Long Long Ago..

In a galaxy far far away.

This week has been full of Halloween activities. It started with a Halloween playgroup at Stephanie's house with tons of fun things to do with all his friends. Then on Friday Joseph had a party at school with a magician. I was a little disappointed with the school party, because other then the magician they had nothing else for the kids to do. Then tonight was our ward's Trunk R Treat and that was entertaining to see all the kids and their costumes, but it was a little windy so once Joseph's candy bucket was overflowing we came home.

Anakin Skywalker
Joseph with his friend Tommy
The Magician

The kids making sure that the block did fly, and it did I saw it.

Puff the Bunny

Anakin showing off his light saber

Anakin and Princess Leia

Anakin, Han Solo and Princess Leia

The Star Wars Crew of Littleton

Ewwww Guts!!

The other day we carved pumpkins and Joseph was very eager to help as long as he didn't have to help with the gutting of the pumpkins. So once the pumpkins were gutted we picked out our scary designs and went to work. Joseph had so much fun poking holes in the pumpkin and helping daddy carve.

Joseph and Daddy getting started
Making silly faces

The finished pumpkins

Joseph with the Bat, Cat in a boot and happy face

Joseph making a scary face like his pumpkins.

STRIKE!!

For the past few months Joseph has been asking when are we going to go bowling, so for his birthday we took him to Fun City and went bowling and then went downstairs to play Skeeball. We all had so much fun and Joseph is quite the bowler, he has natural talent just like his mom. :) The whole time we were bowling all Joseph wanted to get was a strike and he did it all by himself, he was so proud!!

Joseph's Birthday

Well it's official I no longer have a toddler, Joseph has become a little boy. On Sunday Joseph turned five and we had a small family celebration at home. We had a nice dinner, good company, yummy cake and of course PRESENTS!! We love Joseph so much and he is becoming such a wonderful little person. Some of our favorite things about Joseph are:

1. He is so funny

2. He has a tender heart like his mom

3. He has a love for cars like his dad

4. He is so sweet and loving

5. He is such a wonderful helper

Me with my baby
His cake

Joseph with his cool new transformer toy from Nana and Grandpa

Joseph and Uncle Collin playing shoe basketball

Blowing out the candles

Light sabers!!!

The Red Mustang GT!! This is the only thing he asked for and his wonderful daddy spent all day Saturday looking for it. They have been enjoying driving it all over.

Family Reunion!!!

This past weekend we went to Idaho for the Haeberle family reunion. It was the best three days with our family. We played games, went down the HUGE slide, watched slide shows, chased salt water taffy raining down from the sky, made jewelry, had our faces painted, the kids had craft time and we laughed until we cried, especially those of us in the kitchen on Sunday night. :)

Me and Melanie
Melanie

Ellen, Joseph, Noah and Naomi enjoying SQUARE ice cream

The Humphries Clan (Missing Zach and Kevin)

The Three Musketeer's

Ben and Joseph at the top of the slide

Gran and Grandad with their kids

Gran and Grandad with all of their Gran kids and Great Gran kids!

The WHOLE family

Dixie, Melanie, Mom and Dad

STEPHEN!!

Shelby and Brad

All the kids with their faces painted. Thanks to Bonnie for doing such a great job!

Heidi and Shelby going down

The kids getting ready for the auction

Mama and Melanie

Uncle Ben with Melanie and yes she already has her Uncle Ben wrapped around her tiny finger. All his sweet nieces do and he wouldn't have it any other way.

WE LOVE YOU ALL!!!!

Looky Looky at who's

30

Ben blowing out his candles
Spencer celebrating because the guys won the apple stacking contest

Ben and Janee racing to see who could stack the nuts faster.

The girls blowing the feather towards the patio

The guys blowing the feather towards the patio. The guys won :(

Ben enjoying his party

Ben surprised. I actually pulled off the party without him knowing, YES!!

The Strawberry Cake I made

The table decorations

Ben enjoying his pumpkin pie on his real birthday.

Highlights from the party:

Minute It to Win It games

BBQ

Sugar Highs

Cake

Rubber Gloves

and sooo much laughter we were crying and couldn't breath.

Camping

Last weekend we made our annual trip to Idaho for the family camp out. We had so much fun being with our family. Some of the highlights were:

- Being with family
- Dancing on the Stage
- Playing in the Creek
- Dad's pancakes for breakfast
- Going for a bike ride
- Finding a HUGE mushroom
- Riding around in the Razor!!
- Playing with cousins
- Healthy family competition in a game of Ladder Golf
- Getting rained on (The picture of the sky is what the clouds looked like just before it dumped)
- Sitting around the campfire
- Roasting marshmallows
- Otter pops
- Lots and lots of laughing

We can't wait until next year.