Baptisms and Birthdays

 This weekend we went to DC to celebrate Cade's baptism and Fall and 40th birthdays. Lots of celebrating for one day. We all had a lot of fun.

 Amy Beth and I did the cakes. I made them and she was the creative, artistic genious. Here she is working.

 This is the fall brithday cake (white cake, chocolate cream cheese mousse inside with ganache outside).

 We (the siblings) got Martha a green house for birthday, so Amy Beth came up with the decorations for this cake for her to go along with it (it is Martha garden). Amy Beth made all of the vegetable decorations herself (this was the dairy-free cake, chocolate with marshmallow frosting).

Martha and Amy Beth with the cakes.

 The kids helping sing and blow out candles even though the kids pictured did not have birthdays.

 The girls helping Amy Beth.

The boys playing downstairs.

Soccer

 Here are my few pathetic soccer pictures. We had a lot of cancelled games and the only day I remembered to bring the camera was this make-up night game. Oakley and Tessa both had a lot of fun though and improved. I figure there will be many more years of soccer and opportunities for better pictures.

Halloween

 Sorry, my pictures ended up backwards, so we will go through our Halloween backward. Above is the end of Halloween trick-or-treating with all the loot. We got way too much candy and will be contributing most of it to Bryce's candy bowl at church (that people have been commenting needs to be filled).

 There was a snow storm the Saturday before Halloween so our ward trunk-or-treat was officially cancelled but Bryce was there cleaning and told us that people were there anyway. The kids really wanted to go, so we did.

 Oakley was a vampire bunny, Bunnicula.

 Tessa was a leopard princess.

 Hathaway was Alice in Wonderland.

 Oakley had a Halloween party when he was in kindergarten so Tessa had one this year (and we let Oakley invite a friend too). Here they are looking cute.

 We carved pumpkins. Hathaway picked her out and it was very small. I thought she could just color on it but she insisted we cut it open and carve it--it turned out cute.