Finance Park

Coleman went to Finance Park. When the kids were younger they went to BizTown at the same place. BizTown is a lot more fun, but the kids all still seemed to have fun at Finance Park.

First they took a career survey.

There were words of wisdom on all the walls.

They learned about budgeting and the different expenses they'll have as adults. They were given tablets and personas. Coleman was a paralegal with a wife and two kids. Then they had to make a budget based on the income they were given. After making a budget, they had to choose items to purchase and see if they budgeted the correct amount for each category. 

T-rex, Coelman, Ben. We signed up because T-rex's mom said he'd be there and would love for Coleman to go too. But Coleman was really excited Ben was there too! Graham was also there, but was in a different group so they didn't see each other as much.

T-rex and Coleman

Haircuts

Jordan and Doug got haircuts!

Mackenzie's New Friend

Mackenzie saw this at Winco on sale after Halloween and convinced me to buy it. For the next few days she set kept blowing it up in the house.

Besties!

WWU Tennis Club

Jackson his playing tennis on Western's competitive tennis club. He's having a lot of fun and has been playing lots of tennis. They don't have an indoor court to use until the winter quarter (which starts in January) so when the weather is bad they can't play as much. They had a tournament in Oregon. He said he lost all his matches (I think the whole team did), and that the other teams there were really good. He played singles, doubles, and mixed doubles.

 

Volleyball

Kenzie and Jordan are playing Covington volleyball this year. They're having lots of fun! Their teams are both really good.

Kenzie and Jenna

Getting smashed by the divider...

Kenzie's team

Jordan

Elle, Jenna, Emily, Coach Heather, Ivan, Taryn, Kenzie, Malaysia, Milo

October Pictures

I saw some Shaq-A-Licious gummies when I was placing my grocery order. I thought they were funny and there was a coupon for them so I bought some. No one really liked them though.

But they were funny with Shaq's face on them!

We had a ward youth temple trip. Kenzie had a soccer game so she didn't come, but Coleman, Jordan, and I went.

Lorelei and Kenzie went to the pink out Kentwood football game.

We got some froyo on the way home from one of Kenzie's soccer games.

Kenzie and Delaynie dressed as minions for a Kentwood football game.

Delaynie made the goggles they were wearing. I thought they were so fun!

Kenzie waking up for church...

Kenzie surprised me for my half birthday! Once she gave me the card an her Reese's, Coleman ran to his candy bag and gave me his Reese's too, along with the card she made :)

Halloween!

Coleman, Mikah, and Blake carved pumpkins at the Ramsays.

Jackson and his friends, Isabelle, Leilani, and Jake dressed up for Halloween. Jackson was the singer from Green Day. These are friends from the tennis club.

We went to the Wilson's house for their flashlight candy hunt. It was a small group this year, just us, the Wilsons, Rabans, and Greens. The kids had to work harder for their candy because there wasn't as much as normal. But everyone still had a great time!

A Seahawk, a snowboarding tennis player, and Chewy

Jordan carved a pumpkin at a stake youth Halloween party.

Kenzie went trick or treating with Lorelei and Morgan. They dressed up as Gilmore Girls characters. Kenzie was Rory, Lorelei was Lorelai, and Morgan was Luke.

Coleman decided to not trick or treat. He decided it was too much work to get $20 from the orthodontist:) Jordan also just wanted to stay home.

Kenzie got lots of candy!

She gave some to Doug!

We carved pumpkins after Halloween.

Jordan made a puzzle pumpkin.

You could take out the pieces...

And then put them back in.

Twins!

Coleman said he just cut randomly

And this is what it ended up looking like.