a spider.

Pumpkins with the Hadley's

I sifted through all the guts so I could get some pumpkin seeds to cook.

Bobbing for apples

Eating doughnuts off the floor, because they broke off the string.

Trent- being a cool teenager.

WITCHAPOLOOZA

We went to opening night at WITCHAPOLOOZA'S dinner theater. Nothing like a girls night out!

Me, Jen, DeLaine, Crystal & Stephanie.

Bear Lake

Such a pretty Lake & Scenery!

We usually make it up to Bear Lake a few times a year. This was our 2nd trip. Much better than the first one. We had gone over the 4th of July, & the temps didn't make it to over 74. Yea, not much fun on the cold and it was very windy. So this trip was top notch.

Stockton likes the sand WAY more than the water.

Can't separate Cassidy & Isabel. Ever since they could walk, they have been best buddies, & up at bear lake, it's as if no one else exists but them.

Grandpa Hadley loves to take the kids out on the boat.

Poor Nic was still on crutches.

Which I hear isn't a fun way to spend time at Bear Lake.
He did it twice this year.

Always in the sand. It takes days to get all the sand off him.

Cassidy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my Cassidy

She chose a Princess Birthday.

Grandpa also joined in.I don't know how much longer I will be able to have Chournos family parties at my house-- this family is getting big!

Cassidy had all her girl cousins sleep over- Yup, that was a long night filled with cake & pop. We tried tiring them out with a little "Duck Duck Goose"
It was such a beautiful night! We took pictures of all the girls next to the princess of their choosing.
The colors of the sunset were amazing!
Trying to fit everyone in the family room.
The next day we took those who stayed the night along with my sister & mom to the sweets candy factory tour in SLC. It was pretty cool. They don't do much with chocolate, so we will be taking a tour of Mrs. Cavanoughs next.
Stockton picked some delicious sour balls. Cassidy got Orange sticks because it was her b-day. She chose wedding mints for her treat. Because it was a birthday party, all the kids were given a free bag of taffy. I am not usually a fan of taffy, but they had a caramel one that I bought a pound of.

All the kids with their goodies!

A snippet of duck duck goose.