Meagan has really enjoyed acting in a community theater these past few months. She was in the chorus for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and then she got cast as Sally in Pirates of Penzance...Goes West. She was hilarious!!! She was "the dumb one" as one of the pirates so eloquently put it. It was also quite funny because her pirate counterpart was only 12 and so she would carry him instead of him carrying her. The story is about these 7 orphan sisters that are always sending messages in bottles in hopes that the man of their dreams will find it and come for them. Some pirates come to where they live and the girls fall in love but their uncle won't have it. Through twists and turns the girls end up married to the pirates even though they are disguised as the lawmen. The play was lots of fun to watch and see how Meagan would do. She always got lots of laughs and did a fabulous job!
She wanted to eat at the Hard Rock Cafe for her birthday dinner. There they gave her a sundae and had her stand in front of the entire restaurant and have them all wish her a happy birthday.
Once we got home she was sad that hardly anyone remembered her birthday. They didn't say anything in YW and she was hurt. Her dad and I thought we should have a special dinner for her at home and we decorated her room but didn't tell her. I sent her dad to go and get some helium balloons but he didn't realize there were different sizes and picked out huge ones by accident. It was so funny!!!!! Then we put "Sweet 16" decorations all over her room. She took forever going down there and we were having a hard time waiting but when she finally did she was super surprised. 
I think overall she had a good birthday!!! 
A little side note here as to why she is holding her hair back. When she turned 12 she went to blow out her candles and her hair caught on fire so now takes extra precautions. We don't want that beautiful hair to get burned up again!!!!
There were so many girls that wanted to try out so they had 2 teams. We were so proud that Heidi was able to make the team she wanted. She started playing volleyball about a year and a half ago and has totally loved it. During volleyball season she eats and sleeps it. 
Her team did ok this year with winning about half their games but Heidi was glad she got to play and it helped her get ready for the Club tryouts. She made the 13 Silver team for Club Idaho and can hardly wait until that starts in January. Go Heidi!!!!!
I wondered how he would do and was pleasantly surprised. He had fun and in the last game he scored a goal. It was the craziest shot/goal ever. He was so far on the side and when he kicked it there was no way it was going in but the angle was just perfect. Unfortunately I was in shock as much as him and missed taking the priceless picture of his "Oh my gosh, I scored a goal" face. At the end of the season he had a pizza party and got his very cool bobble trophy. 
His team was made of both girls and boys and all were just great. 
They had a pretty good season with only 1 loss. I hope he continues to get out there and do new and fun things!!!
This is her and her beau.
This is the entire cast 
and then of course the exciting we are done pose. 
Keep breaking a leg Meagan!!! Can't wait to see you in your next show!
By far the coolest pumpkin this year was the Emma-O-Lantern.
The year the children turn 10 years old is when David carves their face into a pumpkin. It always looks so cool.
Heidi made an owl sitting on a twig.
Emma did a very surprised pumpkin. 
Meagan did HP for Harry Potter 
and Eric wanted to do a scary pumpkin. 
Overall the pumpkins all turned out very cool and fun.
We went to the patch first and it was fun to see all the kids scatter and scour the patch for just the right pumpkin. "Here is one for you mom, it is totally wierd looking!!" they all said. I just walked around deciding if I wanted one this year. Eric went running and jumping and looking for the biggest one he could find. Finally he found just the right one. It was huge!!!! He couldn't even lift it, but it was the one he wanted. His dad just rolled his eyes and looked at me with a questioning look as if to say, "Are we really going to let him get that Giant pumpkin?" I thought that none of the girls ever wanted the biggest pumpkin ever so why not let Eric? In the end Eric won and got the biggest pumpkin in the patch. 
Heidi took forever to find hers but eventually she found hers too. 
Meagan and Emma were quick and easy and loved taking the wagon around to gather everyone's pumpkins.
Then we decided to go through the corn maze. When you have an engineer dad, he likes to take things very serious sometimes so he got out the map they gave us and we followed him through the entire maze never getting lost.
The kids and I wanted to try some other turns to see where they sould lead us but dad the ever strong one led us out of the maze easily.
We decided to go in the mini maze and the kids took off running. I held dad back so we could go in and hide and scare the kids because what isn't fun about jumping out and scaring your kids? We got all of them pretty good and were very grateful there weren't any other kids that got caught in the cross-fire. The little kids then jumped on the giant bubble
and the older ones got into the giant rocking chair.
So did mom and dad. 
At the end we took our final pictures as the farmer and his wife. 
We had so much fun the kids kept asking if we could go and play another time. Unfortunately it was expensive (Eric's pumpkin weighed 63 lbs and cost $20) and we have been swamped with so many other things since then that we will have to go back again next year.
