Oh yeah, Halloween and Reflections...

Before I publish my next post I just HAD to upload the Halloween and Reflections photos! All my girls entered Reflections this year, which was fun! Eden did a drawing of Garfield (I know, not kosher with the rules we found out), Rilee composed a song and took a picture, and Shailee made up a dance. The theme was "Beauty is...". They all tied this in differently and did a great job. Shailee got to perform her gymnastics routine in front of the school, which was great, and Rilee, her song on the piano. They did awesome! The photograph you see here. Scott taught Rilee how to use the Sports setting on the camera and they took quite a few photos of Avery being thrown in the air. (Scary, I know, but Scott says he could "never" drop her, and they both love it...I'm out voted.) Rilee's comment on the back of her photo was, "Beauty is hearing my sister laugh, and this is her favorite thing which makes her laugh the most" or something like that. Too cute! Rilee got 3rd Overall, Shai 1st (not much competition, love that!), and Eden still got recognized for entering which was all she cared about! Love her.

For Halloween, two things of note happened that holiday: First, we got to spend the weekend at my parent's Marriott at Mountainside in Park City, which was a blast! You will notice that before the camera battery died inconveniently as we began, I managed to capture a priceless moment, that I assume when Avery is of dating age, will cause quite a stir of embarrassment/emotion if shown! But for now, hilarious and priceless! Avery just LOVES nature; she loves to be at one with nature; i.e. she can't get enough of her birthday suit, so free and non-restrictive! She is shown here, in such a suit, trying to yell at her sisters down below who are swimming!! Ahhh, you can't help but love kids!

Second, before we came down from Park City to "hit the streets" for the yearly Halloween candy spree, Shailee thought she'd make it even MORE eventful. She broke her nose!!! Maybe it was just her wanting to "get into character", and REALLY look scary?? That would've been a good excuse had she not chosen to be a cheerleader this year!! (Yes, in my old green and white's!) It wasn't even a good story either; all she did was decide it would be cool if she put her pillow on the windowsill and lean from the bed to the window to watch her show. The pillow overhung a bit and it flipped forward as she put weight on it, and she went face first, straight to the ground and came up with an instant Egor-swollen nose! So sad! Not that this would stop her...all she kept saying is, "I can still go, right Mom?! From the photos, you can tell she did! Bless the small lot sizes here! It sure was efficient Trick-or-Treating!