Party On!

Well life is a big party at the Bowles home! This past weekend we celebrated some birthdays and kicked off the Halloween festivities. Saturday morning was our little friend, Jarom's 2nd birthday party. It was a yummy dutch oven brunch. The kids ran around in Spiderman masks and played outside (since it was a relatively nice day). Weston loved the Spiderman theme. After the party we crashed Tara and Justin's ward Halloween party. We came late, but were still in time to play some of the games and do the trunk or treat. Weston loved wearing his costume. This morning he told me that when he wore his costume "everyone else wanted it because it was so cool."

Here are mine and Tara's kids at the Halloween party. Aren't the Woody and Jessie costumes great?!? I think this was the only 60 seconds that Davin actually wore the hood of his puppy costume.
I thought the kids would for sure come home and crash and we would have a nice, quiet afternoon. Well, no one else thought that was a good idea. Davin napped for about 45 minutes and Weston not at all. Bummer. They did watch a movie though, so that gave me a little down time. Later in the afternoon we headed over to the Herrin's house to watch the BYU v. TCU game and celebrate Kyle's 2nd birthday! Weston and Claire love to play together and they did great the whole time. They are also dorks (in Claire's defense, Weston totally started this face)
We got Kyle a fun car that you shake up and then it goes. I think it was a hit. The big kids really wanted to "help" Kyle with the present opening.
I had a nice time hanging out with Jackie, but the menfolk were pretty bummed out about the beating BYU took during the game.

Sunday was a nice day. It felt good to actually all go to church together without having to run home to a sickie kid. That evening I had my solo callback. I didn't do as well as I did in my first audition. I messed up the words (of all things!). That was frustrating because I had practiced it a hundred times and knew the words. I didn't end up getting a solo. I'm a little disappointed because how cool would it be to sing a solo in the Tabernacle?!? But on the other hand it does make the concert a lot more low stress and fun. I am still excited for the opportunity to sing with this group in the Tabernacle. We have some really beautiful pieces. If you would like to attend, then hop over to www.lds.org/events immediately. Tickets were just made available this morning, but they will definitely be gone by tonight.

Last night we kicked off our Halloween fun with the 3rd Annual Bowles/Severinson Pumpkin Carving Party! Weston was really excited about our pumpkin, but he still wasn't really interested in actually scooping out the gook or carving much. He did help carve the nose of our pumpkin. This was Davin's first experience helping with the pumpkin. He did not like the goop, of course, and ended up getting down and playing for the rest of the time. He did, however, enjoy his donut from the cat.

Davin's first pumpkin carving experience! Note the cat in the background. I forgot to take a picture of it. Oops.
The big, burly men scraping out the pumpkins.
The boys and I with our scary face pumpkin. I actually was really happy with the way it turned out.
This is Ian's finished product. 10 points if you know what it is!
Weston thought the pumpkins looked really cool all lit up and was sad when we had to blow them out. Here he is with his scary pumpkin.
This morning we woke up to a layer of fresh snow over everything. Snow! Sigh. Here we go. Winter is officially upon us and won't relinquish it's hold for about 6 months. It makes me kind of sad. I am more than happy to have snow in December. Not so much a fan in October. I'm sure it will melt, but it will stay cold and I will have to pack away my flip flops (that I was wearing yesterday) for the season.

Weston was thrilled to see snow outside and immediately asked if he could go play in it. By the time he had eaten breakfast and gotten dressed it was 9am. I knew he wouldn't stop bugging me about it, so I threw on my boots and jacket and got Davin semi-bundled up and we all went out in the snow. Weston lasted about 7 minutes before saying he was cold and wanted to go inside. Davin wouldn't take a step from where I set him down on the grass, but he seemed to think the snow was cool. Enjoy our snow day videos!