Fall Update

The last couple months have been busy ones. At the beginning of September I was called as the secretary of our ward primary. I have been loving my new calling but I haven't had a lot of time to do everything I want. So my poor blog is usually at the very bottom of my list. Here are just a few of the things we've done

Bailey started her 2nd year of preschool after Labor day. She is loving it! She gets to take dance and tumbling after class which makes it even better.

 

Carter has been super busy with Karate. At the beginning of October, he competed in his second tournament. He did 3 events.

 His first event was padded swords.

 Next he did flag sparring. He loves this event and took 2nd. (His last opponent was tough and a lot bigger. At one point they were tied and they both pulled the flags off but it was too close to tell who pulled it off first. From our home video it looks like Carter pulled it off first but what can ya do? He was still excited to get a trophy.)

 His third event was forms. He actually did this twice. He did Chon Ji and did awesome!

A few weeks later he had a belt test. He tested to his Little Dragon brown belt. I'm so proud of him. It took him about 2 hours! He will now be going to the youth/adult class and work from his yellow belt to his black belt.

 They had to stand like this for 5 minutes!!!

I could hardly make it 30 seconds.

 He had to spar with his Sensei for 2 minutes. Once again, he did great.

 They retired his purple belt. Carter missed his last belt test so he actually skipped a belt to get to brown.



 Bailey and Carter's pumpkins.

 My little Belle. So I ordered Bailey a strawberry shortcake costume back in September and never got it! Luckily her cousin MyKenna has been letting her borrow all her fun princess dresses to play with so we could use them for Halloween.

 Carter was a ninja (some thought he was a mummy). He had a bout 3 different ninja costumes but settled on the white one for trick or treating.

And the most recent (and the only picture taken on Thanksgiving) 

Carter's little tooth FINALLY fell out!! He was so excited and even more excited when he got his note and dollar from the tooth fairy.

Whew! With December approaching and the holidays near, it's bound to be busy again. I hope everyone's holidays are great and I plan on another big post after the New Year!