Guitar Guru

Logan recited a nursery rhyme about tigers in his kindergarten class.  As you can see, he doesn't mind the attention.

Logan with his classmates. 

The kids on the trampoline with Maddie, Jocelynne's friend from middle school who has been hanging out here lately.  

I got home late from a visiting teaching visit, worrying about what to throw together for dinner.  I needn't have worried.  Dad had everything under control!

 

We took the kids trick-or-treating, but only about 3 blocks.  Long enough to fill their pumpkins with candy!

Tristan likes to hang out with Jacob, who lives down our block.  They jump on the trampoline and throw sticks.

The kids had fun decorating a haunted house.  I love Halloween clearance items at Target.

It didn't last long.

Almost ready for church.  Can you tell the boys dressed themselves?  And yes, Tristan is wearing his for-every-occasion Star Wars shoes. 

Dane had to be the ladybug.  It's tradition.

At the ward Trunk-or-Treat.  Chloe didn't want to wear her Pocahontas costume to the ward activity because she was planning on doing whatever it took to win the donut-on-a-string competition and didn't want it to get sticky.  I love her determination.

I warned them to put their candy in a safe place while they were away at school.  Chloe's stash kept Dane eerily quiet for  a while.

Grandpa cleared out his inventory of puzzles from his online business and sent them to the kids to hone their entrepreneurial skills.  They had little success with their puzzles stand by the road, so they packed up the stroller with puzzles and went door to door.  The first Saturday they came home with about $30 in cash!  The next Saturday they had to sell farther away from the house and only sold 2 puzzles.  So now we know: our immediate neighbors were guilted into their purchases.  LOL  

Aunt Sari sent the kids fangs for Halloween.  The kids had fun; now I'm finding them everywhere.

Jocelynne had a guitar concert last week.  She was the only student who could play the full chords for their Spanish song.

Her teacher said that she's more advanced than the rest of the class, and wishes she could bump her up a level.  Unfortunately, the class above Joss is filled with rowdy boys.  It's probably confidence-building anyhow to be at the top of the class.  She says that, at the end of math class a couple of weeks ago, her peers pressured her to play "Greensleeves" on the guitar for them.  She exclaimed to me, "And I DID it, Mom!  Then everyone clapped and said how well I played!"  It's fun to see her come out of her shell once in a while.