Halloween

I can't believe October is over.  This was a busy week!  On Monday, we carved pumpkins with the kids.  They had fun and got creative! 

Tuesday, the water polo team had a game against Westview.  The girls won, the boys lost - but they had to forfeit because we only had 6 players there.  We've been dealing with a lot of sick kids this season.  

Then Wednesday, we played Hillsboro - at their pool.  It's an outdoor pool - which isn't always fun in the cold and wet, and is even less fun when the refs admit that they can't see anything, and are making some poor calls because of it.  We lost both games, but the worst part was the standing outside in the cold and rain for far longer than necessary...   

Thursday was Halloween.  I picked David up from school in my costume.  It is super soft and fluffy and he loved it so much that he snuggled with me for at least 20 minutes straight!  

After a fun dinner of halloween chicken nuggets, orange pasta-roni and salad, we went trick or treating with some friends!  We had a fun time, even though it was a bit cold and rainy.  My costume did an admirable job of keeping me warm out there!  

Then Aaron and I had water polo and Evelyn had band stuff.  We had a total of 3 kids at water polo - so we mostly just had fun.  But I had planned a whole fun Halloween themed work out including Zombie free style, Frankenstien Strokes, grave yard kicking, and mummy shooting.  So we did the work out on Friday.  :) 

Friday evening, Dan's parents arrived in town.  They felt the need to do a bit of extra cleaning in the boys bathroom before they used it!  But the boys had fun working with them!  We also had dinner with a couple in our ward and some other families in the ward.  The wife is from Thailand and she cooked a wonderful Thai dinner for us!  It was so yummy and I ate way too much!  

Saturday morning, after my morning swim, Dan and I went with his parent to the temple for Seth's Endowment.  It was so wonderful to get together with so much of the family for this special occasion.  After, everyone came over to our house for lunch. Dan smoked up a pork shoulder and we had a great time talking and eating and hanging out!  We also did a little birthday celebration for Eileen and Dave.  This was where they pretended to blow out the candles since we hadn't gotten our camera out fast enough for the real thing. 

After lunch, Dan's parents headed home, and I went to Parkrose to play water polo.  It was a fun time and then we headed home.  In the evening Dan took Jacob and a friend of his out to dinner at Fogo de Chao.  They had a great time together.  Mom and Aaron went to open polo and also had fun.  

Sunday was great!  Church was wonderful.  I had to leave a little early to be on the water polo seeding meeting.  The seeding meeting went about how we expected it to for the girls team, but right now it's looking like out boys won't play in the playoffs even though teams we beat will be playing.  It's a little frustrating, but it was nice to have some of the other coaches have my back when I spoke up about this seeming like punishing us for something we have no control over.  But he said he would talk to the board about it and that's really all we can ask for - but I don't know that it will change anything for this year.  

Sandi and James came over with Taz and Kai to play games and hang out.  We had fun playing Settlers of Catan and Sandi beat us all in record time.