Happy Birthday Megan!

Megan had a birthday a few weeks ago.  I've always tried to make a cake of their choosing.  But with my limited abilities in cake decorating, it's getting more difficult for me to make the cake they want.  This year, Megan told me she wanted a My Little Pony cake.  I was determined to figure something out that would please her, but her vision of how she wanted it was beginning more than I knew I would be able to do.  So one day I told her that I would bake the cake and frost the cake and she could decorate the cake.  I didn't realize she wanted to do it with frosting, so I didn't make enough frosting for her to use.  So she just ended up placing the ponies around the cake.

Megan received this umbrella.  She was so excited about it.  Lucky for her, it was raining the next morning.  She and Daniel were outside in the rain before I had a chance to get out of bed.

Halloween

We had a great Halloween month!  We went to Bryan's sisters Halloween party.  Megan made her own mask.

 

We carved pumpkins - I should say the kids carved their own pumpkins.  Daniel knew we would be carving soon and so one day he came up from his room with a drawing of how he would like his pumpkin to look.  Megan didn't come up with a blue print, but she did the carving all on her own.  The only help they got from me or Bryan was cutting the top off and helping to clean the pumpkin out.

 

We topped the Halloween season off on Halloween night with going to a movie and walking around the Oquirrh Mountain Temple.  We saw Dolphin Tale.  That was a great show.  The whole family enjoyed it.  It was only the four of us and two other people in the entire theater.  Halloween's a great day to see a movie if you don't want to be in a place full of people.  The kids wanted to walk around temple before heading home for dinner and bed.