"Growing Through Personal Progress"

For one of her 10 hour projects Kaitlyn was in charge of our Young Women In Excellence this year. We had a lot of fun planning the big event together. She went back and forth on picking a theme, but finally chose a garden theme.

Here are the cute invitations she created.

The girls decorated clay pots during one of our mutual nights. They put their names on their flower pots so they could mark which display was theirs.

Kaitlyn planted a flower in each of the pots - they all turned out very cute.

Kaitlyn was so excited to decorate we went to the church right after school to get started. We put this table in front of the gym with the programs they could pick up on the way in.

I was glad I made Kaitlyn take a few pictures before it started because they were the only pictures I took that night - it got a little busy. I'm sad I didn't get pictures of the other girls that night. Kaitlyn conducted the night - here she is posing for me at the podium.

We had a great time decorating and we were pleased with how it turned out.

Loved the candy pots filled with candy!

Kaitlyn's display of some of the things she has done in Personal Progress this year.

We gave each of the girls a bookmark and a felt flower on a clothes pin with a magnet. We also made one for the parents with ideas on how they could help their daughters with Personal Progress. Crossing my fingers it inspires them a little :)

Halloween

Logan decided to let his inner rock star come out this Halloween.

Thanks to a leather jacket from Goodwill, his own closet and a can of neon green hair dye he totally looked the part.

I had to get a close up of the hair.

I wasn't going to go to the Elementary School Halloween parade until I realized it would be my last one. Have I ever mentioned that it stinks that my kids are growing up!

I wish I'd gotten a picture of the 3rd grader that dressed like the principal - dress shirt, tie, walkie talkie in his back pocket. He even shaved the top of his head so he would have the same receding hairline. It was some serious dedication to a costume and very cute to see them walking around together.

After the parade I ran home to make my cupcakes for the ward Halloween party.

There was a pumpkin carving contest at the party this year - so after school we rushed to get them done in time.

On to the party...

Couldn't wait to see the Ninja and Bumblebee and

they didn't disappoint - sooo cute!

Kaitlyn looked great in Logan's baseball uniform.

"The twins" - Lauren and Logan

Our finished pumpkins. Kaitlyn won a prize for funniest pumpkin.

My camera didn't cooperate, but I'm still posting this picture. Logan is so excited about all the candy he scored (combo of ward party, trick or treating and stealing from our candy bowl). Kaitlyn is a little sad that she decided she was too old for trick or treating (me too!!)

Kaitlyn did still help Logan sort his candy - way too much candy for one boy.