Viewmont Homecoming 2009

Adam's Homecoming group feasted in our basement. The guys cooked dinner and Mom got out her china. Adam and his very attractive date in teal are on the front corner. Adam works with her at Layton Surf-n-Swim lifeguarding. Four of the boys are in Adam's Priest Quorum.

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Halloween Night

Jake dressed up as Nintendo's Luigi this year. The girls spent the evening with friends passing out candy and watching a scary movie.

Halloween night was Adam's Harvest Dance. He and Jessica Arnold went as a prince and princess. He couldn't get too technical with details because 'you can't dance with those things on, Mom!'

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Carving Pumpkins

Finding time this year to carve pumpkins was crazy! We ended up with only ONE block of time, Halloween morning, to get all the kids together at once.

Adam carved a very intricate Nintendo figure called Link, Kyra carved an Indian face, Jake made a puffball (which he's holding in the Halloween night post) and Erica carved a wolf and a vampire almost biting a woman's throat -- the Twilight buzz.

Mom decided to do a scene from hell. It looked a lot better with REAL fire in it at night.

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Kyra Fall Soccer Season

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Harvest Dance

Adam was asked to Harvest Dance in September. Someone had a lot of fun putting it up - - - and someone had to work hard to get it all down.

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When Friends Come Over

This doesn't look very neat and orderly when you walk into our home, but I love it. I love that the kids feel comfortable having hordes of people come into our home. I love the noise and the chaos of giggling, loud teenagers. I love the dramatic screams followed by laughter that carry from the basement during intense movies. I love the shouts from competitve foosball players. I am a mother of teenagers....and loving every minute of it.

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Balcony Garden

Bill bought 'earth boxes' this year and we tried a garden up on our balcony away from critters. This is only a small representation of what we grew. Not bad for first-timers. Our biggest obstacle was remembering it was there!

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